Philip Glenister ... DCI Gene Hunt (8 episodes, 2008)
Keeley Hawes ... DI Alex Drake (8 episodes, 2008)
Marshall Lancaster ... DC Chris Skelton (8 episodes, 2008)
Dean Andrews ... DS Ray Carling (8 episodes, 2008)
Montserrat Lombard ... WPC Sharon 'Shaz' Granger (8 episodes, 2008)

DI Alex Drake of the Metropolitan Police is taken hostage and shot, and wakes to find herself apparently thrown back in time to 1981. She soon recognises DCI Gene Hunt and his team from detailed reports made by DCI Sam Tyler about his own trip to 1973.

Alex, a modern, no-nonsense woman, soon clashes with her sexist colleagues but both DCIs have to learn to adjust while she tries to find a way back to 2008.

Executive Producer Jane Featherstone describes this spin-off from Life on Mars as "a touch of Moonlighting teamed with a measure of Miami Vice." The show aims to build on the success of its award-winning predecessor, resurrecting Philip Glenister's ever-popular detective while taking the opportunity to wink at 1980s fashions and attitudes.

Ashes to Ashes is a Kudos production in association with Monastic Productions for the BBC.