Life on Mars

Qualifying for time travel

source: Jack Yan on Vox

Is it me or does one need a surname containing five letters to qualify as a time-traveller? (I refer to humans, not timelords.) The Time Machine (movie adaptation, 1960): Wells Back to the Future: McFly Life on Mars: Tyler Ashes to Ashes: Drake Re... Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Published Wed, Aug 19

Qualifying for time travel

source: Jack Yan on Vox

The Time Machine (movie adaptation, 1960): Wells Back to the Future: McFly Life on Mars: Tyler Ashes to Ashes: Drake Recent companions on Doctor Who: Tyler, Jones, Noble

Published Wed, Aug 19

The best of Spanish Gene Hunt

source: Jack Yan on Vox

Remember how fans of Life on Mars were putting together their favourite Gene Genie moments on to YouTube? The Spanish seem equally fond of their Gene Hunt, Inspector Jefe Quin Gallardo, in La chica de ayer, Spanish Life on Mars.

Published Tue, Aug 18

Gene Genius

source: topix.net

Warning, the next section contains spoilers, so if you haven't seen the whole series, don't click As with Sam Tyler in the second series of Life on Mars , Alex moved from being simply exasperated with her situation and desperate to leave to a place where she was beginning to feel quite at hom...

Published Tue, Jun 9

6 Characters Who Escaped Virtual Prisons... Or Did They?

source: io9

The final episode of the American version of Life on Mars offered a rather unexpected resolution to just what had been going on with Sam Tyler all this time. As it turned out, he was neither a cop from 1973 nor one from 2008. Instead, he was part of the first manned expedition to Mars in 2035 and th...

Published Fri, Jun 5

TV highlights, May 30th

source: The Age

 Australia If Barnaby's too genteel for the big city bring in Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister) and his team of 1970s chain-smoking detectives to shake up Sun Hill - why should Life on Mars have all the fun? If that doesn't work, the producers could really jump the ...

Published Thu, May 28

Friday's TV: Life On Mars

source: Sydney Morning Herald

 Australia Jason O'Mara stars as Sam Tyler in the US version of Life on Mars. You may have already heard whispers about a bombshell in the finale of this short-lived, yet cult, US remake of the excellent British sci-fi drama. All I'll say is when it happened I ...

Published Tue, May 26

George Gently v Gene Hunt: who would win in a fight?

source: EducationGuardian.co.uk

 UK Inspector George Gently features Martin Shaw as an anachronistically right-on copper up North in 1964, while Ashes To Ashes has Gene Hunt, still as boorish in the 1980s as he was in the 70s of Life on Mars, having migrated down south. ...

Published Tue, May 26