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And then they just vanished, forcing die-hard fans who wanted on-demand access to the OG L&O crew to either buy digital downloads of each episode or to pay $300 for the full series DVD collection. Up until late 2014, the first eight seasons of the show were a staple on Netflix. While music rights and the costs associated with making an older show ready for the digital age have delayed or prevented some classic series from landing a streaming home (or even launching on DVD), those aren’t factors with Law & Order. Unfortunately, the usual culprits don’t seem to apply with Law & Order.
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Like any good detective, we began our hunt for the truth by ruling out any obvious suspects in The Case of Where’s L&O? After all, this isn’t the first time the chief - er, our editor - has assigned us to the missing-shows beat. It’s a pop-culture crime, one which demands solving. But the mothership, the series which launched Dick Wolf’s ever-expanding empire of procedural dramas back in 1990, remains stubbornly absent from any subscription video-on-demand service. Law & Order spinoff SVU, while slowly disappearing from Netflix, is available to stream in its entirety on Hulu. It’s a mystery worthy of Detective Lennie Briscoe: Why isn’t the original Law & Order - the flagship series in what’s arguably the most successful TV brand ever created - currently available on any American streaming platform? Virtually every other big show launched in the 1990s, from ER and Friends to Seinfeld and The X-Files, has now found a digital home. Photo: Universal Tv/Wolf Film/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock