Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit File:Law & Order - Special Victims Unit.jpg Country USA Channel NBC Genre Police Procedural / Legal Drama Broadcast 1999- No. of Seasons 15+ No. of Episodes 343+

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is the first television spin-off of the series Law & Order. The series (sometimes referred to as Law & Order: SVU) focuses on the detectives of the NYPD's Special Victims Unit, who investigate primarily sexually-based offenses. For the first 12 seasons, the primary detectives on the series were Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni). Also joining the regular cast were Dann Florek, reprising his role as Captain Don Cragen from the first three seasons of Law & Order, and Richard Belzer as Detective John Munch, a character he had portrayed for seven seasons on the series Homicide: Life on the Street and in a crossover episode of Law & Order. In Season 2, Ice-T (who had portrayed a different character in the television film Exiled: A Law & Order Movie) joined the cast as Det. Fin Tutuola. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit premiered in 1999 in the US on NBC. The series also has had crossover episodes with Chicago P.D. and Chicago Fire, which are also being executive produced by Law & Order creator Dick Wolf.

The following lists the seasons of the television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit:

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  Season 1
  (1999-2000)

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  Season 2
  (2000-2001)

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  Season 3
  (2001-2002)

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  Season 4
  (2002-2003)

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  Season 5
  (2003-2004)

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  Season 6
  (2004-2005)

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  Season 7
  (2005-2006)

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  Season 8
  (2006-2007)

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  Season 9
  (2007-2008)

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  Season 10
  (2008-2009)

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  Season 11
  (2009-2010)

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  Season 12
  (2010-2011)

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  Season 13
  (2011-2012)

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  Season 14
  (2012-2013)

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  Season 15
  (2013-2014)

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  Season 16
  (2014-2015)