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Life on Mars

(January 2006)

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MD
Mr D'Arcy
I spotted the different Testcard too. The clown was huge! Shocked

Great programme! Very Happy
MR
mromega
Got to remember that Sam's dreaming (or something similar) and created the testcard from his memory.
BA
Bail Moderator
As fantastic as it is, I have a worry that it will end with "and he woke up, it was all a dream" which would be a tad rubbish, that said, last night was fantastic. The PVR is set up to record all of them already.

9 days later

PA
pad
What did everyone think of Episode 2?
AP
AdamP
Bail posted:
As fantastic as it is, I have a worry that it will end with "and he woke up, it was all a dream" which would be a tad rubbish


I doubt they can do anything as straightforward as that, because they'll want to leave open the possibility of a second series.
ST
stevek
my guess is the wpc is really his wife and the girl in the test card is his daughter,

that's a completely educated guess so don't give me any grief if I'm completely wrong.

the clown is huge because he is going on his memories as a three year old who probably would make the clown big.

i was 3 in 73 and the only thing i can remember is the cars
TV
tvarksouthwest
BillyH posted:
Superb show. Will definitely be tuning in next week.

Though did anyone notice that Test Card F was clearly a recreation, featuring someone else in place of Carole Hersee? Not sure why, it's one of the easiest things to find...unless perhaps it's somehow tied in to a future episode. Or something.

Apparently because the greedy copyright owners wanted something like £250 a minute for its use. But the original would have been restrictive given Monday's fantasy sequence.
PA
pad
<bump>

More fun tonight at 9pm on BBC ONE!

10 days later

NE
Neil__
Is it repeated anywhere? I missed Monday's episode. Crying or Very sad
MD
Mr D'Arcy
You didn't miss much, well apart from a great episode, the fantastic soundtrack and a young lady with her boobs out! Smile
NE
Neil__
TVF posted:
You didn't miss much, well apart from a great episode, the fantastic soundtrack and a young lady with her boobs out! Smile

Thank you so much for that helpful contribution. Rolling Eyes
ST
stevek
noticed some of the terrace houses where they filmed have velux windows in the lofts, did they have velux loft windows in 1973?, in fact did people have loft extensions?

here's a thought, if sam saw himself as a boy going to the football match and his younger self looked back at him wouldn't he have remembered that.

lets face it, wouldn't you find it a bit odd if as an adult you looked like some man you remember seeing at a football match when you were a child.

last night's episode was about football violence by the way,

last week's was about corrupt coppers and criminal contacts one of whom uses a woman to seduce sam after he shows a dislike for his illegal activities, sam tries to help her escape but she gets murdered by said criminal boss, gene finally bows to sam's disapproval and the criminal boss is arrested.

continuity query: this may be a bit crude but the criminal boss is arrested in the middle of a visit from your friendly neighbourhood rent boy (he's gay) and says to gene and sam 'how dare you come in here' when they burst into his office, gene quips that he should have said that to the rent boy.

would 'come' as a euphemism for ejaculation have been used in the 1970s?

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