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    The 'Law & Order' Franchise Goes True-Crime With 'The Menendez Murders'

    Law & Order is a resilient franchise that's been on television in some form since 1990. Tuesday night, it makes a push into true crime, covering one of the most famous murder cases of the 1990s.
    by Linda Holmes Sep 26, 2017 3 minutes
    Miles Gaston Villanueva as Lyle Menendez and Gus Halper as Eric Menendez in Law & Order True Crime - The Menendez Murders. / NBC / Getty Images

    Law & Order, in some form, has been on the air since 1990. There were 20 seasons of the original series, we're on the 19th season of Law & Order: SVU, there were 10 seasons of Law &, and there was a season each of and . The franchise fed the boom in police procedurals and made "chung-chung" (or "donk-donk" or whatever you choose to call its signature sound) as familiar as NBC's own "N-B-C" chimes.

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