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Season 1 Breakdown

Normal Episodes: 17
TV Specials: 0
TV Movies: 0

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Season 1 Guide (2008-2009)

	1x01 Out Here in the Fields When NYPD detective Sam Tyler is hit by a car while searching for his missing partner, Maya Daniels, he finds himself in 1973 once regaining consciousness. ...	Oct. 09, 2008
	1x02 The Real Adventures of the Unreal Sam Tyler After hearing a radio announcement saying Elvis will be performing in concert, Sam remains unsure as to how he found himself 30 years in the past. However, ...	Oct. 16, 2008
	1x03 My Maharishi Is Bigger Than Your Maharishi After a Vietnam veteran is killed upon his return from overseas, Lieutenant Hunt demands a quick resolve to this complicated case. As Sam and the detectives ...	Oct. 23, 2008
	1x04 Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadows? Sam gets pulled back into his childhood after he must deal with gangster Nick Profaci's assault on a young woman, who turns out to be his mother in 1973. ...	Oct. 30, 2008
	1x05 Things to Do in New York When You Think You're Dead A racial fight is triggered between the African American and Puerto Ricans when a young African American girl is found dead. Sam is assigned to the case ...	Nov. 06, 2008
	1x06 Tuesday's Dead Sam Tyler finds it difficult to separate a life-and-death hostage situation taking place at County Hospital from his own strange circumstances. Stressed ...	Nov. 13, 2008
	1x07 The Man Who Sold the World Sam Tyler is shocked to discover that his own father, Vic Tyler, may have been involved in the kidnapping of a baby from a prominent family. Sam hasn't ...	Nov. 20, 2008
	1x08 Take a Look at the Lawmen Lt. Hunt's squad and Lt. Nunzio's crew renew their long-standing rivalry due to a bank robbery with a connection to the Russian mob. Meanwhile, Sam is ...	Jan. 28, 2009
	1x09 The Dark Side of the Mook Ray's shady brother may have played a role in the number of recent decapitations in which the squad is investigating. but other suspects pop up too, such ...	Feb. 04, 2009
	1x10 Let All the Children Boogie Sam and Chris are pulled inside the world of a rock star who is receiving death threats, and a spacey groupie and an FBI agent known as "The Sorcerer" ...	Feb. 11, 2009
	1x11 Home Is Where You Hang Your Holster Sam discovers a shocking secret after a councilman is caught with a hooker when the police conduct a raid on a motel room. Meanwhile, Lt. Hunt puts the ...	Feb. 18, 2009
	1x12 The Simple Secret of the Note in Us All The detectives at the 1-2-5 investigate the murder of newspaper journalist Joey Conway. Sam is convinced the killer is the same criminal from a case in ...	Feb. 25, 2009
	1x13 Revenge of Broken Jaw When the Weather Underground sends the department bomb threats on the anniversary of their leader's death, Lt. Hunt takes the threats personally. As Sam, ...	Mar. 04, 2009
	1x14 Coffee, Tea or Annie When a Pan Atlantic air hostess is found dead, Annie volunteers to go undercover in order to solve a series of homicides. Annie, Sam and Ray, working undercover, ...	Mar. 11, 2009
	1x15 All the Young Dudes When Sam goes undercover as a gang member, he has to reveal a dark side in order to keep his cover. While undercover, Sam is pushed to the limit when he ...	Mar. 18, 2009
	1x16 Everyone Knows It's Windy Crime hits home after Ray and Chris are shot by a gang member. When the shooter is found dead near a bar, Sam becomes the lead suspect since he has been ...	Mar. 25, 2009
	1x17 Life is a Rock Sam receives an offer to return to 2008 from a mystery caller, but he finds himself confused over a certain set of circumstances which makes him wonder ...	Apr. 01, 2009

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Season 1 Characters

Detective Sam Tyler	played by Jason O'Mara
Detective Ray Carling	played by Michael Imperioli
Annie Norris	played by Gretchen Mol
Detective Chris Skelton	played by Jonathan Murphy
Lieutenant Gene Hunt	played by Harvey Keitel
Detective	played by Tom Stratford
Sizable Ted	played by John Cenatiempo
Young Sammy	played by Caleb Wallace
Detective Maya Daniels	played by Lisa Bonet
Rose Tyler	played by Jennifer Ferrin
Windy	played by Tanya Fischer
Nurse	played by Marcella Lowery
Cowboy Dan	played by Matthew Cowles
Maria Belanger	played by Maggie Siff
Vic Tyler	played by Dean Winters
Keisha	played by Emerald-Angel Young
TV News Reporter	played by George Aloi
Captain Bellow	played by Clarke Peters
Agent Frank Morgan	played by Peter Gerety
Jimmy McManus	played by Peter Greene
Little Patrick	played by Robert Creighton
Lee Crocker	played by Lee Tergesen
Newscaster	played by Ken Marks

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Season 1 Videos

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Season 1 Quotes

	Season 1 / Episode 17: - Life is a Rock Lieutenant Gene Hunt: Tyler, Come here. I need you. Lieutenant Gene Hunt: [laughing] I know. I think I'm gonna miss you most of all, scarecrow.
	Season 1 / Episode 17: - Life is a Rock Detective Sam Tyler: David Bowie. Why does it always come back to David Bowie?

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Season 1 Trivia

Episode 17 - Last show of the series.
Episode 13 - The bar that was bombed is called Glenisters. 'Philip Glenister' played Gene Hunt in the original BBC version of "Life on Mars" (2006).
Episode 04 - Sam Tyler was inadvertently named for Rose Tyler, a character on the BBC's "Doctor Who" (2005). In the BBC Version of "Life on Mars" (2006), Sam's mother is named Ruth Tyler. The ABC version has Sam's mother named Rose Tyler.
Episode 15 - The title is from the song "All the Young Dudes" by David Bowie (I), originally recorded and released as a single by Mott the Hoople in 1972.
Episode 16 - The title is from the lyrics of the song "Windy" written by Ruthann Friedman and recorded by The Association in 1967.

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