Series Editors' Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction Stephen Lacey and Ruth McElroy Part I. Quality TV: Form and Aesthetics 1. Life on Mars : Hybridity and Innovation in a British Television Context Robin Nelson 2. 'Am I Mad, in a Coma or Back in Time?': Generic and Narrative Complexity in Life on Mars Nichola Dobson 3. Immersion versus Alienation: Listening to Life on Mars Rob Smith Part II. Contesting the Past: Television and History 4. Memory Banks Failing!: Life on Mars and the Politics of Re-imagining the Police and the Seventies Andy Willis 5. Sam Tyler and the 'New North' John Curzon 6.

'Moonage Daydreams': Nostalgia and Cultural Memory Contexts of Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes John R. Cook and Mary Irwin Part III. Recalling the Past: Television as Memory 7. 'Up The Wooden Hills to Bedfordshire': Time Travel, Childhood and the Uncanny Home in Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes Peter Hughes Jachimiak 8. The Medium is the Monster . or the World?: Discourses of Uncanny 'Old Media' and Immersive 'New Media' in Life on Mars Matt Hills 9. Consuming Retrosexualities: The Past Live On Screen, Online Now Ruth McElroy Part IV. Life on Mars as International Television 10.

'American Remake--Shudder': Online Debates about Life on Mars and 'British-ness' Brett Mills 11. The Emigration of Life on Mars : Sam and Gene Do America David Lavery 12. Locating Generational and Cultural Clashes in the Transfer of Successful Formats between the United Kingdom, Spain and the United States: The Case of Life on Mars Joseba Bonaut and Teresa Ojer Part V. Debating Production 13. Julie Gardner and Claire Parker: In Conversation Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes : Production and Transmission Details Bibliography.