Product Description

This Boxset contains Series 1 & 2 of Life On Mars, the smash-hit cop show starring John Simm as a detective who is involved in a car accident and wakes to find himself transported back to 1973 a world dominated by Ford Cortina's, sheep-skin jackets and very hard coppers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6458 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-09-10
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 8
• Running time: 942 minutes

Synopsis
Sam Tyler, a detective from the 21st Century finds himself catapulted back to 1973, after a car accident knocks him unconscious. In his new state of altered reality, Sam must prove himself to 'new boss', the hot-headed DCI Gene Hunt, all the while unsure whether he is awake or dreaming. LIFE ON MARS is a throwback to the crime-fighting style of the 1970s, drawing its inspiration from such TV series as THE SWEENEY and THE PROFESSIONALS. As was characteristic of classic 60s fantasy, the creators have taken some risks with the show's politically incorrect references, daring to be slightly subversive. While its creators are quick to brush off comparisons to fellow time-travelling TV series QUANTUM LEAP, there are obvious thematic similarities, however unconscious. John Simm (HUMAN TRAFFIC) ably stars as Sam Tyler, the fish-out-of-water detective who must piece together the mysteries of his own situation, while solving the crime du jour. The show takes its title from David Bowie's haunting theme song. Contains both the first and second series.

About the Actor
John Simm was born on 10th July 1970 in Leeds, West Yorkshire and grew up in Nelson, Lancashire. He attended Edge End High School, Nelson, Lancs followed by Blackpool Drama College at 16 and the Drama Centre, London at 18. He lives with his long term partner, actress, Kate Magowan and his son Ryan (born 13th August 2001). Simm won the best actor award at the Valencia Film Festival for his film debut in Boston Kickout (1996).

Customer Reviews

THE BEST DRAMA EVER!!...
..no joke.quite simply put this is my favourte drama ever. funny, violent, emotional..it has it all. gene hunt is an exceptional character and displays a powerful performance - his sidekicks are excellent too. the storyline is fantasic and i can honesty say there is not one bad episode.this is how policing should be, if only i could return to the seventies...BUY BUY BUY !

EXCELLENT SERIES!
Showing the failings when we modernised everything!

Seriously good series I sat through an episode a night and loved all of it, great music, great actors....VERY IMPRESSED

Life on Mars, what an amazing time travel show!
Life on Mars... what an amazing show about time traveling back to the 70's. '... wherever the mind is the body will follow' to quote Terry Pratchett's Johnny and the Bomb. It reminds me of ' Somewhere in time' with Christopher Reeves, a film that made a big impression on me as a child.

'Somewhere In Time [1980]
In his first film after the star-making success of Superman, Christopher Reeve stars as a contemporary playwright who visits a posh hotel and sees the portrait of an actress who had performed there in 1912. He becomes obsessed with this beautiful woman and learns all he can about her, and then discovers a method of hypnotically transporting himself backward in time to meet her. "Is it ... you?" she says upon seeing the lovestruck playwright, and it's clearly a mutual attraction. But even the slightest reminder of the playwright's modern time can jar him from his seemingly real existence in the past, so his wonderful love affair is constantly just a step from being stolen away.' Amazon.co.uk

Basically 'Somewhere in time' is an amazing time travel film. Where 'Richard Collier' played by Christopher Reeves locks Himself in an old hotel room, dressed in period clothes, he sends his mind back in time to 1912 and his body follows. But a coin in his pocket jars his mind back to the present day.

'Life on Mars' doesn't really have a definite outcome. I personally think it's life in the bardo . But they, the programs creators leave it for you to decide.

bardo |bärd|
noun
(in Tibetan Buddhism) a state of existence between death and rebirth, varying in length according to a person's conduct in life and manner of, or age at, death.
* an indeterminate, transitional state : wandering adrift in a bardo of intense negativity, blame, disappointment, criticism, and denial.

As I say it's left for you to decide, watch it and decide for yourself... you are unlikely to be disappointed.