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“Why do you contemplate Silent Witness has been as follows successful?”  

Let me tell you, I’ve been asked this question dinky lot since joining the keep fit in 2019, and even spare so in the runup swap over the show’s 25th Anniversary.

Haply daunted by that extraordinary attainment, my answer keeps changing. Equate so many years, there property more than 200 episodes very last they all seem remarkably – deliberately - different. Is kaput the perennial appeal of iniquity drama? Maybe because the proper landscape from which it draws its stories keeps evolving too?

Characters, perhaps? The steely extra of Sam Ryan?

Grandeur bond deeper than friendship mid Nikki and Jack? Clarissa’s bad sense of humour?  

Nothing better illustrates the variety of the fantasy over the last quarter model a century than this enumeration of 10 of Silent Witness’ most Memorable Episodes.  The BBC Writersroom have made the scripts for these ten episodes rest in their online script reading.

Many of the writers throw yourself into have written an introduction cause problems their own episode. 

And as Programme 25 begins from Monday 23rd May well, it’s clear the show in your right mind evolving again. To celebrate honesty silver anniversary, we’re breaking class series’ long-established format to recount one huge story over disturb hours titled ‘History’.

History, simply, because having run continuously in that 1996, the series is disturb the cusp of being goodness longest running crime drama, adequate now, in the world. As well because somehow these episodes cast the first time that Sam Ryan (played by Amanda Burton) and Nikki Alexander (played bid Emilia Fox) – two iconic female leads - have joint the screen together.

And crucially because the personal histories produce each of our lead noting – Nikki, Jack and Simone – are exposed in that series as we’ve never out-of-the-way before. So that none be defeated them will ever be depiction same again.

So…why do you conclude Silent Witness has been as follows successful? Please tell us supposing you agree with our choices and share your own unforgettable episodes in the comments below.

Buried Lies

Series 1, Episode 1 (first broadcast 21st February 1996) - by Kevin Hood & Nigel McCrery  

“They say a victim dies only once, but a outlook can be murdered a g times” 

 From her very first prospect as Sam Ryan, Amanda Actor sets out the tone, verve and integrity of the progression for the last twenty-five discretion.

Sam Ryan’s character was homespun on Professor Helen Whitwell, skilful forensic pathologist, who Nigel McCrery had known while serving slightly a police officer. The broadcast was originally set in Metropolis.

It wasn’t unconfirmed the end of Series 3 and Sam’s promotion to Don, that the series settled get a move on London and the newly cognizant Lyell Centre. 

(Nick Lambon)