• Director(s)

    n/a

  • Production Year

    1996

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Cast

    Emilia Fox, Rhys Yates, Divian Ladwa

TV Show

Baywatch Nights - Silent Witness

SILENT WITNESS is a British crime drama series; in this episode, Nikki investigates the murder of a man in prison, where she has a reunion with a violent criminal from her past.…

SILENT WITNESS is a British crime drama series; in this episode, Nikki investigates the murder of a man in prison, where she has a reunion with a violent criminal from her past.

  • Director(s)

    n/a

  • Production Year

    1996

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Cast

    Emilia Fox, Rhys Yates, Divian Ladwa

strong injury detail, violence
Classified Date:
22/10/2021
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
violence
A man is shot in the head with brief bloody detail.
injury detail
There are images of medical gore during a lecture about conducting an autopsy, including sight of a cadaver's chest and abdomen cut open. During a crime scene investigation, a woman's charred body is found.
additional issues
There are also moderate sex references, brief suicide references and mild bad language ('shit', 'god', 'damn', 'sod').
strong injury detail
Classified Date:
22/10/2021
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
injury detail
There is focus on a charred corpse, as well as a scene in which an inner organ is removed from the corpse's body.
additional issues
There is also moderate violence, including beatings and a stabbing, as well as associated threat.
strong violence, crime scene detail
Classified Date:
22/10/2021
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
violence
A man repeatedly beats another man using a baseball bat, resulting in bloody detail.
injury detail
In a post mortem scene there are bloody images, including brief sight of a murder victim's open torso and organs. A woman is shown buried beneath some decking covered in blood.
additional issues
During a post mortem scene there are undetailed references to sexual assault and rape. There are undetailed verbal references to a woman leaving an abusive relationship. In scenes of moderate threat, a man stalks a family, breaks into their home and steals photos of their small children. There are sex references when a man admits to being a frequent sperm donor, with one woman referring to him as 'Frank the wank'. .
strong violence
Classified Date:
22/10/2021
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
violence
A woman is stabbed; her body is seen lying in a large pool of blood before she drags herself along the floor.
additional issues
A woman makes a suicide attempt. There are references to a character arranging for an adult man to have sex with a 15 year old girl. Brief references are made to sperm. There is use of mild bad language ('shit', 'bastard') and milder terms ('Christ', 'God', 'hell').
strong crime scene detail
Classified Date:
22/10/2021
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
injury detail
Strong crime scene detail includes a blood drenched corpse lying on a blood soaked floor in an operating theatre heavily spattered with blood. There is also medical detail, such as sight of a man's brain and heart lying on a pathology lab table and sight of the chest skin on a man's corpse folded over his abdomen for a post mortem.
additional issues
There is also moderate sex reference when it is said that the dead man 'shags the girl you're in love with', and mild bad language ('piss', 'arsehole', 'bullshit', 'hell').
moderate injury detail
Classified Date:
22/10/2021
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
injury detail
There is a scene in which a character lies dead in a pool of blood, although this is only briefly seen. A doctor carries out an inspection on a bloody heart during a postmortem. A postmortem report includes sight of stitching around a man's neck.
additional issues
When medical professionals discuss theories about a victim, suicide is considered as one possible cause. There is mild bad language including 'bloody' and 'God'. A driver runs a character over.
strong injury detail, medical detail
Classified Date:
22/10/2021
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
injury detail
There are several close-ups of a dead man's cut, bruised and bloodied face, as well as other brief scenes of injury detail. There is also some medical gore in a close-up scene in which an organ is dissected.
additional issues
There is also moderate violence, threat, a brief domestic violence reference, scenes of emotional upset, and mild bad language (for example, 'shit', 'bloody').
strong injury detail, medical detail
Classified Date:
22/10/2021
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
injury detail
In one scene, a dead man's shattered kneecap is shown in brief close-up. There is also a scene of medical detail in which a dead man's chest cavity is opened up, accompanied by sight of flesh folded back over his ribs. There are other scenes of injury detail, including sight of bruises, cuts, and wounds.
additional issues
There are also scenes of moderate violence and threat, moderate sex references, and mild bad language (for example, 'bastard', 'bullshit', 'bollocks', 'bloody', 'hell', 'God', 'damn').
moderate medical detail, suicide references
Classified Date:
22/10/2021
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
injury detail
There is moderate medical detail in which embalmed cadavers are seen on display during a dissection class, and a dead body is shown to a family member. There are mild bloody images.
suicide and self-harm
There are references to suicide and mental health.
additional issues
There are scenes of mild threat in which elderly people in a care home are moved to higher ground during a storm. There is mild bad language including use of 'bloody', 'ass' and the milder term 'hell'. Sex references are mild. There are mild references to violence.
strong medical gore
Classified Date:
22/10/2021
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
injury detail
An autopsy sequence features the sight of a cadaver with the torso cut open; there are multiple shots of bloody organs. There is also mild injury detail such as bloody hands, cuts and bruises.
additional issues
There is moderate sex, drug references and suicide references, including sight of a person turning a gun on themselves. There is also mild and very mild bad language such as 'bloody', 'hell' and 'darn'.
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  • Classified date

    22/10/2021

  • Distributor

    IMC Video Ltd

  • Language

    English