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"The 80's are back and it's Criminal."

Ashes to Ashes Aired From February 07, 2008 - May 21, 2010 On BBC One.

About the Show:
DI Alex Drake of the Metropolitan Police is taken hostage and shot, and wakes to find herself apparently thrown back in time to 1981. She quickly recognises DCI Gene Hunt and his team from detailed reports made by DCI Sam Tyler about his own trip to 1973.

Initially sceptical about the surreal nature of her new environment, Alex, a modern, no-nonsense woman, clashed regularly with her sexist colleagues but had to learn to adjust while she strove to find her way back to 2008. As time passed, Alex started to accept her situation, and wonder whether her life in the future had been the dream. Executive Producer Jane Featherstone described this spin-off from Life on Mars as "a touch of Moonlighting teamed with a measure of Miami Vice." The show aimed to build on the success of its award-winning predecessor, resurrecting Philip Glenister's ever-popular detective while taking the opportunity to wink at 1980s fashions and attitudes.

Ashes to Ashes is a spin off from Life on Mars (UK) (not on viptv yet - suggest it in the New Show Suggestion Thread).
They also made a remake of Life on Mars (UK):
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Main Cast and Characters:

Cast	Characters
Philip Glenister	Gene Hunt
Keeley Hawes	Alex Drake
Dean Andrews	Ray Carlin
Marshall Lancaster	Chris Skelton
Montserrat Lombard	Shaz Granger

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Episode 1
DI Alex Drake is taken hostage and shot, and wakes up in a brothel... in 1981. Rescued in a police raid, she quickly recognises DCI Gene Hunt and his team from detailed reports made by DCI Sam Tyler about his own trip to 1973.

Gene is determined to address London's growing drugs problem, and has targeted city playboy Edward Markham as the brains behind the operation. Alex suspects Arthur Layton, the man who kidnapped her in 2008. Could Layton be the key to her return to her own time?

Episode 2
DCI Hunt is determined to keep a lid on protests against the London Docklands development. When a suspected member of the London Liberation Front is arrested, Alex asks her mother, a lawyer, to defend him. Meanwhile, Prince Charles is marrying Lady Diana Spencer and the in-crowd is partying at the Blitz Club.

Episode 3
Fresh from a successful drugs bust, Gene and the team investigate a prostitute's rape allegation. A dangerous serial attacker may be at large, but the case is hampered by an unreliable witness and the suspect's connections.

Episode 4
CID investigate a murder, and discover a plot to sell stolen nuclear secrets to the Revolutionary Workers Front. When Gene and Alex get trapped in a secret Government facility at Edgehampton, the temperature rises.

Episode 5
Gene and Alex discover that a notorious pimp and drug dealer has a major firearms deal in the pipeline. In an attempt to locate him, the team go undercover in a gay club, and Ray goes beyond the call of duty to get his man.

Episode 6
Gene suspects a renowned criminal of involvement in an armed robbery. The realisation that Chas Cale is too old and ill to have been involved makes Gene wonder whether he is getting past his prime himself. Alex sends Ray and Chris undercover in an attempt to crack the case.

Episode 7
The team investigates the armed robbery of a fundraiser who has been travelling across the country in a bathtub full of baked beans to raise money for Children in Need. Alex thinks that a crime reconstruction on Police Five will do the trick, but Gene prefers some old-fashioned police work.

Episode 8
Alex is determined to prevent the murder of her parents in a car bomb attack. Gene, meanwhile, is determined to give a good impression to a visiting Lord Scarman, but the station is still dealing with the aftermath of a Gay Pride demonstration.

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waterlilybarb

Episode 1
A police officer is found dead in a Soho strip club. Gene suspects that PC Sean Irvine had been corrupted, but Alex is unconvinced, and the team investigates the possibility that Irvine was murdered by another officer.

Episode 2
Gene is accused of causing the death, by dangerous driving, of a known car thief. The team discovers evidence that Wicklow, a Romany gypsy, had been given sleeping pills and that the car he was driving had been tampered with, but members of the close-knit Romany community prove uncooperative.

Episode 3
Animal-rights activists launch a new terror campaign, and a 10-year-old girl is injured in a petrol-bomb attack. Alex, interviewing a jailed animal-rights campaigner, becomes convinced that he knows about the campaign, and that he holds the key to her time-travel predicament.

Episode 4
A journalist calls on Gene to ask for his help in tracing her missing teenaged niece, and to tell him that he is going to be a father. Shaz goes undercover to investigate the disappearance of a number of young women from the north. Gene discovers that Supermac has connections with their prime suspect.

Episode 5
With the reputation of the Met at a new low, the team investigates a violent robbery at the home of Alex's future husband, prompting unpleasant memories. The fingerprints of a supposedly dead gangster are found at the scene, but Alex suspects the Drakes' neighbour of involvement.

Episode 6
A body is discovered floating in a canal, and the evidence points to murder. Gene and Alex investigate the connection between the dead man and a loan shark. Alex becomes convinced that events in 2008 are about to bring her sojourn in the 1980s to an end.

Episode 7
CID discover the body of a Polish workman buried in the foundations of a docklands building site, but the site owner proves obstructive. When vital evidence goes missing, Gene becomes convinced that one of the team is responsible, and sets a trap.

Episode 8
Gene and the team investigate the brutal murder of a police informant. When they receive a tip-off that a group of rogue police officers, aware of a planned bullion heist, intend to trap the thieves and make off with the gold themselves, the stakes have never been higher. Gene finds himself attracted to a key witness and at odds with Alex, whose behaviour is becoming increasingly bizarre.

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Episode 1
Alex soon realises she has not returned home after all, and wakes up in 1983. Gene is on the run, and DCI Jim Keats has arrived from Complaints to investigate CID following the shooting. Newly-promoted DI Ray Carling leads an investigation into the kidnapping of a young girl, and sets up a sting operation. Alex decides that she will have to discover the truth about Gene if she is ever to get back to her own time.

Episode 2
A severed hand is sent to Fenchurch station. Discovering that several women have been murdered, Alex decides to join the dating agency they all used. Alex tries to discover the truth about Sam Tyler's death, but Gene is obstructive.

Episode 3
The team investigates a series of arson attacks in the run-up to the general election. A Falklands veteran, now working as a fireman, is identified as the prime suspect. Alex is still tormented by visions of the mutilated police officer.

Episode 4
Gene is determined to bring a drug-dealer to book, and his actions compromise a detective who has been working deep under cover.

Episode 5
Two detectives from Manchester come to London in pursuit of a comedian wanted in connection with the theft of monies from the police widows' fund. Gene is less than welcoming, and is determined to get his hands on their suspect first. Alex takes the opportunity to further her investigation into the disappearance of Sam Tyler.

Episode 6
Riot control at a London prison goes badly wrong and Sgt Viv James is taken captive. When Alex's negotiations with the prisoners fail, Gene sends Chris and Ray in under cover with a press contingent.

Episode 7
The team raid an illegal drinking den used by members of the ANC, where Ray discovers a dead body. The close-knit group is initially uncooperative, but Gene soon extracts a confession from the group's leader, though he appears to be lying. The team's investigation uncovers both illegal immigration and terrorism. DCI Keats presses Alex into continuing her investigation into Sam Tyler's fate.

Episode 8
Gene leads an investigation into a diamond heist, but Alex is more interested in finding out what really happened to Sam Tyler. When she disappears, Gene sets off in pursuit, leaving the rest of the team to see through an ambitious sting operation.

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