Desc: The Real 'Life on Mars'!: Directed by Steve Bradshaw, Simon Brown. With Steve Bradshaw, Jackie Malton, Dick Kirby, Eric Allison. A look at pre-1980s British policing techniques, and whether the "old-style" policing techniques were as bad as their portrayal in Life on Mars (2006) or whether they may have proved more effective than modern-day political correctness.