S.W.A.T.: Season 2
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.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
Deadly Tide (1)
Sep 13, 1975
Hondo and his team go after a gang of jewel thieves who make their getaways under water.
Deadly Tide (2)
Sep 13, 1975
Hondo and his team close in on the gang that has been committing robberies using SCUBA gear.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
The Running Man (1)
Jan 24, 1976
Syndicate hit men stalk an undercover officer, who plans to testify against the mob.
The Running Man (2)
Jan 24, 1976
The SWAT team protects a key government witness against an organized crime boss.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
Soldier on the Hill
Mar 20, 1976
A mentally unbalanced veteran touring a movie studio suddenly thinks he is back fighting in Vietnam.
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.
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.