"Life on Mars is a British television drama series, which was shown on BBC One in January and February 2006. A second series, due for transmission in 2007, started production in April 2006. BBC America began showing the first-season episodes in the United States in July, 2006.

   The format of this show mixes time travel with police drama, with the central character being modern-day policeman Sam Tyler (played by John Simm), who after being hit by a car in 2006 finds himself back in 1973. There he is working for Manchester and Salford Police CID and faces various culture clashes — added surrealism is provided by the girl featured in a fictional Test Card F or Open University lecturers speaking to Tyler through his television set at night. The series also features a strong ambiguity concerning Tyler's predicament, in that it is unclear whether he really has travelled back in time; is in a coma in 2006 and imagining his experiences; or is really in 1973 and mentally unstable, albeit with remarkably accurate knowledge of the future."

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   "John Simm was born in Leeds, Yorkshire. His father, Ronald, was a local musician who taught him to play guitar. John would join his father on stage in the working men’s clubs playing the guitar, he made his debut singing Elvis’s Wooden Heart, and they called themselves Us2.

   In 1986 and at the age of 16, John went to Blackpool Drama College and enjoyed three years of drinking and starring in West Side Story. He then attended the Drama Centre in London at the age of 18, where he studied the Stanislavski School of method acting. Coming from a working/lower middle class upbringing to suddenly being surrounded by those from more privileged backgrounds, he educated himself by reading classic plays and novels."

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   Named after Doctor Who's Rose Tyler, Sam was destined to become a time traveller. Or is that the case? Did his 2006 accident leave him with a broken sense of reality or did he infact jump timelines? It becomes the pursuit of Sam Tyler to find out even as he clashes with nearly everyone around him, especially his boss, DCI Gene Hunt.

   When the two aren't trying to knock each other around, Hunt and Tyler work together, bringing 2 entirely different views to each case. Even though Sam's knowledge of the future and multi tasking often clash with Gene's odd sense of humanity and gut instincts, they end up feeding off of and learning from one another.

   Though he seems to make his place in the station in 1973, Sam still exists in two different worlds as he often hears the noises of his room in St. James hospital in 2006. He is also spoken to by Neil, a late night lecturer on the telly, and the girl in the Test Card, who all speak to Tyler as if they know of his predicament. Even though he responds to them, he still finds himself unable to wake up, only futhering his goal to find that "definitive step" to get him out.