Life On Mars

DCI Sam Tyler's world is about to be turned upside down. Moments after his girlfriend and colleague, Maya, is kidnapped by a serial killer, Sam is knocked unconscious by a car and wakes up… in 1973.

Sam's dogged pursuit of evidence brings him head to head with his DCI, Gene Hunt, who has a more flexible approach to the pursuit of justice.

A fatal stabbing at a textiles firm leads to a shocking discovery for Sam.

Sam's belief in doing the right thing calls into question the ethos of his whole department as he takes on local gangster Stephen Warren in an attempt to stamp out police corruption.

The murder of a football fan near his local pub sends the team undercover on the eve of a big match.

A hostage situation becomes personal for Sam when the hostage-taker's deadline coincides with the deadline Doctors have given for switching off his life support machine in 2006.

The death in custody of small time drug dealer Billy Kemble pits Sam against the whole of CID as he tries to uncover the truth of what happened in the cells.

Sam is finally accepting of this world and believes that he can deal with anything that it throws at him… until he comes face to face with his 29 year old dad, Vic.