law & order

     

Actors who have played cops on this series include S. Epatha Merkerson, Chris Noth & Paul Sorvino

Trivia about law & order

  • This Emmy-winning drama series features the opening heard here:("In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate & equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime, & the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories.")
  • Fred Dalton Thompson was still in the Senate when he took the role of D.A. Arthur Branch on this drama
  • In 1999 this show spun off a "Special Victims Unit"
  • Steven Hill's D.A. Adam Schiff was the only original still on this drama in 1999, in its ninth season
  • In a 2-parter from the first season of this show, D.A.s Stone & Robinette take on the Masucci family
  • Jerry Orbach plays detective Lennie Briscoe on this crime series
  • Fans of "CI" & "SVU" know they're both spin-offs from this TV drama
  • 1990: "...the police who investigate crime, and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders..."
  • When Michael Moriarty left this NBC series in 1994, he was replaced by Sam Waterston
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  • In 1992 Paul Sorvino, who played detective Phil Cerreta, left this series to sing opera
  • In the game based on this TV series you take on the roles of detective & prosecutor
  • (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Central Park.) Central Park's official web site notes that this NBC drama series and its spin-offs have featured an alarming number of murders in Central Park
  • The cast of this series included Chris Noth, Benjamin Bratt & Dennis Farina
  • Detective Lennie Briscoe,Lt. Anita Van Buren,Dr. Emil Skoda
  • Max Greevey & Mike Logan were the original 2 N.Y. detectives who investigated crimes in the 1st half of this show
  • "Lieutenant Van Buren"--the show should have been just about her

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