Law & Order: Year 7
Universal Studios (1996)
TV Series  /  Crime, Mystery
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025192054396
IMDB   7.8
728 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   UR (Unrated)
S. Epatha Merkerson Anita Van Buren
Benjamin Bratt Rey Curtis
Jerry Orbach Lennie Briscoe
Sam Waterston Jack McCoy
Carey Lowell Jamie Ross
Steven Hill Adam Schiff
Steven Zirnkilton Narrator
John Fiore Detective Tony Profaci
Maria Capp Press Reporter
Lauren Graham Lisa Lundquist
Keith Szarabajka Neil Gorton
Scott Cohen Eddie Newman
Carolyn McCormick Dr. Elizabeth Olivet
Leslie Hendrix Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers
Paul Hecht Dr. Dan Duvall
Tamara Daniels Secretary
Janeane Garofalo Greta Heiss
Eddie Kaye Thomas Chad Markham
Felicity Huffman Hillary Colson
Mark Joy LA Detective
Director
Jace Alexander
Edwin Sherin
Vince Misiano
Chris Misiano
Producer Edwin Sherin
Dick Wolf
Ed Zuckerman
Rene Balcer
Writer Dick Wolf
Ed Zuckerman
Rene Balcer
Janis Diamond
Cinematography Richard Dobbs
Chris Misiano
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    9/18/1996  1.  Causa Mortis
McCoy's new second chair, ADA Jamie Ross, is determined to prosecute as harshly as possible a carjacker who took the life of a teacher as she pleaded for her life on an audio tape discovered at the crime scene.
Director:  Ed Sherin  Writer:  Rene Balcer 
Guest starring:  George Martin, Cyndi Cartagena, Louise Sorel, Lawrence Arancio, Victor Sierra, Hugh O'Gorman, Rebecca Nelson, Tiffany Fraser, Divina Cook, Mark Kachersky,  Irma St. Paule, Tom Cappadona,  Harsh Nayyar, Michael Dahlen, David Zayas, Jurian Hughes, David Puck Rainey, B
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    9/25/1996  2.  ID
The cops tackle identifying a corpse left in an elevator, and McCoy finds his prosecution of the suspect later hampered by a vindictive judge who resents Ross's in-court rebuke for sexual harassment.
Director:  Constantine Makris  Writer:  Ed Zuckerman 
Guest starring:  Jerry Adler, Gerry Bamman,  Aida TurturroStephen MendilloAlan Manson, Pamela J. Gray, Dicky Fine, Chat Carlin, Cordell Stahl,  Daniel Oreskes, Alison Martin, Julian Gamble, Judy Frank, Emilio Del Pozo, Billy Gillespie, Scott Sherman, Liam Mitchell, Gano Grills, Robert R
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/7/1996  3.  Good Girl
Briscoe and Curtis have to break the mutual alibi of two girlfriends as they try to find the killer of a young black man, whose angry parents pressure McCoy to indict a young woman who claims the victim had raped her.
Director:  Jace Alexander  Writer:  Jeremy R. Littman 
Guest starring:  Chelsea Altman, Tommy Hollis, John A. MacKay,  Jennifer EspositoGiancarlo EspositoRobin Moseley, Myra Lucretia Taylor,  Taye Diggs, Hope Clarke, Lil Henderson, Tony Patellis, Vanessa Aspillaga, Robert Turano, Louis Cantarini, John Lantz, Angel L. Caban, Paul Singer, Mi
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/23/1996  4.  Survivor
Briscoe and Curtis's investigation of the murder of a rare coin dealer nets them a millionaire as a suspect, but Ross has to play detective too as the DA's office tries to establish a provenance for the missing coin collection.
Director:  Vincent Misiano  Writer:  Barry M. Schkolnick 
Guest starring:  Karen Allen, Larry Keith, Lee Bryant, Lenka Peterson,  Lynn Cohen, Michael Willis,  Marla Sucharetza, Darrell Larson, Susan Bigelow, Ron Parady, Linda Pierce,  Ruth Williamson, Paula Nyberg, Cliff Batuello, Maurizio Benazzo,  Eddie Kaye Thomas, Jim Abele, Jerry Matz, Christia
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/30/1996  5.  Corruption
Curtis, angered by the attitude of an old colleague of Briscoe's, looks beyond the findings of an IAB investigation and turns up evidence of police corruption that puts the DA's office into competition with an ambitious judge and Briscoe under investigation for stealing evidence from a police lockup.
Director:  Rene Balcer  / Gardner Stern  /  Matthew Penn  Writer:  Gardner Stern 
Guest starring:  Kevin Conway, Caroline Kava, Don Billett, Tim Ransom, Skipp Sudduth,  Nancy TicotinKirk Acevedo, Jeff Williams,  Josef Sommer, Merrill Holtzman, Michael Medeiros, William Paulson, Alexandra Loria, Mark Giordano, Dupre Kelly, Carlos A. Alonso, Phillip LeStrange, Manuel An
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/6/1996  6.  Double Blind
The murder of a janitor in a university laboratory building leads back to a student employee whose participation in a drug study may have prompted the crime.
Director:  Christopher Misiano  Writer:  Jeremy R. Littman  / William N. Fordes 
Guest starring:  John Bedford Lloyd, Mark Bateman,  Tom O'RourkeRichard Hamilton, E. Katherine Kerr, Dan Ziskie,  Jennifer Van DyckVivienne Benesch, Randle Mell, Irene Ng, Gene Canfield, Jim Bulleit, Larry Attile, Bill Cohen, Robert Hirschfeld, D.C. Benny,  Martin Shakar, Paul Geier, Wil
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/13/1996  7.  Deadbeat
The murder of a deadbeat father whose son is dying of leukemia presents McCoy and Ross with a sympathetic suspect and a moral dilemma.
Director:  Constantine Makris  Writer:  Ed Zuckerman  / I.C. Rapoport 
Guest starring:  Val Avery, Deborah Hedwall,  Tamara Tunie, Renée Props,  Vincent Pastore, Nick Sandow, Scott Sowers,  Jerry Stiller, Barbara Eda-Young, Zachary Kady, Jordan Lage, O.L. Duke, Anthony J. Coleman, David A. Carlson, Ed Hyland, Paul Urcioli, Jim Frangione, Mark Casella, Abby Lewi
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/20/1996  8.  Family Business
The murder of Richard Speigel, chief financial officer for an exclusive, family-owned department store goes from the sitting room to the bedroom and into the board room as suspicion shifts from co-workers to family members.
Director:  Lewis H. Gould  Writer:  Gardner Stern  / Barry M. Schkolnick 
Guest starring:  Anne Twomey,  Jean De Baer, Bill Moor,  Victor SlezakDavid ThorntonJoseph WisemanOlek KrupaJames Murtaugh, Anna Carolina Alvim, Frank Girardeau, Jim Moody, Buzz Bovshow, Chuma Hunter-Gault, Gene Silvers, Carmen Lopez, Toni James
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/8/1997  9.  Entrapment
The case against Huey Tate, a young man accused of shooting the well-known leader of the African-American Congress comes undone when the New York authorities learn that their chief witness was once an informant for the FBI, and is still under their protection.
Director:  Matthew Penn  Writer:  Rene Balcer  / Richard Sweren 
Guest starring:  Michelle Hurd, Ron Cephas Jones, Chris McKinney,  Samuel E. WrightMichael Gaston, Robert Hogan,  Gloria Foster, Angela Bullock,  Jesse Doran, Herb Foster, Fil Formicola,  William Hill, Elizabeth Van Dyke, Arthur French, Avery Kidd Waddell,  Joseph Siravo, Jack Ryland, Micha
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/15/1997  10.  Legacy
The sidewalk shooting of a young husband uncovers the fact that his wife's first husband died in a inadequately investigated accident, and that they may have been having an affair before it happened.
Director:  Brian Mertes  Writer:  Ed Zuckerman  / Jeremy R. Littman 
Guest starring:  Frances Sternhagen, Bradley White,  Tom Riis Farrell, Charlotte Moore, Jere Shea,  Johann CarloMark MargolisJenny RobertsonMarylouise Burke, Hugh O'Gorman, Becky London, Paul Austin, Richard Michael Hughes, Richard M. Davidson, John McGrane, Denise Casano, Bianca Co
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/5/1997  11.  Menace
The detectives face a difficult struggle getting witnesses to a girl's apparent suicide to come forward while Ross tries to prove that a known bully is the one really responsible for her actions.
Director:  I.C. Rapoport  /  Constantine Makris  / Barry M. Schkolnick  Writer:  I.C. Rapoport 
Guest starring:  John Cullum, Christopher Cousins, John Ellison Conlee, James Georgiades, Caitlin Clarke, Jennifer Server, Gustave Johnson, Marilyn Rockafellow,  Tony Lo Bianco, Katherine Narducci, James McCauley, Stephen Axelrod, Tony Torn, Ed Wheeler, Steven Stahl, Francine Beers, Mega
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/12/1997  12.  Barter
An unpromising case of murder suddenly develops new leads when the cops explore the possibility that the victim was mistaken for someone else. McCoy walks a thin line in the matter of ethical conduct as he tries to make a case against a lendor who uses unscrupulous methods to collect the money owed to him.
Director:  Dan Karlok  Writer:  Rene Balcer  / Eddie Feldmann 
Guest starring:  George DiCenzo, Scott Bryce,  Victor Argo, Greer Goodman, Dana Reeve, Scotty Bloch, Meg Mundy, Tom Brennan, Cynthia Darlow,  Brian Howe, Jordan Leeds, Bruce Kronenberg,  Olga Merediz, George Odom, Mary Peterson, Tom Bellin, Alec Phoenix, Vince Pacimeo, Timothi-Jane Graham, Ch
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/19/1997  13.  Matrimony
The discovery of a would-be thief refocuses a murder investigation, leaving the prosecutors the task of making a conspiracy case against the deceased's attorney and the pretty young widow.
Director:  Lewis H. Gould  Writer:  Ed Zuckerman  / Richard Sweren 
Guest starring:  Arija Bareikis, Anna Kathryn Holbrook,  Michael Lombard, Boyd Gaines, Lazaro Perez, Alex Toma, Maya McLaughlin,  Jordan Lund, Mark Kenneth Smaltz, Stephen Bradbury, Kenneth Garner, Munson Hicks, Robin Martin, Julie Lauren,  Chris Orbach, John Rainer, Larry Fleischman, Todd
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/26/1997  14.  Working Mom
The murder of an ex-cop with a penchant for blackmail and illicit sex brings feminist lawyer Lanie Stieglitz into court against McCoy to defend a suburban wife and mother.
Director:  Jace Alexander  Writer:  I.C. Rapoport  / Jeremy R. Littman 
Guest starring:  Elaine StritchFelicity Huffman, Jodie Markell,  Richard PoeJohn Cunningham, David S. Chandler,  Richard Bright, Pamela Holden Stewart, Jordan Reid Berkow, Johnny Alan Garcia, Socorro Santiago, Henry Stram, Billy Strong, Trisha Gorman, Portia Johnson, Paula Pizzi, Feli
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/13/1997  15.  D-Girl (1)
A headless corpse fished out of the river sends Briscoe and Curtis out to Los Angeles to obtain a blood sample from their chief suspect while McCoy and Ross back in New York try to obtain a court order for the procedure.
Director:  Constantine Makris  / Ed Sherin  Writer:  Ed Zuckerman  / Rene Balcer  / Gardner Stern 
Guest starring:  Keith SzarabajkaLauren GrahamScott CohenJeffrey D. SamsPaul Hecht, Dick Latessa, Michael Harney, Michael Zaslow,  Janeane Garofalo, Scott Rabinowitz, Harrison Young, Rainer Grant, John Kudan, Gary Evans,  Don Creech, Marla Rubinoff, Brian McQuillan, Susan Cella, Mar
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/20/1997  16.  Turnaround (2)
Back in New York with their suspect, Briscoe and Curtis try to pin down his schedule on the night of the murder, but find instead that another man was in the area at the right time and more importantly, might have a motive for the crime. But after the issuance of a new arrest warrant, McCoy and Ross have to fly to LA to defend their warrant against attacks by the man's defense counsel, Ross's former husband Neal Gorton.
Director:  Ed Sherin  Writer:  Ed Zuckerman  / Rene Balcer  / Gardner Stern 
Guest starring:  Kevin O'Rourke,  Keith SzarabajkaLauren GrahamScott CohenJeffrey D. SamsPaul HechtJude Ciccolella, Drew Snyder, Michael Harney,  Mark JoyJohn Carter, J.P. Linton, Philip LeStrange, John Philbin,  Glenn Kubota, Brooks Rogers, Toni DiBuono,  Nicholas J. Giangiulio
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/27/1997  17.  Showtime (3)
The trial of Eddie Newman begins but the prosecution's chances of conviction are hampered by a ""dream team"" of defense attorneys, Gorton's personal pressures on Ross, the public questioning of the relationship between Curtis and Lisa Lundquist, and a surpise accusation.
Director:  Ed Sherin  Writer:  Ed Zuckerman  / Rene Balcer  / Gardner Stern 
Guest starring:  Keith SzarabajkaLauren GrahamScott CohenPaul Hecht, Franchelle Stewart Dorn, Michael Zaslow,  Janeane Garofalo, Stewart Bick, Keely Eastley, David Kener,  Aasif Mandvi, Stephanie Lane, Stuart Feldman, Amy Povich,  Bill Cwikowski, Lee Shepherd, Mary Catherine Nashlena
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    4/2/1997  18.  Mad Dog
McCoy becomes obsessed with nailing a serial rapist recently released on parole and pushes the cops perilously close to harassment as he attempts to connect the man with a new rape and murder matching his previous M.O.
Director:  Christopher Misiano  Writer:  Rene Balcer 
Guest starring:  Burt YoungNed Eisenberg, David Fonteno,  Dan Frazer, Lisa Lo Cicero, Alice Liu, Laurie Kennedy, Olivia Negron, Teddy Coluca,  Stephen McKinley HendersonAnthony RuivivarMerritt Wever, Barton Tinapp, Donald Christopher, Sarah Burke, Edward D. Murphy, Candice Rose, Sylv
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    4/16/1997  19.  Double Down
The cops' best hope of finding a kidnapped hired car driver alive is one of the armed robbers who grabbed him after a job, but the immunity deal he demands in return would effectively preclude his prosecution for the shooting death of an off-duty cop, placing McCoy in a difficult position as he seeks to placate the cops, who want the guy prosecuted, and the kidnapped man's wife, who wants every avenue of saving her husband explored.
Director:  Shimon Wincelberg  /  Arthur W. Forney  / Richard Sweren  Writer:  Ed Zuckerman  / Shimon Wincelberg 
Guest starring:  Luke Reilly,  Edie Falco, Shawn Elliott,  Theresa MerrittMarlene Forte, Kevin Kash, John Griesemer,  Marco Greco, Spiro Malas, Joe Sharkey, Gary Perez, Lia Yang, Mary Fogarty, Jerome Le Page, Chris Ceraso, Jack Cirillo, Andrew Polk, Gregg Bello, Leonid Uscher,  Jay Spadaro
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    4/30/1997  20.  We Like Mike
A young man who claims to have helped a murdered young man change a flat tire is first the cops' primary suspect, then the prosecutors' chief witness.
Director:  David Platt  Writer:  I.C. Rapoport  / Gardner Stern 
Guest starring:  Casey Siemaszko, Stuart Burney, Ron Frazier, Benny Nieves,  Reiko Aylesworth, Fernando Lopez, John Doman,  Frank John Hughes, Sam Reni, Ronald Weyand, Santo Fazio, Henry Yuk, Marty Grabstein,  Steven Goldstein, Dina Pearlman, Richard Ziman, Paul O'Brien, James Reno, Glenn We
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    5/7/1997  21.  Passion
Briscoe and Curtis investigate the death of a pretty young book editor who was reputedly having an affair with one of her authors, and find themselves focusing on the author's long time companion, who steadfastly denies there was anything wrong with their relationship.
Director:  Constantine Makris  / Barry M. Schkolnick  / Richard Sweren  Writer:  Barry M. Schkolnick 
Guest starring:  Sara Botsford, Cynthia Harris, Oren J. Sofer, Everett Quinton,  Robert Foxworth, Guy Paul, William Cain, Ryan Dunn,  MacIntyre Dixon, Jennie Moreau, John Coughlin, Lola Powers, Patti Karr,  Ira Wheeler, Saundra McClain, Barbar Berjer, John Robinson, John McLoughlin, Larry Cl
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    5/14/1997  22.  Past Imperfect
The cops have a definite clue when a bloodstain that's not the same as the victim reveals that the killer was a blood relative, and the prosecutors stumble when their chief suspect claims their chief witness is her lawyer, and his knowledge of the crime represents privileged communications.
Director:  Christopher Misiano  Writer:  Janis Diamond 
Guest starring:  René Augesen,  Katherine Borowitz, Bray Poor,  Paul Lieber, Jack Hallett,  David McCallum, Adam Kaufman,  Gordana Rashovich, Gibby Brand, Fiona Gallagher, Eileen Lawless,  Josh Pais, Kitty Chen, Bob Laiban, Alan Pottinger,  Clark Middleton, Mimi Weddell, David Ellzey, Ellen Why
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    5/21/1997  23.  Terminal
The cops uncover a man with a secret second life as they try to learn who opened fire on a group of people disembarking from a party cruise, but his guilt or innocence becomes almost a second thought as Schiff goes toe to toe with the governor and the States Attorney General over the decision to seek the death penalty.
Director:  Constantine Makris  Writer:  Ed Zuckerman  / Rene Balcer 
Guest starring:  Jack Gilpin, Dani Klein, Liana Pai,  Kent Williams, Peter Jay Fernandez, David Cromwell, Roy Thinnes, John Driver, Julia Gibson,  Richard Topol, Ava Haddad, Lois Markle, James Biberi,  Michael P. MoranJason Antoon, Allan Heinberg, Stephen Adly-Guirgis, Ramsey Faragallah, D
Edition Details
Series Law & Order
Distributor Universal Studios
Release Date 1/19/2010
Packaging Custom Case
Screen Ratio Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)
Subtitles English; Spanish; English (Closed Captioned)
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital Stereo [English]
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Discs/Tapes 5