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S.W.A.T.
S.W.A.T. is an American action/crime drama series about the adventures of a Special Weapons And Tactics team operating in an unidentified California city. A spin-off of The Rookies, the series aired on ABC from February 1975 to April 1976. Like The Rookies, S.W.A.T. was produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg.
- Created by:
- Lee Stanley, Robert Hamner
- Cast:
- Steve Forrest, Robert Urich, Rod Perry, Mark Shera
- Language:
- English
- Country:
- United States of America
- Network:
- ABC
Episode guide
Seasons
Season 2
Episodes
E01
Episode 1
Deadly Tide (1)
1975-09-13 · 50mHondo and his team go after a gang of jewel thieves who make their getaways under water.
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E02
Episode 2
Deadly Tide (2)
1975-09-13 · 50mHondo and his team close in on the gang that has been committing robberies using SCUBA gear.
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E03
Episode 3
Kill S.W.A.T.
1975-09-20 · 60mFollowing a training exercise with S.W.A.T. officers from another division, Hondo and Street find the dead body of officer Frank Crane with the words ""Kill S.W.A.T."" pinned to his chest. The murder of Crane is the forerunner of a series of attempts to wipe out S.W.A.T. by brothers Mike and Simon Bishop and their fanatic sister-in-law, Joanna, who is convinced that the death of her husband was the result of S.W.A.T. ""brutality.""
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E04
Episode 4
Dealers in Death
1975-09-27 · 50mTwo officers go undercover to catch drug dealers.
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E05
Episode 5
The Vendetta
1975-10-11 · 50mMel Lang and Ralph Costa have served sentences in prison after being framed by one Carl Rigby and arrested by Hondo Harrelson. When S.W.A.T. is called upon to assist police in evicting heavily armed brothers Will and Johnny Brewer from a home taken over by Rigby, Lang and Costa plan to execute Hondo and Rigby and create evidence pointing to the Brewer Brothers.
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E06
Episode 6
Criss-Cross
1975-10-18 · 50mRunaway teenager Kathy Benson, seeking shelter in the warehouse, calls police when several men break in. Before fleeing the scene, Kathy gets a clear look at the leader, Gregg Colby, a prominent citizen and former U.S. Senator, attempting to solve his money problems by stealing from his own warehouse, collecting the insurance, and later selling his own ""stolen"" merchandise. He pretends to offer assistance to police investigating the case so that he can silence the only eyewitness, Kathy.
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E07
Episode 7
Vigilante
1975-10-25 · 50mRadio repairman Paul Julian has patched in on the S.W.A.T. radio band so he can show up at a scene of police action, where he can observe and judge each case from a concealed position. when Julian decides to punish two disarmed gunmen who have been talked into surrendering by Lt. Hondo Harrelson, S.W.A.T. is suspected of causing the senseless killings.
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Episode 8
Courthouse
1975-11-01 · 50mHoward Wilson is jailed and his partners, Mike Simon and Frank Peterson, escape before S.W.A.T. moves in to combat a race track heist involving a female hostage. Wilson is on the brink of revealing the names of his partners when a high-powered attorney, Jason Bridges, assures him that Simon and Peterson are planning to free him at all costs--even if the price involves the lives of court personnel when Wilson goes to trial.
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E09
Episode 9
Ordeal
1975-11-08 · 50mHondo and a convicted dope dealer are stranded in rough terrain when syndicate thugs who want to keep him from testifying sabotage their helicopter.
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E10
Episode 10
Strike Force
1975-11-15 · 50mHondo and his team are assigned to handle security for a demagogic former general who now leads a racist paramilitary group.
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E11
Episode 11
The Swinger
1975-11-22 · 50mD.A. Ainsely Stevens holds secret information which could convict two syndicate chieftains of capital crimes. Because Stevens insists on saying nothing until the grand jury convenes, and because police believe the mob has put out a ""major contract"" on Stevens, S.W.A.T. is assigned to guard him. But enforcer Mario Rosetti plans to abduct the prosecutor's daughter, Tory, and keep the girl until the father cracks. Oblivious to the danger, Tory is out for kicks as police and crooks try to track her down.
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Episode 12
Terror Ship
1975-11-29 · 50mA man steals a tugboat laden with explosives and threatens to blow up a famous marine biologist unless he is given a million dollars.
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E13
Episode 13
Murder by Fire
1975-12-06 · 50mMarco, an arsonist-killer posing as a fireman, engineers a fire during Southern California's dry season in the area's most affluent neighborhood. While looting the evacuated home of a wealthy couple, one of Marco's men kills a fireman. When S.W.A.T. is called in to locate a possible sniper, T.J. McCabe is shot and Marco escapes with a truckload of loot.
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Episode 14
Silent Night, Deadly Night
1975-12-13 · 50mMillionairess Doris Bristol has brought gems into the hospital where she is undergoing cosmetic surgery. Her bodyguard, John DeLeon, is slain after he spots criminal Frank Malloy posing as a dying patient (part of a plan where a woman doctor and he plot to steal the jewels from the socialite). Hondo and his men, who are at the hospital putting together a Christmas party in the children's ward, find themselves on duty when the discovery of DeLeon's body leaves Mrs. Bristol unprotected and in apparent jeopardy.
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E15
Episode 15
The Running Man (1)
1976-01-24 · 50mSyndicate hit men stalk an undercover officer, who plans to testify against the mob.
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E16
Episode 16
The Running Man (2)
1976-01-24 · 50mThe SWAT team protects a key government witness against an organized crime boss.
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E17
Episode 17
Lessons in Fear
1976-01-31 · 50mHondo Harrelson and his team are called upon to investigate robbery-homicides in which powerful drills and cutting equipment have been stolen. Meanwhile, Dom Luca is dating a student, Sharon Merlingdale, who is being carefully watched by Mark Worth, one of the killer thieves. The more Sharon sees Dom Luca, the more convinced North becomes that the girl must be eliminated.
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E18
Episode 18
Deadly Weapons
1976-02-07 · 50mBud Haskins, disowned after marrying a girl whom his father, John Haskins, disapproved, decides to help three ""professionals"" crack open the safe in the elder Haskins' warehouse. Bud is unaware that the thieves are actually after a huge arsenal of sophisticated, unmarked weapons that have been secretly imported for sale. Bud is slain after helping the criminals burglarize the warehouse. Although S.W.A.T. is assigned to investigate the burglary-murder, John Haskins recruits members of a tough Eastern mob to find the killers of his son.
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E19
Episode 19
The Chinese Connection
1976-02-28 · 50mLt. Eddie Chew is assigned to aid Lt. Hondo Harrelson when an elderly shop owner is fatally beaten by an illegal Chinese alien working as a shakedown man for Albert Parker, the Caucasian leader of what appears to be an all-Oriental crime syndicate, a deadly drug and protection ring. Hondo begins to doubt Chew's integrity when it becomes obvious that Chinatown criminals are being given secrets of his investigation.
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E20
Episode 20
Dragons and Owls
1976-03-06 · 50mClues to the perpetrators of a series of rapes are a religious medal and a Biblical quotation overheard by one of the victims.
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E21
Episode 21
Any Second Now
1976-03-13 · 50mA group of militants take over a radio station and demand that their jailed leader be released or they'll blow it up.
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E22
Episode 22
Soldier on the Hill
1976-03-20 · 50mA mentally unbalanced veteran touring a movie studio suddenly thinks he is back fighting in Vietnam.
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Episode 23
Dangerous Memories
1976-03-27 · 50mAs Lt. Harrelson lies in a hospital bed, severely wounded, the other members of the team reminisce about their best moments together in clips from previous episodes.
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Episode 24
Officer Luca, You're Dead
1976-04-03 · 50mLuca is charged with manslaughter after he is forced to kill a man who was holding his own wife hostage at gunpoint.
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Steve Forrest
Lt. Dan "Hondo" Harrelson
Robert Urich
Officer Jim Street
Rod Perry
Sgt. David "Deacon" Kay
Mark Shera
Officer Dominic Luca
James Coleman
Officer T.J. McCabe