Last night's Life on Mars, was it just me..

[TheRedOnion]

or did the hostage taker look like Rowley Birkin Q.C. from the Fast Show?

[eccles]

yes, definately!

and as an aside, that was probably the worst episode so far.

[rsvmilly]

And his watch had an LCD display at the bottom of it. IIRC they weren't available in 1973.

[esselte]

rsvmilly said:

And his watch had an LCD display at the bottom of it. IIRC they weren't available in 1973.

From Wikepedia:

....The first LCD watch with a six-digit LCD was the 1973 Seiko 06LC, although various forms of early LCD watches with a four-digit display were marketed as early as 1972 including the 1972 Gruen Teletime LCD Watch [3], [4]......

[The Wiz]

To be honest I thought it was one of the better ones.

[TonyHetherington]

I thought it was by far the worst episode so far.

How many opportunities did they have to over power the hostage taker, and not, or he ended up with the gun? I.e. why did they run out when pretending to be chained to the radiator? He was an old guy for crying out loud!

In some cases ridiculous, BUT, DCI Hunt still just cracks me up every time. On pouring out his single malt "what kind of a monster are you"

[Moose.]

eccles said:

and as an aside, that was probably the worst episode so far.

agreed. Very slow and not enough one-liners like usual. Hope next week's is back up to standard

[motco]

esselte said:

rsvmilly said: And his watch had an LCD display at the bottom of it. IIRC they weren't available in 1973. From Wikepedia: ....The first LCD watch with a six-digit LCD was the 1973 Seiko 06LC, although various forms of early LCD watches with a four-digit display were marketed as early as 1972 including the 1972 Gruen Teletime LCD Watch [3], [4]......

That one was £16.95 from Argos! see here But, it was on the wrist of Our Hero, so he brought it with him. They made a point of showing it twice so it must have some significance yet to be revealed.

[soxboy]

Fair's fair, yes the plot was rather lame but it did have the WPC in a Carry On nurses uniform and the woman with a scottish accent who used to be in the Punto adverts a few years back.

[TonyHetherington]

so relevant, you needed to say it twice (though I whole heartedly agree).

so relevant, you needed to say it twice (though I whole heartedly agree).

[PetrolTed]

Didn't make enough use of the whole time difference thing in my opinion but amusing nevertheless.

"I'm going to act as negotiator"

"That's great. I'll get you a hat".

[rsvmilly]

motco said:

That one was £16.95 from Argos! see here But, it was on the wrist of Our Hero, so he brought it with him. They made a point of showing it twice so it must have some significance yet to be revealed.

[TonyHetherington]

PetrolTed said:

"I'm going to act as negotiator" "That's great. I'll get you a hat".

That bloke does have some cracking one liners. My particular favourite

"will somebody shoot him"

"nooooo, don't do that it will antagonise the whole situation and could lead to many deaths"

"no, not him. HIM" (pointing to the arsey copper with a moustache)

[simpo two]

Can anybody why they called it Life on Mars and not Sweeney Take 2?

[TonyHetherington]

Did you see the episode last week when they were chasing the guy down the alley, and there was a big pile of empty cardboard boxes that they powerslid into. Genius!!