Random Best Seasons of 'Law & Order: SVU' (22 items)

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  (#1) Law & Order: SVU - Season 3

  The third season of Law & Order: SVU premiered on September 28, 2001, and contains 23 episodes. This season often followed cases through court trials.

  This season contains several memorable episodes including: "Wrong Is Right," "Asunder," and "Secrets."

  Memorable moments from Season 3 include:

  • Cabot joins the SVU team as a permanent Assistant District Attorney.
  • Viewers learn about Benson's mother's passing.
  • Munch and Fin hunt down a serialkiller.
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  (#2) Law & Order: SVU - Season 5

  The fifth season of Law & Order: SVU premiered on September 23, 2003, and contains 25 episodes. This season finds Diane Neal joining the cast as ADA Casey Novak to replace Stephanie March (ADA Alexandra Cabot).

  This season contains several memorable episodes including: "Tragedy," "Control," and "Brotherhood."

  Memorable moments from Season 5 include:

  • Cabot enters the witness protection program.
  • The detectives investigate allegations of hazing.
  • Novak and Clark investigate a judge over mishandling cases.
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  (#3) Law & Order: SVU - Season 4

  The fourth season of Law & Order: SVU premiered on September 27, 2002, and contains 25 episodes. This season introduced Caren Browning as CSU Captain Judith Siper.

  This season contains several memorable episodes including: "Disappearing Acts," "Dolls," and "Desperate."

  Memorable moments from Season 4 include:

  • Stabler goes undercover as a drug dealer.
  • The SVU team investigates a cult.
  • A victim is snatched from the hospital.
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  (#4) Law & Order: SVU - Season 7

  The seventh season of Law & Order: SVU premiered on September 20, 2005, and contains 22 episodes. Mariska Hargitay won an Emmy Award for her work in this season.

  This season contains several memorable episodes including: "911," "Demons," and "Alien."

  Memorable moments from Season 7 include:

  • Stabler seeks counseling.
  • Benson gets a call from a little girl locked in a room.
  • Benson requests a new partner so Stabler is temporarily partnered with Blaine.
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  (#5) Law & Order: SVU - Season 6

  The sixth season of Law & Order: SVU premiered on September 21, 2004, and contains 23 episodes. Mariska Hargitay won a Golden Globe Award for her work in this season.

  This season contains several memorable episodes including: "Birthright," "Charisma," and "Night."

  Memorable moments from Season 6 include:

  • ADA Casey Novak is attacked by her brother.
  • Stabler and Munch investigate organ trading.
  • Novak takes on the U.S. Army.
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  (#6) Law & Order: SVU - Season 14

  The fourteenth season of Law & Order: SVU premiered on September 26, 2012, and contains 24 episodes. This season finds the series celebrating its landmark 300th episode.

  This season contains several memorable episodes including: "Lost Reputation," "Above Suspicion," and "Manhattan Vigil."

  Memorable moments from Season 14 include:

  • Bureau Chief ADA Paula Foster investigates Cragen.
  • Eames and the SVU detectives bust a terrorist.
  • The NYPD deals with a pair of sniper shootings.
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  (#7) Law & Order: SVU - Season 9

  The ninth season of Law & Order: SVU premiered on September 25, 2007, and contains 19 episodes. This season deals openly with the abortion debate.

  This season contains several memorable episodes including: "Harm," "Blinded," and "Signature."

  Memorable moments from Season 9 include:

  • A woman with multiple personality disorder is investigated for several offenses.
  • Benson and Lake search for "The Woodsman."
  • Benson is taken by Merritt Rook (Robin Williams).
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  (#8) Law & Order: SVU - Season 11

  The eleventh season of Law & Order: SVU premiered on September 23, 2009, and contains 24 episodes. This season finds the character George Huang (BD Wong) confirming that he is gay.

  This season contains several memorable episodes including: "Hardwired," "Quickie," and "Disabled."

  Memorable moments from Season 11 include:

  • Detective Stabler realizes he put an innocent man in jail.
  • ADA Cabot prosecutes a offender for knowingly spreading HIV.
  • Benson and Stabler go undercover to investigate a baby trafficking scam.
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  (#9) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 2

  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

  The second season of Law & Order: SVU premiered on October 20, 2000, and contains 21 episodes. This season finds the opening sequence changed in the wake of 9/11.

  This season contains several memorable episodes including: "Wrath," "Ridicule," and "Competence."

  Memorable moments from Season 2 include:

  • Eric Plummer seeks revenge against Benson.
  • Tutuola tries to help a sexual assault victim to stop using controlled substances.
  • A murderer targets a church due to past mistreatment.
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  (#10) Law & Order: SVU - Season 15

  The fifteenth season of Law & Order: SVU premiered on September 25, 2013, and contains 24 episodes. This season focuses on Benson coming to terms with being taken.

  This season contains several memorable episodes including: "Surrender Benson," "Psycho/Therapist," and "Comic Perversion."

  Memorable moments from Season 15 include:

  • Sergeant Munch retires.
  • William Lewis escapes from prison.
  • Benson is rescued by the squad.
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  (#11) Law & Order: SVU - Season 17

  The seventeenth season of Law & Order: SVU premiered on September 23, 2015, and contains 23 episodes. This season focuses on changes including Benson being promoted to Lieutenant.

  This season contains several memorable episodes including: "Devil's Dissections," "Criminal Pathology," and "Townhouse Incident."

  Memorable moments from Season 17 include:

  • Rollins gives birth to a daughter.
  • A manhunt unfolds to apprehend escaped convicts, Dr. Carl Rudnick and Gregory Yates.
  • Benson gets transferred due to her relationship with Tucker.
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  (#12) Law & Order: SVU - Season 13

  The thirteenth season of Law & Order: SVU premiered on September 21, 2011, and contains 23 episodes. This season finds members of the SVU team coping with Stabler's retirement following the squad room shooting.

  This season contains several memorable episodes including: "Scorched Earth," "Father Dearest," and "Rhodium Nights."

  Memorable moments from Season 13 include:

  • Benson learns that Stabler has left the NYPD.
  • Benson realizes she sent an innocent man to prison.
  • Cragen finds Carissa in his bed with her throat slit.
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  (#13) Law & Order: SVU - Season 16

  The sixteenth season of Law & Order: SVU premiered on September 24, 2014, and contains 23 episodes. This season finds Detective Nick Amaro working as a beat cop in Queens.

  This season contains several memorable episodes including: "Girls Disappeared," "Chicago Crossover," and "Daydream Believer."

  Memorable moments from Season 16 include:

  • The SVU team collaborates with detectives from Chicago PD.
  • A game developer is snatched.
  • Amaro resigns with plans to move to California.
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  (#14) Law & Order: SVU - Season 10

  The tenth season of Law & Order: SVU premiered on September 23, 2008, and contains 22 episodes. This season introduces Kim Greylek (Michaela McManus) as the unit's new ADA.

  This season contains several memorable episodes including: "Confession," "Wildlife," and "Zebras."

  Memorable moments from Season 10 include:

  • Stabler finds his daughter's picture on a website for predators.
  • ADA Alexandra Cabot returns.
  • Stabler and Benson discover Stuckey has a dark past.
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  (#15) Law & Order: SVU - Season 1

  The first season of Law & Order: SVU premiered on September 20, 1999, and contains 22 episodes. This season introduces viewers to the New York City Police Department's Special Victims Unit, which investigates sexually based offenses.

  This season contains several memorable episodes including: "Payback," "Russian Love Poem," and "Nocturne."

  Memorable moments from Season 1 include:

  • A college blocks an investigation into a assault and murder.
  • Detective Cassidy transfers to Narcotics.
  • A forensic psychologist analyzes the SVU team.
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  (#16) Law & Order: SVU - Season 12

  The twelfth season of Law & Order: SVU premiered on September 22, 2010, and contains 24 episodes. This season was the last to feature Christopher Meloni, BD Wong, and Tamara Tunie as members of the principal cast.

  This season contains several memorable episodes including: "Behave," "Possessed," and "Smoked."

  Memorable moments from Season 12 include:

  • Benson learns of untested rape kits across the country.
  • Stabler is accused of inappropriate touching.
  • Stabler shoots a witness who fires a handgun in the squad room.
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  (#17) Law & Order: SVU - Season 8

  The eighth season of Law & Order: SVU premiered on September 19, 2006, and contains 22 episodes. This season finds Benson struggling as her brother is under investigation.

  This season contains several memorable episodes including: "Informed," "Underbelly," and "Outsider."

  Memorable moments from Season 8 include:

  • Benson goes undercover with the FBI.
  • Stabler is injured by a suspect.
  • Benson discovers that her brother was framed.
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  (#18) Law & Order: SVU - Season 18

  The eighteenth season of Law & Order: SVU premiered on September 21, 2016, and contains 21 episodes. This season features several storylines based on real-life news headlines.

  This season contains several memorable episodes including: "Making a Rapist," "Great Expectations," and "Sanctuary."

  Memorable moments from Season 18 include:

  • Fin Tutuola is accused of framing a suspect.
  • Benson breaks up with Tucker.
  • Protests break out following a severe hate crime.
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  (#19) Law & Order: SVU - Season 19

  The nineteenth season of Law & Order: SVU premiered on September 27, 2017, and contains 24 episodes. This season finds Benson fighting to keep custody of Noah.

  This season contains several memorable episodes including: "Mood," "Something Happened," and "Sunk Cost Fallacy."
  
  Memorable moments from Season 19 include:

  • Noah gets taken.
  • Barba is sent to trial for murder.
  • Tutuola becomes a sergeant.
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  (#20) Law & Order: SVU - Season 20

  The twentieth season of Law & Order: SVU premiered on September 27, 2018, and contains 24 episodes. This season tied the series with Law & Order and Gunsmoke as the longest running scripted, non-animated U.S. primetime series.

  This season contains several memorable episodes including: "Man Up," "Caretaker," and "A Story of More Woe."
  
  Memorable moments from Season 20 include:

  • Stone leaves the SVU.
  • Predator Rob Miller is released from jail.
  • Rollins gives birth to a baby girl.

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