You know it’s ages since there’s been something I’ve wanted to watch on telly, but hidden away amongst hour upon hour of “I’m a Celebrity, Please Nuke this Island”, “My Colonic Makeover”, “Top 100 Cheap TV Programmes of All Time” and wall-to-wall imported Lost-the-plot wannabies, there’s the corking Life On Mars. OK it’s clichéd, as deep as a shag-pile carpet and as cheesy as a cheezy whatsit, but hey, that’s the fun! A world without colour TV, mobile phones, computers, paramedics when PC was what you called your very non-PC no-nonsense walking-the-beat copper abetted by Sweeney-Todd-style DC’s (’shad-it, you slag!’); when men were men, lasses were lasses, pink-wafer biscuits were pink-wafer biscuits and Mark II Escorts roamed the earth. Oh, how far we’ve come. Recommended!
Update: it seems I can’t spell cheezy!
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BBC1 on a Monday night I believe at 9:00?
The web site tells all. It’s also currently bouncing around on Bit Torrent ..
Found your blog after your text-ualizer tool was mentioned on commandn.tv. Cool tool.
Anway, I really like Life On Mars as well. My Mrs. and I spent ages trying to guess how they were gonna end series one. Was he gonna wake up in the 21st Century? If so, what future would the show have for Series 2? We were not dissapointed. Great concept. imagine the writers sittin’ ’round saying, “okay, what else did we have in the 70’s which people will like seeing again” as well as “What do we have now which folks in the 70’s would not believe?” Sam’s boss in the 70’s really steals the show, although I like all the main characters.
-Kevin