Talk:Waking the Dead (TV series)

Mel Silver

Mel Silver is no longer a regular cast member as she was thrown off a building and killed at the end of the last series.

• I've updated the article accordingly. UkPaolo 19:42, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

Desperately need help

I'm trying to type up seperate articles for all of the Cold Case members. I've started off with Mel Silver, but can't 'make' a side box with all of her personal details. Someone please clear my mess because I'm not very good at posting pictures up on Wikipedia...—Preceding unsigned comment added by Sutekh the Destroyer (talk • contribs)

What makes each character notable enough to warrant their own individual articles? WindsorFan 20:24, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

I fail to see why not to wright separate articles about all members of "team Boyd". However I would recommend to start with Peter Boyd (Trevor Eve). Mel Silver did only appear in 19 of the 46 stories through the years. Boeing720 (talk) 07:24, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia = clever

From Andrew Billen's "Last Night's TV" column in The Times today:

Researching this business of Boyd's son in Waking the Dead, I came across a new word. When a pilot for the series was made in 2000, Boyd was a married man with a baby. When it came back as a series he was single with a missing son. This is an example of "retconning", the changing of previously established facts in a work of serial fiction most common, says Wikipedia, in comic books. The other word for it would be cheating.

In other words, a newspaper used this article for research. Bradley0110 (talk) 18:14, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

The journalist is incorrect, in the pilot, Boyd took a baby he had in the car to a scene of crime and left it with a female constable. A woman then collected the boy. But it was not his son and the woman was not his wife; the baby was his nephew and the woman was his sister. They did not appear in WTD again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jollysticks (talk • contribs) 19:19, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

That is an interesting claim - I certainly recall nothing in the pilot to contradict that view, but neither is there any evidence to support it. I think I can safely say that no one, watching the pilot and Boyd's interactions with the woman and the child, would think they would be anything *but* husband, wife and son. Furthermore, IMDB lists the woman as "Jenny Boyd" and the child as "Matt Boyd", making your proposed scenario less likely (not impossible, but, taken alongside the rest of the context, much less likely). What are your sources for your particular view?

It's also an instance of "retconning" that Luke Boyd was originally called Joe Boyd. So retconning did happen later in the series; it seems unnecessary to defend the show's pilot, of all things, for trying out a character that didn't quite pan out and had to be slightly re-written. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8A0:7C0B:3A01:20F7:2E9A:49D1:FCBB (talk) 11:58, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Question about the title

Does any one know how this programme got its title? If s/he does, it would be good if it could go in the article, as at the moment, the article lacks this information. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 19:43, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

I have no official response to this, but it seems somewhat clear. As a cold case unit, their job consists of raking the past; opening old wounds; waking the dead.

Why doubts ?

There is an window that reguards the trustworthyness of this article. I fail to see why. "Waking the dead" is shown through out the world (including USA) and is one of the best and most well-known criminal TV-series during the last decade, world-wide (until the final episode "Waterloo"). Boeing720 (talk) 07:18, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

DVD extras - none?

It seems that there have never been any DVD extras, or any WtD extras of any sort in any format? -96.233.19.238 (talk) 14:18, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

US PBS edits

Ella commented in 2009: "Some Public Broadcasting Stations (PBS) are showing Waking the Dead. This is much better than BBC America since PBS will only cut a minute or so for time, if even that much. The downside is that each PBS station is independent and does its own thing."

WGBH is cutting substantial amounts from their WTD broadcasts, even though the whole material would fit in an hour. The US DVD of season 6 opener Wren Boys is about 56 mins per half. GBH cut it to about 51 mins, leaving out most of the introduction to the new main character Dr Eve Lockhart. Very unfortunate! Why did they do this? Are they cutting all their WTD broadcasts this much? Are US DVD contents exactly the same as UK DVD contents? -96.233.19.238 (talk) 17:13, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Distinctive opening/closing credits audio/video theme

Distinctive opening/closing credits audio/video theme missing from 2000 pilot, then stayed same from first series through end of series nine. Who created this sound and look? -71.174.175.150 (talk) 21:43, 3 December 2014 (UTC)