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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

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    S.W.A.T. Season 1 Episode 13 - Sole Survivor
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #1 - Sole Survivor

    S1:E13

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. S.W.A.T. Season 1 Episode 10 - The Steel Plated Security Blanket
    6.2/10(48 votes)

    #2 - The Steel Plated Security Blanket

    S1:E10

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. S.W.A.T. Season 2 Episode 24 - Officer Luca, You're Dead
    6.8/10(32 votes)

    #3 - Officer Luca, You're Dead

    S2:E24

    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

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  4. S.W.A.T. Season 2 Episode 21 - Any Second Now
    6.9/10(36 votes)

    #4 - Any Second Now

    S2:E21

    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

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  5. S.W.A.T. Season 1 Episode 12 - Blind Man's Bluff
    7.0/10(42 votes)

    #5 - Blind Man's Bluff

    S1:E12

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. S.W.A.T. Season 1 Episode 11 - Omega One
    7.1/10(43 votes)

    #6 - Omega One

    S1:E11

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. S.W.A.T. Season 2 Episode 4 - Dealers in Death
    7.1/10(39 votes)

    #7 - Dealers in Death

    S2:E4

    Two officers go undercover to catch drug dealers.

    Director:George McCowan
    Writer:Robert Hamner

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  8. S.W.A.T. Season 2 Episode 13 - Murder by Fire
    7.1/10(37 votes)

    #8 - Murder by Fire

    S2:E13

    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:Unknown

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  9. S.W.A.T. Season 2 Episode 6 - Criss-Cross
    7.2/10(38 votes)

    #9 - Criss-Cross

    S2:E6

    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:Unknown

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  10. S.W.A.T. Season 1 Episode 1 - The Killing Ground
    7.3/10(118 votes)

    #10 - The Killing Ground

    S1:E1

    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

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  11. S.W.A.T. Season 1 Episode 4 - Pressure Cooker
    7.3/10(64 votes)

    #11 - Pressure Cooker

    S1:E4

    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
    Writers:Robert Hamner, Walter Black

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  12. S.W.A.T. Season 1 Episode 9 - The Bravo Enigma
    7.3/10(66 votes)

    #12 - The Bravo Enigma

    S1:E9

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. S.W.A.T. Season 2 Episode 15 - The Running Man (1)
    7.3/10(45 votes)

    #13 - The Running Man (1)

    S2:E15

    Syndicate hit men stalk an undercover officer, who plans to testify against the mob.

    Director:George McCowan
    Writer:Robert Hamner

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  14. S.W.A.T. Season 2 Episode 19 - The Chinese Connection
    7.3/10(29 votes)

    #14 - The Chinese Connection

    S2:E19

    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:Unknown

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  15. S.W.A.T. Season 2 Episode 12 - Terror Ship
    7.4/10(38 votes)

    #15 - Terror Ship

    S2:E12

    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:Unknown

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  16. S.W.A.T. Season 1 Episode 5 - Hit Men
    7.5/10(59 votes)

    #16 - Hit Men

    S1:E5

    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.

    Directors:George McCowan, Earl Bellamy
    Writers:Fred Freiberger, David P. Harmon

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  17. S.W.A.T. Season 1 Episode 6 - Jungle War
    7.5/10(53 votes)

    #17 - Jungle War

    S1:E6

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. S.W.A.T. Season 1 Episode 7 - Death Score
    7.5/10(54 votes)

    #18 - Death Score

    S1:E7

    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.

    Directors:George McCowan, Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. S.W.A.T. Season 2 Episode 10 - Strike Force
    7.5/10(34 votes)

    #19 - Strike Force

    S2:E10

    Hondo and his team are assigned to handle security for a demagogic former general who now leads a racist paramilitary group.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. S.W.A.T. Season 2 Episode 20 - Dragons and Owls
    7.5/10(37 votes)

    #20 - Dragons and Owls

    S2:E20

    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:Unknown

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  21. S.W.A.T. Season 2 Episode 22 - Soldier on the Hill
    7.5/10(32 votes)

    #21 - Soldier on the Hill

    S2:E22

    A mentally unbalanced veteran touring a movie studio suddenly thinks he is back fighting in Vietnam.

    Director:Nicholas Colasanto
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. S.W.A.T. Season 2 Episode 17 - Lessons in Fear
    7.6/10(39 votes)

    #22 - Lessons in Fear

    S2:E17

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Daniel B. Ullman

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  23. S.W.A.T. Season 2 Episode 11 - The Swinger
    7.7/10(37 votes)

    #23 - The Swinger

    S2:E11

    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:Unknown

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  24. S.W.A.T. Season 2 Episode 23 - Dangerous Memories
    7.7/10(46 votes)

    #24 - Dangerous Memories

    S2:E23

    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
    Writers:Robert Hamner, Rick Husky

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  25. S.W.A.T. Season 1 Episode 2 - Coven of Killers
    7.8/10(82 votes)

    #25 - Coven of Killers

    S1:E2

    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.

    Directors:George McCowan, Harry Falk
    Writers: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 /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/26/1975. This episode scored 6.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Steel Plated Security Blanket".