You gotta admit it: We steal some good television from the Brits. Among our quality grabs: "Life on Mars," the short-lived ABC series.

But today we're offering the source material, the BBC version of "Life on Mars." You'll get 8 episodes of the show that chronicles the life of Sam Tyler, a police detective who gets hit by a car and wakes up in 1973. It takes him back to a time when police were, to put it bluntly, hard-drinking thugs, and that was fine with everybody. And let's not talk about the forensics tools.

With this collection, you'll also get audio commentary, an hour-long documentary with behind-the-scenes footage, a featurette on the show's composer, and an outtakes reels.

It's a neat little treat for your Anglophile friends or if you watched the American version, you can compare and contrast.

Send that email by 8 tonight (9/22) with your address in the body and our random drawing will show who's in for a bloody good time.

Last night's series finale of the cancelled-too-soon cop drama, Life on Mars, provided a definite and satisfying ending for its fans. Well, as satisfying as it can be for fans who wanted much, much more from Sam, Gene, Ray, Chris, and Annie.

There's a SPOILER AHEAD, so if you haven't watched the finale yet, read no further...

Call it the Brooke effect.

First, our Happiness colleague touted the charms of "Pushing Daisies" and ABC promptly canceled it.

Lately, she's focused her attention on "Life on Mars." And guess what?

Yep, it's ending, according to this story. But at least ABC had the class to tell the producers so they can give it a proper ending.

Hey Brooke, why don't you focus your attention on 'Kath & Kim"?

Fred Thompson, who quit his gig last year as the New York District Attorney on NBC's Law & Order so that he could run for the Republican presidential nomination, is back on TV.

Thompson returned to the world of procedural crime dramas this past Wednesday night, landing smack dab in the middle of 1973. Thompson played a New York City Chief of Detectives in the ABC hit Life on Mars, a program about a detective from 2008 who is in an accident and wakes up in 1973.

LIFE ON MARS, 10PM, ABC

ABC's new hit show, Life on Mars, is basically a period piece cop show built around the ridiculous premise of time travel. But it works like crazy.

On the show, present-day New York City detective Sam Tyler, played by Jason O'Mara, is in the middle of an important case when he's hit by a car. When he wakes, he's smack dab in the middle of 1973, in all its groovy grit and glory.

Naturally, Tyler has no idea why he's "there" and each episode shows him grasping for answers. Is it to save his 2008 girlfriend (Lisa Bonet)? To stop a young serial killer before he grows up to kill? To help his mother escape harm at the hands of a gangster? To say goodbye to his father, who abandoned him as a child? Nearly every show has Sam declaring something like, "That must be it, that must be why I'm here!" But after he fixes each situation, he's still stuck in 1973.