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Salon
Lifestyle
Melanie McFarland

The injustice of "Law & Order" returning

Camryn Manheim, Anthony Anderson and Jeffrey Donovan in "Law & Order" Virginia Sherwood/NBC

"Law & Order: Original Flavor" is back, baby! Its return arrives 12 years after its 20th and presumed final season aired, but still. You missed it, right?

Probably not, since "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" has been carrying the franchise torch following NBC's retirement of the O.G. Now 23 seasons old and counting, "SVU" realized the goal franchise creator Dick Wolf had for the eldest child in his law enforcement family, beating "Gunsmoke" for the title of longest-running live-action scripted series in America.

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