S.W.A.T. - Season 1 (1975)

Meredith Cooper is a freelance writer sent by the PR department to do a piece on S.W.A.T. for a magazine. She is anti-police and thinks they are a necessary evil but more evil than necessary. Harrelson and the team are told to cooperate and give her what she wants...human interest stories. While she is with them they respond to an APB on a missing girl which may be a kidnapping.

Vincent Ritchie is a drug dealer who has agreed to testify against his former associates. While being escorted into town there is an ambush and during the gunfight he is shot and severely wounded. His future safety is now in the hands of S.W.A.T. The team sets up around the clock surveillance in the hospital wing while the gunmen make plans to hit.

Bo Pritchard, Hondo's Vietnam buddy, is determined to replaced Deke on Hondo's team. When Deke is wounded, Pritchard gets his chance, put Hondo must make a tough decision when his old friend's reckless behavior puts the team in danger.

Posing as terrorists seeking freedom for their comrades, a group of thugs take an entire pro basketball team hostage during a game. They aren't terrorists, they just hope to extort $2 million from the team's owner.

The team's mission to stop the assassination of a U.S. Senator becomes even more urgent when it's learned the killer hired for the job is carrying a deadly plague that could start an epidemic.

Thugs hijack an armored car and hide it somewhere in Los Angeles. S.W.A.T. borrows another armored car and tries to penetrate it for practice, but can't do it. The stolen car had no money inside, so S.W.A.T. assumes it will be used in a future heist. But where? A national beauty pageant with a million dollars in prizes provides the answer.

A student protest is a cover for radicals to infiltrate a chemical plant and demand a million-dollar ransom. S.W.A.T. has only a short time to sneak in, rescue the hostages, and deactivate the programmed explosion.

Harrelson is shot although he survives, his vision is in question. So until he can be cleared he is assigned to a desk job.

A gang of ex-convicts, led by their former parole officer, utilizing his familiarity with S.W.A.T. procedures, invades a heavily guarded rare coin auction and makes off with two million dollars is gold in "Sole Survivor."