“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” Turns 400 Episodes Old

Michael Parmelee/NBC(NEW YORK) — Law & Order: Special Victims Unit celebrated its milestone 400th episode at its New York City sound stage on Monday.

The episode — directed by series star and executive producer Mariska Hargitay — is titled “Motherly Love” and will air in 2017.

The stars of the series including Ice T, Kelli Giddish, Raúl Esparza and Peter Scanavino, were on hand to salute the show with a specially-themed cake adorned, appropriately, with an edible police hat and judge’s gavel.

Law and Order: SVU, , a long-running spin-off of Dick Wolf’s long-running original series Law & Order, debuted September 20, 1999.  

The show returns with a new episode Wednesday on NBC.

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