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"Is he mad, in a coma… or has Detective Sam Tyler really travelled back in time?"
A detective chief inspector from 2006 is investigating a serial killer when he is knocked over by a speeding car. Waking up, he finds himself mysteriously transported back in time to 1973. Initially struggling to come to terms with his situation, he has to come to terms with the old-fashioned technology and attitude of the day, while figuring out how he came to be trapped in the past.
124 Cast Members
John Simm
Sam Tyler
16 Episodes
Philip Glenister
Gene Hunt
16 Episodes
Liz White
Annie Cartwright
16 Episodes
Dean Andrews
Ray Carling
16 Episodes
Marshall Lancaster
Chris Skelton
16 Episodes
Noreen Kershaw
Phyllis Dobbs
16 Episodes
Tony Marshall
Nelson
12 Episodes
Joanne Froggatt
Ruth Tyler
2 Episodes
Rafaella Hutchinson
Test Card Girl
2 Episodes
Ralph Brown
Frank Morgan
2 Episodes
Kevin McNally
Harry Woolf
2 Episodes
Archie Panjabi
Maya Roy
2 Episodes
Rae Kelly Hill
June
2 Episodes
Lee Ross
DCI Litton
2 Episodes
Alexander O'Loughlin
Young Sam
2 Episodes
Lee Ingleby
Vic Tyler
1 Episodes
Ian Barritt
Stanley Cooper
1 Episodes
Reece Dinsdale
Simon Lamb
1 Episodes
Marc Warren
Tony Crane
1 Episodes
Tim Plester
Rocket
1 Episodes
