Law & Order: Year 3
Universal Studios (1992)
TV Series  /  Crime, Mystery
In Collection
#741
0*
Seen ItYes
025192777622
IMDB   7.8
1045 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR (Not Rated)
Chris Noth Mike Logan
Michael Moriarty Ben Stone
Dann Florek Donald Cragen
Steven Hill Adam Schiff
Richard Brooks Paul Robinette
Steven Zirnkilton Narrator
Carolyn McCormick Dr. Elizabeth Olivet
Jerry Orbach Lennie Briscoe
Paul Sorvino Phil Cerreta
John Fiore Detective Tony Profaci
Donald Corren Medill
Harold Perrineau Kenny Rinker
Paul Schulze CSU Tech Horan
Adam Lefevre Dr. Helman
Harriet Sansom Harris Ms. Kenny
Eric Bogosian Gary Lowenthal
Joseph Lyle Taylor Wayne 'Skank' Jeffers
Felicity Huffman Diane Perkins
Roscoe Lee Browne Sir Idris Balewa
George Murdock Judge Eric Bertram
Director
Daniel Sackheim
Don Scardino
Steven Robman
James Frawley
Producer Walon Green
Dick Wolf
Robert Nathan
Joseph Stern
Writer Walon Green
Dick Wolf
Ed Zuckerman
Rene Balcer
Cinematography Constantine Makris
Musician Mike Post

Law & Order, the longest running crime series and is tied for longest running drama series in the history of American broadcast television, will start its 21st season on NBC in the autumn of 2010. The brainchild of creator Dick Wolf, Law & Order is the most successful brand in the history of primetime television; the winner of the 1997 Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series; ties Cheers and M*A*S*H for the most consecutive best series nominations (eleven) and the longest-running drama series currently on American television. The series has also turned into one of entertainment's preeminent brands using a distinct ripped from the headlines format, and has spawned the successful spinoffs Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Crime & Punishment and Law & Order: Trial by Jury.
Episodes
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    9/23/1992  1.  Skin Deep
When a sleazy photographer is murdered, his models appear to be the most likely suspects.
Director:  Daniel Sackheim  Writer:  Robert Nathan  / Gordon Rayfield 
Guest starring:  Gina TorresAlberta Watson, Scotty Bloch,  Murphy GuyerClaire Danes, Fia Porter, Maeve McGuire,  John Rothman, David Bailey,  Yul VazquezGlenn Kubota, Michael Barbary,  Lauren Ambrose, Alexandra Becker, Catherine Featherston, Tony Cucci, Robert Cea, Kevin Davis, Billy Va
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    9/30/1992  2.  Conspiracy
The assassination of an African-American leader leads to the arrest of a man whose ex-wife was suspected of having an affair with the victim.
Director:  Ed Sherin  Writer:  Rene Balcer  / Michael S. Chernuchin 
Guest starring:  Joe MortonGloria Foster, Cynthia Martells, Jeff Gendelman,  Eric BogosianDavid S. Howard, Ruth Vool,  Harold Miller, Bill Cohen, Count Stovall, Michael Genet, Kirk Taylor, Walter T. Reade, Herb Downer,  James DuMont, Joe Latimore, Thomas Delehanty, Paul Eichel, George Ho
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/7/1992  3.  Forgiveness
A priest-turned-lawyer uses race and class as the basis for his defense of a young Mexican man who murdered his wealthy girlfriend after she broke up with him.
Director:  Bill D'Elia  / Ed Zuckerman  / Robert Nathan  Writer:  Ed Zuckerman 
Guest starring:  Laurence Luckinbill, Luis Antonio Ramos, Luke Reilly, David Leary, Cynthia Hayden, Laura Sametz, Janet Sarno, Richard Holmes, Frederikke Borge,  Chris Bauer, Herbert Rubens, Chelsea Altman, Suzanne Cryer, Mara Hobel, Sarah Litzsinger, Clea Montville, David Little, Shelly
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/14/1992  4.  The Corporate Veil
A teenager's fatal heart attack is traced to fraud and greed on the part of the manufacturer of his pacemaker and their supplier.
Director:  Don Scardino  Writer:  Joe Morgenstern  / Michael S. Chernuchin 
Guest starring:  Robert Milli,  Bruce Norris, Dennis Boutsikaris, Carla Pinza, Elizabeth Hubbard,  Michael LombardHarriet Sansom HarrisGeorge Murdock, Maryann Arbano, Brooks Rogers, John Procaccino, Wendy Barrie-Wilson, Michael Mislove, Justine Miceli, Kevin Eshelman, John Combs, Gene
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/21/1992  5.  Wedded Bliss
The discovery of a young woman's body in the river leads to an investigation of illegal sweatshops and the enslavement of young immigrants.
Director:  Vern Gillum  Writer:  Robert Nathan  / Edward Pomerantz 
Guest starring:  Patti D'Arbanville, John Pankow,  Bill Raymond, Jose Zuniga, Larry Keith, Lisa Vidal, Walter Bobbie, Lee Shepherd,  Iraida Polanco, Victor Sierra, Leslie Lyles, Carol Harris, Bill Fiore, Bill Nelson,  John C. VennemaVincent PastoreStewart J. Zully, José Rabelo, Manuel E.
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/4/1992  6.  Helpless
Dr. Olivet accuses her gynecologist of rape, but Stone finds his case in trouble when he discovers that Olivet tape-recorded the crime.
Director:  James Frawley  Writer:  Christine Roum  / Michael S. Chernuchin 
Guest starring:  Paul HechtFelicity HuffmanTracey Ellis, Howard Witt, Michele Pawk,  Adam Lefevre, Michael Levin, Maggie Burke, Mark Shannon, Ethan Phillips, Beth Dixon, Janet Ward, Lisa Beth Miller, Elizabeth Benedict, Paul Hebron, Sarah Burke
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/11/1992  7.  Self Defense
Cerreta and Stone find themselves on opposite sides of the fence when a storeowner kills two robbers and then claims self-defense as a justification.
Director:  Ed Sherin  Writer:  Rene Balcer  / Hall Powell 
Guest starring:  Adam ArkinRon Rifkin, Marissa Chibas,  Paul Butler, Jon Manfrellotti, Frank Savino, Robert Hirschfeld, Johnnie Mae, Ron Brice, Peter Yoshida, Florence Anglin, Mick O'Rourke, Andrew Spikes, Wai Ching Ho,  Paul Schulze, Philip LeStrange, Lou Martini Jr., Carol Anne Hansen
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/18/1992  8.  Prince of Darkness
Cerreta poses as a weapons dealer to help Stone build a case against a Columbian hit man, but the deal takes an unexpected turn, resulting in bloodshed.
Director:  Gilbert M. Shilton  Writer:  Robert Nathan  / William N. Fordes 
Guest starring:  Rosanna DeSoto, Joe Lisi, Saundra Santiago,  Mark Margolis, Shawn Elliott, Jaime Sanchez,  Lonny Price, Rosemary DeAngelis, Lizan Mitchell,  Carlos Sanz, Debra Reissen, Ivan Kronenfeld, Michael Hammond, Gary Perez, Carrell Myers, Catherine Gardner, Susan Aston, T. Scott Cun
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/25/1992  9.  Point of View
Logan gets a new partner and Stone faces an old friend from law school as they investigate a woman's claim of self-defense in the shooting death of a small time hood.
Director:  Gilbert Moses  Writer:  Walon Green  / Rene Balcer 
Guest starring:  Elaine Stritch, Lisa Eichhorn,  Gary BasarabaCaroline AaronAlan North, Michael Ingram, Delphi Harrington, Samaria Graham, Cara Duff-MacCormick, Maria Cellario,  Peter McRobbie, Michael Crider, Frank Girardeau, Edward Seamon, Tony Lip, Damon Chandler, Rich Ramirez, Josh
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    12/9/1992  10.  Consultation
An engineer and a tribal chief become the chief suspects in the death of a Nigerian woman who died while smuggling heroin internally.
Director:  James Hayman  Writer:  Matt Kiene  / Joseph Reinkemeyer 
Guest starring:  Roscoe Lee BrowneAndrew RobinsonWendell PierceKeith Szarabajka, Talia Balsam, Seth Gilliam, Robert Katims,  Beatrice WindeAfemo Omilami, James DeMarse, Beverly Johnson, Paul Eckstein, Reggie Montgomery, Seth Sibunda, Kwaku Sintim-Misa,  Neil Pepe, Eliza Ventura, Ma
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/6/1993  11.  Extended Family
The apparent abduction of a little girl by her natural mother becomes complicated by charges of sexual molestation.
Director:  Charlie Correll  / Wendell Rawls  Writer:  Robert Nathan  / Wendell Rawls 
Guest starring:  Barry Primus, Michael Maguire,  Brian Markinson, Anna Kathryn Holbrook,  James MurtaughJoyce Van PattenMatthew Sussman, Lucille Rivin, Robert Emmett, Madeline Zima, Bruce Kirkpatrick, Melinda Wade,  Olga Merediz, Carol Woods, Clebert Ford, Peter Von Berg, Elizabet
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/13/1993  12.  Right to Counsel
After Stone accepts a plea bargain from the much younger and poorer lover of a wealthy older woman found murdered in her apartment, he begins to have doubts that he has sent the right man to prison, especially as he learns more about the attorney who handled the woman's estate.
Director:  James Frawley  Writer:  Barry M. Schkolnick  / Michael S. Chernuchin 
Guest starring:  Mary Mara, Bill Moor, Darrell Larson, Mady Kaplan, Alice Hirson, Carol Rossen,  Bill Buell, Thomas Hill, Ted Sorel,  David Green, Shareen J. Mitchell,  Donna Murphy, David Breitbarth, Jerry Jarrett, Anita Keal, Vince O'Brien,  William Hill, Eugene Anthony, Lionel Pina, F
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/3/1993  13.  Night and Fog
The confession of an elderly man that he assisted his wife in committing suicide doesn't fully satisfy Stone when rumors surface that the man was once a Nazi collaborator.
Director:  Ed Sherin  Writer:  Rene Balcer  / Michael S. Chernuchin 
Guest starring:  Eric BogosianNehemiah Persoff, Reizl Bozyk, Chip Zien,  Diane Venora, Don T. Maseng, John Driver, Bahni Turpin, Paula Laurence, Joe Bacino, Cookie Rufino, Beryl Bernay,  Paul Schulze, George Rafferty, Joe Perce, Alan J. Kitty, Danny Maseng
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/10/1993  14.  Promises to Keep
The investigation into the murder of a young physician leads to the discovery of an unorthodox and illegal relationship between her fiance and his psychiatrist.
Director:  Walon Green  / Ed Sherin  / Peter S. Greenberg  Writer:  Robert Nathan  / Joshua Stern 
Guest starring:  Lindsay CrouseFritz WeaverGail StricklandJenny O'Hara, Dennis Creaghan,  Frederick Weller, Rob Sedgwick, Jesse Moore, Nicole Orth-Pallavicini, James Georgiades, Rosemary McNamara, Bob Greenberg, Theresa Della Valle, Ralph Buckley, James Reno
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/24/1993  15.  Mother Love
The absence of a murder weapon complicates the investigation into the murder of a drug addict who stole from her family to support her habit.
Director:  Daniel Sackheim  / Walon Green  / Robert Nathan  Writer:  Robert Nathan 
Guest starring:  Mary Alice, Douglas Turner Ward, Kelly Neal,  Edie Falco, Phyllis Yvonne Stickney,  Nancy Ticotin, Leland Gantt, Brenda Thomas Denmark, Fatima Faloye, Dan Moran, Frances Foster, Rafael Baez, John Quinn, Peggy Gormley, William Charlton, Anthony Ruiz, Carl Jay Cofield, Burt
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/3/1993  16.  Jurisdiction
Stone battles the Brooklyn DA's office over prosecutorial jurisdiction in the case of a mentally handicapped man who confesses to the stabbing deaths of two women.
Director:  Bruce Seth Green  Writer:  Walon Green  / Rene Balcer 
Guest starring:  Dan Hedaya, Mark Blum,  Paul McCraneMichael Badalucco, Monique Cintron, James Lewis DeLorenzo, Rosemary DeAngelis, Paul Bates, Leslie Ayvazian, David Fonteno, Philip Hoffman, Tibor Feldman, Paul D'Amato, Bill Alton, Nancy Franklin, Sabrina Boudot,  Amy Ryan, James Colby
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/10/1993  17.  Conduct Unbecoming
Stone and the police battle the closed ranks of the Navy to investigate the death of a female Naval officer during a party in a Manhattan hotel.
Director:  Walon Green  /  Arthur W. Forney  / Peter S. Greenberg  Writer:  Rene Balcer  / Michael S. Chernuchin 
Guest starring:  Len Cariou, Boyd Gaines,  George CoeMichael DolanJulianna Margulies, Dick Latessa,  Richard HamiltonJoe Chrest, Barbara Blackburn, Mark Zimmerman,  Josh Pais, Mick Weber, Richard Duva,  Jack O'Connell, Larry Fleischman, Brenda Smiley, Charles Quinn, Michael Noth
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/17/1993  18.  Animal Instinct
The initial investigation into the death of a research scientist leads to an animal-rights group until evidence surfaces that her husband's affair with a coworker may point to a possible motive for the murder.
Director:  Ed Sherin  Writer:  Sibyl Gardner  / Michael S. Chernuchin 
Guest starring:  Frances FisherJohn Cunningham, Charles Brown, Allan Arbus,  George Murdock, Peter Maloney,  Lawrence Pressman, David Schechter,  Mary Joy, Edmond Genest, William Andrews, Martina Degnan, Robert Trumbull, Frank Biancamano, Peter Birkenhead, Anthony DeRiso, Nick Smith, Caro
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    4/21/1993  19.  Virus
While investigating several deaths at a diabetes clinic, Briscoe and Logan discover that teenage computer hackers may have tampered with the clinic's medical database.
Director:  Steve Robman  Writer:  Rene Balcer  / Michael S. Chernuchin 
Guest starring:  Stephen ElliottSteven KeatsDana ElcarJoanna Merlin, Paul Calderone, Stivi Paskoski, Tanya Berezin, Beth Fowler, Harold Perrineau Jr., David Kener, John Dossett, Gary Cookson, Jim Fyfe, Patricia Kilgarriff,  Irving MetzmanArmand Schultz, Chet Carlin,  Lynne Marta, Ke
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    5/5/1993  20.  Securitate
When a Romanian immigrant kills, his lawyer announces he will plead his client ""not guilty due to cultural insanity"" claiming the man had been conditioned to violence in his homeland.
Director:  James Hayman  Writer:  Matt Kiene  / Joe Reinkemeyer 
Guest starring:  Morgan Weisser, Iren Bordan,  David MarguliesRichard Council, Alan King, Richard Ziman,  Sidney Armus, Anthony Cummings,  Diane Kagan, Jerry Grayson, Patrick Garner, Michael Louis Wells, Joe Taylor, Stan Lachow,  Jorja Fox, Melissa Ramone, Laurie Taylor-Williams, Izzy Flor
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    5/12/1993  21.  Manhood
The statement of a drug dealer who survived a shoot-out that killed a cop leads Logan and Briscoe to suspect that the cop died because he was gay and his fellow officers were reluctant to back him up.
Director:  Walon Green  / Robert Nathan  / Ed Sherin  Writer:  Robert Nathan 
Guest starring:  Charles Hallahan, Adam Trese,  Sam RockwellPhilip Bosco, Robert Moresco, Ron Ryan, Lazaro Perez,  Dan Grimaldi, Michael Egan, Michael Hirsch, René Rivera, Ralph Byers, Tino Juarez, Steven Rodriguez, Spartan McClure, Ken Larsen, Kevin Hagan, Mark Sarro, Philip Levy, Gia Gal
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    5/19/1993  22.  Benevolence
Logan and Briscoe begin their investigation into the death of a hearing-impaired young woman by questioning her two most recent boyfriends.
Director:  Doug Palau  / Ed Sherin  Writer:  Rene Balcer  / Doug Palau 
Guest starring:  Leon Russom, Sam Gray,  Meredith Scott Lynn, Camille L. Jeter, John Cleary, Eliza Rubin, Martin Priest, Ann Sachs, George Bamford,  James Villemaire, John Maucere, Helen Lloyd Breed, Isha Manna Beck, Sofia Landon Geier,  Camryn Manheim, Harry Johnson,  Jaime Tirelli, Patrick
Edition Details
Edition Collector's Edition
Series Law & Order
Distributor Universal Studios
Release Date 5/24/2005
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
Subtitles English; French; Spanish
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital Stereo [English]
Layers Dual Side, Single Layer
No. of Discs/Tapes 3

Features
Disc 01 Includes Deleted ScenesForgiveness - Helpless