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Fictional character
Raymond Milton Carling
Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes character
Dean Andrews as Ray Carling in Ashes to Ashes promo image
First appearance
Life on Mars: Episode 1, series 1
Portrayed by
Dean Andrews (UK version)
Michael Imperioli (US version)
Books
The Wit and Wisdom of Gene Hunt
In-universe information
Nickname
Ray, Raymondo
Title
Detective Sergeant (DS)
Detective Constable (DC) (temporary demotion in 1973)
Detective Inspector (DI)
Occupation
Police officer
Manchester and Salford Police (1973)
Metropolitan Police (1980–83)
Family
Alf Carling (grandfather) Col Carling (uncle)
Nationality
British
DC/DS/DI Raymond Milton[1] "Ray" Carling[2] is a fictional character in BBC One's science fiction/police procedural drama, Life on Mars and its spin-off Ashes to Ashes.
^"Ashes To Ashes: The Answers". www.lifeofwylie.com. 23 May 2010. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
^full name given in DCI Keats' report to Chief Superintendent Callahan, on BBC website [1]; full forename of "Raymond" previously confirmed on his Army enlistment application in ep. 2.6
Gene Hunt. During Life on Mars, Carling often prefers Hunt's brutality and corruption over DI Sam Tyler's ideas. Carling has also been described by the...
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Romani, after hearing Carling making antiziganistic remarks. Their relationship improves over the course of the third season, with Carling telling Granger that...
the attempts by DS RayCarling and DC Chris Skelton to warn Hunt and Drake are foiled by dead radop batteries. In desperation, Carling and Skelton shatter...
not standard procedure in the 1970s. However, Tyler often clashes with RayCarling (Dean Andrews), as he views Tyler as stopping him from being promoted...
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Annie Cartwright (Liz White) from death when he shoots Big Bird. Unlike RayCarling (Dean Andrews), Skelton eventually comes to respect Tyler and begins...
shot and awakes in 1981, where she meets Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister), RayCarling (Dean Andrews) and Chris Skelton (Marshall Lancaster) whom she has read...
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