DCI/DI Sam Tyler is a fictional character in BBC One's science fiction/police procedural drama, Life on Mars.
In the original British version of Life on Mars, Tyler is played by John Simm and in the American version he is played by Jason O'Mara.
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“Take one of those every half-mile and call me if there is any change.”
—Robert Pirosh, U.S. screenwriter, George Seaton, George Oppenheimer, and Sam Wood. Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush (Groucho Marx)
“I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; Ill have used up all my characters, and then Ill be free to get on with my real life.”
—Anne Tyler (b. 1941)