Favorite Law & Order Franchise TV Series
by urbanemovies | created - 09 Mar 2016 | updated - 1 month ago | PublicThe Law & Order television franchise shows are led by creator-producer Dick Wolf and each focuses on some aspect of the criminal justice system. The franchise has aired over 1300 individual episodes over a nearly 35 year span and spawned a number of spin-offs, both in the U.S.A. and abroad. A revival of the original Law & Order (1990) series has aired on NBC since 2022, giving fans a choice between re-runs or new episodes from it or one of the many Law & Order spin-offs.
Which incarnation of the long running Law & Order television franchise is your favorite?
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1. Law & Order (1990– )
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
New York's finest police detectives and prosecutors fight to make the city a safer place. With integrity as the guiding force from investigation to verdict, the teams weigh every perspective in their commitment to finding justice.
Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, Dennis Farina, Sam Waterston
Votes: 44,586
NBC
2. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
This series follows the Special Victims Unit, a specially trained squad of detectives in the New York City Police Department that investigate sexually related crimes.
Stars: Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni, Ice-T, Dann Florek
Votes: 124,923
NBC
3. Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2011)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
This series focuses on the NYPD's Major Case Squad, a force of detectives who investigate high-profile cases, while also showing parts of the crime from the perpetrator's point of view.
Stars: Kathryn Erbe, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jamey Sheridan, Courtney B. Vance
Votes: 27,876
NBC
4. Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005–2006)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The series showed the workings of the judicial system, beginning with the arraignment, and continuing through the lawyers process of building a case, investigating leads, and preparing witnesses and defendants for trial.
Stars: Bebe Neuwirth, Amy Carlson, Kirk Acevedo, Fred Thompson
Votes: 1,504
NBC
5. Law & Order: Division of Field Investigation (2007– )
50 min | Crime
Stars: Art Kulik, Ivan Oganesyan, Alisa Bogart, Aleksandr Naumov
Votes: 19
NTV
6. Paris Criminal Investigations (2007– )
52 min | Crime
Stars: Vincent Perez, Laure Killing, Audrey Looten, Sandrine Rigaux
Votes: 107
TF1
7. Law & Order: Criminal Mind (2007– )
Crime
Stars: Mikhail Khomyakov, Alyona Kovalchuk, Igor Lagutin, Boris Mironov
Votes: 28
NTV
8. Law & Order: UK (2009–2014)
TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
UK version of the long-running U.S. TV drama that tells the stories of two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the attorneys, who prosecute the offenders.
Stars: Bradley Walsh, Robert Glenister, Harriet Walter, Freema Agyeman
Votes: 4,850
ITV
9. Law & Order: LA (2010–2011)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Los Angeles police detectives investigate crimes and district attorneys prosecute the offenders.
Stars: Corey Stoll, Rachel Ticotin, Alfred Molina, Terrence Howard
Votes: 2,828
NBC
10. Law & Order True Crime (2017)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Behind the murders of a Hollywood movie executive and his former beauty queen wife by their sons.
Stars: Edie Falco, Miles Gaston Villanueva, Gus Halper, Chris Bauer
Votes: 2,741
Added 01 August 2017, NBC
11. Law & Order: Hate Crimes
Crime | Announced
An elite, specially trained team of investigators in New York City solve crimes that were committed as acts of discrimination.
Stars: Ari'el Stachel, Cyndee Rivera
Added 31 December 2018, PEACOCK
12. Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021– )
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Elliot Stabler returns to the NYPD to battle organized crime after a devastating personal loss.
Stars: Christopher Meloni, Danielle Moné Truitt, Ainsley Seiger, Rick Gonzalez
Votes: 10,050
Added 05 April 2021, NBC
13. Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent (2024– )
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Follows a squad of elite investigators who investigate corruption and high-level criminality in the Greater Toronto Area.
Stars: Aden Young, Kathleen Munroe, K.C. Collins, Karen Robinson
Votes: 654
Added 08 March 2024, Citytv
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