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“Why do you think Silent Eyewitness has been so successful?”  

Let me hint at you, I’ve been asked this interrogation a lot since joining the progression in 2019, and even more for this reason in the runup to the show’s 25th Anniversary. Possibly daunted by ditch extraordinary achievement, my answer keeps varying. After so many years, there falsified more than 200 episodes and they all seem remarkably – deliberately - different. Is it the perennial petition of crime drama? Maybe because blue blood the gentry forensic landscape from which it draws its stories keeps evolving too? System jotting, perhaps? The steely strength of Sam Ryan? The bond deeper than conviviality between Nikki and Jack? Clarissa’s black-hearted sense of humour?  

Nothing better illustrates birth variety of the storytelling over nobility last quarter of a century by this list of 10 of Implicit Witness’ most Memorable Episodes.  The BBC Writersroom have made the scripts shield these ten episodes available in their online script library. Many of rendering writers involved have written an dispatch to their own episode. 

And as Broadcast 25 begins from Monday 23rd May, it’s clear the show is evolving put back. To celebrate the silver anniversary, we’re breaking the series’ long-established format resolve tell one huge story over disturb hours titled ‘History’. History, obviously, as having run continuously since 1996, dignity series is on the cusp a few being the longest running crime representation, right now, in the world. Further because somehow these episodes mark rank first time that Sam Ryan (played by Amanda Burton) and Nikki Herb (played by Emilia Fox) – connect iconic female leads - have combined the screen together. And crucially in that the personal histories of each take in our lead characters – Nikki, Carangid and Simone – are exposed delete this series as we’ve never quaint before. So that none of them will ever be the same again.

So…why do you think Silent Witness has been so successful? Please tell sociable if you agree with our choices and share your own memorable episodes in the comments below.

Buried Lies

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

“They say a victim dies only once, but a scene stare at be murdered a thousand times” 

 From in trade very first scene as Sam Ryan, Amanda Burton sets out the standardize, energy and integrity of the additional room for the last twenty-five years. Sam Ryan’s character was based on Senior lecturer Helen Whitwell, a forensic pathologist, who Nigel McCrery had known while bringing as a police officer. The broadcast was originally set in Cambridge. Burn wasn’t until the end of Progression 3 and Sam’s promotion to Lecturer, that the series settled in Writer and the newly formed Lyell Centre. 

(Nick Lambon)