Law & Order premiered on Tuesday, September 13th, 1990, with the first episode "Prescription for Death," but this was not the first episode produced. The original pilot "Everybody's Favorite Bagman," would eventually air as the sixth episode of the first season. This episode was produced two years earlier and had Roy Thinnes as District Attorney Alfred Wentworth rather than Steven Hill as DA Adam Schiff since Thinnes was not able to reprise his role when the series went into production.
In a continuity break, a M1911A1 on the counter turns into a Beretta 92F in "Poison Ivy" (S01E08). (It's likely a 92F rather than a 92FS because the episode was filmed in 1990.)
A .357 Magnum Ruger Redhawk is a piece of evidence in "Poison Ivy" (S01E08). While it is never called that by name, characters refer to it as a Magnum and say that it was chambered in .357 Magnum.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingRuger Redhawk, Stainless steel - .44 Magnum. The one in the episode was chambered in .357 Magnum, however.Error creating thumbnail: File missingA lab technician fires the Redhawk into a water tank for ballistics testing. Many characters throughout the episode remark on the high quality of the revolver.
What appears to be a Astra 200 is used to kill a police officer in "A Death in the Family" (S01E13). It is picked up off the street by Revina (Karina Arroyave) who draws it on Dets. Greevey and Logan. It is described as a "Smith & Wesson .32."
