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Season guide

S.W.A.T.: Season 2

24 episodes Premiered Sep 13, 1975
Previously on S.W.A.T.

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of S.W.A.T. Season 1.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (20): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (1): Standalone / filler
S2·E1 Mytharc

Deadly Tide (1)

Sep 13, 1975

Hondo and his team go after a gang of jewel thieves who make their getaways under water.

S2·E2 Core

Deadly Tide (2)

Sep 13, 1975

Hondo and his team close in on the gang that has been committing robberies using SCUBA gear.

S2·E3 Core

Kill S.W.A.T.

Sep 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 hi

S2·E4 Core

Dealers in Death

Sep 27, 1975

Two officers go undercover to catch drug dealers.

S2·E5 Core

The Vendetta

Oct 11, 1975

Mel Lang and Ralph Costa have served sentences in prison after being framed by one Carl Rigby and arrested by Hondo Harrelson. When S.W.A.T. is called upon to assist police in evic

S2·E6 Core

Criss-Cross

Oct 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 Colb

S2·E7 Core

Vigilante

Oct 25, 1975

Radio repairman Paul Julian has patched in on the S.W.A.T. radio band so he can show up at a scene of police action, where he can observe and judge each case from a concealed posit

S2·E8 Core

Courthouse

Nov 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 b

S2·E9 Filler

Ordeal

Nov 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.

S2·E10 Core

Strike Force

Nov 15, 1975

Hondo and his team are assigned to handle security for a demagogic former general who now leads a racist paramilitary group.

S2·E11 Core

The Swinger

Nov 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 convene

S2·E12 Core

Terror Ship

Nov 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.

S2·E13 Core

Murder by Fire

Dec 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 o

S2·E14 Core

Silent Night, Deadly Night

Dec 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 p

S2·E15 Core

The Running Man (1)

Jan 24, 1976

Syndicate hit men stalk an undercover officer, who plans to testify against the mob.

S2·E16 Core

The Running Man (2)

Jan 24, 1976

The SWAT team protects a key government witness against an organized crime boss.

S2·E17 Core

Lessons in Fear

Jan 31, 1976

Hondo Harrelson and his team are called upon to investigate robbery-homicides in which powerful drills and cutting equipment have been stolen. Meanwhile, Dom Luca is dating a stude

S2·E18 Core

Deadly Weapons

Feb 7, 1976

Bud Haskins, disowned after marrying a girl whom his father, John Haskins, disapproved, decides to help three ""professionals"" crack open the safe in the elder Haskins' warehouse.

S2·E19 Core

The Chinese Connection

Feb 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 Cau

S2·E20 Core

Dragons and Owls

Mar 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.

S2·E21 Core

Any Second Now

Mar 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.

S2·E22 Core

Soldier on the Hill

Mar 20, 1976

A mentally unbalanced veteran touring a movie studio suddenly thinks he is back fighting in Vietnam.

S2·E23 Mytharc

Dangerous Memories

Mar 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.

S2·E24 Mytharc

Officer Luca, You're Dead

Apr 3, 1976

Luca is charged with manslaughter after he is forced to kill a man who was holding his own wife hostage at gunpoint.

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