Law And Order -1990-2010--complete 20 Seasons B... (Firefox High-Quality)

Chung-Chung.

NBC canceled the show due to budget disputes. It lasted 20 years. It earned 50 Emmy nominations. It spawned four direct spin-offs and an unknown number of international adaptations. But the mothership remains untouchable—a long, unbroken night shift that watched over America’s worst impulses and, occasionally, its best. Law and Order -1990-2010--Complete 20 Seasons B...

By A Television Critic

Chung-Chung.

From September 13, 1990, to May 24, 2010, Law & Order didn’t just air on NBC. It occupied a permanent address in the national psyche. The "mothership"—as fans call it to distinguish it from its sprawling progeny ( SVU , Criminal Intent )—delivered 456 episodes of pure, procedural poetry. Over 20 complete seasons, it perfected a formula so rigid, so reliable, and so unexpectedly brilliant that it became the longest-running primetime drama in television history (until its own spin-off broke the record). Chung-Chung

The show never answered these questions with a hug. It answered them with a four-minute closing argument, then cut to black. There was no personal life. No "will they/won’t they" romance. You never saw Jerry Orbach’s Lennie Briscoe at home. You didn’t want to. The work was the point. Law & Order treated its cast like a repertory company. Actors came, actors went, and the show never blinked. Over 20 seasons, the only constant was S. Epatha Merkerson as Lt. Anita Van Buren (seasons 4–20)—the calm, weary anchor of the 27th Precinct. It earned 50 Emmy nominations

This is the story of that night shift. Before Law & Order , crime shows were either whodunits (Columbo) or action dramas (Miami Vice). Creator Dick Wolf proposed something radical: a two-act play every single week.