Law & Order: Year 1
Studios USA Television (1990)
TV Series  /  Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery
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IMDB   7.8
1320 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   US - TV-PG
Chris Noth Detective Mike Logan
George Dzundza Sergeant Max Greevey
Michael Moriarty Executive ADA Ben Stone
Dann Florek Captain Donald 'Don' Cragen
Steven Hill DA Adam Schiff
Richard Brooks ADA Paul Robinette
Marcia Jean Kurtz Alice Halsey
William H. Macy AUSA John McCormack
Mark Boone Junior Garage Manager
Philip Seymour Hoffman Steven Hanauer
Harold Perrineau Jordan Hill
John Fiore Detective Tony Profaci
Lorraine Toussaint Public Defender Shambala Green
Sully Boyar Swersky
Leo O'Brien Red
Marshall Dancing Elk Lucas
Stuart Burney Wentzel
Samuel L. Jackson Defense Attorney Louis Taggert
Bob Gunton Gil Himes
Stephen McHattie Joe Pilefsky
Director
E.W. Swackhamer
Vern Gillum
John Patterson
John Whitesell
Producer Daniel Sackheim
Dick Wolf
David Black
Michael Duggan
Writer Dick Wolf
Robert Nathan
David Black
Robert Palm
Cinematography Constantine Makris
Ernest R. Dickerson
Geoffrey Erb
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
 60 mins    9/13/1990  1.  Prescription for Death
Greevey and Logan discover that a hospital is covering up an accomplished doctor's mistake which resulted in a patient's death. They later find out that the doctor might have been drunk at the time.
 60 mins    9/20/1990  2.  Subterranean Homeboy Blues
A woman claims she shot two punks on a subway car in self-defense, but investigators and prosecutors are not sure that they believe her.
 60 mins    10/4/1990  3.  The Reaper's Helper
A gay man with AIDS is accused of murdering another gay man. However, he claims that the victim also had AIDS, and that it was a mercy killing.
 60 mins    10/11/1990  4.  Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die
A young woman is sexually assaulted and eventually dies from her injuries. However, the only suspect is a charming, handsome businessman with a fiancée from a powerful New York family.
 60 mins    10/23/1990  5.  Happily Ever After
A family man is shot to death inside a parking garage. Police soon discover the crime was not a random act of violence. Stone tries to get one of the suspects to testify against the other.
 60 mins    10/30/1990  6.  Everybody's Favorite Bagman
The assault of a city councilman uncovers a scandal involving organized crime, elected city officials, and a deputy police commissioner.
 60 mins    11/13/1990  7.  By Hooker, by Crook
A murder investigation leads detectives to a madam accused of running a prostitution ring disguised as a catering service.
 60 mins    11/20/1990  8.  Poison Ivy
A police officer is accused of planting a gun on an unarmed African-American youth that he shot. The victim was beloved in his community, but the investigation reveals that he may have also been a drug dealer.
 60 mins    11/27/1990  9.  Indifference
A child's collapse in school from mortal injuries leads to an investigation that uncovers a family steeped in horrific abuse.
 60 mins    12/4/1990  10.  Prisoner of Love
The investigation into the death of a controversial artist reveals that he was involved in twisted sex games with two powerful figures.
 60 mins    12/11/1990  11.  Out of the Half-Light
A young black girl claims to have been raped by white police officers. Police and prosecutors struggle to get the truth after an ambitious black congressman claims the investigation is a racially-motivated cover-up.
 60 mins    1/8/1991  12.  Life Choice
After an anti-abortion protester is killed in an abortion center bombing, detectives search for all of her potential co-conspirators.
 60 mins    1/15/1991  13.  A Death in the Family
A police officer is shot to death on a rooftop. Assistant D.A. Stone's investigation reveals that the officer may have been dirty.
 60 mins    2/5/1991  14.  The Violence of Summer
Stone temporarily dismisses rape charges against three defendants because the victim's testimony has too many holes. Greevey and Logan's subsequent reinvestigation uncovers a possible fourth assailant.
 60 mins    2/12/1991  15.  The Torrents of Greed: Part 1
Stone makes a deal with a group of low-level mobsters when they offer to testify that a crime boss murdered a missing union leader. However, the prosecution's case unravels at trial, causing all parties involved to walk.
 60 mins    2/19/1991  16.  The Torrents of Greed: Part 2
After crime boss Frank Masucci's murder case gets thrown out, Stone turns up the heat on the witnesses who played him in order to find charges against Masucci that will stick.
 60 mins    2/26/1991  17.  Mushrooms
A twelve-year-boy is injured and his infant brother is killed by gunshots. The investigation reveals they were the accidental victims of a hit ordered by a drug dealer against a real estate broker.
 60 mins    3/12/1991  18.  The Secret Sharers
Stone faces a Texas cowboy lawyer and a hostile community as he tries to prosecute a young man accused of murdering a drug dealer for raping the man's sister.
 60 mins    3/19/1991  19.  The Serpent's Tooth
A businessman and his wife are killed. The couple's two sons emerge as the most likely suspects, but detectives later find business ties to the Russian mob.
 60 mins    3/26/1991  20.  The Troubles
Detectives and prosecutors face resistance from federal authorities as they pursue murder charges against an suspected IRA member serving time in federal prison, after he is suspected of killing another federal prisoner.
 60 mins    4/2/1991  21.  Sonata for Solo Organ
Greevey and Logan discover that an apparent mugging victim found unconscious on a park bench has had his kidney removed. The case leads to a powerful man whose daughter desperately needed a transplant and the doctor who may have helped him.
 60 mins    6/9/1991  22.  The Blue Wall
Captain Cragen ends up in the cross-hairs of an internal investigation into evidence tampering, and the DA's office is forced to put him in a precarious situation to implicate the conspirators.
Edition Details
Series Law & Order
Distributor Universal
Release Date 11/8/2011
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
Subtitles French; Spanish
Audio Tracks Stereo [English]
Dolby Digital Surround [English]
Layers Dual Side, Single Layer
No. of Discs/Tapes 6
Personal Details
Links IMDB
TheTvDb.com

Features
Disc 01 The Creation of Law & Order With Dick Wolf Law & Order Interactive Trailer