List of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes (season 20–present)
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the first spin-off of Law & Order, is an American police procedural television series that 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.[1] The series premiered on NBC on September 20, 1999, and its twenty-fifth season premiered on January 18, 2024.
Most episode titles of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit between seasons one and twelve are a single word or initialism. From seasons 13–17 and from seasons 21–23 (except for two episodes from season 23), the pattern changes to one in which episodes have a title with the number of letters matching the season number (in exactly two words, seasons 13–17). From seasons 18–20, the episode titles follow no fixed pattern. From season 24 onwards, most episodes have the title spoken at some point in the episode.
As of May 16, 2024,[update] 551 episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit have aired, concluding the twenty-fifth season.