NBC pulls ‘Law & Order: SVU’ episode featuring Timothy Busfield after child sex abuse charges

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A “Law & Order: SVU” episode featuring Timothy Busfield will no longer air following the actor’s child sex abuse charges.

NBC has pulled the episode, titled “Corrosive,” from its originally scheduled airtime on Thursday, the network confirmed to The Post.

Instead, the following episode, “Fidelis ad mortem,” will be bumped up by one week and air that night, rather than on Jan. 22.

Kelli Giddish, Ice T, Mariska Hargitay, Peter Scanavino, Aimé Donna Kelly and Kevin Kane in “Law & Order: SVU.” Virginia Sherwood/NBC
Timothy Busfield at an NFL game in Detroit in September. AP

Busfield, 68, was set to play a judge in the pulled Season 27 episode, per Variety.

He guest starred on the hit series in 2011 and directed two episodes in 2019.

The Post has reached out to NBC for comment.

Busfield is wanted in New Mexico on two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and one count of child abuse.

Timothy Busfield on an episode of “Law & Order: SVU” in 2011. NBCUniversal via Getty Images

The Albuquerque Police Department confirmed Monday that it is working with the US Marshals Service to find the “West Wing” actor, who is still at large.

Busfield allegedly engaged in unlawful sexual conduct with a pair of 11-year-old twins while directing the Fox show “The Cleaning Lady” in 2024, according to an arrest warrant issued on Friday.

One of the alleged victims claimed the shocking incidents first started when he and his brother were 7 years old, according to the affidavit.

Timothy Busfield attends the New Yorkers for Children Fall 2008 Gala. Patrick McMullan via Getty Images

Busfield, who worked on the program from 2022 to 2025 as a director, allegedly told the kids to call him “Uncle Tim” and tickled them on their stomach and legs, per the arrest warrant.

The investigation into Busfield’s alleged crimes kicked off in November 2024 when a doctor at the University of New Mexico Hospital alerted police about suspected sexual abuse and grooming involving the minors, the warrant stated.


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The APD initially declined to press charges against Busfield, but the case was said to have been reopened in September 2025 when one of the kids told his counselor and then pediatrician that Busfield “touched him on his penis and bottom,” according to the affidavit.

Timothy Busfield visits People Now in New York in February 2020. Getty Images
Timothy Busfield speaks during the 34th Santa Barbara International Film Festival in 2019. Getty Images for SBIFF
Timothy Busfield with his wife, Melissa Gilbert, at the opening night party for “Medea” in NYC in January 2020. Getty Images for BAM

The “Field of Dreams” star allegedly spoke to investigators by phone in November and said it was “highly likely” he had “physical contact” with the twins.

During the interview with police, Busfield allegedly claimed that Elodie Yung, the lead actress on “The Cleaning Lady,” told him that the twins’ mom was seeking “revenge” because the boys were not invited back for the show’s final season, per the affidavit.

Busfield has more than 700 combined credits as an actor, producer and director in TV and film.

Timothy Busfield attends the Chiller Theatre Expo Fall 2019 in New Jersey. Getty Images

He’s married to “Little House on the Prairie” star Melissa Gilbert.

The actress, 61, allegedly listened in on her husband’s phone call with investigators via speakerphone, according to the affidavit.

Gilbert, who deleted her social media after the arrest warrant was issued, is not accused of any wrongdoing.

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