Before SVU, Mariska Hargitay Was on Must See Thursday + Filling in for Law and Order

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She was in a disaster based on real life called Prince Street that got yanked after only two episodes had aired. Looks like the main star of Prince Street was Joe Morton who later had success with Scandal. ER must have repeated terribly even in its first-run prime, a sign of not doing well in syndication later. It was off for over a month with Prince Street premiering in ER's slot on March 6 after a night of mixed sitcoms (new episodes of Friends and Suddenly Susan in the first hour, repeats of Seinfeld and 3rd Rock from the Sun in the second hour.) There were several other times ER was off for comedy repeats. The following week og Law and Order premiered a 3 part episode with every part airing on Thursdays. To fill Law and Order's void on Wednesday, Prince Street moved there for episode 2 six days after the Thursday premiere on March 12. The pilot did decently dominating its competition with an 11.6 household rating. That was still a lot of drop from the 3rd Rock repeat's 15.9 lead-in. Episode two in the Wednesday premiere had a massive drop down to a 5.9 household rating, barely beating EZ Streets on CBS and getting clobbered by Primetime Live on ABC. An out of timeslot repeat of The Pretender did better the next Wednesday where episode 3 presumably would have aired.

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It’s true that neither of the short lived shows feature Mariska Hartigay were no match to Hartigay’s long running series “Law & Order: SVU” features her character Olivia Benson