Silent Witness

The departure of Professor Sam Ryan has left Leo Dalton and Harry Cunningham to run the forensic pathology department, with the assistance of new recruit, Nikki Alexander. But as personal tragedy strikes, the team’s relationships are put under stress.

These series find Professor Sam Ryan continuing to lead the forensic pathology team until the discovery of her long-lost son impels her to move on. Then its up to Harry, Leo and a surprising new recruit, Nikki Alexander, to preserve her belief that every corpse deserves to have it’s story told.

A compelling contemporary series which uses a unique blend of crime mystery, science and detection. Forensic pathologist Dr Sam Ryan has an all-embracing, passionate notion of justice which quite often does not accord with the police’s objective of getting a conviction. This can lead to trouble, both in her personal and professional lives, but to Sam, each dead body deserves nothing but the truth. This series tackles child murder, ritual killing, a murder in the police cells and an arranged marriage which leads Sam to confront her own demons.

Silent Witness is a long-running, compelling series which uses a unique blend of crime mystery, science and detection. Forensic pathologist Dr Sam Ryan (Amanda Burton) has an all-embracing, passionate notion of justice which quite often does not accord with the police’s objective of getting a conviction. This can lead to trouble, both in her personal and professional lives, but to Sam, each dead body deserves nothing but the truth.
Series 2 aired on television originally in 1997 and includes 8 episodes of four two-parters: Blood, Sweat and Tears; Cease Upon the Midnight; Only the Lonely; Friends Like These.

Driven forensic pathologist Dr Sam Ryan has relocated from London, back to Cambridge in order to be closer to her family and to begin a new post at a teaching hospital. This second series finds Sam working on a multitude of different cases and confronting serious issues such as euthanasia killings and the London underworld, all the while she must come to terms with the reappearance of an old flame.

It's been ages since the last Silent Witness dvd was released, so the release of series 3 and 4 is most welcome. This 4 disk set includes all the episodes of series 3 and 4. The stories of series 3 are An Academic Exercise, Fallen Idol, Devided Loyalties and Brothers In Arms. Series 4 features the stories Gone Tomorrow, A Kind Of Justice and A Good Body. All stories are presented in their original 2 part format. Stars Amanda Burton as Sam Ryan.

SERIES 5
Sam's cases involve a series of revenge killings by a former Auschwitz prisoner; the mysterious deaths of teenage girls killed 15 years apart in Norway; a suspicious suicide and a beautiful Nun in a convent by the sea - very different stories, all employing Sam's expertise to the maximum.
SERIES 6
Sam Ryan is in constant demand. Dedicated and driven, she wants to know about the person behind the dead body and how and why they died. Now she has two dynamic new colleagues to assist her: Dr Leo Dalton and junior pathologist Harry Cunningham. Mysteries facing the team include a severed arm, which exposes a police cover-up and prostitution ring; a seven-year-old corpse linked to a violent armed robbery; and the mass murder of a family, the investigation of which reunites Sam with a former love.