Ok I just wrote a whole thing about how Life on Mars, despite being a macho 70s cop revival Gen X nostalgia action-comedy on the face of it, actually draws on traditions of emotional psychodrama timeslip fiction mostly belonging to mid-ish century adolescent fiction by women writers….
And if I’m reading this exchange right it seems like co-creator of LOM and Ashes to Ashes Ashley Pharoah tried to get a Charlotte Sometimes adaptation off the ground.