COLLECTION · Series · 1975
Switch
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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* 6.7 (10)ActionAdventureDramaUnited States
Creators
Countries
United States
Studios
CBS · Universal Television · Glen A. Larson Productions
Runtime
60 min/ep
Release
09/09/1975
Score
6.7 / 10 (10)
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Seasons and episodes
Specials
1 episodes · 1975
Episode 1. Switch
1975-03-21 · 60 min
No synopsis
Season 1
24 episodes · 1975
Episode 1. The James Caan Con
1975-09-09 · 60 min
An wannabe actor who blackmails women targets an actress who ask for help from Pete and Frank.
Episode 2. The Late Show Murders
1975-09-16 · 60 min
A ex-cop now private investigator murders a man who stole jewels and takes the jewels himself. Pete and Frank help the cops by linking the murder and the jewels to the private investigator.
Episode 3. The Old Diamond Game
1975-09-23 · 60 min
The treasurer of a retirement home takes the money and runs away to Brazil. The owner asks Pete and Mac to get the money back or the home will be shut down and the residents will have no place to go. Since the man can't be extradited .…
Episode 4. Stung from Beyond
1975-09-30 · 60 min
A small group of con artists, including two women( one played by Joan Collins), use seances to dupe their gullible clients out of their Stockmarket investments.
Episode 5. The Deadly Missiles Caper
1975-10-07 · 60 min
A woman persuades Pete and Mac to investigate and prove her wealthy Father was murdered by her unscrupulous Uncle.
Episode 6. The Man Who Couldn't Lose
1975-10-14 · 60 min
Pete and Mac try to uncover the location of a high jacked armored truck's loot.
Episode 7. Death Heist
1975-10-21 · 60 min
Pete and Mac have only 11 days to solve an old emerald robbery.
Episode 8. The Body at the Bottom
1975-11-04 · 60 min
An ex-con turns to Pete and Mac for help when he's accused of torching a warehouse on the waterfront. Certain that the warehouse owner is the real culprit, the two detectives plan a con to nail him, trying to convince him that he's a…
Episode 9. The Cruise Ship Murders
1975-11-11 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 10. Kiss of Death
1975-11-25 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 11. Death By Resurrection
1975-12-02 · 60 min
A client asks Pete to do a background check on a man with possible mob connections, who wants to marry his daughter .
Episode 12. The Cold War Con
1975-12-09 · 60 min
A fashion model is abducted by white slavers. Pete and Mac devise a plan to rescue her.
Episode 13. Through the Past Deadly
1975-12-16 · 60 min
A bomb is planted in Ryan's car and he is injured. Mac tries to find the one who planted the bomb and starts by looking for the one who sold the explosive used. He finds the seller dead and all signs lead him to think it has something to…
Episode 14. Mistresses, Murder and Millions
1975-12-23 · 60 min
A business magnate involved in a hideous divorce is kidnapped, and the kidnappers later critically wound a police officer. Pete and Mac suspect that the man's soon-to-be-ex-wife and his girlfriend may be behind the kidnapping -- along…
Episode 15. The Walking Bomb
1976-01-06 · 60 min
Extortionists kidnap a bank executive and strap a bomb to his chest in order to force him to pay them a fortune. When the bank executive suffers a heart attack, they let him go -- and strap the bomb to Pete Ryan instead.
Episode 16. Ain't Nobody Here Named Barney
1976-01-13 · 60 min
A loony sculptor claims her grandfather wasn't buried in his grave at all. Turns out he was ("When we put them down there, they stay down", says a minor character), but there is also evidence that $4.3 million in embezzled money is -- or…
Episode 17. Come Die with Me
1976-01-27 · 60 min
A stewardess stumbles on an air crew's plan to steal Federal money bags on her flight. She is murdered by them and they then frame Pete for her demise.
Episode 18. One of Our Zeppelins Is Missing
1976-02-10 · 60 min
A car collector (Dabney. Coleman) is blackmailed by a revengeful woman out to punish Mac who she blames for putting her husband in prison.
Episode 19. Before the Holocaust
1976-02-17 · 60 min
Pete and Mac check out a gun club in the mountains which stockpiles supplies for wealthy buyers who want to hide in its bunkers in case of a nuclear war. The club's proprietors are swindlers who have already murdered an employee.
Episode 20. Big Deal in Paradise
1976-02-24 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 21. The Case of the Purloined Case
1976-03-02 · 60 min
Pete and Mac become involved in the search for a missing briefcase with something of value inside, something that a disparate cast of characters is also after and quite possibly willing to kill for.
Episode 22. The Girl on the Golden Strip
1976-03-16 · 60 min
Unknown to himself, a Vegas nightclub singer turns into his alter ego, a deranged slasher-killer, when he hears one of his own classic songs. Pete and Mac get on the trail of the murderer but are sidelined by criminal activity on the…
Episode 23. Round Up the Usual Suspects
1976-03-23 · 60 min
The beautiful client's (Veronica Hamel) brother is falsely imprisoned in Casablanca, and it's up to Pete and Mac to get him out before it's too late.
Episode 24. Death Squad
1976-04-06 · 60 min
A woman Pete knows shows UP with her son. She tells him her husband called and told her they're in danger and That they had to get away. She and Pete Go to meet her husband, he says he was hired to do something. When he found out its…
Season 2
24 episodes · 1976
Episode 1. The Pirates of Tin Pan Alley
1976-09-21 · 60 min
Darcy Taggart is a perpetually-smiling record producer who is secretly stealing songs from his own musicians and handing over bootleg copies to a mobster. When two of his musicians learn of the deal and try to cut in, he has them killed…
Episode 2. The Twelfth Commandment
1976-09-28 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 3. Fleece of Snow
1976-10-05 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 4. The Argonaut Special
1976-10-12 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 5. The Things That Belong to Mickey Costello
1976-10-19 · 60 min
Pete's new girlfriend happens to be the former mistress of a Syndicate leader. When the mobster beats him nearly dead for stealing his girl, Mac sets out to exact revenge.
Episode 6. Whatever Happened to Carol Harmony?
1976-10-26 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 7. Quicker Than the Eye
1976-11-09 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 8. Gaffing the Skim
1976-11-16 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 9. The Lady from Liechtenstein (1)
1976-11-23 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 10. The Lady from Liechtenstein (2)
1976-11-30 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 11. Switch Hitter
1976-12-07 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 12. Maggie's Hero
1976-12-14 · 60 min
Maggies love interest turns out to be an ex-con.
Episode 13. The Hundred Thousand Ruble Rumble
1976-12-21 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 14. Portraits of Death
1977-01-04 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 15. The Snitch
1977-01-16 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 16. Eyewitness
1977-01-23 · 60 min
A blind witness hires Pete and Mac for protection.
Episode 17. Camera Angles
1977-01-30 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 18. Butterfly Mourning
1977-02-06 · 60 min
Pete and Mac go after a dope smugger for manslaughter.
Episode 19. The Four Horsemen
1977-02-13 · 60 min
Maggie kidnapped by ganster son to make Pete and Mack find out who is trying to kill his farher.
Episode 20. Eden's Gate
1977-02-20 · 60 min
Pete, Mack, Maggie and Malcome investigate a crooked health spa.
Episode 21. The Hemline Heist
1977-02-27 · 60 min
A fashion designer is murdered three times simultaneously as he presents during a fashion show -- by drinking cyanide-laced champagne, getting shot and having a spotlight tumble onto his head. The rest of the episode is shown in…
Episode 22. Three for the Money
1977-03-13 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 23. Two on the Run
1977-03-27 · 60 min
Pete is asked by one his inmate pals to locate a dancer who can clear him of murder charges.
Episode 24. Heritage of Death
1977-04-03 · 60 min
No synopsis
Season 3
22 episodes · 1977
Episode 1. Net Loss
1977-09-23 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 2. Downshift
1977-09-30 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 3. Legend of the Macunas (1)
1977-10-14 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 4. Legend of the Macunas (2)
1977-10-21 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 5. Fade Out
1977-11-04 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 6. Dancer
1977-12-05 · 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.
Episode 7. Go for Broke
1977-12-12 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 8. Lady of the Deep
1977-12-19 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 9. Thirty Thousand Witnesses
1977-12-26 · 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…
Episode 10. Dangerous Curves
1978-01-02 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 11. The Tong
1978-01-09 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 12. Who Killed Lila Craig?
1978-01-16 · 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.
Episode 13. Three Blond Mice
1978-01-30 · 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…
Episode 14. Coranodo Circle
1978-02-07 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 15. Stolen Island (aka Death Island)
1978-03-28 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 16. Formula for Murder
1978-04-28 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 17. Blue Crusaders Reunion
1978-05-05 · 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.
Episode 18. Mexican Standoff
1978-05-12 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 19. Play-off
1978-06-18 · 60 min
Ryan is forced to protect a kingpin's son at a golf tournament, otherwise Malcolm's life is forfeit.
Episode 20. The Cage
1978-06-25 · 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…
Episode 21. Photo Finish
1978-07-02 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 22. The Siege at the Bouziki Bar
1978-07-09 · 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…
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