Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Episodes
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the first-spin off of Law & Order, 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 NBC on September 20, 1999, and started its fourteenth season on September 26, 2012.
Most episode titles of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit between seasons one and twelve are a single word or initialism. Season thirteen changed the pattern to one in which episodes have a two-word title with thirteen letters. A possible exception to this is the November 2011 episode Lost Traveler which has twelve letters as it is spelled by NBC. This is almost certainly a network mistake since showrunner Warren Leight has tweeted about the episode three times, using the spelling Lost Traveller every time.
As of February 6, 2013 (2013 -02-06), 308 original episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit have aired.
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