Ashes To Ashes - Series 1
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- 'Life After Mars' - Behind the scenes of Ashes to Ashes\Car Explosion - featurette\Set Tour - featurette\
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- 16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
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- ASHES TO ASHES follows on from the hugely successful BBC series LIFE ON MARS, and sees the return of the self styled 'Sheriff of Manchester' DCI Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister). Whereas LIFE ON MARS was a throwback to the crime-fighting style of the 1970's with a style and wit reminiscent of THE SWEENEY and THE PROFESSIONALS, ASHES TO ASHES takes you back to 'the decade that taste forgot', the 1980's. The series revels in 80s nostalgia, providing plenty of sight jokes and of course, a brand new car for Hunt.
DCI Hunt has left the relative comfort of the Greater Manchester Police to take on the 'southern nancys' of London, where he once again acquires a time-travelling sidekick, this time in the sexy and smart DCI Alex Drake (Keeley Hawes). Alex's journey began back in 2008 when she was shot during a botched kidnapping of her daughter Molly. Her psychology background and indepth knowledge of the Sam Tyler case lead her to dismiss her predicament as a vivid hallucination. Nevertheless, with crime rife on the streets of 1980's London, and a police team that's not very receptive to modern career women, Alex has a lot to prove before she can figure out how to get home.
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Release Date:
05 May 2008
"Ashes to Ashes" follows the unlikely hero of "Life on Mars," DCI Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister) to 1980s London and the Metropolitan Police . This time around he is joined by smart and sexy female DCI Alex Drake (Keeley Hawes), an officer with a background in psychology who has studied the case of Sam Tyler. Shot by the kidnapper of her daughter Molly in 2008, Drake awakes in 1981, and goes through the series believing herself to be living out a vivid hallucination.
Like Sam before her, Alex must contend with the brash Hunt and his team, and though she and Hunt clash over policing styles, politics and political correctness, there are also moments of chemistry and closeness.
This series introduces another female character to offer support; Shaz Granger ("Love Soup"'s Montserrat Lombard) who provides romance for general dogsbody Chris (Marshall Lancaster) and some serious 80s fashion moments.
Whilst working with the team, Alex tries to piece together what happened to her parents (whose lives were connected to the political unrest of the time), and remains desperate to find her way back to her daughter.
Like its predecessor, "Ashes to Ashes" paid tribute to a period in time, introducing the team to new music and fashion styles, and Hunt's red Audio Quattro became a character in its own right.
This box set features the complete first series.
Special Features
- 'Life After Mars' - Behind the scenes of Ashes to Ashes\Car Explosion - featurette\Set Tour - featurette\
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