Law & Order

Law & Order is the long running NBC crime drama, showing New York City crime and justice from two perspectives; the police detectives including Sergeants Max Greevey (George Dzundza) and Mike Logan (Chris Noth), and their Captain Donald Cragen (Dann Florek), and the prosecution and courts, with characters like Jack McCoy (Sam Waterson) and Connie Rubirosa (Alana De La Garza) dealing with the complex legal system. The "ripped from the headlines" stories often resemble real cases. The police represent the fictional 27th Precinct of Manhattan, with two homicide detectives investigating the crime, collecting evidence and interviewing witnesses. Often struggling with with the cases where sometimes they don't even know the victims' identities, the detectives often encounter dead leads before finding their suspect. The evidence they find leads them to suspects, who they arrest. The case is then taken over by the prosecutors of the Manhattan District Attorney's office, who conduct the trial. The long-running series lasted for 20 seasons, leading to successful spin-off series like Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (or SVU), and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. MORE