"There was fun in imagining someone with that freedom of manouevre. I would certainly love to drink as heavily as him and not worry about my liver. It would be nice to wake up in the morning with a stinking hangover, grab a bottle of scotch, neck a couple of large ones, say, 'Ah - I feel better for that,' and start my day"
It seems weird that the seventies are now seen as a period of, if not outright innocence, naivety. The decade couldn't have possibly been like that and Matthew Graham, the creator of Life On Mars, is certainly aware of the fantasy that he's peddling:
A little later in our conversation Graham goes even further than that: "The reality is that in real life, Gene Hunt would probably be an ugly racist. But you can't do that in a show where you want people to like the main characters. But certainly in the new series he's very lazy about race. That's where we go."
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