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=== New tropes unique to the American version ===
* [[All Just a Dream]] -{{spoiler|The finale establishes that the entire experience was a "neural-sim" while Sam and his crew were on a mission to Mars. Sam had requested to live through the 2 year journey as a cop in 2008, but a meteor-storm mid-flight caused a glitch in his programming. The setting reverted back to 1973, but he kept his 2008 memories.}}
** [[Or Was It a Dream?]] - {{spoiler|The final image of "Gene Hunt"'s loafer and slacks hitting the Mars ground. This may be just for the visual. It may be Sam's mind calling back the simulation he just lived through. Or it may imply that Sam is still hallucinating somehow.}} What's real? Do we really even know? Some have wondered if this was deliberately done to provide the possibility in case of a super-last-second renewal.
* [[And You Were There]] - In the finale, everyone from the police force {{spoiler|is a part of the crew on the ship to Mars. Sam also slept in pod 2B. They crew is on a "gene hunt" for life on Mars (presumably bacterial), and the Gene Hunt of 1973 is Sam's father.}}
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] as well. {{spoiler|The last thing Gene says to Sam in the simulation is [[The Wizard of Oz (Film)|"I'll miss you most of all, Scarecrow."]]}}
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** Rose saying, "Look at those cavemen go."
* [[Big Applesauce]]
* [[By
* [[Call Forward]] - in "Everybody Knows It's Windy", Gene reads in the paper that Vice President Spiro Agnew has just resigned, and comments, "What's next? The President being involved in a burglary?"
* [[Calling the Old Man Out]] - Sam to Vic on two different occasions, most notably in the series finale.
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* [[Modesty Bedsheet]] - A few instances, but the most baffling by far happens when a [[Hooker With a Heart of Gold]] seduces the protagonist by taking her bra off in front of him ([[Toplessness From the Back|with her back to the camera]]) and jumping into his bed. In the following sex scene she's enthusiastically bouncing away on top of him... with her bra put back on.
* [[Motifs]]: Many, most notably the little robots that see into your soul and the various rockets/spaceships seen in every single episode. Makes sense in the [[Grand Finale]].
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* [[Not Named in Opening Credits]] - Inverted, {{spoiler|with Lisa Bonet named in the finale despite not appearing in that episode...probably so as not to give away the show's ending}}.
* [[Prophecy Twist]] - that coma Sam got visions of throughout the first half of the season is not necessarily ''his''.
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