The WORST episodes of S.W.A.T.
Every episode of S.W.A.T. ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of S.W.A.T.!
This series features the missions of the Los Angeles Police Department's Special Weapons and Tactics team. They are a team of highly trained and heavily armed police officers who's purpose is to make coordinated assaults on armed and dangerous criminals in sensitive situations and defensible locations.
#1 - Officer Luca, You're Dead
Season 2 - Episode 25 - 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.
#2 - Dangerous Memories
Season 2 - Episode 24 - 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.
#3 - Dealers in Death
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/27/1975
Two officers go undercover to catch drug dealers.
#4 - Terror Ship
Season 2 - Episode 13 - 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.
#5 - Soldier on the Hill
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/20/1976
A mentally unbalanced veteran touring a movie studio suddenly thinks he is back fighting in Vietnam.
#6 - Any Second Now
Season 2 - Episode 22 - 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.
#7 - The Running Man (1)
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/24/1976
Syndicate hit men stalk an undercover officer, who plans to testify against the mob.
#8 - Silent Night, Deadly Night
Season 2 - Episode 15 - 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.
#9 - Murder by Fire
Season 2 - Episode 14 - 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.
#10 - Criss-Cross
Season 2 - Episode 7 - 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.
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#11 - The Chinese Connection
Season 2 - Episode 20 - 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.
#12 - 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."
#13 - Dragons and Owls
Season 2 - Episode 21 - 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.
#14 - The Running Man (2)
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/24/1976
The SWAT team protects a key government witness against an organized crime boss.
#15 - Hit Men
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/24/1975
Vincent Ritchie, serving a prison sentence, agrees to expose the secrets of a crime syndicate before a Senate committee when he learns of "family" plans to insure his permanent silence. As he is transported with a police escort from the penitentiary, Ritchie is gravely wounded in an ambush attack which claims the life of a police officer. While doctors fight to save the convict's life, Hondo's team and other S.W.A.T. units station themselves throughout the hospital, awaiting an expected attempt to finish Ritchie off.
#16 - The Steel-Plated Security Blanket
Season 1 - Episode 9 - 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.
#17 - Coven of Killers
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/3/1975
Three members of Joey Hopper's "family," including newcomer Judy Collins, engineer Hopper's escape from a prison's hospital ward. After executing an assistant District Attorney, Hopper sends a recorded message to "Hondo" that he will be the next victim and that he also intends to punish the jury that found him guilty of other homicides. Russ Collins, owner of an underground newspaper which has published sympathetic articles about Hopper, refuses to admit knowledge of Hopper's whereabouts until "Hondo" informs Collins that his daughter has become a member of the treacherous cult.
#18 - 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.
#19 - The Swinger
Season 2 - Episode 12 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - Courthouse
Season 2 - Episode 9 - 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.
#22 - Ordeal
Season 2 - Episode 10 - 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.
#23 - Omega One
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/12/1975
Student protestors steal guns and seize control of a nuclear reactor.
#24 - The Bravo Enigma
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/28/1975
The team must find an elusive assassin who is unaware that he is spreading a deadly disease.
#25 - Death Carrier
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/10/1975
In a period of a year, model Janet Warren dated three young men, and each has been killed by a sniper's bullet. Police have been unable to find motives or suspects. Since Janet is the only link, Hondo assigns officer Jim Street to pose as the beautiful girl's latest boyfriend in a plan to draw out the sniper who apparently has Janet under constant surveillance.