Switch

1975–1978 · Ended · 3 seasons · 70 episodes · Action & Adventure, Drama · United States

Creator Glen A. Larson · Channel CBS · Starring Robert Wagner, Eddie Albert, Charlie Callas

Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner, who work as private eyes, for a deceptive sting operation. It was broadcast on the CBS network for three seasons between September 9, 1975 and August 20, 1978, bumping the Hawaii Five-O detective series to Friday nights.
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Episodes

22 episodes · September 1977 – July 1978
  1. Episode 1: 1. Net LossSeptember 23, 1977 · 60 min
  2. Episode 2: 2. DownshiftSeptember 30, 1977 · 60 min
  3. Episode 3: 3. Legend of the Macunas (1)October 14, 1977 · 60 min
  4. Episode 4: 4. Legend of the Macunas (2)October 21, 1977 · 60 min
  5. Episode 5: 5. Fade OutNovember 4, 1977 · 60 min
  6. Episode 6: 6. DancerDecember 5, 1977 · 60 min
    Pete and Mac do a literal song and dance as they help an old vaudeville hoofer try to figure out who took several shots at him onstage, killing his dance partner.
Show 16 more episodes
  1. Episode 7: 7. Go for BrokeDecember 12, 1977 · 60 min
  2. Episode 8: 8. Lady of the DeepDecember 19, 1977 · 60 min
  3. Episode 9: 9. Thirty Thousand WitnessesDecember 26, 1977 · 60 min
    Pete becomes a rather overage soccer goalie (Robert Wagner, though he looked younger, was 47 at the time of filming) in order to figure out who killed the team's previous goalie and how (the killer uses a camera with a special attachment which shoots a poisoned dart).
  4. Episode 10: 10. Dangerous CurvesJanuary 2, 1978 · 60 min
  5. Episode 11: 11. The TongJanuary 9, 1978 · 60 min
  6. Episode 12: 12. Who Killed Lila Craig?January 16, 1978 · 60 min
    Mac reacquaints himself with a number of people he hasn't seen in years after he and Pete reopen the case of a glamorous actress who was murdered 30 years earlier.
  7. Episode 13: 13. Three Blond MiceJanuary 30, 1978 · 60 min
    Soem interesting underwater (swimming pool) footage highlights this episode as Pete and Mac -- in full business suits and at their ages (over 70 for Eddie Albert) dive in to defuse a nuclear bomb threatening to take out a society party and much of Los Angeles to boot. This episode was broadcast on August 6, 1978 (possinly its first run) just before the TV news announced the death of Pope Paul VI.
  8. Episode 14: 14. Coranodo CircleFebruary 7, 1978 · 60 min
  9. Episode 15: 15. Stolen Island (aka Death Island)March 28, 1978 · 60 min
  10. Episode 16: 16. Formula for MurderApril 28, 1978 · 60 min
  11. Episode 17: 17. Blue Crusaders ReunionMay 5, 1978 · 60 min
    Pete tags along when Mac attends a reunion of his old police buddies, but the event takes a dark turn as someone is killing off the attendees one by one.
  12. Episode 18: 18. Mexican StandoffMay 12, 1978 · 60 min
  13. Episode 19: 19. Play-offJune 18, 1978 · 60 min
    Ryan is forced to protect a kingpin's son at a golf tournament, otherwise Malcolm's life is forfeit.
  14. Episode 20: 20. The CageJune 25, 1978 · 60 min
    The series began a summer run (ironically, enjoying its best ratings since the first season and tremendously better than it had done in the fall) with an episode about kidnappers grabbing the brother of a photographic model -- the brother is a veterinary student specializing in large-animal surgery, which he is to be forced to use to remove diamonds from the hide of an African rhinoceros recently imported to Los Angeles. Watch very fast for Natalie Wood bidding her then-husband Robert Wagner (Pete) goodbye from a bathtub at about the 10th minute.
  15. Episode 21: 21. Photo FinishJuly 2, 1978 · 60 min
  16. Episode 22: 22. The Siege at the Bouziki BarJuly 9, 1978 · 60 min
    The near-ultimate in budget-conscious "bottle shows" (all but two scenes are filmed inside Malcolm's Bouziki Bar; Pamela Bellwood and two firemen are the only guest actors; and much of the show is in flashbacks) finds Pete, Mac, Malcolm and Maggie trapped inside the bar with a very pregnant murder witness while mob hit men search unseen for a way in. Some sources give this episode's air date as August 13, 1978, when the show was run off as a summer series (and did very well in the ratings).

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EPISODE LENGTH
60 minutes
FIRST AIRED
September 9, 1975
LAST AIRED
July 9, 1978
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Universal Television, Glen A. Larson Productions

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