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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, Jan. 15, according to Variety.
Instead, the following episode, “Fidelis ad mortem,” will now be bumped up by one week and air that night, rather than on Jan. 22.
Busfield, 68, was set to play a judge in the pulled Season 27 episode, per Variety.
He previously 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.
The Albuquerque Police Department confirmed Monday that they are working with 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.
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 Nov. 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.
The APD initially declined to press charges against Busfield, but the case was said to have been reopened in Sept. 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.
The “Field of Dreams” star allegedly spoke to investigators by phone in Nov. 2025 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.
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 speaker phone, 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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