Overview: Silent Witness are crimes seen through the eyes of a team of forensic pathologists and forensic scientists.

DVD Verdict: Four bodies from the River Thames point to a sickening racket. Dr. Harry Cunningham's murdered ex-girlfriend never wanted him to learn her deepest secret. The bride who died at her bachelorette party hid a fatal fact from her groom. And the old woman who looked beaten to death has one last surprise for her son.

Furthermore, will Nikki and Harry's tentative relationship survive the cruel and random deaths they deal with every day? That's what lies ahead of us, the avid fans and long time viewers of this wondrous, breathtakingly "real" forensic adventure series known as Silent Witness.

These eight episodes, culled as usual into four two-parters once again being the world we know nothing about to vivid life.

From the beginning, Amanda Burton's Professor Sam Ryan showed us a clever, highly-intelligent and sometimes intimidating coroner and professor at London University. Her professional qualifications set her apart from other coroners in the area, but here in Season Ten, Nikki Alexander has learnt to not only step up professionally to the plate, but to deal with life's b/s rather admirably also.

I always enjoy this show because it gives a wonderful insight, if sometimes overly simplified, into the world of forensic pathology; an area in which I find rather fascinating when it comes to crime shows.

Each new case is original, well constructed and thoughtfully presented. They remain topical, without the feeling of an after-school special relating to current affairs.

These new tales from the morgue once again allow our trio of top pathologists to uncover more grizzly misdemeanors. Professor Leo Dalton, Dr Harry Cunnigham and Nikki Alexander are all on their A-Game from the off, when a boat carrying illegal immigrants is found wrecked on the Thames. The team joins an investigation into the people trafficking operation and soon what they assumed to be a small time effort soon spirals into something much bigger.

1. Cargo (Parts 1+2)
When a boat carrying illegal immigrants is found wrecked on the Thames, the team joins an investigation into the people trafficking operation. When four bodies are found in the Thames after a boat packed with illegal immigrants crashes, the team realizes that it is dealing with a people-trafficking operation gone wrong.

2. Terminus (Parts 1+2)
The team investigates a hit-and-run incident, an arson attack and why a woman collapsed on her hen night. It’s an 'ordinary' week at the office for the pathologists, with no major murder cases but a typical series of the mundane and cruel deaths that strike every day in the city.

3. Body Of Work (Parts 1+2)
Harry and Nikki's tentative relationship is rocked by the discovery of the body of Harry's ex-lover. Leo starts work on the elaborately staged apparent suicide of a conceptual artist. Harry and Nikki share a kiss, but their tentative new relationship is jeopardized when Harry's ex-girlfriend, Penny Harris (Deborah Cornelius), turns up on the slab. Nikki takes on the case, which initially looks like suicide, while Detective Chief Inspector Ambrose (Jim Findley) learns that Penny may have been having an affair.

4. Supernova (Parts 1+2)
The team deals with the cases of a 14-year-old apparent suicide whose body is found by her classmates, an elderly lady who died at home, and a man whose body is found dumped near his car. Memories of his own daughter's death are stirred up when Leo is called in to investigate the apparent suicide of a 14-year-old Alison Garland (Lilly Driscoll).

With the help of child psychologist Dr Caroline Anscombe (Ingeborga Dapkunaite), he realises that Alison was in fact murdered – but they are stumped when the killing is linked to Harry's case, in which a car salesman has been stabbed to death apparently with the same knife.

This brilliant TV show may well be on season 22 in the UK (I kid you not!), but rewatching these earlier seasons of the award-winning crime drama has made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside for the way the British handle their "deadly crime" shows.

Indeed, it's their scientific expertise and unquenchable thirst for the truth to unravel the clues in more mysterious and suspicious deaths that lead me to s that I think that this tenth season of Silent Witness was also one it's best. This is a Widescreen Presentation (1.78:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs.