Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Hope in the darkness.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999 — present)
Seasons: 28,
episodes: 598
Average rating:
8.1/10
155 139
Production
Status
Returning
Creators
Scenario
Julie Martin
Author
Composer
Mike Post
Producer
Actors
Mariska Hargitay
Olivia Benson
Ice-T
Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola
Christopher Meloni
Elliot Stabler
Danny Pino
Nick Amaro
Richard Belzer
John Munch
Aimé Donna Kelly
Renee Curry
Dann Florek
Donald Cragen
Raúl Esparza
Rafael Barba
Short description
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
Seasons
| Season | Episodes | Release date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 1999-09-20 | 7.4 | |
| 21 | 2000-10-20 | 8 | |
| 23 | 2001-09-28 | 8 | |
| 25 | 2002-09-27 | 7.5 | |
| 25 | 2003-09-23 | 7.9 | |
Season 6 Detectives Benson, Stabler, Fin and Munch face serial killers, self-proclaimed psychics and cult leaders as they investigate crime in New York City.
|
23 | 2004-09-21 | 7.6 |
Season 7 The unit's gut-wrenching cases include a schoolyard shooting of a child, a shady dating service and a shocking revelation regarding Tutuola's son.
|
22 | 2005-09-20 | 7.6 |
| 22 | 2006-09-19 | 7.7 | |
| 19 | 2007-09-25 | 7.8 | |
Season 10 Stabler confronts his own demons when his daughter is caught with drugs, and Benson follows connections between an abused child and an attack on a woman.
|
22 | 2008-09-22 | 7.8 |
Season 11 A new ADA joins the team, a crime scene photo of a murdered teen goes viral and Stabler tries to prove Benson did not murder a biker.
|
24 | 2009-09-23 | 7.4 |
| 24 | 2010-09-22 | 7.6 | |
Season 13 Season 13 dealt with the departure of Detective Elliot Stabler from the Special Victims Unit after a shooting in the squad room.
|
23 | 2011-09-21 | 7.4 |
| 24 | 2012-09-26 | 7.9 | |
| 24 | 2013-09-25 | 8.1 | |
| 23 | 2014-09-24 | 8 | |
| 23 | 2015-09-23 | 8.4 | |
| 21 | 2016-09-21 | 7.9 | |
| 24 | 2017-09-27 | 8.1 | |
| 24 | 2018-09-27 | 7.4 | |
| 20 | 2019-09-26 | 7.7 | |
| 16 | 2020-11-12 | 8.2 | |
| 22 | 2021-09-23 | 8.2 | |
| 22 | 2022-09-22 | 8.4 | |
| 13 | 2024-01-18 | 8.1 | |
| 22 | 2024-10-03 | 8.4 | |
| 21 | 2025-09-25 | 8.5 | |
| 4 | 2026-10-08 | — |
What's left behind the scenes
- Initially, Ice-T (a former rapper, born Tracy Marrow) signed a contract to appear in only four episodes, but he enjoyed the series so much that he asked to be made a permanent cast member.
- Mariska Hargitay is a certified consultant specializing in working with victims of sexual assault.
- The series was originally intended to be titled "Sexual Assault Crimes" and to be independent of the series "Law & Order" (1990-2010). However, NBC decided that the title would be too harsh. After negotiations with "Law & Order" creator Dick Wolf, it was decided to make this series a part of that franchise.
- Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, NBC ordered that the opening credits sequence for the 2001-2002 season be modified to remove footage of the Twin Towers.
- Up until the fourth episode of Season 12, the police station scenes were filmed in North Bergen, New Jersey. After that, production moved to a studio near the piers in Manhattan, where the original Law & Order series had previously been filmed.
- Many members of the main cast across the Law & Order universe initially appeared in the series as guest stars. Peter Scanavino, who plays Sonny Carisi, is the only actor from the original series to have appeared as a guest actor in four of the six series before joining the main cast.
- Before appearing on screen as Detective Amanda Rollins, actress Kelli Giddish played a rape victim in one of the episodes.
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