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conversations.value: What could be a title for a story about PreS-Gr, Expansive, Frustrated with the genre: Children's Books, Activities, Crafts & Games?
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conversations.value: A title for this story could be 'Life on Mars'
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a story titled Life on Mars.. Start with the sentence 'Life on Mars (UK TV series): Life on Mars tells the fictional story of Sam Tyler (John Simm), a policeman in service with the Greater Manchester Police'.
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conversations.value: Life on Mars (UK TV series): Life on Mars tells the fictional story of Sam Tyler (John Simm), a policeman in service with the Greater Manchester Police.\nAfter being hit by a car in 2006, Tyler awakens in 1973 to find himself working for a predecessor of the GMP, the Manchester and Salford Police, at the same station and location as in 2006.\nEarly on in the series, it becomes apparent to Tyler that he awakes as a Detective Inspector, one rank lower than his 2006 rank of Detective Chief Inspector.\nAs part of the Criminal Investigation Department, Tyler finds himself working under the command of Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister).\nThroughout the two series, the plot centres on the ambiguity concerning Tyler\'s predicament and the lack of clarity, to both the audience and the character, whether he has died, gone mad, become comatose, or actually travelled back in time.\nThe programme was originally conceived in 1998, when screenwriters Matthew Graham and Ashley Pharoah were sent on a break to the English seaside resort of Blackpool by Kudos Film & Television to think up programme ideas.\nOriginally titled Ford Granada after the 1970s car, the series was rejected by the BBC.\nIn response, Graham stated: "Back then, broadcasters just weren\'t comfortable with something like that, something that wasn\'t set in the real world and that had a fantasy element to it".\nAccording to Graham, the initial idea was for a humorous, pre-watershed programme that overtly mocked the styles and attitudes of the 1970s, with the comic actor Neil Morrissey envisaged as the central character.\nLater, Channel 4 drama executive John Yorke substantially redeveloped the original script, focusing on a double act between Sam Tyler and Gene Hunt.\nSenior management eventually decided not to pursue the idea, with Graham stating that the reaction to the idea was: "It\'s going to be silly", as told to Radio Times.\nThe series eventually attracted the attention of BBC Wales\' Julie Gardner, who persuaded the Head of Drama for the BBC, Jane Tranter, to commission the programme from BBC Wales for BBC One.\nJohn Yorke left Channel 4 to rejoin the BBC and together with Julie Gardner, he acted as joint commissioning editor on the show for its entire run.\nThe programme\'s central character was originally to have been named "Sam Williams", but Kudos felt this not to be striking enough and requested Graham devise an alternative surname.\nGraham asked his young daughter for her opinion and she suggested "Sam Tyler", which became the character\'s name.\nGraham subsequently discovered that his daughter had named him after the Doctor Who character Rose Tyler.\nThe initial geographical setting was to be London; this was then changed to Leeds and finally to Manchester, as part of a BBC initiative to make more programmes in the city.\nThe name Sam Williams was subsequently used as a plot point in the second series.\nEight one-hour episodes of Life on Mars were broadcast weekly on Monday nights at 9:00 pm by the BBC.\nThe series episodes were mostly written by its creators Jordan, Graham and Pharaoh, later joined by Chris Chibnall as the fourth writer for the first series.\nFor the second series, Graham, Pharaoh and Chibnall returned to write episodes, joined by Julie Rutterford, Guy Jenkin and Mark Greig.\nThe second series was broadcast weekly at the same time as the first, with the only difference being the change of transmission day from Monday to Tuesday.\nAccording to Jane Featherstone, the show\'s executive producer, speaking in February 2006, a film version of the show was also a possibility: "Life on Mars was a very high concept idea and there was no doubt it would work on the big screen".\nOn 9 October 2006, it was confirmed that the second series of Life on Mars would be the last.\nMatthew Graham stated: "We decided that Sam\'s journey should have a finite life span and a clear-cut ending and we feel that we have now reached that point after two series".\nGraham\'s claim that two endings had been filmed was later revealed to be a ruse.\nThe second series had a distinctive style of introduction on BBC One: after a brief collage of momentary images, such as several test cards and comedy writer and broadcaster Barry Took, a mock-up version of BBC1\'s 1970s blue-on-black rotating globe ident was used, although the design had to be modified to fit widescreen sets.\nThis was accompanied by a bass-voiced continuity announcer in the style of that era.\nViewers in Wales saw an original \'BBC Cymru Wales\' mechanical globe with introductions provided by former BBC Wales announcers.\nTrailers for the show also used the 1970s style, including the rhombus-style BBC logo.
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a story about PreS-Gr, Expansive, Frustrated with the genre: Children's Books, Activities, Crafts & Games.. Start with the sentence 'Life on Mars (UK TV series): Life on Mars tells the fictional story of Sam Tyler (John Simm), a policeman in service with the Greater Manchester Police'.
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conversations.value: Life on Mars (UK TV series): Life on Mars tells the fictional story of Sam Tyler (John Simm), a policeman in service with the Greater Manchester Police.\nAfter being hit by a car in 2006, Tyler awakens in 1973 to find himself working for a predecessor of the GMP, the Manchester and Salford Police, at the same station and location as in 2006.\nEarly on in the series, it becomes apparent to Tyler that he awakes as a Detective Inspector, one rank lower than his 2006 rank of Detective Chief Inspector.\nAs part of the Criminal Investigation Department, Tyler finds himself working under the command of Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister).\nThroughout the two series, the plot centres on the ambiguity concerning Tyler\'s predicament and the lack of clarity, to both the audience and the character, whether he has died, gone mad, become comatose, or actually travelled back in time.\nThe programme was originally conceived in 1998, when screenwriters Matthew Graham and Ashley Pharoah were sent on a break to the English seaside resort of Blackpool by Kudos Film & Television to think up programme ideas.\nOriginally titled Ford Granada after the 1970s car, the series was rejected by the BBC.\nIn response, Graham stated: "Back then, broadcasters just weren\'t comfortable with something like that, something that wasn\'t set in the real world and that had a fantasy element to it".\nAccording to Graham, the initial idea was for a humorous, pre-watershed programme that overtly mocked the styles and attitudes of the 1970s, with the comic actor Neil Morrissey envisaged as the central character.\nLater, Channel 4 drama executive John Yorke substantially redeveloped the original script, focusing on a double act between Sam Tyler and Gene Hunt.\nSenior management eventually decided not to pursue the idea, with Graham stating that the reaction to the idea was: "It\'s going to be silly", as told to Radio Times.\nThe series eventually attracted the attention of BBC Wales\' Julie Gardner, who persuaded the Head of Drama for the BBC, Jane Tranter, to commission the programme from BBC Wales for BBC One.\nJohn Yorke left Channel 4 to rejoin the BBC and together with Julie Gardner, he acted as joint commissioning editor on the show for its entire run.\nThe programme\'s central character was originally to have been named "Sam Williams", but Kudos felt this not to be striking enough and requested Graham devise an alternative surname.\nGraham asked his young daughter for her opinion and she suggested "Sam Tyler", which became the character\'s name.\nGraham subsequently discovered that his daughter had named him after the Doctor Who character Rose Tyler.\nThe initial geographical setting was to be London; this was then changed to Leeds and finally to Manchester, as part of a BBC initiative to make more programmes in the city.\nThe name Sam Williams was subsequently used as a plot point in the second series.\nEight one-hour episodes of Life on Mars were broadcast weekly on Monday nights at 9:00 pm by the BBC.\nThe series episodes were mostly written by its creators Jordan, Graham and Pharaoh, later joined by Chris Chibnall as the fourth writer for the first series.\nFor the second series, Graham, Pharaoh and Chibnall returned to write episodes, joined by Julie Rutterford, Guy Jenkin and Mark Greig.\nThe second series was broadcast weekly at the same time as the first, with the only difference being the change of transmission day from Monday to Tuesday.\nAccording to Jane Featherstone, the show\'s executive producer, speaking in February 2006, a film version of the show was also a possibility: "Life on Mars was a very high concept idea and there was no doubt it would work on the big screen".\nOn 9 October 2006, it was confirmed that the second series of Life on Mars would be the last.\nMatthew Graham stated: "We decided that Sam\'s journey should have a finite life span and a clear-cut ending and we feel that we have now reached that point after two series".\nGraham\'s claim that two endings had been filmed was later revealed to be a ruse.\nThe second series had a distinctive style of introduction on BBC One: after a brief collage of momentary images, such as several test cards and comedy writer and broadcaster Barry Took, a mock-up version of BBC1\'s 1970s blue-on-black rotating globe ident was used, although the design had to be modified to fit widescreen sets.\nThis was accompanied by a bass-voiced continuity announcer in the style of that era.\nViewers in Wales saw an original \'BBC Cymru Wales\' mechanical globe with introductions provided by former BBC Wales announcers.\nTrailers for the show also used the 1970s style, including the rhombus-style BBC logo.