S.W.A.T.

The missions of a major citys police departments Special Weapons and Tactics unit.

1975 HD 50min TV-14 United States English

Lee Stanley Robert Urich Steve Forrest Mark Shera Rod Perry James Coleman

Action Crime

S1E1 - The Killing Ground 1975-02-24

Streets partner, officer Rob Duran, is killed in the premeditated police assassination by two brothers bent on revenging their fathers death. That and subsequent police killings serve to shape the psychology of Lt. Dan ""Hondo"" Harrelsons newly formed Special Weapons and Tactics team, ""S.W.A.T."" The teams task is to combat high risk, contemporary, urban crime as a strike force. The team consists of James Street, David ""Deacon"" Kay, T.J.. McCabe, Dominic Luca, and Harrelson. ""S.W.A.T.""s first assignment is an acid test of their ability to survive as individuals and as a team. Their rigorous training is literally a fight against time.

S1E2 - Coven of Killers 1975-03-03

A convicted murderers Manson-style "family" engineers his prison escape, but after executing a D.A., this maniacal leader sends a cryptic message to Hondo, naming him as his next victim, along with the jury who found him guilty.

S1E3 - Death Carrier 1975-03-10

In order to nab a mysterious sniper whos been murdering a series of men a young model has been dating, Street poses as the beautiful womans latest boyfriend to lure the sniper out of hiding.

S1E4 - Pressure Cooker 1975-03-17

While the S.W.A.T. unit has their hands full foiling both a heist and a kidnapping, a beautiful but nosy reporter arrives at police headquarters, spending a few days with S.W.A.T. members to write an investigative piece.

S1E5 - Hit Men 1975-03-24

After a convicted felon agrees to expose a crime syndicates dirty laundry before a Senate committee, he learns that a Mafia "hit" has been placed on his life, and he is wounded in an ambush en route from the penitentiary.

S1E6 - Jungle War 1975-03-31

When a veteran police officer who served with Hondo in Vietnam lobbies to fill in for ailing "Deacon" Kay, Hondo thinks hes the right man for the job - until urban combat dredges up jungle-warfare memories for the embattled vet, triggering a nervous breakdown that risks jeopardizing the entire team.

S1E7 - Death Score 1975-04-07

A fanatical terrorist group poses as a documentary crew in a scheme to hold a professional basketball team hostage during its championship game, demanding a multi-million dollar ransom for their cause.

S1E8 - Time Bomb 1975-04-21

Street and his girl friend are trapped in a deserted movie studio planted with bombs by an embittered movie stuntman.

S1E9 - The Bravo Enigma 1975-04-28

After an assassination attempt on a Senators life is foiled by S.W.A.T., a criminal mastermind enlists globetrotting assassin Bravo to finish the job. Hondos unit may have met their match hunting down this human time bomb, as the elusive hit man unwittingly spreads a deadly plague around L.A.

S1E10 - The Steel Plated Security Blanket 1975-05-05

As Hondo Harrelson and the S.W.A.T. team investigate the theft of an armored car, T.J. McCabe is spending his lunch hour with his fiancée, Susan, who is public relations representative for the Miss American Beauty Pageant. As Miss New Mexico tries on the crown and scepter, the armored car thieves attempt to steal the jewels, taking Susan and Miss New Mexico as hostages.

S1E11 - Omega One 1975-05-12

Zealous student activists, inspired by a non-aggression philosophy class Street attends, steal a cache of guns and take control of a chemical plant to protest bio-terrorism, threatening to blow it up unless they receive a million-dollar ransom.

S1E12 - Blind Man's Bluff 1975-05-19

While leading the team in the rescue of several women being held hostage by two known killers in a massage parlor, Hondo is grazed by a bullet across his temple. He refuses to take time off for tests until dizziness and blurred vision force him temporarily to relinquish his command to Lt. Purcell, an officer whose methods and personality have a demoralizing effect on the S.W.A.T. team.

S2E1 - Deadly Tide (1) 1975-09-13

Hondo and his team go after a gang of jewel thieves who make their getaways under water.

S2E3 - Kill S.W.A.T. 1975-09-20

Following 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.""

S2E4 - Dealers in Death 1975-09-27

Two officers go undercover to catch drug dealers.

S2E5 - The Vendetta 1975-10-11

Mel 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.

S2E6 - Criss-Cross 1975-10-18

Runaway 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.

S2E7 - Vigilante 1975-10-25

Radio 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.

S2E8 - Courthouse 1975-11-01

Howard 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.

S2E9 - Ordeal 1975-11-08

Hondo and a convicted dope dealer are stranded in rough terrain when syndicate thugs who want to keep him from testifying sabotage their helicopter.

S2E10 - Strike Force 1975-11-15

Hondo and his team are assigned to handle security for a demagogic former general who now leads a racist paramilitary group.

S2E11 - The Swinger 1975-11-22

D.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 prosecutors 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.

S2E12 - Terror Ship 1975-11-29

A man steals a tugboat laden with explosives and threatens to blow up a famous marine biologist unless he is given a million dollars.

S2E13 - Murder by Fire 1975-12-06

Marco, an arsonist-killer posing as a fireman, engineers a fire during Southern Californias dry season in the areas most affluent neighborhood. While looting the evacuated home of a wealthy couple, one of Marcos 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.

S2E14 - Silent Night, Deadly Night 1975-12-13

Millionairess 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 childrens ward, find themselves on duty when the discovery of DeLeons body leaves Mrs. Bristol unprotected and in apparent jeopardy.

S2E15 - The Running Man (1) 1976-01-24

Syndicate hit men stalk an undercover officer, who plans to testify against the mob.

S2E16 - The Running Man (2) 1976-01-24

The SWAT team protects a key government witness against an organized crime boss.

S2E18 - Deadly Weapons 1976-02-07

Bud 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.

S2E19 - The Chinese Connection 1976-02-28

Lt. 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 Chews integrity when it becomes obvious that Chinatown criminals are being given secrets of his investigation.

S2E20 - Dragons and Owls 1976-03-06

Clues to the perpetrators of a series of rapes are a religious medal and a Biblical quotation overheard by one of the victims.

S2E21 - Any Second Now 1976-03-13

A group of militants take over a radio station and demand that their jailed leader be released or theyll blow it up.

S2E22 - Soldier on the Hill 1976-03-20

A mentally unbalanced veteran touring a movie studio suddenly thinks he is back fighting in Vietnam.

S2E23 - Dangerous Memories 1976-03-27

As 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.