{"id":549,"date":"2006-01-20T01:56:39","date_gmt":"2006-01-20T00:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=549"},"modified":"2006-01-20T01:56:49","modified_gmt":"2006-01-20T00:56:49","slug":"stamp-on-all-your-toys-life-on-mars-is-here-good-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/stamp-on-all-your-toys-life-on-mars-is-here-good-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Stamp On All Your Toys – Life on Mars is here – Good Kids!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Back to the Future meets The Sweeney! The first part of BBC One’s latest drama aired last Monday, and thnaks to a little boxout on the BBC News site (Would You Survive in 1973) a show I spotted in the trade mags back in October was only a few clicks away using the new NTL\/Telewest ‘Watch Again’ feature – it can stream a repeat of a show up to seven days after transmission. Those wishing to watch this new show from the same team as Spooks and Hustle might want to look elsewhere (cough I s o hunt cough).<\/p>\n

\"Life<\/div>\n

I’m pretty sure that the writers all got round a table, took a dollop of BBC Money to make a 21st Century Cop Show, looked at each other and went “we’d rather do The Sweeny, how can we get away with that?” Well, short of a blue Police Call Box, you could immerse yourself in a huge Phillip K Dick like plot where your 21st Century Cop (Sam Tyler) gets hit by a car in 2006, and wakes up in 1973, all to the strains of David Bowie’s Life on Mars, with the in-car iPod being replaced by an 8-track.<\/p>\n

\"Life<\/div>\n

There’s no whizzy time travel machine here, just a camera down to an iPod, the car crash, some trippy Flatliners-esque forest walking, and bang! We’re in 1973. Only one real ‘fourth wall nudging’ knowing moment is the jump over the desk when the final piece clicks into place.<\/p>\n

\"Life<\/div>\n

Of couse now we know where the “lots of planets have a north” time travelling leather jacket that Christopher Eccleston hung up has gone.<\/p>\n

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