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A spin-off of The Rookies, developed from a two-part pilot aired on February 17, 1975, S.W.A.T. follows a police Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team operating in an unnamed Californian city. The series stars Steve Forrest , Robert Urich , Rod Perry , Mark Shera , and James Coleman as the titular team's officers.
As SWAT follows up on the armored car theft, T.J. brings Luca to the American Beauty Contest, where his fiancée Susan works as a photographer; unbeknownst to them, the contest is the target of the armored car's thieves, a gang of veterans seeking to steal the bejeweled crown and scepter worn by the winning girl, worth over $2 million.
S.W.A.T. is an American police procedural action drama television series, based on the 1975 television series and the 2003 film adaptation of the same name. Aaron Rahsaan Thomas and Shawn Ryan developed the new series, [1] which premiered on CBS on November 2, 2017, [2] and is produced by Original Film, CBS Studios and Sony Pictures Television (the latter is a successor to the producer of the ...
Mark Shera (born July 10, 1949, Bayonne, New Jersey) [1] is an American film and television actor.. Shera was cast from 1975 to 1976 in the television series S.W.A.T. in the role of Officer Dominic Luca.
Roderick Maurice Perry (July 30, 1934 – December 17, 2020) [2] was an American actor best known for his role as Sgt. David "Deacon" Kay in the 1970s TV series S.W.A.T. Perry also played leading roles in two blaxploitation movies in the mid-1970s: The Black Godfather (1974) and The Black Gestapo (1975).
The SWAT two-part episode only aired on ABC in 1975 and was subsequently never part of the syndicated TV rerun package as Spelling-Goldberg decided it might confuse viewers as to which TV show it belonged. Both parts of the S.W.A.T. pilot are now considered "lost". [citation needed]
(1975) " Theme from S.W.A.T. " is an instrumental song written by Barry De Vorzon and performed by American funk group Rhythm Heritage , released on their debut album Disco-Fied . It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the United States on the chart date of February 28, 1976.
SWAT units as a whole became well known in the 1975 television series S.W.A.T., which featured a SWAT unit loosely based on LAPD SWAT. In 2003, a film adaptation of the series starred Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell and LL Cool J and was directed by Clark Johnson. [46]