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Every episode of S.W.A.T. ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of S.W.A.T.!

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.

Genres:Action & AdventureDrama
Network:ABC

Lowest Rated Episodes Summary

The worst episode of "S.W.A.T." is "Sole Survivor", rated N/A/10 from 0 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Sole Survivor" aired on 5/26/1975 and is rated NaN point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "The Steel Plated Security Blanket".

  • Sole Survivor
    NaN/10 0 votes

    #1 - Sole Survivor

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/26/1975

    A gang of ex-convicts, led by their former parole officer, utilizing his familiarity with S.W.A.T. procedures, invades a heavily guarded rare coin auction and makes off with two million dollars is gold in "Sole Survivor." 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. Then, after setting off a series of false S.W.A.T. calls throughout the city, Hunter and his well-armed specialists help themselves to a fortune in rare gold coins.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Steel Plated Security Blanket
    6.2/10 40 votes

    #2 - The Steel Plated Security Blanket

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/5/1975

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Officer Luca, You're Dead
    6.6/10 25 votes

    #3 - 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: N/A

  • Blind Man's Bluff
    7.0/10 36 votes

    #4 - Blind Man's Bluff

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 5/19/1975

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Criss-Cross
    7.1/10 33 votes

    #5 - 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

  • Murder by Fire
    7.1/10 32 votes

    #6 - 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

  • Pressure Cooker
    7.2/10 55 votes

    #7 - Pressure Cooker

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/17/1975

    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.

    Director: George McCowan

    Writer: Robert Hamner, Walter Black

  • Omega One
    7.2/10 37 votes

    #8 - Omega One

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 5/12/1975

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Bravo Enigma
    7.3/10 52 votes

    #9 - The Bravo Enigma

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 4/28/1975

    After an assassination attempt on a Senator's life is foiled by S.W.A.T., a criminal mastermind enlists globetrotting assassin Bravo to finish the job. Hondo's 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dealers in Death
    7.3/10 34 votes

    #10 - 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

  • The Running Man (1)
    7.3/10 35 votes

    #11 - 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

  • Terror Ship
    7.4/10 31 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

  • The Chinese Connection
    7.4/10 23 votes

    #13 - 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

  • Hit Men
    7.5/10 51 votes

    #14 - Hit Men

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/24/1975

    After a convicted felon agrees to expose a crime syndicate's 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.

    Director: George McCowan, Earl Bellamy

    Writer: Fred Freiberger, David P. Harmon

  • Jungle War
    7.5/10 48 votes

    #15 - Jungle War

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/31/1975

    When a veteran police officer who served with Hondo in Vietnam lobbies to fill in for ailing "Deacon" Kay, Hondo thinks he's 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Strike Force
    7.5/10 28 votes

    #16 - 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

  • Any Second Now
    7.5/10 26 votes

    #17 - 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

  • Death Score
    7.6/10 46 votes

    #18 - Death Score

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/7/1975

    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.

    Director: George McCowan, Earl Bellamy

    Writer: N/A

  • Lessons in Fear
    7.6/10 34 votes

    #19 - 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

  • Dragons and Owls
    7.6/10 29 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

  • The Killing Ground
    7.7/10 96 votes

    #21 - The Killing Ground

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/24/1975

    Street's partner, officer Rob Duran, is killed in the premeditated police assassination by two brothers bent on revenging 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.

    Director: Harry Falk

    Writer: Rick Husky

  • The Swinger
    7.7/10 28 votes

    #22 - 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

  • Soldier on the Hill
    7.7/10 23 votes

    #23 - 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

  • Coven of Killers
    7.8/10 64 votes

    #24 - Coven of Killers

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/3/1975

    A convicted murderer's 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.

    Director: Harry Falk, George McCowan

    Writer: Robert Hamner, Skip Webster

  • Vigilante
    7.8/10 33 votes

    #25 - 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