A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.
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- 9 wins & 6 nominations
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- TriviaThe main character in the original series Samantha 'Sam' Ryan was based on Professor Helen Whitwell, a forensic pathologist based in Sheffield, whom Nigel McCrery had known while serving as a police officer.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Wright Stuff: Episode #17.65 (2012)
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Silent Witness is a must-see crime drama!
Amanda Burton's Professor Sam Ryan is a clever, highly-intelligent and sometimes intimidating coroner and professor at London University. Her professional qualifications set her apart from other coroners in the area, and so she is regularly called upon to assist the police at homocide crime scenes and in subsequent autopsies. In the style of a murder-cop show starring someone besides a cop, Professor Ryan manages to solve all of the cases herself, only occasionally calling on the aid of one of the actual police officers. This series is very often intense and graphic during some of the autopsy scenes, but it is consistently well-written and well-acted. Very little of Sam Ryan's private life leaks into the series, and the series' primary focus on the murder in question is somewhat unusual to this genre. When a glimpse of Professor Ryan's personal life is revealed to the audience, it leaves them curious for more. Silent Witness is a very well-written show and I highly recommend it when it next appears in reruns!
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- May 28, 2000
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