As of July 2026, Law & Order Season 7 aired in 1996 with 23 episodes — streaming now on Amazon Prime Video. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Law & Order Season 7

1996 23 Episodes Crime · Drama ⭐ 7/10

Right now you can watch Law & Order Season 7 on and — and it earns its twists rather than manufacturing them. The 1-season run is exactly the right length for what it is doing. 696 viewers have already rated it on TMDB — the kind of consensus that does not happen by accident. Jerry Orbach anchors it, but the writing does the real work. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

There is a reason Law & Order Season 7 keeps coming up in conversation. The plotting gives Law & Order Season 7 its backbone, but it is the characters you come back for. Season 7 of Law & Order includes 23 episodes. It aired from September 1996 to May 1997. This season stars Jerry Orbach, Benjamin Bratt and S. Jerry Orbach and Benjamin Bratt lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1996. Law & Order Season 7 is at its best in the quiet scenes between the plot beats, where the character work actually happens. There is real craft here, even in the moments that do not fully land.

Viewers who think they have seen every crime drama tend to find Law & Order Season 7 proves them wrong. It rewards viewers regardless of what else is in their watch history. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single week. Jerry Orbach carries scenes that would sink a lesser production. The resolution feels inevitable rather than arbitrary, which is rarer than it sounds.

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🎬 Law & Order Season 7 — Episode Guide

E1
Causa Mortis
1996-09-18
McCoy's new second chair, ADA Jamie Ross, is determined to prosecute as harshly as possible a carjacker who took the life of a teacher as she pleaded for her life on an audio tape discovered at the crime scene.
E2
I.D.
1996-09-25
The cops tackle identifying a corpse left in an elevator, and McCoy finds his prosecution of the suspect later hampered by a vindictive judge who resents Ross's in-court rebuke for sexual harassment.
E3
Good Girl
1996-10-02
Briscoe and Curtis have to break the mutual alibi of two girlfriends as they try to find the killer of a young black man, whose angry parents pressure McCoy to indict a young woman who claims the victim had raped her.
E4
Survivor
1996-10-23
Briscoe and Curtis's investigation of the murder of a rare coin dealer nets them a millionaire as a suspect, but Ross has to play detective too as the DA's office tries to establish a provenance for the missing coin collection.
E5
Corruption
1996-10-30
Curtis, angered by the attitude of an old colleague of Briscoe's, looks beyond the findings of an IAB investigation and turns up evidence of police corruption that puts the DA's office into competition with an ambitious judge and Briscoe under investigation for stealing evidence from a police lockup...
E6
Double Blind
1996-11-06
The murder of a janitor in a university laboratory building leads back to a student employee whose participation in a drug study may have prompted the crime.
E7
Deadbeat
1996-11-13
The murder of a deadbeat father whose son is dying of leukemia presents McCoy and Ross with a sympathetic suspect and a moral dilemma.
E8
Family Business
1996-11-20
The murder of Richard Speigel, chief financial officer for an exclusive, family-owned department store goes from the sitting room to the bedroom and into the board room as suspicion shifts from co-workers to family members.
E9
Entrapment
1997-01-08
The case against Huey Tate, a young man accused of shooting the well-known leader of the African-American Congress comes undone when the New York authorities learn that their chief witness was once an informant for the FBI, and is still under their protection.
E10
Legacy
1997-01-15
The sidewalk shooting of a young husband uncovers the fact that his wife's first husband died in a inadequately investigated accident, and that they may have been having an affair before it happened.
E11
Menace
1997-02-05
The detectives face a difficult struggle getting witnesses to a girl's apparent suicide to come forward while Ross tries to prove that a known bully is the one really responsible for her actions.
E12
Barter
1997-02-12
An unpromising case of murder suddenly develops new leads when the cops explore the possibility that the victim was mistaken for someone else. McCoy walks a thin line in the matter of ethical conduct as he tries to make a case against a lendor who uses unscrupulous methods to collect the money owed ...
E13
Matrimony
1997-02-19
The discovery of a would-be thief refocuses a murder investigation, leaving the prosecutors the task of making a conspiracy case against the deceased's attorney and the pretty young widow.
E14
Working Mom
1997-02-26
The murder of an ex-cop with a penchant for blackmail and illicit sex brings feminist lawyer Lanie Stieglitz into court against McCoy to defend a suburban wife and mother.
E15
D-Girl
1997-03-13
A headless corpse fished out of the river sends Briscoe and Curtis out to Los Angeles to obtain a blood sample from their chief suspect while McCoy and Ross back in New York try to obtain a court order for the procedure.
E16
Turnaround
1997-03-20
Back in New York with their suspect, Briscoe and Curtis try to pin down his schedule on the night of the murder, but find instead that another man was in the area at the right time and more importantly, might have a motive for the crime. But after the issuance of a new arrest warrant, McCoy and Ross...
E17
Showtime
1997-03-27
The trial of Eddie Newman begins but the prosecution's chances of conviction are hampered by a "dream team" of defense attorneys, Gorton's personal pressures on Ross, the public questioning of the relationship between Curtis and Lisa Lundquist, and a surprise accusation.
E18
Mad Dog
1997-04-02
McCoy becomes obsessed with nailing a serial rapist recently released on parole and pushes the cops perilously close to harassment as he attempts to connect the man with a new rape and murder matching his previous M.O.
E19
Double Down
1997-04-16
The cops' best hope of finding a kidnapped hired car driver alive is one of the armed robbers who grabbed him after a job, but the immunity deal he demands in return would effectively preclude his prosecution for the shooting death of an off-duty cop, placing McCoy in a difficult position as he seek...
E20
We Like Mike
1997-04-30
A young man who claims to have helped a murdered young man change a flat tire is first the cops' primary suspect, then the prosecutors' chief witness.

🎭 Cast of Law & Order Season 7

Jerry Orbach
Jerry Orbach
Lennie Briscoe
Benjamin Bratt
Benjamin Bratt
Rey Curtis
S. Epatha Merkerson
S. Epatha Merkerson
Anita Van Buren
Steven Hill
Steven Hill
Adam Schiff
Sam Waterston
Sam Waterston
Jack McCoy
Carey Lowell
Carey Lowell
Jamie Ross

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