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S.W.A.T. (1975)

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S.W.A.T. (1975)	comment	A short lived 1970s ABC television series following the Special Weapons And Tactics unit of an unnamed Californian city's police department (specifically "Olympic SWAT", the five-man team assigned to Olympic Precinct), created by Robert Hamner, developed by Rick Husky, and produced by Hamner, Aaron Spelling, and Leonard Goldberg. A Spin-Off of The Rookiesnote not to be confused with the later series The Rookie (2018), the series stars Steve Forrest, Robert Urich, Rod Perry, Mark Shera, and James Coleman.The series was notorious for its violence, which led to its early cancellation following its second season. However, it was a cultural hit, so much so that its funk theme song briefly topped the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1976. Combined with the show's opening sequence, where the cops jog in lockstep to grab their rifles and get to their transport van, this was the epitome of 1970s American TV cool.The show was later adapted into a film in 2003 starring Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez, and LL Cool J, featuring a cameo appearance by Forrest. Courtesy of CBS, a television series revival premiered on November 2, 2017, with Shemar Moore leading the new cast.No relation to Sierra's S.W.A.T. video game series, nor the animated television show SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_12575a9f	comment	Friendly Sniper: T.J., a natural marksman who had his spot in SWAT ensured by Hondo for exactly that reason. It's established in "The Killing Ground" that he's been hunting since his youth and learned to shoot so well because he couldn't afford ammunition and thus had to make every round count. Despite being such a skilled sniper though, it's stated in "Jungle War" that he doesn't like having to open fire.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_132d93f1	type	Human Shield
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_132d93f1	comment	Human Shield: Happens at least briefly in most hostage situations, particularly those with the Monster of the Week.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: People who are shot or otherwise injured in the series rarely bleed. If they do, it's never a lot, and it's usually because the victim survived.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Every single time "SWAT" is uttered in any capacity, so a lot.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_1a4ece83	type	He Had a Name
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_1a4ece83	comment	He Had a Name: In "The Killing Ground", when Luca, T.J., and Street are trying out for SWAT, Luca casually refers to a recently killed police officer as "whats-his-name". Street corrects him: the officer's name was Robert Duran, his patrol partner.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Sam, the SWAT van's driver. He is never seen clearly, never exits the vehicle, and only speaks once in season 2.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_1f7c89f6	type	Nigh-Invulnerability
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_1f7c89f6	comment	Nigh-Invulnerability: The armored car is presented this way in "The Steel-Plated Security Blanket". Its theft actually concerns the WCPD more than if valuables were stolen from it, as its attack-resistant design means the criminals can do whatever they want inside with all the leverage in the world, and the police can't stop them; even the 5.56 mm rounds from SWAT's M16 rifles barely scratch the bulletproof glass. Hondo and the WCPD suggest everything from terrorist attacks to a heist on four banks in the same intersection as entirely feasible possibilities.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_2473b050	type	Fast-Roping
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_2473b050	comment	Fast-Roping: Happens a few times throughout the series, though not as often as you'd think for a show about a tactical team. They use ropes to climb more often than they use them to descend.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_3dd3951e	comment	Cowboy Cop: Bo Pritchard is explicitly stated to be one by Deacon in "Jungle War".
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_405b0c46	type	Armed Blag
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_405b0c46	comment	Armed Blag: Played with in "The Steel-Plated Security Blanket": an armored car is stolen by a team of criminals—except it's empty. The armored car is ultimately used as part of a disguise to steal a million-dollar crown and scepter from a pageant, and later to hold out from the police when the heist goes south.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_44bed14c	type	Hostage Situation
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_44bed14c	comment	Hostage Situation: Happens to some degree in practically every episode.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: The series reused footage quite often, often for Establishing Shots, but also for transitionary scenes such as shots of the SWAT van driving to a call. In fact, some episodes even reused footage from the opening sequence.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_532761b1	type	Danger Room Cold Open
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_532761b1	comment	Danger Room Cold Open: "Time Bomb" opens with the team deploying to take out a sniper perched on a rooftop, seemingly in the city—until half the team starts climbing random scaffolding and going behind building cutouts. Turns out the sniper is a training assistant, and they're on a film studio backlot SWAT uses for training every now and then. This location and scenario was also seen in "Kill S.W.A.T.", though there it was made more obvious the first time around that it was a training exercise.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_566f1565	type	10-Minute Retirement
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_566f1565	comment	10-Minute Retirement: In "Blind Man's Bluff", Hondo makes the decision to retire from SWAT due to complications from a concussion he receives after his head is grazed by a bullet. However, after being dissatisfied with working a desk job for the rest of his career, he undergoes a surgery that repairs the damage. In the next scene, he's back to his usual position leading Olympic SWAT.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Solidly averted by SWAT, who always get their man. Played straight, however, with regular patrol officers, who are often taken out by the Monster of the Week so as to illustrate how cold and dangerous they are, sometimes before they can even get out of their cruisers or clear leather. Turns out the most dangerous position to be in in the S.W.A.T. universe is to be the first responding officer to any call. A prime example of the patrol officers being useless can be seen in "Criss-Cross": a cruiser parks up to scope out an ongoing robbery before SWAT arrives, but when Hondo orders them to move in, the driver is immediately shot in the neck by a sniper (who is quite visible from his perch), while the other officer dies when the out-of-control cruiser crashes through a wall.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Happens to a few suspects, such as Eric in "Death Carrier" and the plastics factory owner in "Pressure Cooker".
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_71329e49	type	Turn in Your Badge
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_71329e49	comment	Turn in Your Badge: Played with in "The Killing Ground". When Street, then a patrol officer having just survived an ambush, picks up his badge, it's played as though he's preparing to resign. However, he simply requests if his badge could be renumbered to that of his deceased partner's.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: By modern standards, it happens a lot throughout the series. Chokeholds, knock-out beatdowns, rough handling, and brow-raising use of force are bound to occur to some degree every now and then when SWAT sees action. But from a more general standpoint, this is actually mostly averted, as whoever the team doesn't shoot is simply cuffed and treated relatively respectfully. A major plot point in "The Killing Ground" is this allegedly occurring to a man's uncle; in response, the man and his friends start ambushing cops. It's revealed at the end that the uncle actually killed himself before the police could apprehend him.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_82108e3d	type	Attack Its Weak Point
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_82108e3d	comment	Attack Its Weak Point: In "The Steel-Plated Security Blanket", the armored car is shown to be practically impenetrable. The team's solution in the end when a heist crew holds hostages inside? Fire paint rounds at the windshield to blind the driver and use a modified flare launcher to fire gas inside to smoke out the occupants.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: At the end of "The Bravo Enigma", Mr. Bravo, who is ill with a deadly and contagious form of pneumonic plague, which the WCPD and Olympic SWAT have been racing to contain for pretty much the entire episode lest he unwittingly spark a deadly epidemic that could potentially kill thousands, falls into a water reservoir and dies. The expression on Hondo's face and the framing of the scene suggests this means bad news... but aside from a select few characters seen earlier recovering in the hospital, it isn't brought up again.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_96e5792c	type	Moral Guardians
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_96e5792c	comment	Moral Guardians: The show was one of the targets as, unlike other action television shows of the 1970s such as The A-Team, suspects, police officers, and the innocent tended to die fairly often. Even the LAPD SWAT themselves, whom the show was loosely based on, reportedly didn't like this depiction. Steve Forrest addressed this, stating he understood the concerns—he just felt they were wrong to focus on S.W.A.T.. By 21st century standards however, the show is quite tame compared with other shows that came later.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_970c790a	comment	In "Criss-Cross", an accomplice of the episode's main Big Bad, a former state senator turned failed businessman who is ordering him and another accomplice to murder a kidnapped witness to an earlier crime, complains about always being bossed around to do dirty work, and challenges him to do it himself for once.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: Happens pretty often, usually resulting from of the loss of a family member. "The Killing Ground" has a trio of cop killers seeking revenge on the WCPD for allegedly killing an uncle in police custody. Except when Hondo looks into it after they've been apprehended, he learns said uncle actually killed himself while surrounded by police, meaning it was All for Nothing. "A Coven of Killers" has the Hopper family target various people involved in prosecuting cult leader Joey Hopper, including Hondo, who helped apprehend him. "Jungle War" has Bo Pritchard, Hondo's close friend and ex-military comrade, kidnap Betty to draw Hondo out for a one-on-one fight, as revenge for Hondo kicking Bo out of SWAT for poor performance. "Kill S.W.A.T." has a family targeting SWAT officers as revenge for losing a relative in the first SWAT deployment ever. "Vigilante" has a titular vigilante who believes all criminals should die even if they surrender, driven by the loss of his wife in a burglary gone wrong.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_a3eea2ea	type	Cop Killer
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_a3eea2ea	comment	A major plot point in "The Killing Ground" is this allegedly occurring to a man's uncle; in response, the man and his friends start ambushing cops. It's revealed at the end that the uncle actually killed himself before the police could apprehend him.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_a698ad42	type	City with No Name
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_a698ad42	comment	City with No Name: Many of Aaron Spelling's cop shows, such as The Rookies, Starsky & Hutch, and T.J. Hooker, are set in unnamed cities in Western California. In S.W.A.T., the city is obviously based on Los Angeles, but it is never named. The police department is referred to as the "WCPD", the full name of which (never mentioned in the show) being the... "Western California Police Department".
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_a754fa9a	type	Instant Death Bullet
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_a754fa9a	comment	Instant Death Bullet: Many people who are shot in the series pretty much die instantly regardless of where they were hit or what gun was used; if they don't, either they're a character that's significant to the episode, or they get hospitalized and probably live. A noticeable example can be seen in "Criss-Cross", when the team shoots a burglar left behind by his crew; by the time Deacon climbs a fence to check his pulse (it takes maybe five seconds for Deacon to reach him), he's dead.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_a8559a9f	comment	When Olympic SWAT isn't on a call, the officers stay in their headquarters to investigate a crime they're following up on or, if not, desk jobs and busywork relating to SWAT such as inventory checks and filling out forms. In Real Life, when SWAT officers are on duty but not actually being deployed, they are typically assigned to other police duties such as regular patrol, to be called back to headquarters for SWAT if the situation arises.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_ab24b030	type	Red Alert
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_ab24b030	comment	Red Alert: The famous Title Sequence commences with a shrieking muster signal as The Squad rushes for their Wall of Weapons and leaps into their van. This rarely happens in the show itself though, as the team is often alerted to incidents through telephone calls or radio dispatches instead.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_aed65980	comment	"The Killing Ground" has a trio of cop killers seeking revenge on the WCPD for allegedly killing an uncle in police custody. Except when Hondo looks into it after they've been apprehended, he learns said uncle actually killed himself while surrounded by police, meaning it was All for Nothing.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_b8198b96	type	Dead Man's Switch
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_b8198b96	comment	Dead Man's Switch: In "Time Bomb", a stuntman-turned-bomber tries to escape by wiring himself to a bomb, with the switch in his hand. He demands a truck and takes Hondo hostage, but has to keep one hand on the wheel to keep Hondo in check. When Hondo jumps out and T.J. fires at him, the bomber accidentally lets go...
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_c0961831	type	Interrupted Suicide
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_c0961831	comment	Interrupted Suicide: How most instances of Driven to Suicide end up when SWAT arrives, sometimes by Talking Down the Suicidal, and others by physically stopping them.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_c6655b23	type	Fallen Hero
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_c6655b23	comment	Fallen Hero: Bo Pritchard in "Jungle War". Though Deacon and the rest of SWAT dislike his Cowboy Cop tactics, Hondo fully respects him as a comrade who saved his life in The Vietnam War and a family friend—until Bo joins SWAT after Deacon is injured, screws up a standoff thanks to his ego, and gets kicked off by Hondo himself. Bo promptly goes off the deep end and kidnaps Hondo's wife Betty in an attempt to draw him out to fight one-on-one. When Hondo knocks out Bo, he looks down at him with a disappointed expression.
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_cb9aeb6a	type	Vigilante Man
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_cb9aeb6a	comment	Vigilante Man: Paul Julian in "Vigilante".
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S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_d9ee7048	type	Spin-Off
S.W.A.T. (1975) / int_d9ee7048	comment	Spin-Off: Of The Rookies. In fact, S.W.A.T. originated as a two-part pilot aired in February 1975 as an episode of The Rookies.
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