Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is a long-running American crime drama television series that follows a specialized NYPD unit investigating sexually based offenses and other sensitive crimes.

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instanceOf crime drama television series
police procedural television series
television series
basedIn New York City
characterPortrayedBy Donald Cragen
surface form: Donald Cragen – Dann Florek

Elliot Stabler – Christopher Meloni
John Munch – Richard Belzer
Odafin Tutuola – Ice-T
Olivia Benson
surface form: Olivia Benson – Mariska Hargitay
composerOfTheme Mike Post
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Dick Wolf
executiveProducer Dick Wolf
Michael S. Chernuchin
surface form: Michael Chernuchin

Neal Baer
Warren Leight
filmingLocation New York City
firstAired 1999-09-20
focusesOn sensitive crimes
sexually based offenses
special victims
followsOrganization New York City Police Department
genre crime drama
legal drama
police procedural
hasFormat episodic
hasOpeningNarration In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous...
hasOpeningTheme Theme from Law & Order: SVU
laterAiredOn Thursday night
leadActor Christopher Meloni
Mariska Hargitay
mainCharacter Donald Cragen
Elliot Stabler
John Munch
Odafin Tutuola
Olivia Benson
notableFor depiction of sex crimes investigations
long-running primetime drama status
originalLanguage English
originallyAiredOn Monday night
originalNetwork NBC
partOfFranchise Law & Order
portrays Special Victims Division
surface form: Special Victims Unit of the NYPD
productionCompany Universal Television
Wolf Entertainment
setIn Manhattan
spinOffFrom Law & Order
targetAudience adult viewers
typicalEpisodeStructure investigation and prosecution of a crime
typicalRuntimePerEpisode approximately 42 minutes

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Shiri Appleby appearedIn Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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Ice-T appearsIn Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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Ted Kotcheff directedTelevision Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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Dann Florek notableWork Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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Sarah Hyland televisionSeries Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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Charlayne Woodard notableWork Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Charlayne Woodard notableRole Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
this entity surface form: Sister Peg on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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Eddie Cahill appearedIn Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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Peter Hermann televisionSeriesAppearance Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Peter Hermann role Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
this entity surface form: Trevor Langan on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Peter Hermann notableWork Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
this entity surface form: Law & Order: SVU
Clare Foley notableWork Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Universal TV (UK and Ireland) notableProgramming Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Tracy Pollan notableWork Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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Geoffrey Owens notableWork Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Olivia Benson unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
this entity surface form: Special Victims Unit
Olivia Benson unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
this entity surface form: SVU
Olivia Benson partOf Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
this entity surface form: Manhattan Special Victims Unit
Olivia Benson appearsIn Law & Order: Special Victims Unit