S.W.A.T.
ABC (ended 1976)
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Season 2
- Ep 35Officer Luca, You're Dead2/17/75
- Ep 23Dangerous Memories02/16/75
After being severely wounded in an operation, Lt. Harrelson fights for his life during a lengthy brain surgery. While waiting at the hospital, the four team members reminisce about their best moments with the Lieutenant in clips from previous episodes. - Ep 22Officer Luca, You're Dead4/3/76
Luca is charged with manslaughter after he is forced to kill a man who was holding his own wife hostage at gunpoint. - Ep 22Any Second Now3/13/76
A group of militants take over a radio station and demand their jailed leader be released or they'll blow the station, along with their three hostages. - Ep 21Soldier on the Hill3/20/76
A mentally unbalanced veteran who has escaped from a psychiatric hospital, is touring a movie studio when he suddenly thinks he is back fighting in Vietnam. He takes two people hostage leaving S.W.A.T with the task of disarming him. - Ep 20The Chinese Connection2/28/76
Lt. Eddie Chew is assigned to aid Lt. Harrelson when an elderly shop owner is beaten by an illegal Chinese alien working as a shakedown man for Ronald Parker, the Caucasian leader of what appears to be an all-Oriental crime syndicate engaged in a protection ring. Lt. Harrelson begins to doubt Chew's integrity when it becomes obvious that the Chinatown criminals are being given secrets of his investigation.moreless - Ep 19Deadly Weapons2/21/76
Bud Haskins, whose father John is moving large quantities of unmarked automatic weapons as part of his warehouse operation, agrees to help three men crack open the safe in the elder Haskins' warehouse. Bud has had a falling out with his father and wishes to steal some of the money in the safe. When the thieves attempt to steal some of the weapons, Bud is killed trying to stop them. While S.W.A.T. is assigned to investigate the burglary-murder as part of their ongoing effort to locate the source of the weapons, John Haskins recruits his Eastern mob partners to find his son's killers.moreless - Ep 18Lessons in Fear1/31/76
Lt. Harrelson and his team are called to investigate two robberies in which powerful drills, cutting equipment and dynamite are stolen. During the investigation, Luca sets up a double date for he and McCabe with Sharon Merlingdale, a witness from another case and a student at a prestigious all-girls school and a classmate.''''The thieves, who are planning to use the school as an entry point to a bank vault across the street, were counting on the school being empty for the weekend. When the girls agree to stay the weekend for their dates, they unwittingly place themselves and Luca in grave danger.moreless - Ep 17Dragons and Owls3/6/76
Lt. Harrelson and his team are pursuing a group of men who are terrorizing the entire area by committing a series of rapes. The only clues are a religious medal found at one of the abduction scenes and a Biblical quotation overheard by one of the victims. - Ep 16The Running Man1/24/76
David Neal, a government agent who spent four years on a undercover assignment posing as a crime boss's lieutenant, is marked for death after his testimony sends the kingpin to prison for life. After the trial, a $500,000 bounty put on the head of Neal, who begins a new life in a small town as Ben Jordan. However, his police instincts come to the fore and he soon finds himself embroiled in another battle with organized crime.''moreless - Ep 15Silent Night, Deadly Night12/13/75
Lt. Harrelson's old friend, millionairess Doris Wainwright Bristol, has brought expensive jewelry into the hospital where she is undergoing cosmetic surgery. Her bodyguard, Joe DeLeon, is slain after he spots criminal Frank Malloy posing as a dying patient; all part of a plot to steal Doris' jewelry. The S.W.A.T. team, who along with Hilda are at the hospital preparing for the children's Christmas party, find themselves forced into action when the discovery of DeLeon's body leaves Doris unprotected.moreless - Ep 14Murder by Fire12/6/75
Marco, an arsonist-killer posing as a fireman, engineers a fire during Southern California's dry season in the area's most affluent neighborhood, Sherwood Heights. While looting the evacuated home of a wealthy couple, one of Marco's men shoots a fireman. When S.W.A.T. is called in to locate the sniper, McCabe is shot and gravely wounded. S.W.A.T. kills one of the snipers but Marco and the rest of his gang escape with a truckload of stolen merchandise.moreless - Ep 13Terror Ship11/29/75
A group of men steals a tugboat and barge laden with twelve cases of TNT, killing the tugboat captain in the process. They later threaten to blow up a Nobel Prize winning marine biologist and her research vessel unless they are given one million dollars. - Ep 12The Swinger11/22/75
Prosecutor John 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 protect him. However, the syndicate's enforcer plans to abduct the Stevens' daughter and keep the girl until the father turns over the evidence. Oblivious to the danger, Tory is out for kicks as both the police and the syndicate to track her down.moreless - Ep 11Strike Force11/15/75
Lt. Harrelson and his team are assigned to handle security for General James Woodward, a World War II hero who now leads a racist paramilitary group. - Ep 10Ordeal11/8/75
Lt. Harrelson and convicted dope dealer Johnny Rizi are stranded in very rough and remote terrain when the syndicate sabotages the helicopter in which Lt. Harrelson is transporting Rizi to jail. The Lieutenant is able to radio in their approximate location just prior to the radio dying, which leads to the S.W.A.T. team and the syndicate racing to find the two, albeit with very different motives.moreless - Ep 9Courthouse11/1/75
Howard Wilson is captured while his accomplices Mike Simon and Frank Peterson escape before S.W.A.T. is able to move in to combat a race track heist involving a female hostage. Wilson is on the brink of revealing the names of his accomplices when 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.moreless - Ep 8Vigilante10/25/75
Paul Julian, a radio repairman and ham operator, has patched in on the S.W.A.T. radio band, where he listens in on calls. This allows him to arrive at crime scenes ahead of S.W.A.T. and find concealed observation positions. Bent on avenging his wife's murderers, he kills two disarmed gunmen who have been talked into surrendering by Lt. Harrelson, and leaves S.W.A.T. facing intense media pressure and accusations that they are behind the senseless killings.moreless - Ep 7Criss-Cross10/18/75
Two transient teenagers seek shelter in the warehouse of Colby Electronics. While they are there, three men break in and the female teen anonymously calls police. Before fleeing, the boy gets a good look at the robbers, one of whom is Greg Colby, a prominent citizen and former U.S. Senator. Subsequently, Colby befriends Lt. Harrelson in an attempt to discover the identity of the teens with the intent of killing them.moreless - Ep 6The Vendetta10/11/75
Mel Lang and Ralph Costa have just been released from prison after serving five year sentences. They were reported to police by construction magnate Carl Rigby and arrested by Sergeant Harrelson. When S.W.A.T. is called upon to assist police in evicting heavily armed brothers Will and Johnny Brewer from a home being taken over by Rigby, Lang and Costa see their opportunity to execute Rigby and Harrelson, and to create evidence pointing to the Brewer brothers.moreless - Ep 5Time Bomb10/4/75
After completing S.W.A.T. exercises at a movie studio, Street realizes that he left his beeper on the lot. When he and his girlfriend return to collect it, they are trapped in the deserted studio by an embittered stuntman, who is planting explosives with the intent of blowing up the lot as an act of revenge.moreless - Ep 4Dealers in Death9/27/75
- Ep 3Kill S.W.A.T.9/20/75
Following a training exercise with S.W.A.T. officers from another division, Lt. Harrelson and Street find the dead body of Officer Frank Baylor with the words "Kill S.W.A.T." pinned to his chest. The murder of Baylor 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.moreless - Ep 2Dealers in Death9/27/75
When local police are overwhelmed by a series of crimes committed using automatic weapons, S.W.A.T. is called in discover the source of the weapons. - Ep 1Time Bomb1/1/76
- Ep 1Deadly Tide9/13/75
The S.W.A.T. team is asked to help apprehend jewel thieves who are committing robberies, taking a female hostage each time, and making their escape underwater using SCUBA gear.
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Season 1
- Ep 12Sole Survivor5/26/75
After making a careful study of S.W.A.T. methods, Frank Hunter, a recently dismissed parole officer, recruits a group of ex-convicts with special skills. After setting off a series of false S.W.A.T. calls throughout the city, Hunter and his well-armed group steal a fortune in rare gold coins from a heavily guarded rare coin auction.''Meanwhile, the team works to help Timmy Lacey, whose father they shot when he was shooting at people and whose mother in gravely ill in the hospital.moreless - Ep 11Blind Man's Bluff5/19/75
While leading the team in the rescue of several women being held hostage by two known killers in a massage parlor, Lt. Harrelson is grazed by a bullet across his temple. He stubbornly refuses an EEG, 24 hours hospitalization and taking time off for tests until dizziness and blurred vision hospitalize him. His command is temporarily taken over by Lt. Purcell, whose methods and personality have a demoralizing effect on the entire S.W.A.T. team.moreless - Ep 10Omega One5/12/75
A group of students of Nobel Prize winning scientist Dr. Samuel Bruner plan a peaceful protest to bring attention to the existence possible chemical and biological stockpiles. Dr. Bruner is sympathetic to their cause and agrees to join the protest. The only student to not take part is Jim Street, who is forbidden by department regulations.''During the protest, the student take Dr. and Mrs. Bruner hostage and demand $1 million or else they will blow up the facility.moreless - Ep 9The Steel-Plated Security Blanket5/5/75
While Lt. Harrelson and the S.W.A.T. team investigate the theft of an armored car, McCabe is spending his lunch hour with his fiance, Susan, who is public relations representative for the Miss American Beauty Pageant. As the winner, 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.moreless - Ep 8The Bravo Enigma4/28/75
The team must find an elusive assassin who is unaware that he is spreading pneumonic plague and could kill anyone he comes into contact with. - Ep 7Death Score4/7/75
A group of criminals posing as terrorists takes the entire Owls basketball team, including McCabe's good friend and Owls' star player Ollie Wyatt, hostage. - Ep 6Jungle War3/31/75
Bo Pritchard is a veteran police officer who served with Lt. Harrelson in Vietnam. Having completed S.W.A.T. training, Pritchard all but begs Lt. Harrelson to give him a chance to work on the team until Sergeant Kay recovers from a shooting. But going into action with Lt. Harrelson recalls memories of jungle warfare to Pritchard whose hostility and resentments eventually pull him into an emotional breakdown.moreless - Ep 5Hit Men3/24/75
Vincent Ritchie, serving a prison sentence, agrees to expose the secrets of a crime syndicate by testifying before a Senate committee, when he learns of "family" plans to insure his permanent silence. While he is being transported with a police escort from the penitentiary, Ritchie is gravely wounded in an ambush attack which claims the life of a police officer. While doctors fight to save the convict's life, Lt. Harrelson's team and other S.W.A.T. units station themselves throughout the hospital, awaiting an expected attempt to finish Ritchie off.moreless - Ep 4Pressure Cooker3/17/75
Lt. Harrelson and his men have been working around the clock on cases such as a food market heist and a kidnapping investigation, when journalist Meredith Cooper reports, with police department approval, to spend several days with the S.W.A.T. team. Ms. Cooper's presence creates several problems: her beauty is distracting, her manner is pushy and her opinion of the police is anchored somewhere below sea level.moreless - Ep 3Death Carrier3/10/75
In a period of a year, model Janet Warren dated three young men, and each has been killed by a sniper's bullet. Police have been unable to find motives or suspects. Since Janet is the only link, Lt. Harrelson assigns Street to pose as the beautiful girl's latest boyfriend in a plan to draw out the sniper, who apparently has Janet under constant surveillance.moreless - Ep 2A Coven of Killers3/3/75
Three members of Joey Hopper's "family," including newcomer Judy Collins, engineer Hopper's escape from a prison's hospital ward. After executing an assistant District Attorney, Hopper sends a recorded message to Lt. Harrelson that he will be the next victim and that he also intends to punish the jury that found him guilty of other homicides. Russ Collins, owner of an underground newspaper which has published sympathetic articles about Hopper, refuses to admit knowledge of Hopper's whereabouts until Lt. Harrelson informs Collins that his daughter has become a member of the treacherous cult.moreless - Ep 1The Killing Ground2/24/75
Street's partner, officer Rob Duran, is killed in the premeditated police assassination by two brothers bent on avenging their father's death. That, and subsequent police killings serve to shape the psychology of Lt. Dan "Hondo" Harrelson's newly formed Special Weapons and Tactics team, S.W.A.T. The team's 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.moreless - Ep 1S.W.A.T.2/17/75
Harrelson is the head of the Special Weapons and Tactics team, a unit trained to handle unusually volatile situations. His hard-nosed attitude about police work irks rookie Terry Webster.
