BBC television series Life On Mars researches in The British Postal Museum & Archive
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Researchers from the BBC television drama series Life On Mars visited The British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA) to investigate material for the second series, broadcast on BBC One from Tuesday 13 February 2007.
The production of the second and final series of the popular show began in April 2006 and included research undertaken in the Search Room of the BPMA to discover what a typical Post Office in the 1970s would have looked like.
Featuring John Simm as the modern-day policeman Sam Tyler - who after being hit by a car in 2006 finds himself back in 1973 - Life On Mars mixes time travel and police drama. The action of the second programme of Life On Mars - broadcast on Tuesday 20 February - is set against the backdrop of a 1970s Post Office, which the work of the BPMA staff helped to recreate.