Law & Order
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.
Logan and Cerreta investigate the death of a fashion model photographer and discover that the photographer's real business was prostitution. One of his "clients" is implicated, but she may be covering for the real killer.
A white Jew faces trial for the shooting death of a prominent African American leader, but was the assassination actually an inside job?
A college student from a poor Mexican family kills his rich co-ed fiancée after she breaks up with him. The defense hopes to exploit the jury's guilt for the client's plight to avoid a murder conviction.
A teenage boy dies because of a faulty pacemaker, and detectives soon discover that he is not the only person to die from pacemakers manufactured by the same company.
Two washed-up, handcuffed corpses are identified as Mexican immigrants, and the investigation reveals that they may have been working as slave labor in a sweatshop.
Dr. Olivet accuses an esteemed gynecologist of rape. However, when she loses her case, the DA's office resorts to a new strategy to bring the doctor to justice.
A Greek immigrant jewelry store owner kills two robbers and claims self defense. However, it is soon questioned whether his actions went beyond self defense and crossed into revenge and murder.
A Colombian drug cartel assassin is accused in the murder of a Colombian couple in a restaurant. While trying to make the case against the accused, Ceretta is shot by a black-market gun dealer whom the prosecution needs as a witness.
A woman claims she killed a man outside a bar because he was going to rape her, but was it really a mob hit? Logan is partnered up with Lennie Briscoe, and Ceretta tells Logan that he isn't returning to the precinct after his shooting.
The death of a pregnant drug mule leads to the discovery of a Nigerian heroin smuggling ring that leads all the way to a diplomat who is also a Nigerian tribal chief.
A Broadway producer's daughter is abducted from a department store. Later, she and her mother are found in a women's shelter. The mother claims that the daughter was abused by her father, but the daughter's accounts are inconsistent.
An innocent man confesses to killing his girlfriend and takes a plea. A.D.A. Robinette suspects that his defense may have conspired with the victim's estate planner to sandbag him for financial reasons.
Prosecution of an elderly Jewish man accused of killing his wife, a Holocaust survivor, becomes complicated when it is learned that he may have collaborated with the Nazis in Poland during World War II.
The D.A. tries to hold a psychiatrist criminally responsible when a client she is accused of having sexual relations with kills his girlfriend.
Detectives Briscoe and Logan investigate the murder of an honors student named Dawn who stole from her family to support her drug habit.
With the help of a Brooklyn detective, Briscoe and Logan get a confession from a mentally retarded man in the murders of two nurses. Further investigation reveals that he may be innocent, but he steadfastly maintains that he is guilty.
A female Naval officer is killed during a drunken party. The Navy claims jurisdiction in the case, but detectives soon suspect that the guilty party is being protected and the wrong man is being railroaded.
A university scientist is murdered, allegedly over an affair her husband was having. However, Stone later suspects that the alleged "mistress" may actually be delusional, and that there was actually no affair.
A computer virus creates a malfunction at a Diabetes clinic which results in the deaths of two patients. Detectives tie the virus to a teenage hacker, whose father unsuccessfully accused the clinic of malpractice.
A teenage Romanian immigrant kills his father, a cruel former Romanian secret police officer, after his father kills his own brother. The boy's defense attorney offers a "cultural insanity" defense.
After a cop is killed while trying to make a drug arrest the investigation reveals that some of his fellow officers may have stood by and let him die for reasons of their own.
A young, independent deaf woman is found murdered, and evidence soon points to the victim's mentor, the founder of a local institute for the deaf.
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Chris Noth | Detective Mike Logan |
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Michael Moriarty | Executive ADA Ben Stone |
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Dann Florek | Captain Donald 'Don' Cragen |
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Steven Hill | DA Adam Schiff |
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Richard Brooks | ADA Paul Robinette |
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Steven Zirnkilton | Narrator |
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Carolyn McCormick | Dr. Elizabeth Olivet |
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Jerry Orbach | Detective Lennie Briscoe |
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Paul Sorvino | Sergeant Phil Cerreta |
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John Fiore | Detective Tony Profaci |
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Donald Corren | Medill |
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Harold Perrineau | Kenny Rinker |
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Paul Schulze | CSU Tech Horan |
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Adam Lefevre | Dr. Helman |
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Ethan Phillips | Mark Hauser |
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Roscoe Lee Browne | Sir Idris Balewa |
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Felicity Huffman | Diane Perkins |
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George Murdock | Trial Judge Eric Bertram |
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Joyce Van Patten | Ramona Stark / Ph.D. |
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Eric Bogosian | Defense Attorney Gary Lowenthal |
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Lorraine Toussaint | Defense Attorney Shambala Green |
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Tovah Feldshuh | Defense Attorney Danielle Melnick |
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David Lipman | Arraignment Judge Morris Torledsky |
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Rene Rivera | Lucio Martinez |
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Tracey Ellis | Nurse Miriam Gregg |
| Edition | Collector's Edition |
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| Packaging | Keep Case |
| Nr Discs | 3 |
| Screen Ratios | Fullscreen (4:3) |
| Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital Stereo [English] |
| Subtitles | English | French | Spanish |
| Distributor | Universal Studios |
| Layers | Dual side, Dual layer |
| Edition Release Date | May 24, 2005 |
| Regions | Region 1 |