S.W.A.T. | Season 1

Product Details Actors: Steve Forrest, Robert Urich, Rod Perry, Mark Shera, James Coleman Directors: Dick Moder, E.W. Swackhamer, Earl Bellamy, Gene Levitt, George McCowan Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono) Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only) Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Number of discs: 3 Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Sony Pictures DVD Release Date: June 3, 2003 Run Time: 564 minutes

Product Description

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.