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About LIFE ON MARS & Episode Guide

About LIFE ON MARS & Episode Guide

"Back in the nick of time"

Life on Mars (us) Aired From October 09, 2008 – April 01, 2009 On ABC.



About the Show:
Adapted from the hit BBC show of the same name, Life on Mars is a drama, comedy and sci-fi fantasy series that follows the life of modern day detective Sam Tyler (Jason O'Mara), who wakes up after a car crash in which his life was nearly taken and finds that he has been transported to the year 1973. There, Sam must work as a detective, but struggles to do so without his 21st century technology. To make things more complicated, his boss Gene Hunt (Harvey Keitel) never hesitates to bend the rules to suit his needs.

Main Cast and Characters:
Cast
Characters
Jason O'MaraDetective Sam Tyler
Gretchen MolAnnie Norris
Harvey KeitelLieutenant Gene Hunt
Michael ImperioliDetective Ray Carling


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Episode Guide



1. Out Here in the Fields
When NYPD detective Sam Tyler is hit by a car while searching for his missing partner, Maya Daniels, he finds himself in 1973 once regaining consciousness. There, he works for precinct boss Lieutenant Gene Hunt, a man not afraid to bend the law. Now Sam must work to find why he is mysteriously in the past.

2. The Real Adventures of the Unreal Sam Tyler   
After hearing a radio announcement saying Elvis will be performing in concert, Sam remains unsure as to how he found himself 30 years in the past. However, he must put his own predicament aside after he is put ona case involving fatal robberies at a check cashing store.

3. My Maharishi Is Bigger Than Your Maharishi
Aftera Vietnam veteran is killed upon his return from overseas, Lieutenant Hunt demands a quick resolve to this complicated case. As Sam and the detectives look into the vet's homicide, Tyler uncovers clues about his family's past.

4. Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadows?

Sam gets pulled back into his childhood after he must deal with gangster Nick Profaci's assault on a young woman, who turns out to be his mother in 1973. As Sam tries to save her, he learns about two unsolved murders linked to Profaci and his boss, Elliot Casso.

5.  Things to Do in New York When You Think You're Dead
A racial fight is triggered between the African American and Puerto Ricans when a young African American girl is found dead. Sam is assigned to the case and thinks about his mentor in 2008 in order to get an edge on the case.

6. Tuesday's Dead
Sam Tyler finds it difficult to separate a life-and-death hostage situation taking place at County Hospital from his own strange circumstances. Stressed about a phone call where he seems to hear his mother's voice-- in 2008 -- begging him to wake up, he and the rest of the squad are ordered to diffuse a potentially explosive face-off in which a crazed gunman is trying to force a doctor to reverse a dangerous operation on the renegade's brother. Sam, Ray, Annie and Lt. Hunt are all targeted in the madman's cross hairs, but as Sam and the 1-2-5 attempt to resolve the confrontation, he suddenly realizes that the clock ticking on the gunman's demands parallels another deadline that could spell the end of Sam Tyler.

7. The Man Who Sold the World

Sam Tyler is shocked to discover that his own father, Vic Tyler, may have been involved in the kidnapping of a baby from a prominent family. Sam hasn't seen his father since 1973 when he was only four, having disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Was his reason of being sent back in time was to stop his father from leaving his family? Vicmakes an agreement to work with the squad so they can retrieve themissing baby, but the deeper Sam gets into his father's world, the closer he comes to uncovering some dark, sordid truths, compelling him to face long suppressed childhood memories. His discovery culminates in a face-to-face which will leave Sam changed forever.

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