Just reading the shooting script for episode 1.01

[templeremus]

(Link here-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/insight/downloads/scripts/life_on_mars_ep_1.pdf)
And oh, how I wish they'd kept Phyllis' introductory scene in.

Sweaty, dizzy and disorientated, SAM staggers into the tatty,
poorly lit reception. No security swipe here. A road safety
poster on the wall - squirrel with thumbs up. Tufty Says
Follow The Code.
The WPC on the front desk is a formidable creature with the
voice of a welder - PHYLLIS. She watches a PC wrestling a
drunk. Shouting and swearing and bouncing off walls.

PHYLLIS
Get your ducks in a line Tony!

DRUNK and PC collide with people waiting. SAM is appalled.
PHYLLIS marches out from behind the desk and yanks the
DRUNK’S trousers down to his ankles.

PHYLLIS
Stop playing silly beggars or the
kecks come down an’ all. Got it?

Legs bound by his trousers, the DRUNK is hauled off.

SAM
Where’s the Custody Sergea...

PHYLLIS
The Whatty-what-what?

SAM
Who ARE you?

PHYLLIS
Barbarella, Queen of the Galaxy.

PHYLLIS is distracted. SAM sneaks past in background.