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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, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 1404924507
Item Dimensions: 55
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: 00346
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: June 03, 2003
Running Time: 564 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: February 17, 1975
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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
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Great series that I grew up with. The only drawback is that the first season was released in 2003 and still no second season released as of February 25, 2010. No word yet on the release of the second or any other volumns.
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Of all the programmes I can remember from my childhood this one has to come top of the list.
I can remember being woken by the iconic siren heralding the start of the reruns. This was one of those late-night, post 11 o'clock, imported TV programmes; and I can remember sneaking downstairs at the first shriek of the siren that introduced the theme music at the start of the show.
The show followed the five men of the elite Special Weapons and Tactics unit (known as SWAT). The team was led by Lieutenant Dan "Hondo" Harrelson (Steve Forrest); and he was ably assisted by officer Jim Street (the late Robert Urich), Sgt Deacon "Deke" Kay (Rod Perry), Officer Dominic Luca (Mark Shera) and Officer TJ McCabe (James Coleman).
This box set contains the 13 episodes that made up the first season. There is no word on whether not the second season will be released.
SWAT was a series that was ahead of its time, and was originally cancelled because of its excessive violence - there was an objection to the use of guns and snipers in a police drama about a team that goes into "situations too dangerous for even the police to handle".
The series is only available on US region 1, however, this is not an embedded DVD box set so will play on a region two player - it is the equivalent of the region 0 or region free.
If like me you have vague recollections of this from your childhood then I can recommend this box set to you, though it is not as violent as many of the programmes that we see now it is still an outstanding series.
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Really enjoyed SWAT a a kid, made more my old friend of the family Mark Shapiro aka Mark Shera. And by the way - my 15 year old daughter thinks you're hot Mark.
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Bought this items a friend's sister as a favor, so I do not know if the DVD was satisfactory. However I had posted that Amazon's quick delivery service and product packaging was excellent.
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Steve Forrest was my favorite "Hondo" I would like too know if there will be more out from SWAT I believe it was on more than one season.
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