1. Sam Tyler Fact Sheet

Name: Sam Tyler

Born: 1969 [exact date?]

Height: 5'10"

Weight: 12 stone/165 pounds

Mother: Ruth Tyler

Father: Vic Tyler

Other known relatives: an aunt (Heather; worked as Beauvoir lady); presumably other female relatives as well (Sam talks about the house always being full of women, once.)

Childhood pet: cat, named Ivanhoe

Relationship Status: Unmarried (but, in relationship in 2006 with DI Maya Roy)

Orientation: assumed heterosexual

Children: No

Rank in 2006: DCI (Detective Chief Inspector)

Mentor: Glen Fletcher

Rank in 1973: DI (Detective Inspector)

Languages: English; possibly some Spanish and some French

Education: police training (no evidence in canon of university degree).

TIMELINE:

(entries in ITALICS are estimated/assumed dates that would be typical for a boy born in 1970)

1969: Born

1973: Father (Vic Tyler) last seen alive

1974: [started school]

1981: Coach accident [broken arm-???]

1986: [Gap Year, worked in a DIY store] - debate on whether gap year happened before or after academy

1988: Graduated from police academy

2006: Hit by car, goes into coma (and early 1973; prior to March 31); also, mentor Glen Fletcher dies that year while Sam is comatose

2006/2007(?): Wakes up from coma after unspecified time

2007 (April): Jumps off of GMP headquarters roof (NOTE: per A2A shooting script, so this date is debatable)

GENERAL THINGS KNOWN:

~ He enjoys cooking

~ He enjoys eating Indian food

~ He drinks red wine, beer, and whisky at different points throughout the show

~ Does not smoke (NOTE: In ep. 2.01, he bums a cigarette and lights it up "like a pro" so obviously he learned to smoke at some point)

~ Jogs

~ He traveled to Mexico but when/why/for how long is unknown

~ Possible that he traveled to Barcelona and saw the Gaudis there

~ He wears a St. Christopher medallion (this was not specified in the show but by John Simm in commentary, stating that he chose it for the character as St. Christopher is the patron saint of travelers).

~ Supports Manchester United

~ Loved treacle tart with custard as little boy

~ First record he purchased was Gary Numan's single, Cars

~ Loves the band T-Rex

~ Read Alice in Wonderland as a boy

~ In 2006, Sam is driving a silver Jeep Grand Cherokee (1999 model, according to the IMCDb)

~ 1973 Radio call sign is 870

~ In 2006 is knocked down by a blue Vauxhall Cavalier, reg number E599 SRJ

~ He claims to have high Playstation scores

~ Eats yogurt for breakfast

~ Stopped going to live football matches after his father disappeared

~ In 2006, lived in a textile factory conversion flat on Queen Mary Road; The shooting script for 1.01 mentions that he owns a large widescreen plasma telly

~ Did some manner of special training on terrorist methods and has specialized knowledge of IRA strategies including a rather fine memory for historical facts. Also claimed that many of his cases in 2006/"Hyde" were drugs-related, and has clearly done some research on illegal substances in the course of his career.

~ Father was a traveling salesman (and possible criminal/crime lord wannabe)

~ Moved around Manchester a lot in his early childhood

~ Sam's 1973 flat is on the ground floor (street level) of a house built c.1900 that has been divided into rooms or flats. It's probably a terrace house on a street similar to the one where Ruth and Little Sammy lived.

THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO 2006 SAM WHILE HE WAS IN A COMA:

Note: these events are considered canon, even if the fact of whether they actually happened is debatable.

~ Mentor Glen Fletcher dies (ep. 2.02)

~ DI Maya Roy, Sam's girlfriend, breaks up with him, stating that she can't keep waiting around for him to wake up and she needs to get on with her life (ep. 2.06)

~ Sam is overdosed by accident and nearly dies (ep. 2.05)

~ Tony Crane tortures Sam and attempts to murder him by messing with his life support (2.01)

~ Meds are switched up resulting in "hallucinations" ('The Joni Debacle' - ep. 1.04)

~ A benign brain tumor was detected but was too deeply embedded to be removed (according to "Dr. Morgan" after Sam woke up from the coma); 2.08 posits that Gene Hunt was representative of the tumor in Sam's "coma psyche."

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