Ashes to Ashes 2008

Overview

Ashes to Ashes is a crime drama television series that features the character DCI Gene Hunt. The program serves as a follow-up to the series Life on Mars. The narrative begins when DI Alex Drake is shot in 2008. Following this incident, she finds herself transported to the year 1981. Upon her arrival in this past setting, she discovers that she is in familiar company. The show explores the experiences of DI Alex Drake as she navigates this new environment while interacting with DCI Gene Hunt and his team. The series focuses on the intersection of the characters' lives and the circumstances surrounding Drake's displacement in time. By placing a contemporary investigator into the early 1980s, the show examines the professional and personal dynamics between the main characters. The premise centers on the transition of the protagonist from her original time period to the historical setting of 1981, where the events of the drama unfold.