An incredibly brilliant television series that explores the idea of what happens when a serial killer in 2006 kidnaps police officer, DCI Sam Tyler's partner, and in trying to rescue her, Tyler is hit by a car waking up in 1973. The question becoming one of whether Tyler is either at the hospital in a coma or has actually traveled thirty-three years into the past, and really is in the early Seventies. In which the series creators/writers have stated that it's up to the audience to decide for themselves what is happening. Think "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (2000) meets "Starsky & Hutch" (1975) and that's just a hint at the cultural clash found here exploring the differences between the way police work was done then (in the 1970s) to the way it's done now.
Returning to his precinct (albeit in 1973), Tyler is assigned to the same serial killer case he had been working on in 2006, with his partner's life still hanging in the balance. Throughout the run of the series Tyler has to deal with a narrow-minded boss who thinks treating witnesses as suspects is the only way to get information from them and audio-taping interviews with suspects is waste of time, thick-as-a-brick co-workers who think Tyler needs to go back to the Academy and learn how to perform some real police work, and some of England's dumbest criminals. At the same time trying to protect his mother and the boy he used to be from a corrupt landlord and save the father who was absent during much of Tyler's childhood. With his only friend being PC Annie Cartwright who is the only person to know that Tyler doesn't belong in 1973, and also being the one person unable to do anything about it.
I find this one such a pleasure to watch that I'm eagerly waiting to see the second series run and what happens next.
Returning to his precinct (albeit in 1973), Tyler is assigned to the same serial killer case he had been working on in 2006, with his partner's life still hanging in the balance. Throughout the run of the series Tyler has to deal with a narrow-minded boss who thinks treating witnesses as suspects is the only way to get information from them and audio-taping interviews with suspects is waste of time, thick-as-a-brick co-workers who think Tyler needs to go back to the Academy and learn how to perform some real police work, and some of England's dumbest criminals. At the same time trying to protect his mother and the boy he used to be from a corrupt landlord and save the father who was absent during much of Tyler's childhood. With his only friend being PC Annie Cartwright who is the only person to know that Tyler doesn't belong in 1973, and also being the one person unable to do anything about it.
I find this one such a pleasure to watch that I'm eagerly waiting to see the second series run and what happens next.