Ashes to Ashes - Back to the 80s

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Television series
German title Ashes to Ashes - Back to the 80s
Original title Ashes to Ashes
Ashes to Ashes - Back to the 80s
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Year (s) 2007-2010
Production
company		 Kudos Film & Television
length 52 minutes (international),
UK: almost 60 minutes
Episodes 24 in 3 seasons
genre Crime, mystery
idea Matthew Graham ,
Ashley Pharoah
production Beth Willis
music Edmund Butt
First broadcast February 7, 2008 (UK) on BBC One
German-language
first broadcast		 December 1, 2009 on FOX Channel
occupation
synchronization

Ashes to Ashes - Back to the 80s is the continuation of the series Life on Mars - Caught in the 70s . Police psychologist Alex Drake investigates the case of colleague Sam Tyler, who committed suicide after waking from a coma. After being shot, she falls into a present-day coma and "wakes up" in 1981, and the people she finds there correspond to those described by Sam Tyler. Alex tries to find a way to wake up from the coma, to return to the present and her daughter.

In contrast to many successful US series, the authors decided to "finish the story" despite the popular success. The Ashes to Ashes story was therefore completed at the end of the third season. The final season ran from April 2 to May 21, 2010 on BBC One and BBC HD and has also been available as a DVD set in the English original since September 2010.

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season 1

Alex tries to find a way back into the present and out of her coma. She quickly meets her mother, who was killed together with her father in a car bomb in 1981. In addition to the daily police work, Alex tries to find out what dangerous machinations her parents could be involved in and how she can save her parents. Sometimes repressed memories from her own childhood in 1981 mix with her comic reality in 1981. Alex Drake finds out that her mother is having an affair with Alex's godfather - later, in a flashback, it becomes apparent that Alex was a small child had observed.

On the anniversary of her parents' death, Alex fails to prevent the explosion and discovers that her father had the bomb installed himself.

season 2

Alex Drake continues (now in 1982) trying to find a way to wake up from the coma and finds that memories of the present and her daughter are fading. The theme of police corruption runs as a common thread through the season. From the middle of the season a mysterious police officer Martin Summers appears, who knows that Alex is in a coma and offers her his help. To do this, however, she must behave in a corrupt and dishonest manner towards her colleagues; she declines the offer of help, even if it could be a way to wake up.

It turns out that in the present, Summers himself is in the same hospital as Alex Drake and has knowledge of the 1982 future. So he plans to interfere in a gold truck robbery in 1982 and make a business himself with the help of corrupt police officers. When Alex chases him after the attack, he threatens her with a gun, whereupon Gene Hunt shoots him. In the subsequent scuffle with an accomplice of the robbery, Gene Hunt's bullet accidentally hits Alex Drake, whereupon she passes out.

When Alex wakes up again, she is in the hospital in the present and is greeted by a doctor and her daughter Molly. However, after the two leave the room, Gene Hunt appears on the TV monitor and reveals that she did not wake up from the coma, but fell into another coma in 1982 and should wake up because he is suspected of not waking her up Accidentally shot on purpose.

season 3

Alex “wakes up” from a coma in 1983 and rehabilitates DCI Gene Hunt from the alleged attempted murder of her. The new character DCI Jim Keats from the internal affairs department was therefore put on Hunt and should also prove his guilt for the death of Sam Tyler. Initially, he successfully used every opportunity to get the Hunt team to his side. In the course of the season the police officer Viv is killed and Shaz, Ray and Chris overcome their fears, which is shown with the theme music from Life on Mars and a speech by host Nelson from the pub "Railway Arms". The true fate of Sam Tyler is revealed and Hunt's Audi Quattro is ultimately destroyed in a gunfight. Overall, the third season is designed to bring to light the truth about the supposed delusions of Sam Tyler and Alex Drake, their alleged coma or their possible journey into the past. Gene Hunt's world is a kind of intermediate world he created for killed and, in the case of Sam and Alex, initially comatose policemen, in which their souls should find themselves before they, like Alex, Shaz, Chris and Ray, between heaven (the Railway Arms pub) and Hell (the elevator in Jim Keats Department). The season, and with it the series as a whole, closes after Hunt's team enters Nelson's Pub with a new policeman who has died on duty in our presence enters Fenchurch East and loudly calls for his office and his iPhone, followed by Hunt in " ... what looks like his office ... "is asked.

Characters

DI Alex Drake

Alex is a contemporary DCI and police psychologist. She is in her early 30s and has a daughter, Molly. She has dealt extensively with the fate of Sam Tyler. During an operation in which her daughter is taken hostage, she is shot by the hostage taker and falls into a coma. In this coma, she found herself in Gene Hunt's world as DI in 1981, and it turns out that the past hostage taker is indirectly responsible for the death of her parents because he built the bomb for her father who wants to kill his family because of an affair with his wife. However, Alex as a child gets away with life because she runs after her balloon. The comatose Alex believes that if she can hunt down the present hostage taker in the past, she can wake up from the coma. When that doesn't work, she tries to achieve her goal by trying to prevent her parents' death. However, this also fails. Her coma is repeatedly portrayed as being connected to the present with visions on the radio and television or directly through people. After she died in the real world at 9:06 a.m. trying to remove the bullet from her head at the beginning of season three, these visions stop and she slowly begins to forget her past. Unaware that she is now dead, however, she continues to try to wake up from the coma. She almost succumbs to the demon Jim Keats and his hell, but decides against him and finally enters heaven by going to Nelson's pub "Railway Arms".

DCI Gene "the Guv" Hunt

The choleric DCI Gene Hunt is the chief inspector of the crime department in Fenchurch East and therefore Alex Drake's supervisor. He is actually a 19-year-old police novice who was shot and buried in a burglary in the real world due to his police officer celebrating on Queen Elisabeth II's coronation day and since then or until his body is found in reality in a presumably from The intermediate world created for him ensures that killed police officers are gradually prepared for the afterlife. Alex does find his body, but unfortunately not in the real world, which is probably the reason that he can't go to the pub like the others. He helped Sam Tyler fake his death so he could go to the pub and everyone respectfully calls him "Guv", which means boss. He thinks he's the sheriff (cowboy boots made of snakeskin) and drives a red Audi Quattro.

DS / DI Raymondo "Ray" Carling

Ray was already his subordinate in Hunt's world in the 70s and therefore still knows Sam Tyler. Ray is loudmouthed, a little homophobic, and trigger-happy. He is in Hunt's world because he did not make it into the army during his lifetime, became a policeman to compensate and beat an innocent man to death out of frustration. He also believed that his father was disappointed in him, which is why Ray finally hanged himself. He gets his "enlightenment" when he consciously decides against the army in Hunt's world. He and Chris almost succumb to the seductions of Jim Keats, but ultimately decide against him and go to the pub too.

DC Christopher "Chris" Skelton

Chris was also on Hunt's team in Tyler's time. Until an incident at Viv's funeral, he is a rather submissive cop. When he gains physical respect from Gene Hunt, he practically leaps over his shadow that has been over him since his death by shooting caused by his submissiveness. He loves Shaz and even wanted to marry her.

WPC / DC Sharon "Shaz" Granger

Shaz is, so to speak, the tipster in Hunt's team and is used as such for all kinds of typical activities such as fetching tea and pastries. In the course of time she emancipates herself not least through Alex's influence and in the end is even promoted personally to the DC by Gene Hunt. She, too, almost succumbs to Jim Keats' attempts to get her to Hell, but turns away from Keats more than her colleagues Ray and Chris. She confesses to Chris that she will love him forever and for a day before going to the pub with him.

Sgt.Viv James

The skipper, in other words the man for everything, in the Fenchurch East Police Station. He is shot for a prison riot in which he is involved in smuggling a gun, and Keats makes his first sacrifice for hell. At his funeral, Chris can't control himself and breaks out in laughter, whereupon he gets into massive trouble with Gene Hunt.

DCI Jim Keats

DCI Jim Keats reportedly arrives from the home affairs department to prove Gene Hunt's attempted murder of Alex and the murder of Sam Tyler. In truth he is a demon or the devil who has access to hell in the form of an elevator. Everything he does is designed as Hunt's opponent to destroy his world and to draw the souls in it to his side in order to expose them to eternal torments. He was only successful with the shot Viv. He makes videotapes for Ray, Chris, and Shaz that show how they died, causing Hunt's world to collapse.

Luigi

Luigi is the host of the pizzeria, where a large part of the action takes place and where Alex lives. At the end of the series, he is pleased that his cousin died because he left him a lot of money and he can therefore return home to Italy.

Nelson

Nelson runs the “Railway Arms” pub known from Life on Mars . This pub appears at the end of the series and is the gateway to heaven. Nelson is like Jim Keats a kind of gatekeeper or maybe even a god. He calls Hunt's team “mon Brave”, which means “my warriors”.

synchronization

The German synchronization was for a dialogue book of Bernd trunk and under the dialogue director of hull and Andreas W. Schmidt on behalf of the synchronous company Cinephon in Berlin .

role actor Voice actor
DI Alex Drake Keeley Hawes Silke Matthias
DCI Gene Hunt Philip Glenister Jörg Hengstler
DS Ray Carling Dean Andrews Tobias Kluckert
DC Chris Skelton Marshall Lancaster Jaron Lowenberg
WPC Sharon Granger Montserrat Lombard Kaya Marie Möller
Sergeant Viv James Geff Francis Sascha Rotermund
DCI Jim Keats Daniel Mays Jan Makino
Luigi Joseph Long Andreas W. Schmidt
Nelson Tony Marshall Michael Bauer

music

Numerous pop songs from the 1980s are played in the series. As with Life on Mars , the title of the series Ashes to Ashes is also borrowed from a song by David Bowie .

Similarities and differences to Life on Mars

  • The characters Gene Hunt, Ray Carling and Chris Skelton appear in both series.
  • The series is not set in Manchester like Life on Mars , but in London.
  • Gene Hunt no longer drives a Ford Cortina , but an Audi quattro (which was only built in October 1982 in the right-hand drive version).
  • A recurring connection to the present was with Life on Mars the girl from the previous TV test picture of the BBC, with Ashes to Ashes it is (at least in the first season) the clown from the music video Ashes to Ashes by David Bowie.
  • Sam Tyler didn't know initially whether he was dead or unconscious; In Ashes to Ashes , it is clear to Alex Drake and the audience that she is in a coma.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Final series of Ashes to Ashes will 'reveal all' about Gene Hunt , Telegraph. June 8, 2009. Retrieved June 8, 2009. 
  2. ↑ Ashes to Ashes - Back to the 80s. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on June 14, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Philip Glenister interview . In: In Gear supplement, The Sunday Times . August.