While working on murder case that has drawn in his girlfriend, Manchester Police Detective
Sam Tyler is hit by a car and thrown into 1973 where DCI Hunt, WPC Cartwright, and everyone
else in the district believes him to be a detective on loan.
I had an accident, and I woke up 33 years in the past. Now that either makes me a time
traveler or a lunatic or. . . I’m lying in a hospital bed in
2006 and none of this is real.