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| Universal Studios (1997) | |||||
| TV Series / Crime, Mystery | |||||
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| 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 | |
| J.K. Simmons | Dr. Emil Skoda | |
| Leslie Hendrix | Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers | |
| David Marshall Grant | A.D.A. Charlie Harmon | |
| Michael K. Williams | Delmore Walton | |
| Robert Vaughn | Carl Anderton | |
| Cliff Gorman | Judge Gary Feldman | |
| Christine Farrell | Shrier | |
| Mark Lotito | Detective Mallory | |
| Pat Moya | Deborah Curtis | |
| John Benjamin Hickey | Charles Thatcher | |
| Adam Lefevre | David Harrigan | |
| Josh Pais | Assistant M.E. Borak |
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| Producer | Edwin Sherin
David Black David Shore Dick Wolf |
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| Writer | David Black
David Shore Dick Wolf Rene Balcer |
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| Cinematography | Richard Dobbs
Chris Misiano Constantine Makris |
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| Musician | Mike Post
George Duning |
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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. |
| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 9/24/1997 1. Thrill | |||
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The cops break the seemingly random murder of a pizza delivery guy with a little ""undercover"" work in the park, but McCoy and Ross face a harder battle to get a conviction when the two defendants resolutely point the finger at each other, and the one item identifying the actual killer is the recording of a confession-made to a priest.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 10/8/1997 2. Denial | |||
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Bloody sheets and an apparently stolen credit card lead Briscoe and Curtis to a pair of college age lovers who present McCoy and Ross with a united front of denial that one of them killed their newborn son and disposed of the body.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 10/15/1997 3. Navy Blues | |||
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McCoy finds himself battling the Navy and the office of the Judge Advocate General as he tries to prosecute a female pilot accused of murdering her married lover after he tried to break off with her.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 10/29/1997 4. Harvest | |||
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A discrepancy concerning the time of death of a drive-by shooting victim leads McCoy and Ross to initiate prosecutions against both the shooter and the doctor who harvested her organs as transplant donations.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 11/5/1997 5. Nullification | |||
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After the cops trace an eagle tattoo on a man shot and killed while holding up an armored truck to a group of militia members, McCoy finds himself facing one of their number as the pro se counsel for his friends, arguing for the concept of ""jury nullification"", the right of a jury to protect a defendant from an unjust law by finding him not guilty despite the evidence.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 11/12/1997 6. Baby, It's You (1) | |||
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It's old home week for Briscoe when an apparent murder of a teenage model in New York develops ties to Baltimore, and Detectives Munch and Falsone pay a visit to the Big Apple to observe the case. Meanwhile, McCoy finds himself battling the attorney of the victim's parents for access to his clients and the Baltimore DA for jurisdiction. (Part 2: "Baby, It's You" aired on Homicide: Life On The Street: season 06, episode 05.)
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 11/19/1997 7. Blood | |||
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The paternity of a black baby given up for adoption by a white mother might provide a clue to her murderer but it also unearths some long buried family secrets.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 11/26/1997 8. Shadow | |||
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The murder of a bail bondsman looks fairly routine until the chance words of the chief suspect uncovers possible case-fixing between a shady lawyer and an unknown contact within the judicial system.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 12/10/1997 9. Burned | |||
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A message overheard on an answering machine leads Briscoe and Curtis to a confessed murderer and the home of wealthy Carl Anderton, whose stubborn non-cooperation with the district attorney threatens to create a serious miscarriage of justice.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 12/17/1997 10. Ritual | |||
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The investigation into the death of a man who initially appears to be the victim of a mugging victim reveals him to be a Middle Eastern physician who performs genital mutilations on young girls.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 1/7/1998 11. Under the Influence | |||
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After Briscoe and Curtis finally determine who was driving the car that killed three people, the legal prosecution stands in danger of becoming a kangaroo court when McCoy's feelings over Kincaid mesh with the political agenda of an ambitious judge anxious to make an example of the defendant.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 1/21/1998 12. Expert | |||
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The shooting of two people in a restaurant restroom takes some abrupt turns as they try to discover who exactly the intended victim was, and the prosecutors have to deal with a defendant claiming to have been in a dissociative state while committing the crime-- the same defense used years before by the defendant's father.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 1/28/1998 13. Castoff | |||
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The street murder of a woman who worked with underprivileged kids takes a turn towards the bizarre when the detectives uncover she had a predilection for kinky sex, and that one of her current partners appears to be a serial killer, who offers an overexposure to television violence as his defense during his trial.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 2/4/1998 14. Grief | |||
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The cops, as they try to pin down the specifics of an assault on a man reluctant to talk about it, uncover the alleged rape of two women in custodial care. But as the prosecutors attempt to prepare their case, a reluctant witness changes their view of the cases.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 2/25/1998 15. Faccia a Faccia | |||
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Taking on an apparent mafia murder, Detectives Briscoe and Curtis are stymied by a dead witness and a seemingly incoherent mob boss.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 3/4/1998 16. Divorce | |||
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The stabbing death of a psychologist draws Detectives Briscoe and Curtis into a heated divorce case and pits McCoy and Ross against a manipulative attorney.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 4/1/1998 17. Carrier | |||
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The death of a college student leads to a case involving an HIV-positive male who's seeking to infect as many young women as possible. McCoy, testing right-to-privacy ethics, wants to charge him with murder.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 4/15/1998 18. Stalker | |||
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When a woman is found unconscious at the bottom of her apartment stairs, Briscoe and Curtis must figure out what happened -- before it's too late. In order to make his case, McCoy pits the two detectives against each other in the courtroom.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 4/22/1998 19. Disappeared | |||
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A defendant refuses to allow his lawyer to raise the issue of insanity, this complicating matters for the brother who turned him in with hopes of securing medical treatment for him.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 4/24/1998 20. Burden | |||
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After a 12-year-old quadriplegic dies at home in his bed, paramedics claim that he was suffocated and the suspects include the boy's parents and sister.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 4/29/1998 21. Bad Girl | |||
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Schiff's re-election may hinge on the stabbing death of a police officer; Briscoe's daughter is arrested for dealing drugs.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 5/6/1998 22. Damaged | |||
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The case of a teacher's shooting uncovers a vendetta involving the rape of a mentally challenged coed by three students, whose attorney claims they weren't aware of her condition.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 5/13/1998 23. Tabloid | |||
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Tabloid journalism comes under scrutiny during the investigations into the deaths of a gossip columnist and a celebrity target he pursued.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 5/20/1998 24. Monster | |||
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During the search for a pedophile who raped a 10-year-old, a snitch offers Briscoe a chance to avenge his daughter's death. Meanwhile, Van Buren learns that her job is in jeopardy; McCoy is ordered to appear before a disciplinary committee because of his conduct in a DUI case; and the increasingly political Schiff worries that the rape case may adversely impact his reelection bid.
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