Jerry Orbach's Detective Lennie Briscoe was a fixture on "Law & Order" from its second season in 1991, appearing in 274 episodes through Season 14. Orbach left the show after Season 14 to bring ...

Law & Order has been an NBC staple for decades, taking gritty New York City crime stories from the street to the courtroom while creating some of TV's most enduring characters, from Lennie Briscoe to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jerry Orbach (left) as Det. Lennie Briscoe and Chris Noth as Det. Mike Logan in 1994. - Credit: NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/Getty ...

These days, it seems that I remember things that just happened — within the past few years — and things that happened when I was a teenager or younger — 40 years or more ago. There are a lot of years ...