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Kind of awesome! Hit Men what works: There is a witness about to testify and great showing how the mob works with bribes etc. Some memorable actors for the mob Frank off Scarface. We got a few awesome hits planned. The ending is a bit over the top, but exciting to watch. A action pact episode. 7 stars.

I discovered this TV show recently. And some folks told me that it was aired in France in the seventies. Never heard of it. But I have always loved US TV shows from this decade, and sixties too. But not after. This show is the perfect urban crime TV series, very fast and furious for this period. The only problem is that is not very accurate, regarding of what I learned about the SWAT teams. I don't think, for instance, that they had to investigate, instead - or - with the Metropolitan Police Department. Their only job was to "interfere" where hard boiled criminals had to be wasted somewhere in the big city. The equivalent of the french RAID, GIPN, BRI or GIGN. Nothing else.

But after all, who cares?

Those shows are entertaining and nothing else.

This very episode is very exciting indeed. The leads - SWAT TEAM - is in charge to protect a witness threaten by the mob, who don't want him to testify at court. The usual scheme, I agree. But there is lots of action and gunfights in a hospital, characters are well described, action sequences accurate for TV stuff, and the ending is a genuine surprise, where ( SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS ) the guy who they had to protect is nearly killed, assassinated by his own daughter who confesses that his father was a real prick, an asshole.

Whao !!!

A very good episode of SWAT. It starts out with a pretty violent hit by a group of mobsters.

One complaint: it is common in police shows, both TV and movies, for someone or some group of men to pose as hospital employees. They put on medical uniforms, and then just walk down the hall, into the linen closets, and into the private rooms. And the regular staff and employees don't notice them? In a real hospital, all of the employees know each other (just like any job, all the people know their co-workers). If a new person shows up, either a nurse, a technician, an orderly, a custodian, the other staffers are going to ask "Who are you?" This ruse of a criminal dressing as a hospital worker to sneak his way in is over-used; it is unrealistic.

The final shootout in the hospital is excellent. In 1975, this was considered too violent. (It may be the reason why the show was cancelled midway through the second season).

And what a great plot twist at the end! I didn't see that coming. Poor Officer Luca, his dream went up in smoke.

* * * * * * * * * * 10 Stars for "Hit Men" * * * * * * * * * *

Florida Fred.