"""Law & Order is now in its thirteenth year in North America with the ninth series currently showing here in the UK on Five, making it the longest running crime drama series in the US. Created by Dick Wolf (a veteran of Miami Vice), Law & Order's unique selling point is in its examination of both the criminal and legal procedures involved in bringing the perpetrator of a crime to justice. Typically, therefore, an episode of Law & Order opens with the aftermath of a crime and the subsequent police investigation, which takes up roughly half the running time. As the police determine suspects, motive, intent and criminal action, they conclude their involvement with an arrest of the chief suspect(s) at which point Law & Order shifts focus to the criminal courts and the District Attorney's office who prosecute and see the trial through to what they hope will be a successful conviction.
It may seem that, over thirteen years, Law & Order would have developed a tradition of its own, with its audience as familiar with its concepts as The A-Team's audience was to its crushed vehicles and uninjured occupants. Were Law & Order not as challenging as it is, this would be true, with any surprise in its content eventually being diminished. "
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