Ashes to Ashes is a British science fiction/police procedural drama television series, serving as a spin-off from the original series, Life on Mars. The transmission dates given below refer to the original UK broadcast on BBC One.

Series overview

Episodes

Season 1 (2008)

In the first episode, Detective Inspector Alex Drake (Keeley Hawes), a 21st-century police officer, is investigating the notes written by Sam Tyler (John Simm). While doing this, Drake is shot and awakes in 1981, where she meets Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister), Ray Carling (Dean Andrews) and Chris Skelton (Marshall Lancaster) whom she has read about in Tyler's notes.

Season 2 (2009)

The second season, set in 1982, was confirmed to be in production in early 2008.

Season 3 (2010)

Season 3 consists of eight 60-minute episodes. The first episode of the series aired on 2 April 2010. Episodes 7 and 8 were joined as the show's first "two-parter".