1998 Gold Angel Winner

The police investigate a crime and turn the evidence over to the district attorneys for prosecution. It's a two-tier set up, accurate in every detail. The sense of reality rings true. The violence, if any, is brief. There is no pornography or effort to play up sensationalism. NBC's law and order, often taken from the headlines and offered up with a feeling of being documentary, is in its eighth season. The hour -- long show has become the longest running crime drama in television history. And there are surprises for the viewer. The prosecution doesn't always win convictions.

Filmed on the streets of New York, the Emmy -- winning show is the brain child of Dick Wolf who has been a creative force in television for 25 years. He credits the shows "soul to the writers who week after week have delivered powerful scripts." In a time when most police traumas explode with sound and are overburdened with action, LAW AND ORDER stands out. Excellence In Media confers a gold Angel on LAW AND ORDER for its factual approach and depicting crime as a destroyer of the perpetrators as well as the victims.

Actors in photo from left to right: Benjamin Bratt, Jerry Orbach, S. Apatha Merkerson, Carey Lowell, Steven Hill and Sam Waterson.

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