Life on Mars (American TV series)

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Television series
German title Life on Mars
Original title Life on Mars
Life on Mars US title.svg
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) 2008-2009
length 45 minutes
Episodes 17 in 1 season ( list )
genre Police, mystery
music Peter Nashel
camera Frank Prinzi ,
Craig DiBona ,
Kramer Morgenthau
First broadcast Oct 9, 2008 on ABC
German-language
first broadcast		 May 14, 2014 on RTL Crime
occupation
synchronization

Life on Mars is an American television series that was broadcast on the ABC network from 2008 to 2009 . It is a remake of the British series Life on Mars - Caught in the 70s .

action

After being hit by a car in 2008 while chasing a murderer who kidnapped Tyler's girlfriend Maya Daniels, New York police officer Sam Tyler suddenly woke up in 1973. There he worked as a police officer in the 125th precinct by Lieutenant Gene Hunt. In addition to the daily police work, through which he meets his parents, sees himself as a little boy and meets people whom he will arrest as criminals in the future, he tries to understand what has happened to him. He puts forward various theories according to which he has been in a coma, traveled back in time, been drugged, was abducted by aliens, or the year 2008 just came from his imagination.

In reality, Tyler and the other police officers at the 125th Precinct are astronauts who will fly to Mars in 2035 and will be in deep sleep during the almost two and a half year flight. His identity as a police officer in 2008 is based on intentional neuronal stimulation during sleep; the time jump to 1973 was a mistake caused by a meteorite storm.

characters

Sam Tyler

Sam Tyler ( Jason O'Mara ) is a New York police officer. After being hit by a car while chasing a murderer in 2008, he suddenly wakes up in 1973. Trying to understand what happened to him, Tyler wants to figure out how to get back to 2008.

Ray Carling

Ray Carling ( Michael Imperioli ) works as a detective in the 125th station. Lieutenant Gene Hunt is his mentor. He doesn't like Sam Tyler because he's hoping for a promotion and fears that the new colleague will be preferred over him.

Annie Norris

Annie Norris ( Gretchen Mol ) is a rarity as a police officer in 1973 and suffers from the prejudices of her colleagues. Her nickname is "Tittie" (originally "No Nuts"). She studied psychology. In the last episode, she is promoted to detective.

Chris Skelton

Chris Skelton ( Jonathan Murphy ) is a newbie cop who learns a lot about investigative work from Sam Tyler.

Eugene "Gene" Hunt

Gene Hunt ( Harvey Keitel ) is Sam Tyler's manager in 1973. He disregards regulations, beats up suspects, manipulates evidence, and drinks alcohol while on duty. Hunt is divorced and has three daughters.

Episode list

No. German title Original title First broadcast in the USA German language first broadcast (D) Director script
1 In the fields of the past Out Here in the Fields Oct 9, 2008 May 14, 2014 Gary Fleder Josh Appelbaum , André Nemec , Scott Rosenberg
After cop Sam Tyler was hit by a car in 2008 while chasing a murderer, he woke up in 1973, where he was working as the new colleague from Hyde in the 125th station. His first case involves a murder that appears to have been carried out in the same way as the murderer he pursued in 2008. When the perpetrator is caught, it turns out that he is the boy’s neighbor, who in 2008 becomes the killer Tyler is hunting down and who kidnapped his girlfriend Maya Daniels.
2 Sam Tyler's true adventure, hypothetically The Real Adventures of the Unreal Sam Tyler Oct 16, 2008 May 14, 2014 Michael Katleman Bryan Oh
The police arrest Kim Trent, whom they suspect of being involved in three bank robberies . After being released due to lack of evidence, he commits a fourth robbery, in the course of which he is shot and killed by Lieutenant Gene Hunt. It turns out that June, who works as a secretary at the police station, was Trent's accomplice. Her testimony allows Tyler and his colleagues to arrest other accomplices in Trent while they are receiving a shipment of heroin .
3 My Maharishi is bigger than your Maharishi My Maharishi Is Bigger Than Your Maharishi Oct 23, 2008 May 21, 2014 Michael Pressman Tracy McMillan
Tyler and his colleagues are investigating the murder of a soldier who was slain after returning from the Vietnam War . While Lieutenant Hunt suspects members of the antiwar movement, Tyler and Annie Norris find out that the victim was homosexual and was killed by his also homosexual superior, who denies his homosexuality after returning from the war.
4th Boy did you see her your mother Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadows? Oct 30, 2008 May 21, 2014 Alex Zakrzewski David Wilcox
Sam Tyler happens to meet his mother, who is having trouble with a loan shark to whom she owes money. It turns out that the boss of the loan shark is bribing Tyler's colleagues. When Tyler refuses to be bribed, he is drugged by the gangsters and is said to be blackmailed with compromising photos taken. After Adrienne, who works for the gangsters and tricked Sam, gives him the negatives , she is murdered for it. This is the reason for Gene Hunt to turn away from the criminals and arrest them.
5 Opportunities in New York if you think you are dead Things to Do in New York When You Think You're Dead Nov 6, 2008 May 28, 2014 Michael Katleman Sonny Postiglione
A nine-year-old black girl falls from a roof and dies. When Tyler and Carling try to arrest the Puerto Rican Angel Ramirez, who, according to witness statements, pushed the girl off the roof, the girl escapes. As a result, race riots broke out in the city. As part of the investigation, Tyler meets Fletcher Bellow, who will be his supervisor and mentor with the police in the future. After Lieutenant Hunt calls on his men to shoot Ramirez while being arrested, Tyler and Bellow decide together to find the suspect in order to arrest him and save him from the lynching that was ordered . The two arrive on the roof from which the girl fell, when Hunt and Carling put Ramirez there and try to kill him. Tyler threatens Hunt with the gun and manages to get Hunt to listen as Ramirez tells him that the fall was an accident. Hunt believes Ramirez and fakes his death to end the riots and save Ramirez from the mob waiting in front of the house.
6th Beyond the pain of our time Tuesday's Dead Nov 13, 2008 May 28, 2014 Daniel Minahan Adele Lim
Tyler gets a call from his future mother on a broken phone. She tells him that she has agreed that the machine to which he is connected will be switched off at two o'clock and asks him to give her a signal, but cannot hear him. At the same time, Michael H., whose brother was lobotomized by a doctor , was taken hostage in a hospital . He demands an EEG device and a nurse and promises to release all hostages if his demands are met by two o'clock. When the hostages are released, Tyler goes to the hospital and meets the hostage taker with his brother in a wheelchair. Tyler tries to persuade Michael to give up, whereupon Michael threatens to shoot him. When Tyler thinks about how he met Maya, he smiles and suddenly hears his mother say that he is smiling. Michael's brother smiles too, which distracts him and can be overwhelmed by the police.
7th He's the man who sells your world, Sam The Man Who Sold the World Nov 20, 2008 4th June 2014 Darnell Martin Meredith Averill , Phil M. Rosenberg
Sam Tyler's father, Vic, is arrested during the ransom delivery after child kidnapping . He says that he has betting debts with a gangster family and therefore runs errands. Later he is supposed to hand over the money to the kidnappers and is wired for it . The handover goes wrong, Vic Tyler is shot, gangsters and money are gone. When Sam finds out that his father is in fact the boss of the gang, he confronts him and tells him that he is his son and how he suffered from his father's disappearance in his childhood. Vic snatches the gun from his son, shoots him and escapes. At the hospital, Sam remembers a tip he got from his father, which he uses to find an address in Hastings in the police files . When he gets there, the phone rings and a voice prompts him to go to the basement.
8th Look at these men of law Take a look at the lawmen Jan 28, 2009 4th June 2014 Brad Turner Sonny Postiglione, David Wilcox
In a bank robbery, a stray bullet kills a passerby in front of the bank. Because different districts are responsible for the two crime scenes, both Sam Tyler and his colleagues and police officers from the 144th district are investigating. Due to the rivalry between Gene Hunt and Anthony Nunzio, the district manager of the 144th, the districts determine against each other. After the bank robber, a refugee from the Soviet Union , confesses and explains that he needs the money because his family is being held captive by the Russian mafia, all the police officers jointly free the hostages. Meanwhile, Tyler starts an affair with Maria Belanger without knowing that she is Hunt's daughter.
9 The brother's dark side provokes The Dark Side of the Mook 4th Feb 2009 June 11, 2014 Rick Rosenthal Bryan Oh, Tracy McMillan
Tyler, Carling and Hunt are questioned because Carling's brother Eddie, who was at large after a robbery on bail , disappeared without a trace. Eddie, along with two accomplices, had stolen from the stock market mogul Donovan Stamp, and after two of his accomplices were beheaded, they committed the robbery to be safe in prison. The bail was paid by Sam Tyler, who had unearthed a headless body on the Hastings estate, and who now suspects Stamp to have commissioned the murders. When a man with the head of one of the dead comes into the police station and confesses to the murders, the suspicion cannot be substantiated. When the interrogations are over, the tape recording of Tyler's testimony will be given to an agency called the Aries Project .
10 Eerie rendezvous of the third kind? Let All the Children Boogie Feb 11, 2009 June 11, 2014 Michael Katleman Phil M. Rosenberg
Chris Skelton is said to be protecting rock star Sebastian Grace, who has received death threats. When Grace is in New Jersey with groupie Emily Wyatt , the girl disappears there without a trace. Both Grace and Skelton, whom Grace added LSD to their drink, tell that Emily was kidnapped by a UFO . After Grace and later a guitar technician are suspected of murdering Emily, Tyler finds her drowned in the swamp . An FBI expert explains to the officers that the UFO is actually an experimental military helicopter that was thrusting Emily into the swamp.
11 Your home is where you hang your holster Home Is Where You Hang Your Holster Feb 18, 2009 June 18, 2014 David Barrett Meredith Averill
During a raid on an hour hotel , police arrested Councilor Prince, who told Tyler that he had moved from 2009 to 1973 and found a way home. At the precinct, Prince is shot dead by the corrupt police officer Russell Ventura who feared Prince would take him to jail. When Ventura takes Hunt's daughter Maria hostage in order to escape, he is overwhelmed by Annie Norris.
12 The simple secret of the melody in all of us The Simple Secret of the Note in Us All Feb 25, 2009 June 18, 2014 Jean de Segonzac Becky Hartman Edwards , Adele Lim
In the investigation into the murder of columnist Joey Conway, Tyler steps on Tony Crane, whom he had arrested for murder in the future. He suspects him to have murdered Conway because he found out that Crane has already murdered several women and Crane's friend Eve Flannery tried to persuade him to leave him. After Tyler tells Annie Norris that Crane will hide the murder weapon in his laptop bag in the future , she finds the knife that stabbed Conway with in Crane's typewriter .
13 If you only dream of hitting me, you should wake up and apologize Revenge of Broken Jaw March 4, 2009 June 25, 2014 Stephen Kay David Wilcox, Meredith Averill
Four police officers from the Red Squad are killed in two bomb attacks . An underground organization connected with the university professor Pat Olsen is committed to the attacks. Sam Tyler and Annie Norris find out that Rodney Slaven, a member of the organization, was murdered with a hydromorphone overdose exactly a year ago , and the attacks appear to be an act of revenge for the attackers blaming the Red Squad for Slaven's death. When Norris finds evidence that Olsen was having an affair with Slaven, Olsen's husband confesses to Slaven's murder. He then escapes and steals Lieutenant Hunt's car, which explodes when the engine starts.
14th Coffee? Tea? Annie? Coffee, Tea, or Annie March 11, 2009 June 25, 2014 David Petrarch Adele Lim, Bryan Oh
In order to find the killer of the stewardess Valerie, Annie investigates Norris, who looks like the dead man, undercover . She receives an invitation from pilot Ronald Harris to a swingers party , at which she appears with Sam Tyler. Norris is kidnapped by Harris' wife, who confesses that she jealously killed Valerie and another stewardess because she said her husband fell in love with them. When Annie's colleagues appear to the rescue, she has already overpowered the perpetrator.
15th All the best, your end of the world All the young dudes March 18, 2009 2nd July 2014 Darnell Martin Sonny Postiglione, Tracy McMillan
Sam Tyler has infiltrated Jimmy McManus' gang. He gets to know Jimmy's sister Coleen, who is the babysitter of four-year-old Sam, and also meets his mother again, who asks him to talk to her son because he has had problems since his father's disappearance. At first Sam refuses because he is afraid of saying something wrong that could negatively affect him in his further life, but after Annie persuades him, he agrees. When the police arrest McManus' gang, Jimmy escapes. He later traps Carling and Skelton and shoots them down.
16 The long moment just before the jump Everyone Knows It's Windy March 25, 2009 2nd July 2014 Alex Zakrzewski Mike Flynn
Carling and Skelton survived the attack by McManus, who was found shot dead a short time later. Tyler, whom a witness saw running from the scene and in whose apartment FBI agent Frank Morgan found the weapon, is suspected of having shot McManus. After escaping from prison with the help of Lieutenant Hunt, he comes across the Aries Toy Company , which appears to be implicated in the murder. There he finds the witness, who is in fact just an actor, and is forced at gunpoint by Agent Morgan onto the roof of the factory, where he tries to persuade Tyler to jump off the roof by explaining that this would bring him back to 2008 and also gives him details from the future. Annie, who joins Sam, tells Sam that Morgan has his knowledge from Tyler's psychological files and convinces him not to jump. Morgan, who is involved in illegal activities and who shot McManus himself, is arrested by Hunt and Carling.
17th A big step Life is a rock Apr 1, 2009 July 9, 2014 Michael Katleman Scott Rosenberg
Sam's mother comes to the station and tells that Vic Tyler was with her and kidnapped his son. Lieutenant Hunt and Tyler go in search of the boy, while Sam is overwhelmed and kidnapped by Vic. In Hyde, where Vic Tyler's boat is located, Sam is able to free himself and fights with Vic, who is shot by Hunt during the fight. Tyler later gets a call telling him there is only one more thing he needs to do to get home. He hangs up because he fell in love with Annie and is determined to stay in 1973. At that moment, Tyler and the other astronauts wake up from their deep sleep and prepare to land on Mars.

background

Life on Mars premiered October 9, 2008 through April 1, 2009. The German premiere took place from 14 May 2014, the Pay TV transmitter RTL Crime held, while two episodes were broadcast on the same day each. The German synchronization was based on a dialogue book by Stefan Sidak and Christian Weygand , who also directed the dialogue , on behalf of Scalamedia in Munich .

On 11 and 12 July 2014, all 17 episodes from were free TV transmitter RTL Nitro shown.

Awards

Emmy award
  • 2009 : Nomination in the category Outstanding Cinematography for a One Hour Series for Kramer Morgenthau
GLAAD Media Awards
  • 2009: Nomination in the category Outstanding Individual Episode (in a series without a regular LGBT character) for the episode My Maharishi is bigger than your Maharishi
Satellite Awards
  • 2008 : Nomination for Best Television Series, Drama
  • 2008: Nomination in the category Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television Harvey Keitel
Writers Guild of America Award

synchronization

Life on Mars was dubbed in 2013 by Scalamedia GmbH in Munich . The dialogue book written Stefan Sidak and Christian Weygand , who is also the dialogue director led.

actor German speaker role
Jason O'Mara Marcus Off Detective Sam Tyler
Michael Imperioli Stefan Lehnen Detective Ray Carling
Gretchen Mol Claudia Lössl Annie Norris
Jonathan Murphy Tim Schwarzmaier Detective Chris Skelton
Harvey Keitel Joachim Kerzel Lieutenant Gene Hunt

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marcel Pohlig: On two evenings - RTL Nitro shows US “Life on Mars” as an event . In: www.dwdl.de . Media magazine DWDL.de. May 24, 2014. Retrieved July 24, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b Life on Mars. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on April 25, 2019 .