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1 :01x01 - Series 1, Episode 1
Writer: Matthew Graham
Director: Bharat Nalluri
Guest star: Archie Panjabi (Maya Roy), Rae Kelly (June), Jane Riley (Dora Keens), Parvez Qadir (Raimes' Psychiatrist), Caroline Harding (Raimes' Lawyer), Sam Hazeldine (Colin Raimes), Tony Marshall (Nelson), Mags Gannon (Mrs. Raimes), Andrew Abrahams (Sid), Henry Cox (Young Lad), Orla Cottingham (Raimes' Social Worker), Tom Charnock (Police Officer), Christopher Harper (Neil), Richard Sinnott (TV Presenter)
DCI Sam Tyler's bad day just keeps getting worse. His case against a suspected serial killer has collapsed and his girlfriend and colleague Maya, has been kidnapped by the real killer. Worse is to come, he is knocked down by a car, when he wakes up - he appears to be in the year 1973. Confused, he's convinced he either dreaming or hallucinating and he's finding it difficult to believe all around him is real, including his new fellow officers. Sam discovers there is a link between a murder committed in 1973 and the serial killer who has kidnapped Maya - in 2006.
2 :01x02 - Series 1, Episode 2
Writer: Matthew Graham
Director: Bharat Nalluri
Guest star: Sherry Ormerod (Mrs. Trent), Timothy Platt (Leonard), Rafaella Hutchinson (Test Card Girl), Rae Kelly (June), Andrew Tiernan (Kim Trent), Tony Marshall (Nelson), Noreen Kershaw (Phyllis Dobbs), Jane Relph (Witness), Frank Walmsley (Ambulance Driver)
Sam’s policing method from 2006 is causing conflict with Gene Hunt, his DCI who’s policing method is rooted firmly in 1973. Unable to determine whether he really is in 1973 or a coma, he gets on with his job. When Kim Trent - high profile criminal is arrested, Sam discovers that Gene has planted evidence on him to secure a conviction, Sam intervenes and releases Trent to Hunt’s fury. Sam argues that even Trent has human rights, Gene tells him he’s never fitted up anyone who didn’t deserve it. Between them, they set out to nail Trent using Gene’s unorthodox methods and Sam’s 21st century policing methods.
3 :01x03 - Series 1, Episode 3
Writer: Matthew Graham
Director: John McKay
Guest star: John Henshaw (Ted Bannister), Rafaella Hutchinson (Test Card Girl), Rebecca Atkinson (Tina), Warren Donnelly (Dodds), Paul Leeming (Pathologist), Nicky Bell (Brian), Denice Hope (Mrs. Bannister), John Axon (Arthur Coynes), Lee Ross (DCI Litton), Andrew Knott (Derek Bannister), Tony Marshall (Nelson), Noreen Kershaw (Phyllis Dobbs)
Sam is called to a murder at a textiles factory - which he is shocked to discover will be his own home in the 21st century. He puts his knowledge of forensics into use to find the killer, but Gene has a simpler approach - the first suspect to speak did it. As battle lines are drawn across CID, it becomes increasingly clear that the Seventies method of detection may in this case be right.
4 :01x04 - Series 1, Episode 4
Writer: Ashley Pharoah
Director: John McKay
Guest star: Chris Wilcox (Royston), William Matheson (Marc Bolan), Denton Brown (Driver), David Corden (Edwards), Holly-Mai Leighton (Young Girl), Stephen Aintree (Carroway), Joanne Frogatt (Mrs. Tyler), Kelly Wenham (Joni Newton), Tom Mannion (Stephen Warren), Tony Marshall (Nelson), Noreen Kershaw (Phyllis Dobbs)
Sam discovers many of his colleagues are taking bribes from a local gangster, and resolves to put a stop to police corruption. However, a skeleton in Gene's cupboard makes him reluctant to join the crusade, and his fears are underlined when a young woman mixed up in the case meets a grisly end. The 21st-century detective also can't resist tracking down his mother, who is facing money worries.
5 :01x05 - Series 1, Episode 5
Writer: Tony Jordan
Director: S. J. Clarkson
Guest star: John Duttine (Malcolm Cox), Anthony Flanagan (Pete Bond), Ian Barritt (Stanley Cooper), Tony Marshall (Nelson), Noreen Kershaw (Phyllis Dobbs), John Wilson (Man In Pub), Steven Blower (Paul), Kris Mochrie (Craig), Michael Lawrence (Ryan)
When a Manchester United football fan is murdered, police suspect a rival City fan's to blame. The incident raises fears of a riot between supporters of the two teams, whose derby match is taking place at the weekend. Sam, Gene and WPC Annie Cartwright go undercover to gather evidence. But Sam worries they'll fail to find the killer before Saturday's big match. Meanwhile, Sam's relationship with the young son of the murdered man brings memories of his own father flooding back.
6 :01x06 - Series 1, Episode 6
Writer: Matthew Graham, Ashley Pharoah
Director: John Alexander
Guest star: Ken Drury (George Bates), Debbie Howard (Nervous Lady), Paul Copley (Reg Cole), Tony Marshall (Nelson), Noreen Kershaw (Phyllis Dobbs), Margaret Henshaw (Doris), Ruth Millar (Jackie Queen), Carl Cieka (Hugo Barton), Lee Ross (DCI Litton)
Sam hears his mother's voice saying goodbye, and worries that doctors in 2006 are about to turn his life support system off. When a hostage situation crops up, he becomes convinced that resolving the crisis without a single casualty will cause him to wake up in his own time. But Gene is determined to go in with all guns blazing, putting everyone's safety at risk.
7 :01x07 - Series 1, Episode 7
Writer: Chris Chibnall
Director: S. J. Clarkson
Guest star: William Hoyland (Superintendent Rathbone), Tony Marshall (Nelson), Tom Lloyd-Roberts (Doctor), Sagar Arya (Saeed Taufeeq), Noreen Kershaw (Phyllis Dobbs), Nicholas Blane (Oswald Spear), Lisa Millet (Andrea Kemble), Kevin Knapman (Billy Kemble), Andrew Vincent (Albert Collins)
A minor drug dealer and flasher dies while in police custody and Sam suspects a cover-up within the unit. He demands a full investigation, though it seems none of the other officers is prepared to help. To Gene's relief, the pathologist's report appears to put everyone in the clear, but when the truth about the criminal's demise emerges, it's up to the modern-day cop to decide what action is appropriate.
8 :01x08 - Series 1, Episode 8
Writer: Matthew Graham
Director: John Alexander
Guest star: Tony Marshall (Nelson), Paul Kemp (Manager), Noreen Kershaw (Phyllis Dobbs), Matt Cross (Jimmy Lips), Lee Ingleby (Vic Tyler), Joanne Frogatt (Ruth Tyler), Alexander O'Loughlin (Young Sam)
The investigation into the murder of a bookies' clerk leads the team to 29-year-old Vic Tyler - who Sam is shocked to discover is his own father. He realises the time when he and his mother were abandoned is coming up, and desperately tries to persuade the small-time gambler not to leave his wife and child. Meanwhile, Gene sees an opportunity to bring down a crime syndicate.
9 :02x01 - Season 2, Episode 1
Writer: Matthew Graham
Director: S. J. Clarkson
Guest star: Noreen Kershaw (Phyllis Dobbs), Kevin McNally (Supt Harry Woolf), Yasmin Bannerman (Eve Olawi), Marc Warren (Tony Crane)
Sam, still stuck in 1977, comes face to face with a man he knows convicted murder in 2006, and helped set up the case for. Sam's chosen methods of police work on the case confound his colleagues.
10 :02x02 - Season 2, Episode 2
Writer: Chris Chibnall
Director: S. J. Clarkson
Guest star: Noreen Kershaw (Phyllis Dobbs), Bill Rodgers (Filbert), Stephen Bent (Arnold Malone), Ray Emmet Brown (Glenn Fletcher), Kevin McNally (Supt Harry Woolf), Steve Evets (Dickie Fingers)
At a loss to discover the guilty party in a spate of armed robberies, A-Division goes to prison to escort notorious safe-cracker Dickie Fingers back to CID. However, as they transport him out of the gaol, they are set upon by a dangerous gang who will stop at nothing to get their hands on Fingers.
11 :02x03 - Season 2, Episode 3
Writer: Julie Rutterford
Director: Richard Clark
Guest star: Brendan Mackey (Patrick O'Brien), Harriet Rogers (Test Card Girl), Beatrice Kelley (Landlady), Peter Wight (Frank Miller), Tony Marshall (Nelson), Noreen Kershaw (Phyllis Dobbs)
When a bomb warning is reported, A-Division go on red alert. According to the caller, the IRA has brought their mainland bombing campaign to Manchester. Sam, however, based on his knowledge from the future, doesn't believe it's the IRA, which puts him at odds with Gene and the rest of the squad, especially when his initial presumption that it's a hoax gets Ray injured.
12 :02x04 - Season 2, Episode 4
Writer: Ashley Pharoah
Director: Richard Clark
Guest star: Alexander O'Loughlin (Young Sam), Andrew Readman (Twilling's lawyer), Meryl Hampton (Mrs Edith Williams), Andy Hockley (Pathologist), Clare McGlinn (Mrs Luckhurst), Katherine Kelly (Auntie Heather), Eva Pope (Carol Twilling), Nicholas Palliser (Roger Twilling), Georgia Taylor (Denise Williams), Noreen Kershaw (Phyllis Dobbs)
When the body of a beautiful young woman is found in an abandoned lot, Gene fears a serial killer he believed sent down in the late Sixties may still be at large. For Sam, the victim, a Beauvoir beauty rep like his Aunt Heather, triggers vivid recollections of childhood. The case leads to the seedy side of private wife-swapping parties.
13 :02x05 - Season 2, Episode 5
Writer: Matthew Graham
Director: Andrew Gunn
Guest star: Jonty Stephens (Don Witham), Olwen May (Mavis Witham), Adam Beresford (Graham Bathurst), James Wells (Mitch Bathurst (as James Peter Wells)), Noreen Kershaw (Phyllis Dobbs), Lesley Clare O'Neill (Mrs. Bathurst), Reece Dinsdale (Simon Lamb)
When a desperate man whose family has been kidnapped attempts to hang himself in the division offices, the crew is forced to re-examine an old case believed closed. The result is a Rashomon-like overview of the case interviews and information, even as Sam attempts to deal with a accidental drug overdose to his comatose body in the here-and-now future.
14 :02x06 - Season 2, Episode 6
Writer: Guy Jenkin
Director: Andrew Gunn
Guest star: Tim Plester (Rocket), Alex Reid (Layla), Paul Oldham (Skinhead), Archie Panjabi (Maya), Lorraine Cheshire (Big Bird), Ian Puleston-Davies (Toolbox Terry), Paul Sharma (Ravi), Noreen Kershaw (Phyllis Dobbs)
Sam comes face to face with the bigotry prevalent in the 70s when a Pakistani immigrant is shot, with a small amount of heroin found on his body. The automatic assumptions of Hunt, as well as Ray and the others rubs Sam the wrong way. Gene is more concerned witht he recently increased heroin supply which appears to tie to the wounded Paki, and is resulting in a slew of dead junkies being found around the area.
15 :02x07 - Season 2, Episode 7
Writer: Mark Greig
Director: S. J. Clarkson
Guest star: Genevieve Walsh (Sue), Ralph Brown (Frank Morgan), Tony Marshall (Nelson), Noreen Kershaw (Phyllis Dobbs)
When a case against a lowlife goes south, Gene gets totally blitzed. When he wakes up the next morning, he's in the presence of the lowlife's corpse, covered with the victim's blood, and his gun has apparently been used in the murder. As the team tries to prove Gene's innocence, a temporary DCI is put in charge of the unit. The result leads to a shocking discovery about Sam's condition.
16 :02x08 - Season 2, Episode 8
Writer: Matthew Graham
Director: S. J. Clarkson
Guest star: Judi Jones (Ruth Tyler), Noreen Kershaw (Phyllis Dobbs), Tony Marshall (Nelson), Ralph Brown (Frank Morgan), Jacqui Boatswain (Officer 1), Jack Deam (Donald Sykes), Philip Lightfoot (Security Guard), Sean Gilder (Leslie Johns)
Sam is confronted with a fateful decision: to abandon his mates and return to the present, or to stand with them and take life as it is in 1973.