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.
Season 19 has now announced on January 20, 2017, along with the new Cast.
Series overview[]
Season | Episodes | |||
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Season premiere | Season finale | |||
1 | 22 | September 20, 1999 | May 19, 2000 | |
2 | 21 | October 20, 2000 | May 11, 2001 | |
3 | 23 | September 28, 2001 | May 17, 2002 | |
4 | 25 | September 27, 2002 | May 16, 2003 | |
5 | 25 | September 23, 2003 | May 18, 2004 | |
6 | 23 | September 21, 2004 | May 24, 2005 | |
7 | 22 | September 20, 2005 | May 16, 2006 | |
8 | 22 | September 19, 2006 | May 22, 2007 | |
9 | 19 | September 25, 2007 | May 13, 2008 | |
10 | 22 | September 23, 2008 | June 2, 2009 | |
11 | 24 | September 23, 2009 | May 19, 2010 | |
12 | 24 | September 22, 2010 | May 18, 2011 | |
13 | 23 | September 21, 2011 | May 23, 2012 | |
14 | 24 | September 26, 2012 | May 22, 2013 | |
15 | 24 | September 25, 2013 | May 21, 2014 | |
16 | 23 | September 24, 2014 | May 20, 2015 | |
17 | 23 | September 23, 2015 | May 25, 2016 | |
18 | 21 | September 21, 2016 | May 24, 2017 | |
[19] | 19 | - | September 20, 2017 | --- |