"Silent Witness" A Good Body: Part 1 (TV Episode 1999)

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Amanda Burton

Professor Sam Ryan

Christopher Colquhoun

Andy Wright

Henry Miller

P.C.

Nick Reding

D.C.I. Michael Connor

Harry Saks

F.O. Winch
(as Harold Saks)

Michael Haughey

Des Fisher

Paul Swinnerton

Fireman

Michael Parkhouse

Forensic Dentist

Victoria Byrne

Whittle's Daughter

Sue Gifford

Mrs Donoghue
(as Susan Gifford)

Charlotte Cornwell

Penelope Arnold

Saul Cambridge

Fingerprint Officer

Sadie Shimmin

Marie Vaughan

Alec Linstead

Dorian Cross

Cheryl Hall

Sheryl Marsh

Director
- David Thacker
Writers
- J.C. Wilsher
- Nigel McCrery
All cast & crew
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Trivia
In the opening of this episode, the film being shown at the doomed cinema is the incomparable Third Man (1949). The film is coming to its end. The first image shown on the screen is a close up of Joseph Cotten. He's in the jeep with Trevor Howard after Lime's second funeral. Then the mournful zither music of Anton Karas. The fire starts as Cotten is walking back to Alida Valli.

Goofs
While the man is putting clay on the skull to make a face Doc Ryan is typing in her computer. She spelt a word incorrectly as conputerized.

Connections
Features The Third Man (1949)

Soundtracks
Testator Sile-e-ens
Written by John Harle
Performed by Sarah Leonard

Just who is Body number ten? A fire at a small cinema leaves one body without an identity, Sam uses a facial reconstruction to put a face to the body, the only lead comes from newly promoted DCI Michael Connor.

I can always remember to things vividly from this, the harrowing opening scene with the people trapped in the cinema, and it was the first time I was ever aware of the facial reconstruction technique, in those two points I found this one memorable, it still holds up well today. Nice to see Nick Reding back as Michael, they'd been quite harsh with getting rid of characters and never mentioning them ever again.

I think this one's pretty good, putting the skills of a pathologist to the ultimate test, identifying an unknown body. 8/10