S.W.A.T.
This series features the missions of the fictional W.C.P.D.'s Special Weapons and Tactics team. They are a team of highly trained and heavily armed police officers who's purpose is to make coordinated assaults on armed and dangerous criminals in sensitive situations and defensible locations.
- 1975-1976
- 2 seasons
- ABC
- Action & Adventure, Suspense, Drama
- TV-14
This series features the missions of the fictional W.C.P.D.'s Special Weapons and Tactics team. They are a team of highly trained and heavily armed police officers who's purpose is to make coordinated assaults on armed and dangerous criminals in sensitive situations and defensible locations.
Season 2 Episode Guide
25 Episodes 1975 - 1976
Episode 1
Deadly Tide: Part 1
Sat, Sep 13, 1975 96 mins
S.W.A.T. investigates the death of a scuba diver and how it figures into a series of jewel thefts.
Episode 2
Deadly Tide: Part 2
Sat, Sep 13, 1975
As SWAT closes in on the jewel robberies, the thieves plan a heist using stolen Navy mines.
Episode 3
Kill S.W.A.T.
Sat, Sep 20, 1975 49 mins
Hondo and his team are set up as targets for mass execution by a family of criminals who have convinced themselves that the death of one of their kin was an act of S.W.A.T. "brutality."
Episode 4
Dealers in Death
Sat, Sep 27, 1975 51 mins
Lt. Hondo Harrelson sends Dom Luca and T.J. McCabe on special undercover assignment to track down the supplier of sophisticated automatic weapons being used in a series of crimes.
Episode 5
Time Bomb
Sat, Oct 4, 1975 50 mins
The team is trying out one of their new devices at a movie studio. When they're done Street leaves his behind. He and Luca and McCabe are suppose to go out with their girlfriends so he picks her up when he remembers he left it behind. He goes back to get it but some men came after the team left and have planted explosives all over the studio as part of an extortion scheme by a team led by "Cowboy", an embittered former stuntman whose career ended when he broke his back and the studio made him a night security guard. He now plans to detonate deadly explosives throughout the studio unless he gets a ransom. When Street gets trapped he uses it to signal the others who rush to the studio.
Episode 6
The Vendetta
Sat, Oct 11, 1975 60 mins
Lt. Hondo Harrelson and a crooked property owner are marked for death by a pair of vengeance-seeking ex-convicts.
Episode 7
Criss-Cross
Sat, Oct 18, 1975 51 mins
When a series of robberies occur, the team tries to find out who's doing it. Harrelson goes to speak to one of the owners, a prominent businessman and former politician, who unknown to Harrelson is the man behind the robberies. Harrelson learns that a couple of runaways were at one of the robberies and saw the robbers and one of them's the businessman. Upon learning of this, he tries to find them before Harrelson.
Episode 8
Vigilante
Sat, Oct 25, 1975 60 mins
Paul Julian, a radio repairman and friend to most of the S.W.A.T. team, lost his wife to a brutal killer, and has gone mad obsessing over her death. He keeps a police scanner tuned to S.W.A.T. and shows up at their stakeouts. Whenever the bad guys come out, to surrender or otherwise, he shoots them.
Episode 9
Courthouse
Sat, Nov 1, 1975 51 mins
Four thugs knock over a race track for $2 million, but only two of them escape. One of the one left behind is killed and the other captured. The gang tries elaborate methods to try to spring the surviving accomplice when he goes to trial.
Episode 10
Ordeal
Sat, Nov 8, 1975 60 mins
Hondo and a talkative dope dealer marked for execution are stranded together in rugged terrain after surviving the crash of a sabotaged helicopter. Frank Gorshin guest stars.
Episode 11
Strike Force
Sat, Nov 15, 1975 51 mins
The team has been assigned to protect a white supremacist. What they don't know is that the man's wife and right hand are having an affair and are plotting something.
Episode 12
The Swinger
Sat, Nov 22, 1975 60 mins
The team is assigned to protect a prosecutor who's about to take down some powerful people, and he also has some secret evidence that will take them down. When an attempt is made, Harrelson implores the man to lie low, but he refuses to be intimidated. What they don't know is that the shooters are trying to kill him. They plan to grab the man's daughter to get him. To turn over the evidence. Harrelson is worried about the girl but she's belligerent and Street finds himself having to look, after her but the ones out to get her, plant bugs in the house and learn where she is and try to get her but Street stops them and they go on the run and they can't contact anyone.
Episode 13
Terror Ship
Sat, Nov 29, 1975 51 mins
A tugboat hauling a barge laden with explosives is hijacked by a man who threatens to blow up the harbor and murder a famous marine biologist unless Hondo Harrelson delivers a million dollars in cash.
Episode 14
Murder by Fire
Sat, Dec 6, 1975 51 mins
Hondo and his team go after a gang of arsonist-killers who pose as firemen, evacuate posh homes, shoot at actual firemen and police and escape with a fortune in jewels, paintings and antiques.
Episode 15
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Sat, Dec 13, 1975 60 mins
A doctor and her "patient" plot to steal a half-million in jewels from a socialite who has brought the gems into the hospital where she is undergoing cosmetic surgery.
Episode 16
The Running Man: Part 1
Sat, Jan 24, 1976 95 mins
The team is tasked with helping a man from the Justice Department serve a warrant on a mobster, which they do. The man's nephew is killed in the process. The Fed meets with Hondo. Hondo wonders why are they are going after the man now, they've tried before and failed. The Fed tells Hondo this time things are different. He tells Hondo to go with him. In the meantime the mobster after getting released, can't help but wonder that the Fed is a little cocky now. He tells his other nephew to look into it. The Fed reveals to Hondo that David Neil one of the mobster's people, is an undercover agent. And that SWAT has to protect him. The nephew later discovers Neil is missing, he concludes Neil is the Fed's witness. He then orders Neil be found and taken care of.
Episode 17
The Running Man: Part 2
Sat, Jan 24, 1976
Ben Jordan begins a new life in Lakevale, but fast runs afoul of the town's power brokers. Jordan discovers that even this quaint community falls under the dark shadow of the Mob, and hopes the blue line of S.W.A.T. also extends this far.
Episode 18
Lessons in Fear
Sat, Jan 31, 1976 60 mins
Luca has a date with a girl who attends a local Girls' School. The school director is involved with the leader of a murderous gang; he is plotting to rob the bank next door. Luca's date with the girl throws a wrench into the gang's plan.
Episode 19
Deadly Weapons
Sat, Feb 21, 1976 50 mins
Lt. Hondo Harrelson investigates the murder of a young man who was slain helping a group of "professionals" burglarize his father's ware-house, containing a vast store of unmarked weapons.
Episode 20
The Chinese Connection
Sat, Feb 28, 1976 51 mins
Hondo and a Chinese-American police lieutenant team up to crack a highly organized, heavily armed and deadly drug and protection ring which is terrorizing the Chinese community.
Episode 21
Dragons and Owls
Sat, Mar 6, 1976 51 mins
S.W.A.T. goes after a gang of misfits who steal vans and attack beautiful women.
Episode 22
Any Second Now
Sat, Mar 13, 1976 51 mins
A terrorist group seizes a radio station, after planting bombs and taking hostages. They demand the release of a comrade from prison. When SWAT arrives, the terrorists blow up the elevator and the stairwell. SWAT must find a way in.
Episode 23
Soldier on the Hill
Tue, Mar 16, 1976 51 mins
A disoriented war veteran taking a tourist ride through a movie studio becomes convinced he is back at the front and takes a beautiful star as his prisoner.
Episode 24
Dangerous Memories
Sat, Mar 20, 1976 51 mins
As Hondo fights for his life after being shot while leading an operation, team members Jim Street, Deacon Kay, Dom Luca and T.J. McCabe recall earlier experiences with the tough lieutenant.
Episode 25
Officer Luca, You're Dead
Sat, Apr 3, 1976 51 mins
The basic idea of "Rashomon" -- the same event told in flashbacks from different perspectives -- fuels this story of Luca killing a man. The unhinged man had carried a .25 five-bullet automatic pistol up to his wife's lover's apartment and shot the lover (one bullet), one at a cop in a hallway (two), and two more out a window at the S.W.A.T. team (four). When he takes the wife downstairs to a cellar, Luca is waiting with his rifle and drops him in his tracks. The question remains now -- did the gunman fire the final bullet at Luca (Luca's version) -- did Luca fire on him without provocation (which is what the wife thinks) -- or was the last bullet a misfire that didn't detonate (which is what an anti-cop photographer trailing Luca thinks)?