Law & Order: Special Victims Unit season 3
The third season of the television series, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit premiered Friday, September 28, 2001 and ended Friday, May 17, 2002 on NBC. It occupied the Friday 10pm/9c timeslot once again.
Season 3 U.S. DVD cover
Piper Laurie played the abusive grandmother Dorothy Rudd in "Care". Neal Baer, who met the actress through ER told Entertainment Weekly that "she played it in a real way that truly was frightening."
John Ritter portrayed a doctor accused of murdering his wife in the 2002 episode "Monogamy", which aired shortly before his death in 2003. NBC promoted the episode with the tagline "See John Ritter as you've never seen him before."
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural crime drama television series created by Dick Wolf for NBC. The first spin-off of Law & Order, it stars Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson, now the commanding officer of the Special Victims Unit after originally having been Stabler's partner in a fictionalized version of the New York City Police Department, and Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit follows the detectives of the Special Victims Unit as they investigate and prosecute sexually based crimes. Some of the episodes are loosely based on real crimes that have received media attention.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Dick Wolf (pictured in 2010), the creator and executive producer of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni and Ice-T during filming of the 12th season.
