'It's like Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, or the reverse of Life on Mars,' teases Mammoth star Mike Bubbins

Mike Bubbins in a leather jacket and cords with a swirly shirt, snakeskin boots and sunglasses in Mammoth.

Mammoth follows the fortunes of an unreconstructed 1970s PE teacher who has to negotiate life in the present day.

The three-part series, written by and starring comic Mike Bubbins (Tourist Trap, Would I Lie To You?), airs soon and centers on Tony Mammoth, who, in 1979, is caught up in an avalanche while leading a school skiing trip. Some 45 years later, his frozen body is brought back to life and he resumes his teaching career — and his 1970s style and attitudes — back at his old school in Wales.