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TV SERIES · 1990– · USA

Law & Order

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  1. #001

    Before becoming an actor, Dennis Farina (Detective Joe Fontana) served eighteen years as a detective with the Chicago Police Department. He began acting through his former partner and police commander Chuck Adamson, who had retired and worked as a police consultant on films and television programs.

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  2. #002

    Jill Hennessy's twin sister, Jacqueline Hennessy, once played her sister's character in courtroom scenes of Law & Order when Jill was unavailable due to filming for Homicide: Life on the Street (1993).

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  3. #003

    The distinctive "thunk-thunk" sound effect used between scenes was created by combining nearly a dozen sounds, including a group of monks striking the floor. The sound is meant to evoke both a judge's gavel and a prison cell door slamming.

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  4. #004

    Toward the end of the fifth season, executive producer Dick Wolf decided not to renew Chris Noth's contract, arguing that the interaction between Logan and the similarly weary Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) lacked enough dramatic contrast. Viewers and critics were shocked by the dismissal of what was then one of the most popular casts. Years later, Noth persuaded Wolf to produce Exiled (1998) to complete Mike Logan's story, which Noth felt had been cut short on the series. Noth returned again to play the character for three seasons of Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001).

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  5. #005

    Several regulars, including S. Epatha Merkerson, Jerry Orbach, Annie Parisse, Milena Govich and Jeremy Sisto, appeared as one-time guest actors before becoming regulars. Jesse L. Martin was hired for a small role but decided not to take it.

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  6. #006

    During the 2008 presidential election season, TNT stopped rerunning Law & Order episodes featuring Fred Thompson as District Attorney Arthur Branch. Thompson was running for the Republican presidential nomination, and federal election law required TNT to give equal airtime to the other candidates. Thompson eventually withdrew from the race.

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  7. #007

    Chris Noth was the last of the original cast members to leave the series. Although Steven Hill is often perceived as an original cast member, he joined the cast after the pilot episode. Noth's character, Detective Mike Logan, was written out at the end of season 5 because creator Dick Wolf felt Logan and his partner Det. Lennie Briscoe had developed too similar personality styles. Noth did not return to the L&O universe as Det. Logan until the TV movie Exiled (1998), and then Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001), where Logan became a regular character for three seasons between 2005 and 2008.

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  8. #008

    When the series began airing reruns on TNT, new digital technology was used to add product placements to the show. The easiest one to spot is Coca-Cola. When you see a cola can on the desk, it was added digitally.

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  9. #009

    Michael Moriarty resigned at the end of the fourth season after a long and loud war of words with Attorney General Janet Reno, who was campaigning to censor violence on television. He felt NBC was trying to silence him when two of his talk-show appearances were pulled at the last minute and his role was significantly reduced in the fourth-season episode Mayhem (1994). Dick Wolf claims this was entirely coincidental. Moriarty claims he was forced into a situation where he had to resign. His character, EADA Ben Stone, also resigned from the series. After leaving the show, Moriarty moved to Canada, where he considered founding a political party.

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  10. #010

    With the release of its twentieth season, which premiered on September 25, 2009, the series tied Gunsmoke's (1955) record as the longest-running prime-time drama in US television history. However, in May 2010 it was announced that the series would not be renewed for the 2010-2011 season. That longevity record was broken in September 2018 by its spin-off Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999). The series returned for a twenty-first season in 2022.

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  11. #011

    Jerry Orbach auditioned for the role of Sergeant Max Greevey but lost out to George Dzundza. Orbach later joined the series as Detective Lennie Briscoe.

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  12. #012

    Detective Mike Logan's brown leather jacket was not provided by the wardrobe department. Chris Noth bought the coat at a second-hand clothing store.

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  13. #013

    Steven Hill and Sam Waterston were both 68 years old when they began playing the District Attorney's office. Hill was 68 in 1990, and Waterston turned 68 in 2008. Sam Waterston began his role on Law & Order in 1994.

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  14. #014

    The series was originally going to air on Fox, but CEO Barry Diller later backed out of the decision. The series was then presented to CBS, and a pilot titled Everybody's Favorite Bagman (1990) was filmed in 1988. CBS did not pick up the series, but NBC did in 1989, and the series premiered in 1990.

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  15. #015

    District Attorney Adam Schiff is generally said to be based on real Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, and Morgenthau himself was reportedly fond of the Schiff character.

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  16. #016

    At the time the series was created, one-hour shows were in decline; sitcoms were more popular and far more likely to land strong syndication deals for reruns. Dick Wolf thought the series might be easier to sell in thirty-minute episodes and came up with the concept of the first half being a police investigation and the second half legal procedure. Shortly after Law & Order was launched, dramas began to regain popularity, so this never became an issue in renewal deals.

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  17. #017

    The original Law & Order (1990) has a total of seven spin-offs: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001), Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005), Law & Order: UK (2009), Law & Order: LA (2010), Law & Order True Crime (2017) and Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021). As of April 2024, only 3 of the seven spin-offs had continued with new seasons (Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Organized Crime).

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  18. #018

    After leaving the series, Jill Hennessy wrote and directed The Acting Class (2000) using Law & Order sets. Many Law & Order cast members, including Jerry Orbach and Angie Harmon, volunteered to appear in the mockumentary.

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  19. #019

    Paul Robinette (Richard Brooks) and Jamie Ross (Carey Lowell) played Assistant District Attorneys and, after leaving the series, returned to play defense attorneys. Jamie Ross (Carey Lowell) eventually became a juror in two episodes of Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005).

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  20. #020

    Jesse L. Martin did not appear in the last four episodes of the fifteenth season. He temporarily left the series to work on Kiralık (2005). His character, Detective Ed Green, was shot in the line of duty and was recovering off-screen. Michael Imperioli replaced Martin in those four episodes as Detective Nick Falco.

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  21. #021

    The series was based on and inspired by the BBC's four-part drama Law & Order (1978), written by GF Newman and watched by Dick Wolf, about the British legal system. The drama examined one incident (a corrupt Scotland Yard detective accusing a known criminal of armed robbery) from four different perspectives: the police, the criminal, the prosecution and defense lawyers, and finally the wrongly convicted villain's sentence of life imprisonment. Wolf liked the innovative idea of following a crime from both the police investigation and the lawyer's point of view through to trial and verdict. Wolf offered Newman an on-screen credit, but Newman declined it, thinking it unnecessary.

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  22. #022

    Dann Florek and Richard Brooks were dropped after the third season because the producers felt the series needed female characters. They were replaced by S. Epatha Merkerson and Jill Hennessy, respectively. Dann Florek was brought back for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), and Richard Brooks returned to play the same character in several episodes of Law & Order, but as a defense attorney.

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  23. #023

    George Dzundza (Sergeant Max Greevey) left the series after the first season because he was tired of commuting to New York City from his home in Los Angeles. He was also unhappy that the series focused on the ensemble rather than on the leads (that is, himself). This did not endear him to that ensemble, and he left after the first season. He and his on-screen partner Chris Noth (Detective Mike Logan) reportedly had a personal antipathy, which fortunately added depth and realism to the friction between their characters. Dzundza was replaced by Paul Sorvino (Sergeant Phil Cerreta), who got along better with the cast but left in the third season because he disliked the series' work schedule and wanted to protect his vocal cords as an opera singer. Sorvino was replaced by Jerry Orbach (Detective Lennie Briscoe), and fortunately everyone, including actual New York City Police Department officers, loved him.

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  24. #024

    Steve Burns of Blue's Clues (1996) made his television debut in the fifth-season episode Cruel and Unusual (1995).

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  25. #025

    Sometimes during a trial a witness refuses to answer or declines to respond to a question, and so the prosecution or defense often asks the judge presiding over the case for permission to treat the witness as hostile. This means that when a witness is called to the stand, their testimony is expected to support the case of the party who called them to court. If the witness is evasive or changes their testimony on the stand, the judge grants the (A)DA or defense attorney permission to treat the witness as though they had been called to the stand by the opposing side, which legally changes the nature of the questions and the language the attorney uses to ask them. That is, direct examination becomes a cross-examination, allowing the prosecution or defense to use leading questions and giving the attorney questioning the witness more freedom to suggest how the witness should answer.

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  26. #026

    The eighth season (1997-98) marks the first season of the series with no changes to its main characters. From the second season onward, there was at least one change to the main characters, either at the start of the season or during it.

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  27. #027

    Filming in New York allowed many stage actors to appear in the series, including many of the most prominent. At least 13 members of the Theatre Hall of Fame appeared on the series. Jerry Orbach and Sam Waterston were long-serving cast members. Elaine Stritch, George Grizzard and Patti LuPone all appeared multiple times as defense attorneys. James Earl Jones and Gregory Hines also played defense attorneys. Others who appeared in at least one episode include Jane Alexander, Christine Baranski, Roscoe Lee Browne, Len Cariou, Eli Wallach and Fritz Weaver.

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  28. #028

    Dr. Emil Skoda (J. K. Simmons) was named after the founder of the Czech engineering and manufacturing company Skoda.

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  29. #029

    The distinctive typeface used for all titles, credits and on-screen "scene change" cards for this series and all of its spin-offs is called "Friz Quadrata." The typeface used for "Starring" and "Created By" in the opening title sequence is the single exception: Eurostile.

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  30. #030

    Many of the actors on Law & Order were also regular cast members on the HBO series The Wire (2002). In fact, at least twenty actors who appeared specifically on Law & Order went on to major storylines on "The Wire." For example, Peter Gerety played a lawyer on Law & Order and, on "The Wire," a judge who authorizes the wiretap that is the series' first mainstay.

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  31. #031

    Phone records are LUDs, Local Usage Details.

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  32. #032

    From 1990 to 1994, Lorraine Toussaint played the defense attorney Shambala Green opposite prosecutor Ben Stone (Michael Moriarty) in six episodes of Law & Order (1990). In a 1998 interview, Toussaint said that she and Moriarty got along very well and had such strong chemistry on screen that Moriarty asked producer Dick Wolf to develop a love story for the two characters. The idea was rejected. Moriarty left "Law & Order" after its fourth season, and Toussaint would play Shambala Green only twice more: in a 2003 episode of "L&O" and in a 2016 episode of the Dick Wolf production Chicago P.D. (2014).

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  33. #033

    In the series' early episodes, before a permanent courtroom set was built, the main courtroom used for trial scenes was a real room in the New York City courthouse. It had previously served as a waiting area for jurors awaiting assignment and can be recognized by the paintings on its walls.

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  34. #034

    In 2017, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) actor Ice-T broke the record for the longest-running Black character on television, playing Detective Odafin Tutuola for 18 seasons. The person who had held the title before him was S. Epatha Merkerson, who played Lieutenant Anita Van Buren on "Law & Order" for 17 years.

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  35. #035

    In the mid-nineties, the series began airing in reruns on the A&E cable network. At the time, hour-long shows were generally not rerun because of their length. Most channels usually do not have an hour of time to rerun a show, so they preferred half-hour sitcoms. However, A&E and other cable networks often had plenty of free time in their schedules, which led to the popularity of airing hour-long series.

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  36. #036

    Among New York actors, appearing on Law and Order is considered a rite of passage; Dick Wolf himself even said: "If you're going to the theater and the actor doesn't have a 'Law & Order' credit in the Playbill, it means he just got off the bus [to New York] or he's a really bad actor."

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  37. #037

    Longtime Law & Order cast members Jerry Orbach and Jesse L. Martin were not only Broadway musical stars before becoming series regulars; both men also appeared in famous Broadway shows whose creators died on opening night: 42nd Street, directed and choreographed by Gower Champion (with Orbach in the lead), and Rent, written by composer/lyricist Jonathan Larson (with Martin in the lead).

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  38. #038

    After the success of Dick Wolf's Chicago franchise (Chicago Fire (2012), Chicago P.D. (2014) and Chicago Med (2015)) on NBC, Wolf struck a deal with NBC on February 27, 2020 to create three new Law & Order spinoffs, among them Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021), starring Christopher Meloni. The others were Crimes, which was still awaiting an official green light, and Law & Order: For the Defense, which was cancelled before it aired. After For the Defense was cancelled, it was announced on September 28, 2021 that a 21st season of the original Law & Order had been ordered as a revival series.

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  39. #039

    Both Danny Trejo and John Leguizamo were considered for the role of Detective Reynaldo "Rey" Curtis.

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  40. #040

    In 2001, after the premiere of Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001), creator/producer Dick Wolf planned a miniseries that would cross over between the original Law & Order (1990) and its spinoffs Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) and Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001), with the main characters of all three series working together to investigate a possible terrorist attack on New York City. The idea was rejected, however, to avoid controversy after the September 11, 2001 attacks. In 2022 the idea was finally realized as a three-part crossover event: Gimme Shelter - Part One (2022), Gimme Shelter - Part Two (2022) and Gimme Shelter - Part Three (2022).

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  41. #041

    Many well-known guest stars appeared throughout the series in roles ripped from the headlines. Chevy Chase, for example, played a character who gets drunk and makes sexually and racially insensitive remarks to one of the show's detectives, a situation very close to what happened with Mel Gibson in real life. Among all the guest stars on Law & Order, William Kunstler, Michael Bloomberg and Rudy Giuliani are the only ones who played themselves.

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  42. #042

    High-tech devices were deliberately kept in the background and often out of sight throughout the series. Everyday technology was still relatively limited when the show first aired in 1990, but even by its first ending in 2010 the series kept this low-tech aesthetic. In many precinct scenes, officers and detectives continued to be shown using typewriters rather than computers or laptops, something that was still going on in some departments as late as 2020. Similarly, scenes at the District Attorney's office often showed lawyers relying on physical law books instead of digital devices. This approach stood in sharp contrast to franchises such as CSI and NCIS, where technology was front and center. When the series was revived for a reboot (Season 21) in 2022, however, the writers began embracing modern developments, incorporating storylines involving AI chatbots, deepfakes and other contemporary technologies.

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  43. #043

    Vanessa Williams auditioned for the role of Assistant District Attorney Abbie Carmichael. Angie Harmon was cast because Dick Wolf liked her Southern accent.

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  44. #044

    Michael Madsen was a finalist for the role of Detective Mike Logan.

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  45. #045

    The series was initially planned to be filmed in Los Angeles, but Dick Wolf fought NBC to film it in New York and won. In May 2010 it was announced that a new Los Angeles-based spinoff, tentatively titled Law & Order: LA (2010), would premiere in the fall 2010 lineup.

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  46. #046

    Eriq La Salle was a finalist for the role of Assistant District Attorney Paul Robinette.

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  47. #047

    Martin Sheen was considered for the role of Sergeant Max Greevey.

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  48. #048

    In real life, a prosecuting Assistant District Attorney would meet not with the Manhattan District Attorney in person to discuss cases, but with a homicide bureau chief who would then meet with the District Attorney. It would be comparable to homicide detectives meeting with the police commissioner instead of their superiors.

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  49. #049

    The series' format was partly inspired by Arrest and Trial (1963).

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  50. #050

    "RIP," or Reduction in Pay, is NYPD slang for a disciplinary penalty imposed on a Member of Service (MOS). A one-day RIP, meaning a loss of pay, means an officer loses one vacation day as a penalty for an infraction.

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  51. #051

    The Early Case Assessment Bureau (ECAB) reviews all arrests to determine whether a prosecution will be declined or pursued and, if pursued, what charges will be filed. ECAB staff interview police officers and, in some cases, victims and witnesses. The bureau drafts the accusatory instrument (that is, the complaint) on which the defendant will first be arraigned and prepares supporting documents and notices for submission to the court. Assistant District Attorneys in the bureau also assign and supervise prosecutors in the Criminal Court's trial court parts.

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  52. #052

    Jerry Orbach was a talented singer who performed on Broadway, yet his character Detective Lennie Briscoe expresses contempt for opera several times. Among the operas he disparages are DON GIOVANNI (Mozart), TRISTAN AND ISOLDE (Wagner), LA TRAVIATA (Verdi), AIDA (also Verdi) and LA BOHEME (Puccini). In one episode (Blaze (2003)), when someone he is interrogating mentions Wagner's GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG, Briscoe replies, "Bless you!"; in another (Payback (2004)), when a suspect he has arrested complains that he has tickets to the Metropolitan Opera that evening, Briscoe responds, "Well, you're in luck. It's 'opera-week' at Rikers. They're doing an all-male version of CARMEN." Arthur Branch, for his part, is opera buff enough to have once sung the famous aria "Vesti la giubba" ("Ridi, Pagliacco") from Leoncavallo's PAGLIACCI (The Clowns) in full clown costume outside a girl's window (see Chosen (2003)). Since the aria was written for a tenor voice and Fred Thompson's voice is a low baritone, one must assume either that he lowered the music, that his voice had changed considerably between his college days and his time as a prosecutor, or that he was very drunk while singing.

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  53. #053

    The Molineux hearing in New York State is a pre-trial hearing on the admissibility of a defendant's prior uncharged crimes as evidence. In most cases, evidence of a person's previous (unconvicted) crimes is inadmissible because the person was never found guilty and it can be extremely prejudicial; in fact, New York is the only state that applies an exception on this point. In New York, under certain conditions, a defendant's prior bad acts may be presented as evidence if they show a pattern of behavior similar to the current crime charged. This is most often used in trials of people who commit serial crimes such as rape and murder, when there is a clear pattern in victim type, MO and signature of the attacks. If a prosecutor wants to present evidence of previously uncharged crimes, they must request a Molineux hearing, in which it is up to the judge to determine whether the pattern of behavior in those prior crimes is sufficiently similar to the current crime in question and to weigh that against how it might prejudice the jury.

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  54. #054

    Dick Wolf grew up watching Dragnet (1951), which had a major influence on this series, down to its opening narration.

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  55. #055

    The revived series (Season 21) came about after the cancellation of another series, Law & Order: For the Defense, which NBC had first given a straight-to-series order on May 3, 2021. For the Defense was conceived by creator Dick Wolf as a new legal drama taking a deep dive into a criminal defense firm, examining defense attorneys and the criminal justice system, with each episode focusing on a contemporary morality tale. Although she did not take any lead role in For the Defense, Carol Mendelsohn, who had worked on the CSI franchise, had been chosen as showrunner of the new series before it was cancelled. For the Defense is believed to have been cancelled because it was entirely a courtroom drama, and Dick Wolf's previous courtroom dramas Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005), Conviction (2006) and Chicago Justice (2017) had all been cancelled after 13 episodes.

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  56. #056

    Steven Hill plays the Manhattan District Attorney in Legal Eagles (1986), in which Robert Redford plays an Assistant District Attorney, and Hill fires him.

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  57. #057

    The alternative titles considered were Life & Death, Night & Day, and Catch 'Em and Cook 'Em.

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  58. #058

    Across all the various New York-based Law & Order programs, when police want a confession (real or coerced), they will often use the possibility of the defendant receiving the death penalty, even though the state of New York has not executed anyone since 1963.

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  59. #059

    Detective Briscoe's birthday is January 1, 1940.

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  60. #060

    A real-life lawyer shares the name of Adam Schiff, the fictional Manhattan district attorney in Law & Order's first decade. The real-life Schiff worked as an assistant prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles. He eventually became a member of the California House of Representatives from January 2001 to the present.

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  61. #061

    The iconic sound heard in the transition cards of the series (and its spin-offs) is technically a licensed piece of music titled "The Clang." Its composer, Mike Post (who also composed the title theme and various rearrangements in the spin-offs), receives royalties every time it is used.

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  62. #062

    For anyone unfamiliar with this particular corner of the legal world: a judge's clerkship is one of the most prestigious things a recent law school graduate can do. Clerkships in lower courts turn out to be the ticket to a circuit clerkship, which in turn feeds students into the most prestigious clerkships, namely the Supreme Court. Getting a Supreme Court clerkship not only opens professional doors but also guarantees signing bonuses of hundreds of thousands of dollars if the student later decides to go to a law firm.

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  63. #063

    In Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), it was stated that a new District Attorney was in office shortly after the original Law & Order was cancelled after Season 20, but that Jack McCoy returned as District Attorney when Law & Order was revived for Season 21. Fans have claimed that the unseen District Attorney's career ended during the statewide major scandal involving Miss Delia Wilson and her sex trafficking ring in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) episode Above Suspicion (2012), and that the governor and/or the Mayor brought McCoy back to replace the corrupt District Attorney and clean up the prosecutor's office.

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  64. #064

    Jill Hennessy (ADA Claire Kincaid) and Michael Rooker (Jamie Yost) appeared in Crossing Jordan (2001).

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  65. #065

    The series was filmed at the Manhattan studio where The Blacklist (2013) was filmed.

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  66. #066

    After Michael Moriarty's resignation at the end of the fourth season, Sam Waterston took his place as Jack McCoy at the start of the fifth season. Years earlier, the two actors had appeared together in the TV film The Glass Menagerie (1973).

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  67. #067

    In the Season 20 episode Blackmail (2010), Lieutenant Van Buren orders Detective Lupo and Bernard to shave their beards. This was reportedly because Dick Wolf's wife complained that she did not like the actors' unshaven appearance.

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  68. #068

    When the series is sold into syndication, it is divided into Season 1-12, 13-20, and 21-present packages. Most stations buy only one of the packages, not the others. Interestingly, even the series' official streaming site, Peacock, follows this, and only episodes from Seasons 13-20 can be watched.

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  69. #069

    Stephen Tobolowsky auditioned for the role of Sergeant Max Greevey.

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  70. #070

    Chris Noth (Detective Mike Logan) and Leslie Hendrix (Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers) also worked together on The Good Wife (2009) and Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001).

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  71. #071

    Each Detective has his own badge number: * Detective Lennie Briscoe's shield number is 8220. * Detective Ed Green's shield number is 3472. * Detective Cyrus Lupo's shield number is 2632. * Detective Kevin Bernard's shield number is 1954.

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  72. #072

    James Naughton was a finalist for the role of Executive Assistant District Attorney Ben Stone.

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  73. #073

    During the series' original run (Seasons 1-20), the production team regularly consulted retired detectives and former lawyers to preserve authenticity. Some of the writers also had legal backgrounds, which allowed police procedures, investigations, and courtroom scenes to closely reflect real-life practice. Real police officers were often hired as extras for scenes involving major law enforcement operations, which helped make the series one of television's most realistic crime dramas.

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  74. #074

    Chris Noth (Detective Mike Logan) and Richard Brooks (ADA Paul Robinette) worked together on The Good Wife (2009), playing Peter Florrick and Ace Barnstone respectively.

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  75. #075

    Sam Waterston was cast in 1994 for the role of Executive Assistant District Attorney because the producers thought he had the "sex appeal" needed to attract more female viewers.

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  76. #076

    Chris Noth (Detective Mike Logan) and Jill Hennessy (ADA Claire Kincaid) also worked together on three episodes of The Good Wife (2009), playing Peter Florrick and Rayna Hecht respectively.

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  77. #077

    Although it is a popular American series, several non-American actors appeared on Law & Order during its run: Jill Hennessy, who played ADA Claire Kincaid, is Canadian and her character has a slight accent; Linus Roache, who played EADA Mike Cutter, has a very thick English accent and managed to create an impressive Brooklyn accent; and Hugh Dancy, who played ADA Nolan Price, is also English and uses a convincing American accent. Michael Moriarty is sometimes mistakenly said to be Canadian as well; he was in fact born, raised and began his career in the United States, but later became a Canadian citizen after leaving Law & Order.

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  78. #078

    Chris Noth (Detective Mike Logan) and Josh Pais (Assistant M.E. Borak) also worked together on the The Good Wife (2009) episode We, the Juries (2014), season 5 episode 12, and on the Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) episode Lonelyville (2007), season 7 episode 4.

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  79. #079

    Many people suspect that stars of certain NBC series have ties to HBO. Many Law & Order actors and actresses appeared on HBO's The Sopranos (1999) or Oz (1997).

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  80. #080

    Hugh Dancy joined the revived series for its 2021 season (season 21), making him the fourth actor from Hannibal (2013) to appear on Law & Order. Previous veterans included Dennis Farina, Stephen Lang and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

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  81. #081

    In the UK, season 22 began airing on the 5USA channel on 19 March 2024, one week after season 21 finished its run.

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  82. #082

    As of the original series finale in May 2010, there have been 19 different casts, each ranging from 4 to 49 episodes, made up of Senior Detective, Assistant Detective, Squad Commander, Executive Assistant District Attorney, Assistant District Attorney and District Attorney.

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