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S.W.A.T. - The Complete First Season

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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: 11166
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: February 17, 1975



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Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 03/29/2005 Run time: 564 minutes Rating: Nr

Amazon.com:
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: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - I enjoyed S.W.A.T
Steve Forrest was my favorite "Hondo" I would like too know if there will be more out from SWAT I ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - SWAT First Season
Great acting and directing. I can't wait to get rest of seasons. I watch it 2-3 times a week. This ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - THE 1970's
great show, great music, great memories, just great. just loved it. hey,come on , studio, when is season ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - 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 ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - 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 ... Read More

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