life on mars

[tezmand]

did anyone watch this series ? it was brill if you know the seventies i wish it could of carried on , i know it was kinda carried on as ashes to ashes but set a few years later not quite the same .

[col craddock]

Life on Mars is brilliant so long as you are of an age to be out of political correctness and back to the era when coppers did their jobs and were applauded for it. If you lived through the seventies as an adult you will nod your head and say 'Yes' to most everything Gene Hunt says and does. When he softens his approach in Ashes to Ashes much of the appeal of the original is gone. Ashes to Ashes, by comparison is very weak television

[tezmand]

well said exactly how i feel i just loved life on mars i hope it gets repeated

[delboy3]

Life On Mars was recently repeated on BBC3 and is currently being shown on Bravo.

I would have preferred it if Ashes To Ashes had stuck to Manchester.

[Wop/tpo]

At the age of eleven I saw a tennis pavilion on fire behind
our house. Reported fire from a public call box, and fire brigade attended.
Two days later I was taken without an adult to the police station and questioned by the d.c. He tried to get me to involve the local bad boy who lived three doors away, without success. Mother later complained to the police
without any effect.
Oh yes, this was back in 1940, no pc in those days.
Children old enough to walk would purchase cigarettes for their parents, no questions asked.
Black people never saw them where we live, apart from
once seeing Sabu with two elephants in 1938.

[tezmand]

forgive me what has that got to do with life on mars ?