"Ashes to Ashes" Episode #1.1 (2008)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Jonny Campbell

Writers:

Mathew Graham (writer)
Ashley Pharoah (co-creator)

TV Series:

"Ashes to Ashes" (2008)

Original Air Date:

7 February 2008 (Season 1, Episode 1)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Plot:

When DI Alex Drake is shot and lands in 1981, she comes face-to-face with DCI Gene Hunt, the relic of...

Plot Keywords:

London | New Romantic | London Docklands | Thatcherism | Audi Quattro

Cast

Philip Glenister	...	Gene Hunt
Keeley Hawes	...	Alex Drake
Dean Andrews	...	Ray Carling
Marshall Lancaster	...	Chris Skelton
Montserrat Lombard	...	Shaz Granger
Amelia Bullmore	...	Caroline Price
Stephen Campbell Moore	...	Evan White
Adam James	...	Edward Markham
Joseph Long	...	Luigi
Geff Francis	...	Viv James
Sean Harris	...	Arthur Layton
Andrew Clover	...	The Clown
Grace Vance	...	Molly Drake
Lucy Cole	...	Young Alex
Darren Machin	...	Jimmy

Runtime:

59 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Netherlands:12

Company:

Kudos Film and Television

Trivia:

When Chris says "Is she or isn't she?" after Shaz has been busy spraying hairspray everywhere, he is referring to a popular advert from the 1970s for Harmony Hair Spray where a woman's hairstyle has such natural-looking hold it causes observers to wonder whether she is or isn't wearing hairspray. Having seen Shaz's liberal display with the aerosol, Alex sharply retorts "She most definitely is!"

Goofs:

Anachronisms: In one of the wide shots in the storeroom, on a shelf to the left of shot we see a Commodore 1530 Datassette deck, this is of the later Commodore 64c era design dating it to around 1986/87.

Quotes:

DI Alex Drake: What's so special about you, Gene? When good coppers go under why do you appear?
DCI Gene Hunt: It's my aftershave and stop wiggling your bloody fingers everytime you say my name!