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First Aired: February 24th, 1975
Status: Ended
Network: ABC
Summary: 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.
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# of Episodes: 38
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Season 2
Episode 1: Deadly Tide (1)
Air Date: September 13rd, 1975
Summary: Hondo and his team go after a gang of jewel thieves who make their getaways under water.
Episode 2: Deadly Tide (2)
Air Date: September 13rd, 1975
Summary: Hondo and his team close in on the gang that has been committing robberies using SCUBA gear.
Episode 3: Kill S.W.A.T.
Air Date: September 20th, 1975
Summary: 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.""
Episode 4: Dealers in Death
Air Date: September 27th, 1975
Summary: Two officers go undercover to catch drug dealers.
Episode 5: The Vendetta
Air Date: October 4th, 1975
Summary: 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.
Episode 6: Criss-Cross
Air Date: October 11st, 1975
Summary: 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.
Episode 7: Vigilante
Air Date: October 18th, 1975
Summary: 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.
Episode 8: Courthouse
Air Date: October 25th, 1975
Summary: 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.
Episode 9: Ordeal
Air Date: November 1st, 1975
Summary: Hondo and a convicted dope dealer are stranded in rough terrain when syndicate thugs who want to keep him from testifying sabotage their helicopter.
Episode 10: Strike Force
Air Date: November 8th, 1975
Summary: Hondo and his team are assigned to handle security for a demagogic former general who now leads a racist paramilitary group.
Episode 11: The Swinger
Air Date: November 15th, 1975
Summary: 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 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.
Episode 12: Terror Ship
Air Date: November 22nd, 1975
Summary: A man steals a tugboat laden with explosives and threatens to blow up a famous marine biologist unless he is given a million dollars.
Episode 13: Murder by Fire
Air Date: November 29th, 1975
Summary: Marco, 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.
Episode 14: Silent Night, Deadly Night
Air Date: December 6th, 1975
Summary: 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 children's ward, find themselves on duty when the discovery of DeLeon's body leaves Mrs. Bristol unprotected and in apparent jeopardy.
Episode 15: The Running Man (1)
Air Date: December 13rd, 1975
Summary: Syndicate hit men stalk an undercover officer, who plans to testify against the mob.
Episode 16: The Running Man (2)
Air Date: January 24th, 1976
Summary: The SWAT team protects a key government witness against an organized crime boss.
Episode 17: Lessons in Fear
Air Date: January 24th, 1976
Summary: Hondo 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.
Episode 18: Deadly Weapons
Air Date: January 31st, 1976
Summary: 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.
Episode 19: The Chinese Connection
Air Date: February 21st, 1976
Summary: 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 Chew's integrity when it becomes obvious that Chinatown criminals are being given secrets of his investigation.
Episode 20: Dragons and Owls
Air Date: February 28th, 1976
Summary: Clues to the perpetrators of a series of rapes are a religious medal and a Biblical quotation overheard by one of the victims.
Episode 21: Any Second Now
Air Date: March 6th, 1976
Summary: A group of militants take over a radio station and demand that their jailed leader be released or they'll blow it up.
Episode 22: Soldier on the Hill
Air Date: March 13rd, 1976
Summary: A mentally unbalanced veteran touring a movie studio suddenly thinks he is back fighting in Vietnam.
Episode 23: Officer Luca, You're Dead
Air Date: March 20th, 1976
Summary: Luca is charged with manslaughter after he is forced to kill a man who was holding his own wife hostage at gunpoint.
Episode 24: Dangerous Memories
Air Date: March 27th, 1976
Summary: 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.
Episode 25: delete
Air Date: April 3rd, 1976
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