Day: November 5, 2026

Week’s top-10 for Nov. 9: cops, soldiers & astronauts

1) “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” 9 p.m. Thursday, NBC. Last week, “Chicago Fire” had its 300th episode; now “SVU” (same producer and network) doubles that. This is the 600th, trailing only “The Simpsons” (815) and “Gunsmoke” (635). Mariska Hargitay (shown here) has been there the entire time; for this episode, Christopher Meloni — who did the first 12 seasons, left for a decade and now appears occasionally — returns as Stabler. Read more…