Life on Mars. Photograph: BBC
If you could travel in time would you behave like DI Sam Tyler in Life on Mars (BBC1 9pm)? Why didn't he put a fortune on Red Rum to win the Grand National?
He could have bought himself a much nicer gaff with the bookies' money. And that wasn't much of a tip he gave to Marc Bolan: drive carefully, especially in Minis.
We did like his tip that the pub should mount a telly on the wall to watch sport (although Camra members may never forgive him.
But when, oh when is he going to call up his old mates in Hyde (from where he has been transferred in this alternative universe) and tell them to check up on that beardy doctor called Shipman?
And don't even get me started on the plot illogicalities in Prison Break (Channel 5, 10pm).
Monday night, what a great night for telly.
