List of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes

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.The series premiered on on September 20, 1999, and started its eighteenth season on September 21, 2016.
Most episode titles of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit between seasons one and twelve are a single word or initialism. From seasons thirteen to seventeen, the pattern changed to one in which episodes have a two-word title with the number of letters matching the season number. From season eighteen, the episode titles follow no fixed pattern.
As of January 4, 2017, 396 episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit have aired.
Season 19 has now announced on January 20, 2017, along with the new Cast.
== Series overview ==
Season	Season	Episodes	 	
Season	Season	Episodes	Season premiere 	Season finale
 	1 	22 	September 20, 1999	May 19, 2000
 	2 	21 	October 20, 2000 	May 11, 2001
 	3 	23 	September 28, 2001	May 17, 2002
 	4 	25 	September 27, 2002	May 16, 2003
 	5 	25 	September 23, 2003	May 18, 2004
 	6 	23 	September 21, 2004	May 24, 2005
 	7 	22 	September 20, 2005	May 16, 2006
 	8 	22 	September 19, 2006	May 22, 2007
 	9 	19 	September 25, 2007	May 13, 2008
 	10 	22 	September 23, 2008	June 2, 2009
 	11 	24 	September 23, 2009	May 19, 2010
 	12 	24 	September 22, 2010	May 18, 2011
 	13 	23 	September 21, 2011	May 23, 2012
 	14 	24 	September 26, 2012	May 22, 2013
 	15 	24 	September 25, 2013	May 21, 2014
 	16 	23 	September 24, 2014	May 20, 2015
 	17 	23 	September 23, 2015	May 25, 2016
 	18 	21 	September 21, 2016	May 24, 2017
 	19 	- 	September 20, 2017	---
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