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Law & Order: UK series 1

season of television series

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ3729015 ↗
Source-derived summary

The first series of Law & Order: UK premiered on ITV on 23 February 2009 and concluded on 6 April 2009.

In September 2010, BBC America announced that it would import and broadcast Law & Order: UK in the United States starting on 3 October 2010.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Law & Order: UK series 1” as season of television series. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Order, series and season can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as season of television series. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3729015. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009 and 2010.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Law & Order: UK series 1”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Law & Order: UK series 1 primary sources, Law & Order: UK series 1 archive and Order research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Law & Order: UK series 1”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Law & Order: UK series 1” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.