S.W.A.T. (70s show)

Cafe Society
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I’m rewatching the first ep. The show’s actually pretty good. And its always fun to see 70’s character guest stars like (I’m not gonna look up the names. Thats no fun):

“Juliette Lewis’s Dad”
“The Most Craggy Red-headed cop you’ll ever see” Not Steve Forrest…another guy.
Annette Somebody…strawberry blonde actress.

I’m really surprised this show only lasted 1 1/2 seasons as compared to The Rookies or Charlies Angels. The Rookies and Charlies Angels didn’t get their theme song on the radio!! Very colorful group of regulars. Action-packed. What’s not to like?

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I loved the episode of MTM where Mary is having a big party in her new apartment and a bored Ted says “Let me know when it’s ten o’clock. I want to watch SWAT.”*

*Actually, this was wrong. In Minneapolis, it was on at 9:00 PM (CST).

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Always grooved on that phasing effect on the guitar in the theme song

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It came out at the wrong time. There was a growing protest movement against violence on TV (this was back before we had video games to blame for all of society’s problems). SWAT became a focus for the protests.