Life on Mars (UK)
Season 1 Premiere:
Jan 9, 2006
Metascore
Generally Favorable
79
User score
Universal Acclaim
8.3
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91
It's Quantum Leap meets The Streets of San Francisco--with narry a C, S, or I in sight. [28 Jul 2006, p.56]
80
Life on Mars is colorful and fun and well-written.
80
Mars is an entertaining collision of bare-knuckled police-procedural realism and mind-blowing surrealism.
80
Plain wonderful.
75
This isn't much different from Season 1--confusion, frustration, bell-bottoms--but it's still a good, uneasy time. [14 Dec 2007, p.62]
70
"Life on Mars" has the makings of an intoxicating treat, proving how far a little atmosphere can go in breathing life into a format that occasionally appears close to flatlining.
70
The show is exceptionally well made from top to bottom and pulls you in and pulls you along, owing not least to a host of terrific performances.
User score
Universal Acclaim
8.3
86% Positive
54 Ratings
54 Ratings
8% Mixed
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6% Negative
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4 Ratings
Sep 22, 2025
7
A unique and amazing story but let down by the weirdness of the 70s and the crime cases being somewhat uninteresting and just waiting for an exciting development. I think that this show could have done better if release in the 2010s where the weirdness of the 70s would be smoothed over and not forced (similar would have happened if released rn)
Production Company:
- Kudos Film and Television
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
- Red Planet Pictures
Initial Release Date:Jan 9, 2006
Number of seasons:2 Seasons
Rating:TV-14
Awards
BAFTA Awards
• 1 Win & 11 Nominations
Broadcasting Press Guild Awards
• 3 Wins & 5 Nominations
Monte-Carlo TV Festival
• 5 Nominations
