Life on Mars : Complete BBC Series 1 & 2 (8 Disc Box Set) [2006]

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Suitable for 15 years and over

Contender Entertainment Group

Release date: Monday 10th of September 2007

Format: Box set, PAL,
Region code: 2
Running time: 942 minutes
Language: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Original Language)

RRP: £54.99
Wonderful!
Review date: 2008-09-19 Rating: 10 out of 10

I've come ridiculously late to Life On Mars. But in the last couple of days, I had the opportunity to watch both series, back to back in one long run and I've just finished snuffling into the kleenex after watching the final episode. Superb stuff. The perfect ending to a perfect show, which never put a foot wrong. And which contained what has to be, for me, the ultimate classic comedy moment - when LOM did Camberwick Green. I laughed at that until I cried.

Wonderful characters and I agree with the previous reviewer who said that this was no nostalgia trip, but an honest appraisal of how things have improved in the police force since the '70's. Although, I'd go further and say it also makes a point that in some ways - like the over-emphasis on psych-evaluation - we're no better today either.

Sending the DVDs to my basket as we speak. I'm only sorry that there are just 8 episodes per series. There was scope for so much more.

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THE BEST DRAMA EVER!!...
Review date: 2008-06-17 Rating: 10 out of 10

..no joke.quite simply put this is my favourte drama ever. funny, violent, emotional..it has it all. gene hunt is an exceptional character and displays a powerful performance - his sidekicks are excellent too. the storyline is fantasic and i can honesty say there is not one bad episode.this is how policing should be, if only i could return to the seventies...BUY BUY BUY !

EXCELLENT SERIES!
Review date: 2008-02-20 Rating: 10 out of 10

Showing the failings when we modernised everything!

Seriously good series I sat through an episode a night and loved all of it, great music, great actors....VERY IMPRESSED

Life on Mars, what an amazing time travel show!
Review date: 2007-12-18 Rating: 10 out of 10

Life on Mars... what an amazing show about time traveling back to the 70's. '... wherever the mind is the body will follow' to quote Terry Pratchett's Johnny and the Bomb. It reminds me of ' Somewhere in time' with Christopher Reeves, a film that made a big impression on me as a child.

'Somewhere In Time [1980]
In his first film after the star-making success of Superman, Christopher Reeve stars as a contemporary playwright who visits a posh hotel and sees the portrait of an actress who had performed there in 1912. He becomes obsessed with this beautiful woman and learns all he can about her, and then discovers a method of hypnotically transporting himself backward in time to meet her. "Is it ... you?" she says upon seeing the lovestruck playwright, and it's clearly a mutual attraction. But even the slightest reminder of the playwright's modern time can jar him from his seemingly real existence in the past, so his wonderful love affair is constantly just a step from being stolen away.' Amazon.co.uk

Basically 'Somewhere in time' is an amazing time travel film. Where 'Richard Collier' played by Christopher Reeves locks Himself in an old hotel room, dressed in period clothes, he sends his mind back in time to 1912 and his body follows. But a coin in his pocket jars his mind back to the present day.

'Life on Mars' doesn't really have a definite outcome. I personally think it's life in the bardo . But they, the programs creators leave it for you to decide.

bardo |bärd|
noun
(in Tibetan Buddhism) a state of existence between death and rebirth, varying in length according to a person's conduct in life and manner of, or age at, death.
* an indeterminate, transitional state : wandering adrift in a bardo of intense negativity, blame, disappointment, criticism, and denial.

As I say it's left for you to decide, watch it and decide for yourself... you are unlikely to be disappointed.

Best British science-fiction television in ages. Beats the new Doctor Who, even.
Review date: 2007-12-17 Rating: 10 out of 10

No words could adequately describe the pleasure I derive from Life on Mars.
It's perfectly scripted, perfectly balanced, perfectly acted, perfectly directed... it's a thing of beauty.

LoM balances utter terror and tragedy and fear with enormous *glee* at Seventies-style cop shows. There's a lot of humour, and that takes the edge off the tragedy. This show has a *perfect* balance between humour and tragedy, good, strong characterisation, brilliant dynamics, acting... I'm already repeating myself. Just... get it. Then you will know:).

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Actor(s):
John Simm

Creators:
John Simm (Primary Contributor)

Recording label: Contender Entertainment Group
Manufacturer: Contender Entertainment Group
EAN: 5030305105273
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 8
Format: Box set, PAL,
Release date: 2007-09-10
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 942 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2006-01-09
Language: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Original Language)

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