# Chris Noth returns to Law & Order -- **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 9, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-noth-returns-to-law-order/289232 "2005-02-09T17:58:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Papermache\_Prince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@Papermache\_Prince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Papermache_Prince)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-noth-returns-to-law-order/289232/1 "2005-02-09T17:58:34Z")
According to [MSNBC](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6937103/), [E!Online](http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,15886,00.html), and other sources, Chris Noth is returning as Detective Mike Logan, not on the original Law & Order, but on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, for their fifth season. He’ll be sharing starring roles with Vincent D’Onofrio; each actor will appear in 11 shows. D’Onofrio was in the hospital last year, due to exhaustion. Noth is also appearing on Sunday’s episode. That might be interesting. I like D’Onofrio but his practically omniscient character gets to be a bit much at times. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-noth-returns-to-law-order/289232/2 "2005-02-09T18:48:33Z")
I can imagine them sharing a scene together, with VD’O huffing and puffing and swaggering and speechifying, and Noth just rolling his eyes in the background. 🙂 Great news, I suppose, since I liked Logan but haven’t watched any L&O shows recently. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-noth-returns-to-law-order/289232/3 "2005-02-09T20:12:55Z")
Did Noth and Dick Wolf patch things up? I thought they had a pretty bad falling-out? ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-noth-returns-to-law-order/289232/4 "2005-02-09T20:17:59Z")
> [@CynicalGabe](#): > > Did Noth and Dick Wolf patch things up? I thought they had a pretty bad falling-out? That was Michael Moriarty. Noth was basically let go because of creative and money reasons, but he came back for the Exiled movie. ---
**Author:** ![TheBoneyKingofNowhere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@TheBoneyKingofNowhere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBoneyKingofNowhere)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-noth-returns-to-law-order/289232/5 "2005-02-09T20:19:18Z")
As much as I love Law and Order and SVU, Criminal Intent is almost unwatchable for me. Granted, I don’t watch hardly ANY tv, but have somehow over the years grown to love the two original shows. ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-noth-returns-to-law-order/289232/6 "2005-02-09T21:37:45Z")
( **choie** stares at thread title and faints. After reviving, she peeks into the message itself and faints again. Finally, she clicks over to MSNBC and faints a third time, but at least this time was smart enough to put a pillow down on the floor.) Hmm, yes, this is _slightly_ pleasant to hear. I … I have a bit of a Chris Noth crush. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-noth-returns-to-law-order/289232/7 "2005-02-09T22:25:51Z")
Didn’t Noth’s character go to jail for punching somebody (an incredibly annoying politician?)? Does anybody know any spoilers they could box on how the character will be a cop again? ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-noth-returns-to-law-order/289232/8 "2005-02-09T22:28:13Z")
Mr Big on L&O!! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-noth-returns-to-law-order/289232/9 "2005-02-09T22:32:41Z")
> [@The Devil's Grandmother](#): > > Didn’t Noth’s character go to jail for punching somebody (an incredibly annoying politician?)? Does anybody know any spoilers they could box on how the character will be a cop again? I though he was busted down to patrolman and sent out to some other precinct, but he was still a cop. Either way, not too difficult to write their way out of it if he infact lost his job. This is good, I like the actor and the character, and Vd’O gets on my nerves from time to time. A split role is not a bad idea. ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-noth-returns-to-law-order/289232/10 "2005-02-09T23:06:05Z")
> [@The Devil's Grandmother](#): > > Didn’t Noth’s character go to jail for punching somebody (an incredibly annoying politician?)? Does anybody know any spoilers they could box on how the character will be a cop again? He was demoted to patrol for a few months, then returned to detective in a cushy suburban area. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-noth-returns-to-law-order/289232/11 "2005-02-09T23:45:17Z")
I **love** _L&O_ and _SVU_, and I like Vincent D’Onofrio a lot, but _CI_ has never appealed to me that much. I may have to watch it some now that Dt Logan’s going to be providing a human counterpart to Dt Goren’s superhuman knowledge. > [@brianjedi](#): > > That was Michael Moriarty. Hijack, but could you explain more about this, please? That is, if there is indeed a story behind this. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-noth-returns-to-law-order/289232/12 "2005-02-10T00:02:52Z")
> [@Lisa-go-Blind](#): > > Hijack, but could you explain more about this, please? That is, if there is indeed a story behind this. Michael Moriarty seems to suffer from amental illness. He currently resides in Canadda because as he said in an interview: “God told him to take his family and flee the U.S.” and he claims to be a political exile. He said hewas forced to leave the show after he threatened to sue Janet Reno. Occasionally he writes “open letters” and op ed stuff. Like “Barbara Streisand: The New Janet Reno” – apparently he also claims that Streisand is a big reason why he left the U.S. because she was single handedly out to destroy Ronald Reagan the greatest Republican president. The interview I saw several years ago, he was disshevelled, confused, almost drooling, and certainly batshit crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-noth-returns-to-law-order/289232/13 "2005-02-10T00:13:37Z")
_ahem_ Let me correct that last statement to “he certainly _appeared_ to be batshit crazy” lest the statement appear libellous. I do not know for sure if he is batshit crazy, but he has made some “unusual” and “uncomfortably erratic” live appearances. For fun you can read is [Open letter to Charleton Heston](http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b77607a7270.htm)… > [@Michael Moriarty](#): > > My suggestions for the soldiers of the First Amendment are to escalate non-violent protests against everything non-military that smells of Marx Americana: abortion lobbyists; environmentalists, who claim a spotted owl is more endangered than the American Cowboy and legislated a law to allow wolves to slaughter our Christian flocks of sheep; adult substance police who use our children’s ‘safety’ to enhance a police state; Marxist infiltration of our churches in the name of Liberation Theology; the seatbelt laws with which the Supreme Court has given search-and-seizure powers to police; and finally the Taxation Enforcers. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-noth-returns-to-law-order/289232/14 "2005-02-10T00:29:16Z")
I wonder what Ben Stone would make of his real life counterpart? When is CI on? I can’t stand D’Onofrio, but I’d watch just for Chris Noth. I love Mike Logan. (Seeing him sock the homophobe politician in the jaw was one of my favorite L&O moments ever.) ---
**Author:** ![Typically\_Sunday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Typically\_Sunday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typically_Sunday)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-noth-returns-to-law-order/289232/15 "2005-02-10T00:55:02Z")
Finally, a reason to get into CI 😃😃😃😃😃😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-noth-returns-to-law-order/289232/16 "2005-02-10T03:41:32Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > When is CI on? I can’t stand D’Onofrio, but I’d watch just for Chris Noth. I love Mike Logan. Sunday nights at 9:00pm Eastern, I believe. (There’s also a repeat airing at 8:00 pm this week - _yawn_) ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-noth-returns-to-law-order/289232/17 "2005-02-10T03:47:08Z")
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES!!! ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-noth-returns-to-law-order/289232/18 "2005-02-13T05:13:09Z")
> [@Papermache Prince](#): > > D’Onofrio was in the hospital last year, due to exhaustion. I wonder why he was really in the hospital, given that “exhaustion” is usually code for “pretty much anything but exhaustion.” ---
**Author:** ![gfloyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d2c977/32.png) [@gfloyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gfloyd)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-noth-returns-to-law-order/289232/19 "2005-02-13T06:04:09Z")
I really like the regular one and SVU, but I can’t stand CI. But I loved Mike Logan. Maybe that would make CI better. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-noth-returns-to-law-order/289232/20 "2005-02-14T05:24:49Z")
I absolutely LOVED the part where Logan sits at Goren’s desk, picks up an abnormal psychology textbook, then tosses it away with a dismissive who-reads-this-crap? look. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-noth-returns-to-law-order/289232.md?page=2)