Life on Mars
Is he mad, in a coma… or has Detective Sam Tyler really travelled back in time?
Created by Matthew Graham, Ashley Pharoah, Tony Jordan
On BBC One
A disorienting psychological mystery that uses 1970s procedural trappings to interrogate reality, identity, and whether the protagonist is experiencing time travel, madness, or something stranger still.
A detective chief inspector from 2006 is investigating a serial killer when he is knocked over by a speeding car. Waking up, he finds himself mysteriously transported back in time to 1973. Initially struggling to come to terms with his situation, he has to come to terms with the old-fashioned technology and attitude of the day, while figuring out how he came to be trapped in the past.
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