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The American television police procedural and legal drama Law & Order (1990–2010 & 2022–present) follows the fictional cases of a group of police detectives and prosecutors who represent the public in the criminal justice system.
Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series created by Dick Wolf that premiered on NBC on September 13, 1990. Set in New York City , where episodes were also filmed, the series ran for twenty seasons before it was cancelled on May 14, 2010, and aired its final episode ten days later, on May 24. [ 1 ]
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (often shortened to Law & Order: SVU or SVU) is an American police procedural crime drama television series created by Dick Wolf for NBC.
S1. E14. All episodes. Cast & crew. User reviews. Trivia. IMDbPro. All topics. The Violence of Summer. Episode aired Feb 5, 1991. TV-14. 1h. IMDb RATING. 7.8 /10. 462. YOUR RATING. Rate. Crime Drama Mystery Thriller. Stone temporarily dismisses rape charges against three defendants because the victim's testimony has too many holes.
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Based out of the NYPD New York City Police Department's 16th precinct in Manhattan, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit delves into the dark side of the New York underworld as the detectives of a new elite force, the Special Victims Unit(SVU for short), investigate and prosecute various sexually oriented crimes including rape, pedophilia, and domesti...
Development
The idea for "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" originated with the 1986 "preppie murder" case of Robert Chambers, who strangled Jennifer Levin, a woman that he dated and later murdered during what he claimed was consensual "rough sex" in Manhattan's Central Park. The crime inspired Dick Wolf to write the story for the Season 1 episode of "Law & Order" titled "Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die". However, even after writing the episode, the case continued to haunt Wolf, who wanted to go deeper...
Executive producers
Executive producer Neal Baer left Law & Order: SVU as showrunner at the end of Season 12, after eleven years (Seasons 2–12) on the show, in order to sign a three-year deal with CBS Studios. Baer was replaced by former "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" showrunner Warren Leight. In March of 2015, it was announced that Warren Leight signed a three-year deal with Sony Pictures Television, that would allow him to work on SVU one more season, its seventeenth. Leight joined the show in Season 13. It wa...
Recurring Guest Stars
1. For a list of recurring characters, see SVU recurring characters.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit at NBCLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit at WikipediaLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit Episode Guide at WikipediaLaw & Order: SVU at NBC Wiki (Fandom)315. YOUR RATING. Rate. Crime Drama Mystery Thriller. The murder of a "corporate raider" appears to be connected to a Brooklyn factory he took over and then shut down. But the DA's office uncovers a connection to a banking scandal that leads all the way to a former governor. Director. Daniel Sackheim. Writers. Dick Wolf. Robert Palm.
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Mariska Hargitay. Richard Belzer. Michelle Hurd. Dann Florek. The first season of the police procedural drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit premiered on NBC on September 20, 1999 and concluded on May 19, 2000. The season consists of 22 episodes.
