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S.W.A.T.

Season 1

12 listed hours · 1975–1976 · ABC

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How this season is filed

Filed by Tessa Quinn · Spoiler-Free (Mostly)

Special Weapons and Tactics as prime-time gloss: helmets, vans, and a disco-era instrumental theme that charted on its own. Short ABC run, long merchandising echo, later reboot bait. Paramilitary buddy television before every cop hour needed a tactical acronym parked in the title card.

TV Flash files Season 1 of S.W.A.T. (1975–1976) on ABC as the first listed season of 2 — 12 listed hours, 1975-02-24–1975-05-26 from “The Killing Ground” (S01E01) to “Sole Survivor” (S01E12). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.

Desk essentials in this season

  1. S01E01 The Killing Ground

    The Killing Ground opens Special Weapons and Tactics as prime-time gloss. Helmets, vans, a disco-era instrumental already loading: paramilitary buddy television before every cop hour needed the acronym.

  2. S01E10 Omega One

    Omega One is a first-season code-title. Short ABC run, long merchandising echo: the theme that charted on its own, the van as a toy, the tactics as a look.

  1. S01E01

    The Killing Ground

    An officer determined to avenge the ambush slaying of his partner volunteers for S.W.A.T. training.

  2. S01E02

    A Coven of Killers

    A psychotic swears vengeance on his prosecutors after escaping from a hospital prison ward.

  3. S01E03

    Death Carrier

    Street dates a woman who lost three previous boy friends to a sniper.

  4. S01E04

    Pressure Cooker

    The police play host to an antagonistic reporter from an underground newspaper.

  5. S01E05

    Hit Men

    Hit men zero in on a hospitalized mobster scheduled to testify against the syndicate.

  6. S01E06

    Jungle War

    A Vietnam War buddy angles for a place on Hondo's team.

  7. S01E07

    Death Score

    A terrorist group takes a professional basketball team hostage to back its demands for money.

  8. S01E08

    The Bravo Enigma

    An assassin is unaware that he is spreading a deadly disease.

  9. S01E09

    The Steel-Plated Security Blanket

    Thieves steal an armored car as a prelude to a bigger operation.

  10. S01E10

    Omega One

    Student protesters steal several high-powered guns before a scheduled demonstration.

  11. S01E11

    Blind Man's Bluff

    Hondo suffers a head wound that may be more serious than he is willing to admit.

  12. S01E12

    Sole Survivor

    Members of a holdup gang study S.W.A.T. in action before going ahead with a heist.

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