There was a Law and Order series broadcast by the BBC in the late 1970s. It examined related stories in the criminal justice system.
Dick Wolf launched Law & Order in 1990 and the show or its spinoffs has been on ever since. Wolf is aware of GF Newman the writer of the BBC show.
Law & Order is a show of two halves. The first is the police investigation. Then it is the prosecution case.
The first episode starts off with a young woman dying in the hospital emergency room. Her distraught father tries to convince the police that it was criminal negligence.
The detectives are reluctant to investigate but once they ask questions, they get drawn in. Maybe an immigrant doctor was not good enough as the medical records were tampered with.
It turns out that a senior Harvard educated surgeon was drunk on duty.
The prosecution case has its work cut out to prove that such an eminent medical man is an alcoholic.
This is an efficient first episode. There very little fat on the bone. One of the cops talk about his alcoholic past. The Indian doctor is mocked by the police.
You would not think that this show would spawn such a franchise with the original returning to television in 2022.
Dick Wolf launched Law & Order in 1990 and the show or its spinoffs has been on ever since. Wolf is aware of GF Newman the writer of the BBC show.
Law & Order is a show of two halves. The first is the police investigation. Then it is the prosecution case.
The first episode starts off with a young woman dying in the hospital emergency room. Her distraught father tries to convince the police that it was criminal negligence.
The detectives are reluctant to investigate but once they ask questions, they get drawn in. Maybe an immigrant doctor was not good enough as the medical records were tampered with.
It turns out that a senior Harvard educated surgeon was drunk on duty.
The prosecution case has its work cut out to prove that such an eminent medical man is an alcoholic.
This is an efficient first episode. There very little fat on the bone. One of the cops talk about his alcoholic past. The Indian doctor is mocked by the police.
You would not think that this show would spawn such a franchise with the original returning to television in 2022.