NaN/100 votesLoading...#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
6.2/1040 votesLoading...#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
6.6/1025 votesLoading...#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: John Tomerlin
7.1/1037 votesLoading...#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
7.1/1033 votesLoading...#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
7.1/1032 votesLoading...#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
7.2/1055 votesLoading...#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
7.2/1037 votesLoading...#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
7.3/1052 votesLoading...#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
7.3/1034 votesLoading...#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
7.3/1035 votesLoading...#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
7.4/1031 votesLoading...#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
7.4/1023 votesLoading...#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
7.5/1052 votesLoading...#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
7.5/1048 votesLoading...#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
7.5/1028 votesLoading...#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
7.5/1027 votesLoading...#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
7.6/1046 votesLoading...#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
7.6/1034 votesLoading...#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
7.6/1029 votesLoading...#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
7.7/1097 votesLoading...#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
7.7/1023 votesLoading...#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
7.8/1033 votesLoading...#23 - 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
7.8/1029 votesLoading...#24 - 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
7.9/1066 votesLoading...#25 - 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: George McCowan, Harry Falk
Writer: Robert Hamner, Skip Webster
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Sole Survivor" is the worst rated episode of "S.W.A.T.". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/26/1975. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Steel Plated Security Blanket".