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DCI
Gene Hunt
DI
Alex
Drake
DS
Ray Carling
DC
Chris Skelton
WPC
Sharon Granger
DCI
jim keats
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Ashes to Ashes is a British science fiction/police procedural drama television series, serving as
the sequel to Life on
Mars The series tells the fictional story of Alex Drake (played by Keeley Hawes), a female police officer in service with London's Metropolitan Police who is shot in
2008, and inexplicably regains consciousness in 1981.[3]
The series' first
episode reveals that in the present day, Drake has been studying records of
the events seen in Life on Mars. Upon waking in the
past, she is shocked to meet returning character Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister), of whom she has learned
from her research. Throughout the series, it is ambiguous to both Drake and the
audience whether the character is dead or alive in the present day. The first series is set in 1981, and consists of eight episodes, Written
mainly by creators Ashley
Pharoah (episodes 2 & 8), and Matthew Graham (episodes 1 & 7). Other
writers for the series were Julie Rutterford (episode three) and Mark Greig (episodes 4 & 5),
who worked on the parent series, Life on Mars. The remaining
episode (6) was written by freelance writer Mick Ford. The series deals with Alex trying to
figure out what happened to her parents, whose lives are connected to the
political unrest of the time, especially Margaret Thatcher's campaign and Lord Scarman's attacks upon the
police. Alex is haunted by the Clown from the music video of David Bowie's "Ashes to Ashes", in a similar
way to how the Test-Card Girl spoke to Sam Tyler in Life on Mars. In the last
episode, the clown's identity is revealed.
The second series is set in 1982, against the political background of the Falklands War. Again the
second series has eight episodes. The first episode of the series was written by
Ashley Pharoah, and deals with the cover-up of a police officer killed in a
nightclub. As the series progresses, Alex's comatose body is found in present
day 2008. As Gene finds himself confronting a corrupted force, Alex begins
receiving a string of phone calls from a man called Martin Summers, another
patient at the hospital Alex has been moved to. Summers proves to be a
formidable adversary, his actions eventually lead to a shocking murder and the
most tense confrontation yet between Alex and Gene.
The third and final series is once again set one year forward, in 1983, and
sees the return of DCI Gene Hunt, DI Alex Drake and the rest of the team, along
with the addition of Jim Keats as the new discipline and complaints officer.
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