List of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the first-spin off of Law & Order, is an American police procedural television series that focuses on crimes of sexual nature. While the victim is often murdered, this is not always the case, and victims often play prominent roles in episodes. The series frequently uses stories that are "ripped from the headlines" or based on real crimes. Such episodes take a real crime and fictionalize it by changing the details.The series premiered on on September 20, 1999, and started its eighteenth season on September 21, 2016.

Most episode titles of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit between seasons one and twelve are a single word or initialism. From seasons thirteen to seventeen, the pattern changed to one in which episodes have a two-word title with the number of letters matching the season number. From season eighteen, the episode titles follow no fixed pattern.

As of January 4, 2017, 396 episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit have aired.