Law & Order

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Law & Order is a sophisticated pyramid scheme in which creator Dick Wolf gets NBC to pay him ever-increasing amounts of money for essentially making the same show over and over and over. The New York-based series and its various spinoffs currently comprise 40% of NBC's prime-time schedule (second only to Dateline NBC), and represent approximately 80% of the programming on the TNT cable network.

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Historical Background

The original series began its run in the Babylonian era, shortly after the chiseling of the Code of Hammurabbi, and has been running nonstop ever since. Jerry Orbach has appeared on the show as some variation of his beloved character, Saint Lennie of Briscoe, in at least five of his various incarnations upon this planet. William Shakespeare is reputed to have written for the show under a pen name in the Elizabethan era, and indeed, Constable Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing is the same character portrayed by Christopher Marlow for five seasons while the series played at the Globe Theater in London. Since Law & Order began its run, approximately one-fifth of the entire population of Earth has been featured in the regular or recurring cast.

Scholars have discovered images of Det. Rey Curtis in the Bayeux Tapestry, and a rare Rembrandt portrait of A.D.A. Claire Kincaid recently fetched $1.2 million at auction.

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Spinoff Series

The venerable original series has recently been joined by several spinoffs, primarily as a means to get John Munch screen time on additional television shows:

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