8.2/1042 votes#1 - Deadly Tide (1)
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1975
Hondo and his team go after a gang of jewel thieves who make their getaways under water.
Director: Gene Levitt
Writer: N/A
8.0/1035 votes#2 - Deadly Tide (2)
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/13/1975
Hondo and his team close in on the gang that has been committing robberies using SCUBA gear.
Director: Gene Levitt
Writer: N/A
8.0/1034 votes#3 - Kill S.W.A.T.
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/20/1975
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.""
Director: George McCowan
Writer: Robert Hamner
7.3/1034 votes#4 - Dealers in Death
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/27/1975
Two officers go undercover to catch drug dealers.
Director: George McCowan
Writer: Robert Hamner
7.9/1042 votes#5 - The Vendetta
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1975
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/1033 votes#6 - Criss-Cross
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/1975
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.
Director: Fernando Lamas
Writer: N/A
7.8/1033 votes#7 - Vigilante
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/1975
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.
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: N/A
7.9/1031 votes#8 - Courthouse
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/1/1975
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.
Director: Don Weis
Writer: N/A
7.9/1033 votes#9 - Ordeal
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/8/1975
Hondo and a convicted dope dealer are stranded in rough terrain when syndicate thugs who want to keep him from testifying sabotage their helicopter.
Director: Sutton Roley
Writer: N/A
7.5/1028 votes#10 - Strike Force
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/15/1975
Hondo and his team are assigned to handle security for a demagogic former general who now leads a racist paramilitary group.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/1029 votes#11 - The Swinger
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/22/1975
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.
Director: Barry Crane
Writer: N/A
7.4/1031 votes#12 - Terror Ship
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 11/29/1975
A man steals a tugboat laden with explosives and threatens to blow up a famous marine biologist unless he is given a million dollars.
Director: George McCowan
Writer: N/A
7.1/1032 votes#13 - Murder by Fire
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/6/1975
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.
Director: William Crain
Writer: N/A
7.9/1024 votes#14 - Silent Night, Deadly Night
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/13/1975
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.
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: N/A
7.3/1035 votes#15 - The Running Man (1)
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/24/1976
Syndicate hit men stalk an undercover officer, who plans to testify against the mob.
Director: George McCowan
Writer: Robert Hamner
7.8/1035 votes#16 - The Running Man (2)
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/24/1976
The SWAT team protects a key government witness against an organized crime boss.
Director: George McCowan
Writer: Robert Hamner
7.5/1035 votes#17 - Lessons in Fear
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/31/1976
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Daniel B. Ullman
7.9/1026 votes#18 - Deadly Weapons
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/7/1976
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.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: N/A
7.4/1023 votes#19 - The Chinese Connection
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/28/1976
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.
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: N/A
7.6/1029 votes#20 - Dragons and Owls
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/6/1976
Clues to the perpetrators of a series of rapes are a religious medal and a Biblical quotation overheard by one of the victims.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
7.5/1027 votes#21 - Any Second Now
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 3/13/1976
A group of militants take over a radio station and demand that their jailed leader be released or they'll blow it up.
Director: Nicholas Colasanto
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
7.7/1024 votes#22 - Soldier on the Hill
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 3/20/1976
A mentally unbalanced veteran touring a movie studio suddenly thinks he is back fighting in Vietnam.
Director: Nicholas Colasanto
Writer: N/A
7.9/1040 votes#23 - Dangerous Memories
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/27/1976
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.
Director: Richard Benedict
Writer: Robert Hamner, Rick Husky
6.6/1026 votes#24 - Officer Luca, You're Dead
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 4/3/1976
Luca is charged with manslaughter after he is forced to kill a man who was holding his own wife hostage at gunpoint.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: John Tomerlin
The Best Episodes of S.W.A.T. Season 2
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Deadly Tide (1)" is the best rated episode of "S.W.A.T." season 2. It scored 8.2/10 based on 42 votes. Directed by Gene Levitt and written by N/A, it aired on 9/13/1975. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Deadly Tide (2)".