Law & Order : Special Victim's Unit - Season 7 - Theme Song

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (also known as Law & Order: SVU or simply SVU) is an American police procedural TV series about the Special Victims Unit in a fictional version of the 16th Precinct of the New York City Police Department. The show debuted on September 20, 1999 as a spin-off of the crime drama Law & Order and follows the same opening style of its parent. SVU is currently the highest-rated series of the Law & Order franchise, and is one of NBC's top rated shows. The franchise also includes two other series dramas: the original Law & Order, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Technical information
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has been shot on film in the 16:9 aspect ratio since at least 2003 (the year first-run episodes also began airing in HDTV). Since 2006, all new episodes of the multiple Law & Order series have aired in 16:9. Recently USA Network began airing reruns going all the way back to "Payback" in wide-screen (16:9) format.


[edit] Title sequence
As with the original Law and Order series, the opening title card features a voiceover by Steven Zirnkilton:

In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

SVU uses a re-mixed version of the theme music from its parent show Law & Order. The title theme for the UK terrestrial channel Five version is the instrumental version of the song "I'm Not Driving Anymore" from Rob Dougan's Furious Angels.[1]

Since the second season on, the franchise convention of the characters walking toward the camera at the end of the opening sequence was replaced by the cast gathered in front of a desk. This change was dictated by the large credited cast (nine members as of 2007).

The photo in the opening credits for Dann Florek (from the beginning of the show) and Ice-T (starting with the second episode of season two) has only changed once since they first appeared on the show. The photo for Mariska Hargitay has changed five times (Season one has one photo, seasons 2-4and the first four episodes of season 5 have another, the rest of season 5 has a third, seasons 6-8 have a fourth, and season 9 has a new picture). Christopher Meloni, Richard Belzer and B.D. Wong had new photos starting with the fifth episode of season five (coinciding with the debut of Diane Neal as Casey Novak). Neal had one photo for season five, a second for seasons six and seven, and a new photo for season eight and a new one for season nine. Tamara Tunie, who first appeared in the opening credits in season seven, has a new photo for season eight and yet another for season nine. The photos for each cast member were updated for season 9 to coincide with the addition of Adam Beach to the cast.

The current order of introduction in the opening credits is Meloni, Hargitay, Belzer, Ice-T, McManus, Wong, Tunie, and Florek. Meloni, Hargitay, and Belzer have always been the first three, with Florek last, much as the district attorney has always been last on the original series.

Prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks, the show's opening sequence featured two separate shots of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. After September 11, the show's opening sequence changed, with generic city shots replacing the World Trade Center. The original shots can be seen in syndicated episodes and the DVD collections of the first two seasons.


[edit] Broadcast history
The show originally aired on Monday nights at 9:00 p.m. ET for the first nine episodes, from September 20 through November 29, 1999. It was then shifted to Friday nights at 10 p.m. ET on January 7, 2000, and remained in that time slot through the end of Season 4 on May 16, 2003. SVU was placed in its current time slot for the Season 5 premiere on September 23, 2003 Tuesday nights at 10:00 p.m. ET and occasionally runs previous shows on Saturday nights at 10:00 p.m. ET. The USA Network also runs previous episodes on weekday afternoons, generally in a block from 3 to 5 p.m. ET.

The series will be vacating its Tuesday 10:00 p.m. ET slot in fall 2009 when NBC begins a primetime weeknight Jay Leno series, it will be placed on Wednesday nights at 9:00 p.m. ET.

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[MrUnclepeanuts]

SVU=Best Law and Order.

[lilmurfer]

DUN DUN

[redcurtain121297]

@MrUnclepeanuts In my opinion, Criminal Intent is the best but this is second best. And I liked Trial by Jury, but that spinoff didn't last very long at all.

[iarenay]

diane neal / casey novak looks so damn awesome here.

[iarenay]

I swear the drums at the "BUM BUM" part got louder for Season 8's version of the theme song.. this one sounds less intense. Or maybe I'm just hallucinating. Ahh.

[DracoLoverKaite]

@DSkehan2004 Its called SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT of course its about rape.. And its the highest rated Law & Order so i dont think it will be going anywhere.

[shoshvany]

בעיכ

[DSkehan2004]

I'm tired of this show. It's always about rape. Take this show off the air for a while.

[wilcarr1]

@DamianColucci //You are probably right pal since no one really gives a rats anymore and its all about style over substance.

[DamianColucci]

@wilcarr1 Hey buddy, take a breather. You're getting upset over a fictional TV show.

[wilcarr1]

So you have ICE T a rapper who sings about killing cops wearinga NYPD detective badge now that realistic. You have around 150 officers killed each year by thugs listening to ICE Ts music and you allow this scumbag of a human into your living room each week to watch this human debris act? I cannot understand NYPD does not rip this badge from his neck.