Law & Order: Year 8
Universal Studios (1997)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
In Collection
#7597
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Seen ItYes
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IMDB   7.6
24 hr 0 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR
Jerry Orbach Detective Lennie Briscoe
Sam Waterston D.A. Jack McCoy
Benjamin Bratt Detective Rey Curtis
S. Epatha Merkerson Lt. Anita Van Buren
Michael Imperioli Det. Nick Falco
Dianne Wiest D.A. Nora Lewin
George Dzundza Sgt. Max Greevey
Jeremy Sisto Det. Cyrus Lupo
Richard Brooks A.D.A. Paul Robinette
Angie Harmon A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael
Anthony Anderson Det. Kevin Bernard
Michael Moriarty Exec. A.D.A. Ben Stone
Paul Sorvino Sgt. Phil Cerreta
Michelle Trachtenberg Dinah Driscoll
Director
Edwin Sherin
Producer Edwin Sherin
Rene Balcer
David Shore
Writer Dick Wolf
Michael S. Chernuchin
Cinematography Constantine Makris
Richard Dobbs
Musician Mike Post
George Duning

Law & Order, the longest running crime series and is tied for longest running drama series in the history of American broadcast television, will start its 21st season on NBC in the autumn of 2010. The brainchild of creator Dick Wolf, Law & Order is the most successful brand in the history of primetime television; the winner of the 1997 Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series; ties Cheers and M*A*S*H for the most consecutive best series nominations (eleven) and the longest-running drama series currently on American television. The series has also turned into one of entertainment's preeminent brands using a distinct ripped from the headlines format, and has spawned the successful spinoffs Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Crime & Punishment and Law & Order: Trial by Jury.
Episodes
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    9/24/1997  1.  Thrill
The cops break the seemingly random murder of a pizza delivery guy with a little ""undercover"" work in the park, but McCoy and Ross face a harder battle to get a conviction when the two defendants resolutely point the finger at each other, and the one item identifying the actual killer is the recording of a confession-made to a priest.
Director:  Martha Mitchell  Writer:  Rene Balcer 
Guest starring:  Donna MurphyJames Handy, Sig Libowitz, Charles Levin, Suzanne Costallos,  Ellen Muth, Rob McElhenney,  Reed Birney, Jan Munroe,  John Tormey, Bill Christ, Thomas McHugh, Nick Wyman, Ava-Maria Carnevale, Anne Lange
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    10/8/1997  2.  Denial
Bloody sheets and an apparently stolen credit card lead Briscoe and Curtis to a pair of college age lovers who present McCoy and Ross with a united front of denial that one of them killed their newborn son and disposed of the body.
Director:  David Shore  / Rene Balcer  Writer:  David Shore 
Guest starring:  James Rebhorn, Benjamin Hendrickson, Jan Maxwell, Mags Chernock, Zach Chapman, Evalyn Baron, Mark Zimmerman, Joel Colodner, Marilyn Pasekoff, Barbara Tirrell, Margaret Devine,  Melinda Page Hamilton, Jack Marshall, Tom Carroll, Bernie Sheredy
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    10/15/1997  3.  Navy Blues
McCoy finds himself battling the Navy and the office of the Judge Advocate General as he tries to prosecute a female pilot accused of murdering her married lover after he tried to break off with her.
Director:  Jace Alexander  / Dick Wolf  Writer:  Kathy McCormick 
Guest starring:  Kate WalshDaniel Von BargenMolly Price, Joyce Reehling, Reuben Jackson,  Jack GwaltneyJohn SperedakosPatti LuPone, Lee Shepherd, William Howard Parry, Steven Marcus, Kurt Knudson,  Marge Redmond, Sean Runnette, Stephen Peabody
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    10/29/1997  4.  Harvest
A discrepancy concerning the time of death of a drive-by shooting victim leads McCoy and Ross to initiate prosecutions against both the shooter and the doctor who harvested her organs as transplant donations.
Director:  Rene Balcer  / I.C. Rapoport  Writer:  I.C. Rapoport 
Guest starring:  Michael NouriMichael DurrellRobert StantonArmand SchultzAndrew PangDavid Marshall Grant, Richard Thomsen, Luce Ennis, Catherine Wolf, Daren Kelly, Kim Yancey-Moore, Maximiliano Hernandez,  Carlos Pizarro, Alba Oms, Deborah LaCoy
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    11/5/1997  5.  Nullification
After the cops trace an eagle tattoo on a man shot and killed while holding up an armored truck to a group of militia members, McCoy finds himself facing one of their number as the pro se counsel for his friends, arguing for the concept of ""jury nullification"", the right of a jury to protect a defendant from an unjust law by finding him not guilty despite the evidence.
Director:  Constantine Makris  Writer:  David Black 
Guest starring:  Denis O'HareGerry Becker, Betsy Aidem, Jesse Tendler, Walt MacPherson, Alexandra Rhodie, Tim Kirkpatrick, Andy Fowle, Gabra Zackman, John Roney, Michael Broughton, Tony Hoty, Cedric Turner, Christopher Rubin, Ellen Zachos
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    11/12/1997  6.  Baby, Its You (1)
It's old home week for Briscoe when an apparent murder of a teenage model in New York develops ties to Baltimore, and Detectives Munch and Falsone pay a visit to the Big Apple to observe the case. Meanwhile, McCoy finds himself battling the attorney of the victim's parents for access to his clients and the Baltimore DA for jurisdiction. (Part 2: "Baby, It's You" aired on Homicide: Life On The Street: season 06, episode 05.)
Director:  Ed Sherin  Writer:  Jorge Zamacona 
Guest starring:  Richard Belzer, Maureen Anderman,  Dan Hedaya, Tom Tammi,  Zeljko IvanekDan Frazer, Richard Council,  Yaphet Kotto, Taro Alexander, Sam Valle, Pamela Nyberg, Anne Bonvegna, Maribel Gonzalez, Isabel Segovia, Anne Frith
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    11/19/1997  7.  Blood
The paternity of a black baby given up for adoption by a white mother might provide a clue to her murderer but it also unearths some long buried family secrets.
Director:  Jace Alexander  / Rene Balcer  Writer:  Craig Tepper 
Guest starring:  Stephen Mendillo,  Deborah RushHarry O'Reilly, Lou Liberatore,  Kent Broadhurst, Franchelle Stewart Dorn, Mike Hodge, Keith Randolph Smith, Catherine Cox, Jack Davidson,  Bellamy YoungAngela Pietropinto, William Christian,  Josh PaisMarianne Hagan
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    11/26/1997  8.  Shadow
The murder of a bail bondsman looks fairly routine until the chance words of the chief suspect uncovers possible case-fixing between a shady lawyer and an unknown contact within the judicial system.
Director:  Matthew Penn  Writer:  Richard Sweren 
Guest starring:  Bruce MacVittie, Jacinto Taras Riddick, Don Billett,  Dominic Chianese, Marcy Harriell, Alexandra Neil,  David Marshall Grant, Rosemary DeAngelis, Bruce Katzman,  Stu 'Large' Riley, Roger Pretto, Denise Lute,  Kate Mara, Divina Cook, Sharon Hope
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    12/10/1997  9.  Burned
A message overheard on an answering machine leads Briscoe and Curtis to a confessed murderer and the home of wealthy Carl Anderton, whose stubborn non-cooperation with the district attorney threatens to create a serious miscarriage of justice.
Director:  Constantine Makris  Writer:  Siobhan Byrne O'Connor 
Guest starring:  Robert Vaughn, Mia Dillon,  Sam HuntingtonJoseph Siravo, Michael O'Hare,  Bob Dishy, Anne Jackson, Sylva Kelegian, Ellen Lancaster, Tess O'Brien, Tom McCarthy, Camilia Sanes, Joe Pacheco, Brenda Spohnholtz, Peter Lewis
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    12/17/1997  10.  Ritual
The investigation into the death of a man who initially appears to be the victim of a mugging victim reveals him to be a Middle Eastern physician who performs genital mutilations on young girls.
Director:  Brian Mertes  Writer:  Kathy McCormick  / Richard Sweren 
Guest starring:  Cotter SmithSteve Landesberg, Ava Haddad, Aharon Ipalé, Maryann Urbano, Ramsey Faragallah,  Emmy Rossum, Connie Nelson, Nan-Lynn Nelson, Geoffrey Wade, Avery Kidd Waddell, Jacqueline Antaramian, Abby Lewis, Stanja Lowe,  Samia Shoaib
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    1/7/1998  11.  Under the Influence
After Briscoe and Curtis finally determine who was driving the car that killed three people, the legal prosecution stands in danger of becoming a kangaroo court when McCoy's feelings over Kincaid mesh with the political agenda of an ambitious judge anxious to make an example of the defendant.
Director:  Adam Davidson  Writer:  Rene Balcer 
Guest starring:  Cliff Gorman, David Garrison, Kathryn Meisle,  Gene Canfield, Melanie Rey, Claywood Sempliner, Daniel McDonald,  Augusta Dabney, Elana Renderos, Robert Catrini, Chuck Montgomery, Rony Clanton, Europe Harmon, Susan Pilar, Joseph Dandry
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    1/21/1998  12.  Expert
The shooting of two people in a restaurant restroom takes some abrupt turns as they try to discover who exactly the intended victim was, and the prosecutors have to deal with a defendant claiming to have been in a dissociative state while committing the crime-- the same defense used years before by the defendant's father.
Director:  Lewis H. Gould  Writer:  David Shore  / I.C. Rapoport 
Guest starring:  Stephen PearlmanVera FarmigaJoanna MerlinMatthew SussmanJudy Kuhn, Paul D'Ambrosio, Sam Catlin, Mary Elaine Monti, Matt Loney, Tracy Dillon, Natalie Picoe, Lisa Altomare, Michael DeVries, Fred Burrell, Tracy Sallows
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    1/28/1998  13.  Castoff
The street murder of a woman who worked with underprivileged kids takes a turn towards the bizarre when the detectives uncover she had a predilection for kinky sex, and that one of her current partners appears to be a serial killer, who offers an overexposure to television violence as his defense during his trial.
Director:  Gloria Muzio  Writer:  David Black  / Harold Schecter 
Guest starring:  Mitchell Lichtenstein,  John Benjamin Hickey, Jon DeVries, Edmond Genest,  Gene Saks, Dennis Kelly, Jane Elliot, Jane Summerhays, Hope Chernov, Patrick Husted,  Michael Alexander Jackson, Scott Whitehurst, Joseph Kamal, Emilio Del Pozo, Stan Carp
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    2/4/1998  14.  Grief
The cops, as they try to pin down the specifics of an assault on a man reluctant to talk about it, uncover the alleged rape of two women in custodial care. But as the prosecutors attempt to prepare their case, a reluctant witness changes their view of the cases.
Director:  Christopher Misiano  Writer:  Suzanne Oshry 
Guest starring:  Lizbeth Mackay,  Hallee Hirsh, Cecilia Hart,  Marin HinkleEdie Falco, Erik Jensen,  Jonathan LaPaglia, Ron Frazier, George Palermo, Stephen Singer, George Bamford,  Marceline Hugot, Greg Zerkle, James Joseph O'Neil,  Sharon Washington
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    2/25/1998  15.  Faccia a Faccia
Taking on an apparent mafia murder, Detectives Briscoe and Curtis are stymied by a dead witness and a seemingly incoherent mob boss.
Director:  Martha Mitchell  Writer:  Rene Balcer  / Eddie Feldmann 
Guest starring:  Philip BoscoMichael RispoliKatherine Narducci, David Wohl, Rocco Sisto, Barton Tinapp, Ken Marks, Jack Willis, Frank Savino, John O'Leary, Beth McDonald, Wally Dunn, Anthony Fusco, Mark H. Dold,  Susan Blackwell
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    3/4/1998  16.  Divorce
The stabbing death of a psychologist draws Detectives Briscoe and Curtis into a heated divorce case and pits McCoy and Ross against a manipulative attorney.
Director:  Constantine Makris  Writer:  Barry M. Schkolnick 
Guest starring:  Jill ClayburghHaviland Morris, Tom O'Rourke,  Adam LeFevre, Dennis Predovic, P.J. Brown, John Wojda,  Tony Roberts, Michael Warren Powell, Patricia Hodges, Cliff Batuello, Karen Mason, Dane Knell, Larry Block, Robert Colston
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    4/1/1998  17.  Carrier
The death of a college student leads to a case involving an HIV-positive male who's seeking to infect as many young women as possible. McCoy, testing right-to-privacy ethics, wants to charge him with murder.
Director:  J. Ranelli  Writer:  David Black 
Guest starring:  Leslie Denniston,  Susan May PrattHeather BurnsFran Brill, Ralph Byers, Mark Jacoby,  Audrie J. NeenanDavid Spielberg, Patrick Tovatt, Spencer Riviera,  Paula Newsome, Gordon Joseph Weiss,  Dan Grimaldi, Steve Paskoski, Ashley Carin
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    4/15/1998  18.  Stalker
When a woman is found unconscious at the bottom of her apartment stairs, Briscoe and Curtis must figure out what happened -- before it's too late. In order to make his case, McCoy pits the two detectives against each other in the courtroom.
Director:  Richard Dobbs  Writer:  Kathy McCormick 
Guest starring:  Robert JoySusan Floyd, Joe Lisi,  Stephen GevedonHarry Goz, Daniel Oreskes, Marilyn Rockafellow,  Brian DelateYancey Arias, Leon Addison Brown, Greg Zittel, James Coyle, Kate Rigg, James Shanklin, Frank Girardeau
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    4/22/1998  19.  Disappeared
A defendant refuses to allow his lawyer to raise the issue of insanity, this complicating matters for the brother who turned him in with hopes of securing medical treatment for him.
Director:  David Platt  Writer:  Richard Sweren  / William N. Fordes 
Guest starring:  Ken Welsh, Michael Medeiros, Steve Mellor, Maggie Burke, Lee Sellars,  Liam Aiken, Seth Barrish, Adam Heller, Tony Di Benedetto, Hazel J. Medina, Priscilla Shanks, John Nathan, Chuck Low, Elliot Cuker, Barbara Gulan
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    4/24/1998  20.  Burden
After a 12-year-old quadriplegic dies at home in his bed, paramedics claim that he was suffocated and the suspects include the boy's parents and sister.
Director:  Constantine Makris  Writer:  David Shore  / I.C. Rapoport 
Guest starring:  Gerry Bamman, John Hickok,  Heather Matarazzo, John Procaccino,  Maryann Plunkett, Jerry Lyden, Barrie Youngfellow, Stephen Stout, Eric H. Moreland, Christine Jones, Gregory Mitchell, Jane Connell, Gordon Connell, Julie Follansbee, Karen Goberman
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    4/29/1998  21.  Bad Girl
Schiff's re-election may hinge on the stabbing death of a police officer; Briscoe's daughter is arrested for dealing drugs.
Director:  Jace Alexander  Writer:  Rene Balcer  / Richard Sweren 
Guest starring:  Cliff GormanIsabel Gillies, Geoffrey Nauffts, Neal Jones, Jennifer Bill,  Ana Gasteyer, Ilana Levine, Tom Wiggin,  Robert Vaughn, Joe Quintero, Mark Lotito, Julian Gamble, Timothy Wheeler, Michael Hyatt,  Stephanie Berry
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    5/6/1998  22.  Damaged
The case of a teacher's shooting uncovers a vendetta involving the rape of a mentally challenged coed by three students, whose attorney claims they weren't aware of her condition.
Director:  Constantine Makris  Writer:  Janis Diamond 
Guest starring:  Robert ClohessyJohn Christopher JonesLauren AmbroseJon AbrahamsAdam LaVorgna, Jennifer Bill, Gerry Rosenthal, Kate Skinner,  Alison Folland, Julie Halston,  Ron McLartyIrving Metzman, Molly Regan, Mark Lotito, Julia Weldon
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    5/13/1998  23.  Tabloid
Tabloid journalism comes under scrutiny during the investigations into the deaths of a gossip columnist and a celebrity target he pursued.
Director:  David Black  / Alec Baldwin  Writer:  David Black 
Guest starring:  Timothy Carhart, Joe Mantello,  Robin GrovesGerrit GrahamJohn SlatteryPeter McRobbie, Baxter Harris, Leslie White, LeAnna Croom,  Maeve McGuire, David B. McConeghey, Ellen Tobie, Nell Balaban, Brant Spencer, Brian Keeler
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    5/20/1998  24.  Monster
During the search for a pedophile who raped a 10-year-old, a snitch offers Briscoe a chance to avenge his daughter's death. Meanwhile, Van Buren learns that her job is in jeopardy; McCoy is ordered to appear before a disciplinary committee because of his conduct in a DUI case; and the increasingly political Schiff worries that the rape case may adversely impact his reelection bid.
Director:  Ed Sherin  Writer:  Rene Balcer  / Richard Sweren 
Guest starring:  Cliff GormanCharles Malik WhitfieldPaul Calderon, Ray Anthony Thomas,  James Murtaugh, William Hill, Michelle Hurst, Ami Brabson, Thom Sesma,  Robert Vaughn, Michael Cullen,  Starla BenfordO.L. Duke, Angel Caban, Bernard M. Addison
Edition Details
Series Law & Order
Distributor Universal Studios
Release Date 12/4/2010
Packaging Custom Case
Screen Ratio Widescreen (1.78:1)
Subtitles English; English (Closed Captioned); Spanish
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital Stereo [English]
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 5