Episode five of the second series of the BBC's "Life on Mars" features a recreation of the opening of "Camberwick Green", with a puppet of the show's main character, Sam Tyler (John Simm), emerging from the musical box and despairing over his colleague, Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister), who can be seen in puppet form "kicking in a nonce" at the end. This later leads to Sam to threaten Hunt, telling him to "Stay out of "Camberwick Green"!" (a cross-reference to the popular and long-running police TV series "Dixon of Dock Green"). It emerges that Sam is tripping after being accidentally overdosed in his hospital bed.