This one’s really an odd little show. I’m not even really sure how to describe it. The lead character, Sam Tyler, is a London cop in the year 2006. He’s working on a case involving a serial killer. Then he gets hit by a car. When he wakes up, he’s still a cop, but now the year is 1973. And the police are working on the same case he was working on 33 years in the future.
That’s really just the starting point. It gets more twisted as it goes along. The best part of the show, aside from the top notch acting, is watching Tyler bring modern police procedure into the 1973 squad room. It’s all done very carefully and just crackles along.
The problem is how to recommend it to you. It has aired on BBCAmerica in the past, but it is not currently doing so. And it’s not available on DVD. So the best I can do is suggest that you keep your eyes open for it when it eventually becomes available here. It’s worth the wait.
