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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404924505
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 1404924507
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: June 03, 2003
Running Time: 564 minutes
Sales Rank: 4348
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: February 17, 1975
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
From producer Aaron Spelling (TV's 'Charlie's Angels' and 'Starsky and Hutch') comes one of the toughest action-packed crime-fighting shows of them all: S.W.A.T. Spun off from 'The Rookies' and fueled by its signature hit theme song S.W.A.T. chronicled the covert missions of the LAPD's Special Weapons and Tactics unit an elite five-man force tackling situations too dangerous for even the police to handle. The show introduced a new breed of hard-as-nails cops to audiences: Lt. Dan 'Hondo' Harrelson (Steve Forrest Spies Like Us Mommie Dearest) Officer Jim Street (Robert Urich TV's 'Vega$' 'Spencer for Hire') Sgt. 'Deacon'Kay (Rod Perry) Officer Dominic Luca (Mark Shera TV's 'Barnaby Jones') and Officer T.J. McCabe (James Coleman).Now remastered and on DVD for the first time relive all those tense showdowns and standoffs during S.W.A.T.'s 13-episode debut season as that infamous black van rolls around the mean streets of L.A. delivering justice the hard way.System Requirements:Starring: Steve Forrest Rod Perry Robert Urich and Mark Shera. Running Time: 564 Min. (Total) Color. Copyright 2003 VPD Inc.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 043396003460 Manufacturer No: 00346
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Tough but not swaggering, serious but not solemn, S.W.A.T. won over its 1970s television audience with several unexpectedly interesting elements: A degree of storytelling sophistication; visually exciting, guerrilla-like street violence; and a subtle but determined fascination with the psyches of the show's five principal characters. To a non-viewer, S.W.A.T. looked like a fatuously reassuring, law-and-order shill in the aftermath of the Vietnam war and Watergate. In reality, creator-producer Robert Hammer (a Peabody Award winner for the 1979 POW TV drama, When Hell Was in Session) managed to make an ideal, mid-'70s Aaron Spelling cop show with an extra emphasis on the human factor in peacekeeping.
Spun off from an earlier Spelling series, The Rookies, S.W.A.T. was the story of Special Weapons and Tactics, an elite branch of the Los Angeles Police Department assigned the most critical cases of urban violence in an American era of cult terrorism, snipers, assassinations, traumatized war veterans, and organized crime. Considering what the S.W.A.T. team is up against in every episode--shooters with sophisticated weaponry, psychotic revolutionaries, vulnerable takeover targets (nuclear reactors, etc.)--one might have expected the show to be swallowed up in gadgetry and fancy police protocol for extreme emergencies. But from the pilot (technically, a two-hour Rookies episode not included in this set) on, S.W.A.T. was clearly much more interested in the way team leader Lieutenant Dan 'Hondo' Harrelson (Steve Forrest), Sergeant David 'Deacon' Kay (Rod Perry), and officers Street (Robert Urich), Luca (Mark Shera), and McCabe (James Coleman) tried to understand the modern world even while keeping its meanest tendencies in check.
Inventive stories with occasional twists and appealing guest stars (James Keach, Cameron Mitchell, Annette O'Toole) keep one glued to the 13 episodes contained here. Among the best: 'A Coven of Killers,' starring Sal Mineo as a Charles Manson-like monster; 'Jungle War,' featuring Mitchell as a career cop and war vet facing an emotional breakdown; and 'The Bravo Enigma,' an apocalyptic tale of a curiously likable hit man (Christopher George) unknowingly spreading a plague through L.A. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - THE 1970's
great show, great music, great memories, just great. just loved it. come on , studio, when is season 2 coming out ? i just purchased this S.W.A.T. box set for a great bargain. the sound & quality is beautiful. hey j. coleman and m. shera !! miss you guys. great to see you give reviews of the series. i truly miss you guys. you were the quality back then. i still miss robert urich. good luck to you both. David****
Rating: - Great memories
The 1970s was the decade for great cop shows and the short lived S.W.A.T
was the best of them all in my opinion.
I lived for the show every week and just died when it was canceled.
I was 10 years old when it came on the air and T.J. McCabe was my favorite character.
It was canceled by ABC because it was deemed to violent...what a joke.
These shows are so timid by todays standard.
BRING OUT SEASON 2 !!!!!!!!!
Rating: - I ONLY WATCH THIS FOR MARK SHERA :[]
This show came out I would have to say when I was about 10 or 11. It would come on if I'm not mistaken either Tuesdays or Thursdays on channel 7 ABC at 9pm or 10pm ( I was young all I know is that it was past my bed time).
My older brother was allowed to watch it. I remember coming down to get a drink of water and my brother was watching TV and I asked him what he was watching and he said SWAT so I as I got my water I came back into the living room and watched it for a bit and was hooked. ... Read More
Rating: - EXCELLENT SERIES BUT WHEN DO WE GET SEASON 2?
It has been five years! since I purchased the first season. Thoroughly enjoying every episode. I have been waiting patiently, as many other fans have, for season two to appear. The same is true for many other shows...Charlie's Angels, The Partridge Family, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Hart To Hart, T.J.Hooker.....
Rating: - Please release Season Two of S.W.A.T.
Season One of S.W.A.T.is not enough. It's time for you to give us Season Two already.
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