Episodes cast for
"Life on Mars" (2006) More at IMDbPro »

Season: 1 | 2
Year: 2006 | 2007

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: Episode #1.1

9 January 2006
A DCI from 2006 wakes from a car crash in 1973 and must figure out how he got there in order to get back and save his girlfriend.

	John Simm	...	Sam Tyler
	Philip Glenister	...	Gene Hunt
	Liz White	...	Annie Cartwright
	Dean Andrews	...	Ray Carling
	Marshall Lancaster	...	Chris Skelton
	Tony Marshall	...	Nelson
	Archie Panjabi	...	Maya Roy
	Sam Hazeldine	...	Colin Raimes
	Henry Cox	...	Young Lad
	Caroline Harding	...	Raimes' Lawyer
	Parvez Qadir	...	Raimes' Psychiatrist
	Orla Cottingham	...	Raimes' Social Worker
	Tom Charnock	...	Police Officer
	Christopher Harper	...	Neil
	Richard Sinnott	...	TV Presenter
	Jane Riley	...	Dora Keens
	Andrew Abrahams	...	Sid (as Andy Abrahams)
	Mags Gannon	...	Mrs. Raimes
	Rae Kelly	...	June
	Noreen Kershaw	...	Phyllis Dobbs (scenes deleted)
	Timothy Platt	...	Leonard (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 2: Episode #1.2

16 January 2006
Sam and Gene are at loggerheads when tragedy results from Sam's ethics.

	John Simm	...	Sam Tyler
	Philip Glenister	...	Gene Hunt
	Liz White	...	Annie Cartwright
	Dean Andrews	...	Ray Carling
	Marshall Lancaster	...	Chris Skelton
	Noreen Kershaw	...	Phyllis Dobbs
	Tony Marshall	...	Nelson
	Andrew Tiernan	...	Kim Trent
	Rae Kelly	...	June
	Frank Walmsley	...	Ambulance Driver
	Rafaella Hutchinson	...	Test Card Girl
	Jane Relph	...	Witness
	Timothy Platt	...	Leonard
	Sherry Ormerod	...	Mrs. Trent
	Paul Williams	...	Lad Dragged into Police Station (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 3: Episode #1.3

23 January 2006
A murder at a factory brings some nostalgia to Sam -- it's where is flat is in the future, and he and Hunt each have a tenner on which is best: Hunt's instincts or Tyler's forensics.

	John Simm	...	Sam Tyler
	Philip Glenister	...	Gene Hunt
	Liz White	...	Annie Cartwright
	Marshall Lancaster	...	Chris Skelton
	Dean Andrews	...	Ray Carling
	Noreen Kershaw	...	Phyllis Dobbs
	Tony Marshall	...	Nelson
	Rebecca Atkinson	...	Tina
	Andrew Knott	...	Derek Bannister
	John Henshaw	...	Ted Bannister
	John Axon	...	Arthur Coynes
	Lee Ross	...	DCI Litton
	Warren Donnelly	...	Dodds
	Nicky Bell	...	Brian
	Paul Leeming	...	Pathologist
	Denice Hope	...	Mrs. Bannister
	Rafaella Hutchinson	...	Test Card Girl
	Ken Mood	...	Factory worker (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 4: Episode #1.4

30 January 2006
After discovering most of the police force is on the take, Sam must decide how to handle it and figure a way to get DCI Hunt on board. The fact the mob boss is responsible for terrorizing his mother only firms his resolve.

	John Simm	...	Sam Tyler
	Philip Glenister	...	Gene Hunt
	Liz White	...	Annie Cartwright
	Dean Andrews	...	Ray Carling
	Marshall Lancaster	...	Chris Skelton
	Noreen Kershaw	...	Phyllis Dobbs
	Tony Marshall	...	Nelson
	Holly Mai Leighton	...	Young Girl (as Holly-Mai Leighton)
	David Corden	...	Edwards
	Denton Brown	...	Driver
	William Matheson	...	Marc Bolan
	Tom Mannion	...	Stephen Warren
	Kelly Wenham	...	Joni
	Chris Wilcox	...	Royston
	Joanne Frogatt	...	Mrs. Tyler (as Joanne Froggatt)
	Stephen Aintree	...	Carroway
	Georgia Taylor	...	Denise Williams (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 5: Episode #1.5

6 February 2006
The death of a Manchester United fan may send the city into a riot when a City fan is suspected, so Sam, Gene and Annie go undercover at a pub to get clues as to the murderer.

	John Simm	...	Sam Tyler
	Philip Glenister	...	Gene Hunt
	Liz White	...	Annie Cartwright
	Dean Andrews	...	Ray Carling
	Marshall Lancaster	...	Chris Skelton
	Noreen Kershaw	...	Phyllis Dobbs
	Tony Marshall	...	Nelson
	Michael Lawrence	...	Ryan
	Ian Barritt	...	Stanley Cooper
	Anthony Flanagan	...	Pete Bond
	Kris Mochrie	...	Craig
	Steven Blower	...	Paul
	John Wilson	...	Man in Pub
	Joe Duttine	...	Malcolm Cox
	Rafaella Hutchinson	...	Test Card Girl (voice) (uncredited)
	John R. Walker	...	Trafford Arms Local (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 6: Episode #1.6

13 February 2006
A hostage situation becomes increasingly more nerve-wracking for Sam when he discovers the hostage taker's deadline coincides with the time that his life support machine is due to be turned off in 2006. Meanwhile Annie gets sent into the room with the hostage taker, dressed as a nurse, in an attempt to gain information about the situation.

	John Simm	...	Sam Tyler
	Philip Glenister	...	Gene Hunt
	Liz White	...	Annie Cartwright
	Dean Andrews	...	Ray Carling
	Marshall Lancaster	...	Chris Skelton
	Noreen Kershaw	...	Phyllis Dobbs
	Tony Marshall	...	Nelson
	Carl Cieka	...	Hugo Barton
	Lee Ross	...	DCI Litton
	Paul Copley	...	Reg Cole
	Debbie Howard	...	Nervous Lady
	Ruth Millar	...	Jackie Queen
	Margaret Henshaw	...	Doris
	Ken Drury	...	George Bates
	Joanne Frogatt	...	Ruth Tyler (voice) (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 7: Episode #1.7

20 February 2006
Sam believes exposing a dirty cop will make his tests in 2006 show a response, but will the sacrifice of the unit be worth it?

	John Simm	...	Sam Tyler
	Philip Glenister	...	Gene Hunt
	Liz White	...	Annie Cartwright
	Dean Andrews	...	Ray Carling
	Marshall Lancaster	...	Chris Skelton
	Noreen Kershaw	...	Phyllis Dobbs
	Tony Marshall	...	Nelson
	Kevin Knapman	...	Billy Kemble
	Andrew Vincent	...	Albert Collins
	Sagar Arya	...	Saeed Taufeeq
	Tom Lloyd-Roberts	...	Doctor
	Lisa Millett	...	Andrea Kemble
	William Hoyland	...	Superintendent Rathbone
	Nicholas Blane	...	Oswald Spear

Season 1, Episode 8: Episode #1.8

27 February 2006
Sam's encounter with his father brings back memories and challenges his belief of his purpose for being in 1973.

	John Simm	...	Sam Tyler
	Philip Glenister	...	Gene Hunt
	Liz White	...	Annie Cartwright
	Dean Andrews	...	Ray Carling
	Marshall Lancaster	...	Chris Skelton
	Noreen Kershaw	...	Phyllis Dobbs
	Tony Marshall	...	Nelson
	Lee Ingleby	...	Vic Tyler
	Joanne Frogatt	...	Ruth Tyler (as Joanne Froggatt)
	Matt Cross	...	Jimmy Lips
	Paul Kemp	...	Manager
	Alexander O'Loughlin	...	Young Sam
	Rafaella Hutchinson	...	Test Card Girl (voice) (uncredited)

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Season 2

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Season 2, Episode 1: Episode #2.1

13 February 2007
Sam is experiencing visions and pains that suggest that his life is in danger in 2006. At the same time, he runs into the younger version Tony Crane, a twenty-first century killer who Sam helped to convict. Sam comes to believe that Crane has escaped justice in 2006 and has come to wreak revenge on his comatose nemesis by torturing him...to death.

	John Simm	...	Sam Tyler
	Philip Glenister	...	Gene Hunt
	Liz White	...	Annie Cartwright
	Dean Andrews	...	Ray Carling
	Marshall Lancaster	...	Chris Skelton
	Noreen Kershaw	...	Phyllis Dobbs
	Tony Marshall	...	Nelson
	Jonathan Wright	...	Reporter
	Kevin McNally	...	Harry Woolf (as Kevin R McNally)
	Craig Cheetham	...	Russell Askey
	Steve Garti	...	Andy Eddows
	Yasmin Bannerman	...	Eve Olawi (as Yasmine Bannerman)
	Marc Warren	...	Tony Crane
	Michael Atkinson	...	McKee
	Gemma Wardle	...	Nurse
	Julian Kay	...	Doctor

Season 2, Episode 2: Episode #2.2

13 February 2007
Sam receives messages from 2006 saying that his mentor, Glen Fletcher (Ray Emmet Brown) has died. He's shocked to meet a younger version of Fletcher in 1973, especially when he finds that his mentor has not yet grown into the man who he looked up to. Meanwhile, a prisoner's escape triggers Sam's suspicions about crooked dealings within the CID.

	John Simm	...	Sam Tyler
	Philip Glenister	...	Gene Hunt
	Liz White	...	Annie Cartwright
	Dean Andrews	...	Ray Carling
	Marshall Lancaster	...	Chris Skelton
	Noreen Kershaw	...	Phyllis Dobbs
	Kevin McNally	...	Harry Woolf (as Kevin R McNally)
	Steve Evets	...	Dickie Fingers
	Chris Bieske	...	1st Twin
	Craig Bieske	...	2nd Twin
	Ray Emmet Brown	...	DC Glen Fletcher
	Bill Rodgers	...	Filbert
	Stephen Bent	...	Arnold Malone
	Trevor Williams	...	Armed Robber
	Michael Thyx	...	Prison Officer Norris (uncredited)

Season 2, Episode 3: Episode #2.3

20 February 2007
Manchester is beset with bomb threats that Gene readily pins on the IRA, but Sam's knowledge of history makes him doubt Gene's assertion. However, messages from 2006 and a grave mistake in 1973 are giving Sam reason to question his own judgment.

	John Simm	...	Sam Tyler
	Philip Glenister	...	Gene Hunt
	Liz White	...	Annie Cartwright
	Dean Andrews	...	Ray Carling
	Marshall Lancaster	...	Chris Skelton
	Noreen Kershaw	...	Phyllis Dobbs
	Tony Marshall	...	Nelson
	Brendan Mackey	...	Patrick O'Brien
	Peter Wight	...	Frank Miller
	Beatrice Kelley	...	Landlady
	Harriet Rogers	...	Test Card Girl

Season 2, Episode 4: Episode #2.4

13 March 2007
Sam and Annie investigate a world of suburban swingers' parties to investigate a murder.

	John Simm	...	Sam Tyler
	Philip Glenister	...	Gene Hunt
	Liz White	...	Annie Cartwright
	Dean Andrews	...	Ray Carling
	Marshall Lancaster	...	Chris Skelton
	Noreen Kershaw	...	Phyllis Dobbs
	Nicholas Palliser	...	Roger Twilling
	Eva Pope	...	Carol Twilling
	Clare McGlinn	...	Mrs. Luckhurst
	Georgia Taylor	...	Denise Williams
	Katherine Kelly	...	Auntie Heather
	Andy Hockley	...	Pathologist
	Meryl Hampton	...	Mrs. Edith Williams
	Andrew Readman	...	Twilling's Lawyer
	Alexander O'Loughlin	...	Young Sam
	Richard Sinnott	...	Professor
	Carissa Wistow	...	Gracie
	Chris Wilson	...	Swinger (uncredited)

Season 2, Episode 5: Episode #2.5

20 March 2007
A very ill Sam Tyler has reason to believe that he's been given an overdose of medication in 2006. While struggling with this, he's called into CID to assist with a troubling kidnapping case. With Sam not quite himself, it's up to the rest of the team to solve the case and save the lives of a mother and daughter.

	John Simm	...	Sam Tyler
	Philip Glenister	...	Gene Hunt
	Liz White	...	Annie Cartwright
	Dean Andrews	...	Ray Carling
	Marshall Lancaster	...	Chris Skelton
	Noreen Kershaw	...	Phyllis Dobbs
	Reece Dinsdale	...	Simon Lamb
	Lesley Clare O'Neill	...	Mrs. Bathurst
	Olwen May	...	Mavis Witham
	Jonty Stephens	...	Don Witham
	Adam Beresford	...	Graham Bathurst
	James Wells	...	Mitch Bathurst (as James Peter Wells)
	Hayley McGroarty	...	Stella Lamb
	Alicia Hall	...	School Girl 1
	Jodie Hamblet	...	School Girl 2 (as Jodie Hamblett)
	Georgia Foote	...	Angela Fairley (uncredited)

Season 2, Episode 6: Episode #2.6

27 March 2007
Sam hears the voice of his girlfriend Maya (Archie Panjabi) from 2006, asking him to let her go. At the same time, an investigation of the burgeoning Manchester heroin trade leads him to meet an unexpected acquaintance from his twenty first century life.

	John Simm	...	Sam Tyler
	Philip Glenister	...	Gene Hunt
	Liz White	...	Annie Cartwright
	Dean Andrews	...	Ray Carling
	Marshall Lancaster	...	Chris Skelton
	Noreen Kershaw	...	Phyllis Dobbs
	Archie Panjabi	...	Maya
	Alex Reid	...	Layla
	Tim Plester	...	Rocket
	Paul Sharma	...	Ravi
	Ian Puleston-Davies	...	Toolbox Terry (as Ian Puleston-Davis)
	Lorraine Cheshire	...	Big Bird
	Paul Oldham	...	Skinhead

Season 2, Episode 7: Episode #2.7

3 April 2007
DCI Gene Hunt (Phillip Glenister) finds himself on trial for murder and soon all of CID are after him. But DI Sam Tyler (John Simm) believes otherwise. He goes to find his innocence. Even if that means making Gene dress as a road safety squirrel.

	John Simm	...	Sam Tyler
	Philip Glenister	...	Gene Hunt
	Liz White	...	Annie Cartwright
	Dean Andrews	...	Ray Carling
	Marshall Lancaster	...	Chris Skelton
	Noreen Kershaw	...	Phyllis Dobbs
	Tony Marshall	...	Nelson
	Seamus O'Neill	...	Terry Haslam
	Kieran O'Brien	...	Davie Mackay
	Corrinne Wicks	...	Barrister
	Ralph Brown	...	Frank Morgan
	Jason Watkins	...	Colin Merrick
	Ian Hanmore	...	Peter Wilkes
	Johnny Leeze	...	Meter Man
	Genevieve Walsh	...	Sue
	Bernard Nagle	...	Micky Hipplethwaite
	Paul Hann	...	(uncredited)

Season 2, Episode 8: Episode #2.8

10 April 2007
The CID investigates the murder of a miner, and determine that a cop killer is behind it.

	John Simm	...	Sam Tyler
	Philip Glenister	...	Gene Hunt
	Liz White	...	Annie Cartwright
	Dean Andrews	...	Ray Carling
	Marshall Lancaster	...	Chris Skelton
	Noreen Kershaw	...	Phyllis Dobbs
	Tony Marshall	...	Nelson
	Ralph Brown	...	Frank Morgan
	Jack Deam	...	Donald Sykes
	Harriet Rogers	...	Test Card Girl
	Sean Gilder	...	Leslie Johns
	Philip Lightfoot	...	Security Clerk
	Jacqui Boatswain	...	Officer 1 (as Jacqueline Boatswain)
	Mason Phillips	...	Officer 2
	Judi Jones	...	Ruth Tyler