List of Silent Witness episodes

Silent Witness is a British television drama. The following is a list of all episodes that have been broadcast across all television series, since the series began on 21 February 1996. The first seven series featured Amanda Burton in the lead role. Following Burton's departure (in series 8, episode 2), Emilia Fox joined the show (in series 8, episode 5) as new forensic pathologist Nikki Alexander, and as of 2016 she is still in the series. In the first episode of series 6, William Gaminara and Tom Ward both joined the series. After series 15, Ward left the show to pursue other projects. He was replaced by David Caves and Liz Carr who both joined the show in series 16. Gaminara left the show at the end of series 16 and was replaced by Richard Lintern from series 17 onwards.

The series has been released on BBC DVD since July 2006, usually with two series being released together in one box set. This practice has stopped and series 17 onwards will be released as single DVDs (as was the case for series 1 and 2).Silent Witness's episodes usually consist of two parts to one episode, with each part lasting 60 minutes.

Series 6 was confirmed in April 2001. This series saw the introduction of two new main characters, Professor Leo Dalton and Dr. Harry Cunningham, portrayed by William Gaminara and Tom Ward respectively.

Series 8 was confirmed alongside series 7. This series saw the departure of Amanda Burton as Dr. Sam Ryan and the introduction of new character Dr. Nikki Alexander, portrayed by Emilia Fox.

Nikki investigates the murder of a teenage girl, who fell from a ride at a funfair after being brutally raped and stabbed, and suspects the killing may have been part of a gang initiation. Meanwhile, Leo finds himself doing community service after getting caught drink driving and is first on the scene when an attack takes place where he's working. When he tries to get information from the victim, he disappears from the radar, and only after he performs a botched stabbing does he finally reveal all he knows. However, Harry and Nikki only discover this much later when Leo finally confessed to them that he was doing community service for DUI. Meanwhile, the police struggle to secure any concrete evidence against gang leader Keenan, who manages to evade them and continue his killing spree. Just when all hope seems lost, however, the team make a breakthrough, but with the deaths of two brothers. The older one trying desperately to save the younger brother from joining the dangerous gang life, but ended up dead in enemy territory, while the younger boy was attacked by a dog, set on by Keenan who was furious that he spoke to the police.

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