| Life on Mars | Life On Mars concludes on BBC One at 9pm on Tuesday 10 April |
As much the series has been Sam’s story, it’s his boss Gene that has stolen the show with a selection of one liners, some so richly dyed in political incorrectness, they’d even make Bernard Manning wince. Be it greeting a bunch of Irish labourers with a jovial ‘Top of the morning’ or ask DC Annie Cartwright to go and detect him ‘a nice packet of Garibaldis’, his words have been a constant thorn in Sam’s modern-thinking side. But what has been his greatest line? Obviously, as any fan of the programme knows, there’s a fair few we couldn’t write here, but of those we can, here’s our ten favourites: Introducing himself to Sam:
"Gene Hunt. Your DCI. And it’s 1973. Almost dinner time. I’m having hoops."  | | A law unto himself: DCI Gene Hunt |
To a group of children playing by his car:
"Anything happens to this motor and I come over your houses and stamp on all your toys. Got it?" Interviewing a suspect:
"You know, if you were Pinocchio, you’d have just poked my eye out." On Sam’s crime scene analysis:
"What are you doing now? Listening for Indian drums?" Talking to a journalist:
"I listen to the snot in my hankie before I listen to you." On Sam’s mentor:
"DI Frankenstein, wasn’t it? He certainly lumbered me with a monster." As the women pick keys from a bowl at a very adult party:
"It’s better than Mr and Mrs, this." After Sam admits he was in love:
"You great soft, sissy, girlie, nancy, french, bender, Man United supporting puff!" Describing a suspect:
"He's got fingers in more pies than a leper on a cookery course." On trying to solve a crime:
"I've come at this from more angles than Linda Lovelace." Which do you think is the best? Vote for your line of Pure Gene-ius on the right. Life On Mars concludes on BBC One at 9pm on Tuesday 10 April. | 
