Ashes to Ashes

Season 1 - Ashes to Ashes

• Season 1 Episode 8: EPISODE: 8 Alex realises there are just 24 hours until her parents die in a car bombing and chooses a horrified Ray to help her save them. Amid the chaos of a Gay Pride march, she arrests Tim and Caroline in the hope of keeping them safe, but with Lord Scarman due to visit the station a nervous Gene releases all the prisoners, aiming to make a good impression. Last in series, with guest star Geoffrey Palmer
• Season 1 Episode 7: EPISODE: 7 A charity fund-raiser who has travelled the country in a bath of baked beans is shot in a robbery, but his obsessive compulsive disorder gets on Gene's nerves, causing the DCI to beat a confession out of anyone who gets in his way. After the Clown warns Alex someone is going to die, she worries about Hunt's strong-arm tactics - and fights to keep control of the case. Matthew Macfadyen guest stars
• Season 1 Episode 6: EPISODE: 6 Gene questions an old adversary about a robbery, and when it is revealed the crook has had to give up his life of crime, the detective worries that he too might be past his best. However, an interview with a murder suspect puts Alex in mortal danger - and leaves Gene drawing on his experience in an attempt to save her. Philip Glenister and Keeley Hawes star
• Season 1 Episode 5: EPISODE: 5 The team set out to prevent a gangster's firearms deal, an act that Alex believes will prevent her being shot in 2008. To obtain evidence, they have to bring the suspect's boyfriend on side, taking him to a gay club where he can see his lover is not the man he thinks he is. Ray is forced to use all his macho charm to seduce the villain in front of witnesses. Drama, starring Philip Glenister and Keeley Hawes
• Season 1 Episode 4: EPISODE: 4 Gene comes up against a socialist feminist group when a man's death he initially treated as suicide becomes the subject of a murder inquiry. Chris uses the arrest of every member as an opportunity to impress Shaz with his knowledge of women's issues, while Ray dates a communist. An intriguing code found by Alex and deciphered by the desk sergeant leads the team closer to the truth
• Season 1 Episode 3: EPISODE: 3 An alleged sexual assault requires delicate handling. The boat where the attack took place belongs to a friend of the Commissioner, forcing the detectives to go undercover at a fancy dress party as they attempt to arrest their suspect. With only circumstantial evidence and a victim of unreliable character, Ray surprises his colleagues by proving he has a gentler side, gaining the confidence of a young witness
• Season 1 Episode 2: EPISODE: 2 DCI Hunt is determined nothing will spoil Diana Spencer's wedding to Prince Charles, and so sets out to prevent an explosive protest getting out of hand. When it seems Thatcherite playboy Danny is in danger, Alex is assigned to look after him - but after a speedy ride in a DeLorean leaves her in no fit state for work, Gene and Ray set out to crack the case. Philip Glenister and Keeley Hawes star
• Season 1 Episode 1: EPISODE: 1 New series. Sequel to hit fantasy drama Life on Mars. Alex Drake, a single mother working as a police psychologist in 2008 is shocked to wake up in London in 1981 after being shot. DCI Gene Hunt, DS Ray Carling and DC Chris Skelton, transferred to the Met, swiftly come to her rescue. She knows all about the trio having spent months reading Sam Tyler's reports of his time in the past, but cannot understand why she is sharing his delusion. Starring Philip Glenister and Keeley Hawes