Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

PRIMETIME EMMYS® 1X nominee in 2011
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit chronicles the life and crimes of the elite Special Victims Unit of the NYPD. Each episode features a new case to solve, new victims to console as well as the constant struggle for the detectives to juggle the emotional toll of the job and the pressure it puts on their personal lives. The show stars Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Dann Florek, Richard Belzer, Dean Winters and Michelle Hurd. The series follows Detective Elliot Stabler (Meloni) and his partner Olivia Benson (Hargitay). Overseeing the unit is Captain Donald Cragen (Florek).
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Payback
    September 19, 1999
    43min
    TV-14
    Detectives Stabler and Benson investigate the murder and dismemberment of a cabdriver who was a wanted man himself.
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  2. S1 E2 - A Single Life
    September 26, 1999
    43min
    TV-14
    Benson and Stabler run into multiple dead ends while investigating the case of a woman who fell to her death wearing only a slip.
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  3. S1 E3 - Or Just Look Like One
    October 3, 1999
    43min
    TV-14
    When a popular teen is sexually assaulted, Benson and Stabler enter into a modeling underworld of thoughtless parents, drug-dealing doctors and a trendy agency executive (guest star Bebe Neuwirth).
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  4. S1 E4 - Hysteria
    October 11, 1999
    42min
    TV-14
    Detectives Benson and Stabler believe a fellow cop may be behind murders going back 30 years; Munch is in rare form during a child molestation case. Guest star: Jerry Orbach.
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  5. S1 E5 - Wanderlust
    October 17, 1999
    44min
    TV-14
    Benson and Stabler believe a pedophile may be behind the murder of a travel writer.
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  6. S1 E6 - Sophomore Jinx
    October 24, 1999
    43min
    TV-14
    Benson and Stabler suspect a pair of college basketball players of murdering a female student, but officials don't want to draw negative attention to the school.
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  7. S1 E7 - Uncivilized
    November 14, 1999
    44min
    TV-14
    The state pursues a media-sensationalized case against a known pedophile who's suspected of assaulting and killing a youth.
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  8. S1 E8 - Stalked
    November 21, 1999
    44min
    TV-14
    Stabler fears a combative Benson will be the next victim of a real estate agent suspected of sexually assaulting and murdering a lawyer.
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  9. S1 E9 - Stocks and Bondage
    November 28, 1999
    44min
    TV-14
    Benson and Stabler investigate a successful woman's suspicious death and find themselves in the world of sadomasochism.
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  10. S1 E10 - Closure
    January 6, 2000
    45min
    TV-14
    Benson and Stabler encounter problems when the prime suspect in a sexual assault cannot be identified by the shaken victim (guest star Tracy Pollan).
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  11. S1 E11 - Bad Blood
    January 13, 2000
    44min
    TV-14
    Detectives Benson and Stabler hunt for the killer of a gay man whose father heads a conservative watchdog group; Munch looks for Benson's biological father.
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  12. S1 E12 - Russian Love Poem
    January 20, 2000
    44min
    TV-14
    A suspicious ring of Russian immigrants offers little help in assisting Stabler and Benson (Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay) to solve the murder of a multimillionaire.
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  13. S1 E13 - Disrobed
    February 3, 2000
    44min
    TV-14
    Detectives Benson and Stabler investigate the shooting death of a sleazy judge who abused the criminal justice system. Angie Everhart guest stars.
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  14. S1 E14 - Limitations
    February 10, 2000
    44min
    TV-14
    Benson and Stabler have their work cut out for them when a 5-year-old sexual assault case is reopened days before the statute of limitations ends.
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  15. S1 E15 - Entitled - Part I
    February 17, 2000
    44min
    TV-14
    The daughter of a socialite (guest star Jane Alexander) may be responsible for the gunshot death of an alleged sexual predator.
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  16. S1 E16 - The Third Guy
    February 24, 2000
    44min
    TV-14
    Two local hoods are implicated in the murder and rape of an elderly woman, though they claim they only broke in to rob her.
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  17. S1 E17 - Misleader
    March 30, 2000
    44min
    TV-14
    When pregnant daughter-in-law of a prominent religious figure (guest star Robert Foxworth) is found slain in a hotel room, it is discovered she may have been having an affair.
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  18. S1 E18 - Chat Room
    April 13, 2000
    43min
    TV-14
    A sexual assault case involving a teen-age girl leads Benson and Stabler to set up a sting operation to trap Internet pedophiles.
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  19. S1 E19 - Contact
    April 27, 2000
    42min
    TV-14
    Benson and Stabler become frustrated by a series of sexual attacks on women in crowded subway cars.
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  20. S1 E20 - Remorse
    May 4, 2000
    44min
    TV-14
    Detective Munch forms a close bond with a TV reporter who was sexually assaulted by two men, but it's Benson and Stabler who make the first arrest.
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  21. S1 E21 - Nocturne
    May 11, 2000
    43min
    TV-14
    The trial of an accused child molester is jeopardized when the prime witness has difficulty dealing with his past.
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  22. S1 E22 - Slaves
    May 18, 2000
    44min
    TV-14
    An attorney (guest star Andrew McCarthy) suspected of keeping a Romanian immigrant as a sex slave is linked to a woman's murder.
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Content advisory
Violencesubstance usealcohol usesmokingfoul languagesexual content
Subtitles
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Directors
Jean de SegonzacDavid PlattPeter LetoAlex ChappleJuan José CampanellaNorberto BarbaConstantine MakrisMartha MitchellArthur W. ForneyMichael Pressman
Cast
Christopher MeloniMariska HargitayRichard Belzer
Studio
NBC
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