Death Score

Episode aired Apr 7, 1975
TV-14
50m

IMDb RATING

7.6/10

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Steve Forrest, James Coleman, and Mark Shera in S.W.A.T. (1975)

Action Crime Drama

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 millio... Read allPosing 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.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.

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7.6/10

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Trivia
According to Officer Jim Street the Sunset and Riverside SWAT teams assist Olympic SWAT by securing the outside of the basketball coliseum although they are not actually shown on screen.

Goofs
The terrorists supposedly kidnap the entire professional basketball team but only five players are being held. Although only five players would be on the court at a time the team would certainly have many more members.

Connections
References Airport '77 (1977)

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7/10

I'm sure this happens all the time....

Robert Webber stars as a scheming scum-bag in this episode of "S.W.A.T.". The show begins with Webber paying some knucklehead to start shooting up the street and tossing terrorist literature into the streets. When the guy is caught, he claims to be a Muslim from a large terrorist organization. However, he's actually a decoy--to get the team to be on the lookout for more retributions by his friends. However, the REAL score involves Webber and his team taking a pro basketball team (a very SHORT one, actually--and one with very few players!) hostage and demanding $2,000,000 for their release--and also claiming to be part of this same organization!! Unfortunately, while Webber is quite professional about it, one of his henchmen is a bit of a hair-triggered loony! Sounds a little ridiculous? Yup. But it is reasonably entertaining and well made--though you wonder how a guy who looks and talks like Webber ever thought he'd be mistaken for a Middle Eastern terrorist is beyond me. Perhaps the terrorist part was added later to pad the episode! Take that, scum-bags! Think about it...trying to give Middle Eastern terrorists a bad name!