Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Hope in the darkness.
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
Cast spotlight
Jump into full cast pages for bio, socials, and recent work.
Season 1
22 episodes
Premiered Sep 20, 1999
Season 2
21 episodes
Premiered Oct 20, 2000
Season 3
23 episodes
Premiered Sep 28, 2001
Season 4
25 episodes
Premiered Sep 27, 2002
Season 5
25 episodes
Premiered Sep 23, 2003
Season 6
23 episodes
Premiered Sep 21, 2004
Season 7
22 episodes
Premiered Sep 20, 2005
Season 8
22 episodes
Premiered Sep 19, 2006
Season 9
19 episodes
Premiered Sep 25, 2007
Season 10
22 episodes
Premiered Sep 22, 2008
Season 11
24 episodes
Premiered Sep 23, 2009
Season 12
24 episodes
Premiered Sep 22, 2010
Season 13
23 episodes
Premiered Sep 21, 2011
Season 14
24 episodes
Premiered Sep 26, 2012
Season 15
24 episodes
Premiered Sep 25, 2013
Season 16
23 episodes
Premiered Sep 24, 2014
Season 17
23 episodes
Premiered Sep 23, 2015
Season 18
21 episodes
Premiered Sep 21, 2016
Season 19
24 episodes
Premiered Sep 27, 2017
Season 20
24 episodes
Premiered Sep 27, 2018
Season 21
20 episodes
Premiered Sep 26, 2019
Season 22
16 episodes
Premiered Nov 12, 2020
Season 23
22 episodes
Premiered Sep 23, 2021
Season 24
22 episodes
Premiered Sep 22, 2022
Season 25
13 episodes
Premiered Jan 18, 2024
Season 26
22 episodes
Premiered Oct 3, 2024
Season 27
21 episodes
Premiered Sep 25, 2025
Season 28
1 episodes
Premiered Oct 8, 2026
Ep 1Payback
Detectives Stabler and Benson investigate the murder and dismemberment of a taxi driver; the team discovers that he may have been a vicious Serbian war criminal living in the United States under a false identity.
Ep 2A Single Life
Benson and Stabler run into multiple dead ends while investigating the case of a woman who plummeted six stories to her death clad only in a slip.
Ep 3...Or Just Look Like One
When a teen model is murdered and another is left for dead at a hospital emergency room, the team uncovers an insidious drug and sex conspiracy in the world of high fashion. Benson and Stabler enter into a modeling underworld of thoughtless parents, drug-dealing doctors and a trendy agency executive.
Ep 4Hysteria
When a young African-American woman is found dead, she is initially believed to be a prostitute and the latest in a long line of victims, but when looking into her home life Benson and Stabler realize that she does not fit the pattern, and may not be connected to the other deaths after all, but the other deaths have a connection no one anticipated.
Ep 5Wanderlust
When a world-traveling author is found dead in a room he rented from an alcoholic woman and her precocious 14-year-old daughter, the detectives are shocked to discover who the murderer is.
Ep 6Sophomore Jinx
A female student at an upper-class university is raped and murdered, and two of the college's basketball stars are suspected. However, the college blocks their investigation at every turn because they are not willing to risk the negative publicity that the investigation could bring to the school and the upcoming championship.
NBC
US
