List of Switch episodes
This is a list of episodes for the CBS television series Switch.
Series overview
At present, this series has not been released on home video.
| Season | Episodes | Premiered: | Ended: | |
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| Pilot | 1 | 1975.03.21 | ||
| 1 | 24 | 1975.09.09 | 1976.04.06 | |
| 2 | 24 | 1976.09.21 | 1977.04.03 | |
| 3 | 22 | 1977.09.23 | 1978.07.09 | |
Pilot
"Las Vegas Roundabout" (90 min) / March 21, 1975
An ex-con and a retired cop, partners in a private investigation agency, try to prove that a safecracker has been framed for a diamond robbery.
Directed by Robert Day and Allen Baron (the latter is uncredited); written by Glen A. Larson.
Episodes
- Nº = Overall episode number
- Ep = Episode number by season
Season 1: 1975–76
| Nº | Ep | Title | Directed by: | Written by: | Original air date | |
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| 1 | 1 | "The James Caan Con" | E.W. Swackhamer | Richard Powell | September 9, 1975 | |
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Mac poses as a movie producer to get the goods on an actor who blackmails on the side. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "The Late Show Murders" | Douglas Heyes | David Chase, Paul Playdon | September 16, 1975 | |
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Pete and Mac borrow ideas from classic detective stories to thwart a crooked small-time private eye. They're decoying him from fencing stolen jewels by concocting a case he couldn't refuse. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "The Old Diamond Game" | Gordon Hessler | Glen A. Larson, Michael Sloan | September 23, 1975 | |
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In pursuit of a lawyer who made off with millions in a South American country, Pete and Mac head down to Rio to bring him back the old-fashioned way. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Stung from Beyond" | Jerry London | David Ketchum, Bruce Shelly | September 30, 1975 | |
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A group of con artists pull a con involving stock investors and their family. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "The Deadly Missiles Caper" | Walter Doniger | Glen A. Larson | October 7, 1975 | |
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Robin Morgan hires Pete and Mac to find her missing timber magnate father. She is convinced that her uncle is responsible. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "The Man Who Couldn't Lose" | Bruce Kessler | Michael Kozoll | October 14, 1975 | |
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Pete and Mac play on a hijacker's weakness for gambling and women to find the location of the armored truck heist loot. | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Death Heist" | Glen A. Larson | Eugene Cotton, Paul Shilling | October 21, 1975 | |
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Pete and Mac have only 11 days to get a jewel thief to produce a stolen emerald before the statute of limitations runs out on the crime. | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "The Body at the Bottom" | E.W. Swackhamer | Rudolph Borchert, David Chase, Paul Playdon | November 4, 1975 | |
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A ruthless businessman figures out an insurance scam: He sets his plant ablaze and lets an ex-con, who has been working there, serves as the fall guy. Mac and Pete must lead the crooked businessman to confess his deed. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "The Cruise Ship Murders" | Bruce Kessler | Eric Kaldor, Charles Sailor, Mort Zarcoff | November 11, 1975 | |
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Aboard a cruise ship Pete and Mac try to solve the mysterious death of a bookkeeper. | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "Kiss of Death" | Allen Baron | Gregory S. Dinallo, Michael Kozoll, Glen A. Larson | November 25, 1975 | |
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A feuding mob family becomes victim to an intruder. | ||||||
| 11 | 11 | "Death by Resurrection" | Alf Kjellin | Stephen J. Cannell, John Thomas James | December 2, 1975 | |
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Pete and Mac are doing what they think is a routine background check when everyone — including the police, the FBI and the mob — want the check to stop immediately. | ||||||
| 12 | 12 | "The Cold War Con" | John Peyser | Michael Kozoll | December 9, 1975 | |
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In order to rescue a model abducted by white slavers, Pete and Mac pretend that the girl is a valuable pawn in a struggle between Soviet and American agents. | ||||||
| 13 | 13 | "Through the Past Deadly" | John Peyser | Michael Kozoll | December 16, 1975 | |
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When someone attempts to take Pete's life, Mac recalls how their friendship came to happen. | ||||||
| 14 | 14 | "Mistresses, Murder and Millions" | Allen Baron | David Chase, Paul Playdon | December 23, 1975 | |
| 15 | 15 | "The Walking Bomb" | John Peyser | David Chase, David Ketchum, Bruce Shelly | January 6, 1976 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 16 | 16 | "Ain't Nobody Here Named Barney" | John Newland | Michael Kozoll | January 13, 1976 | |
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A loony sculptor claims her grandfather wasn't really buried in his grave. It turns out he was, but there is also evidence that 4.3 million dollars in embezzled money is — or was — down there too. When Pete and Mac take up the case and find the money hijacked from a computer account, they also come upon a shadowy killer who is intent on making the sculptor look crazy or dead and taking them with her. | ||||||
| 17 | 17 | "Come Die with Me" | John Peyser | Bill Stratton | January 27, 1976 | |
| 18 | 18 | "One of Our Zeppelins Is Missing" | Dick Moder | Gene R. Kearney | February 10, 1976 | |
| 19 | 19 | "Before the Holocaust" | Edward M. Abroms | David Chase | February 17, 1976 | |
| 20 | 20 | "Big Deal in Paradise" | Bruce Kessler | Lou Shaw | February 24, 1976 | |
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Pete and Malcolm are suspected of stealing a million dollars of underworld money. | ||||||
| 21 | 21 | "The Case of the Purloined Case" | John Peyser | Michael Kozoll | March 2, 1976 | |
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In Las Vegas, Pete and Mac hunt for a twice-stolen tote bag that a lot of shady people want, but for mysteriously different reasons. | ||||||
| 22 | 22 | "The Girl on the Golden Strip" | John Peyser | David Chase, Glen A. Larson | March 16, 1976 | |
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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 parts of his managers. | ||||||
| 23 | 23 | "Round Up the Usual Suspects" | John Newland | Anthony DiMarco, Gene R. Kearney, David Ketchum | March 23, 1976 | |
| 24 | 24 | "Death Squad" | John Peyser | Lou Shaw | April 6, 1976 | |
Season 2: 1976–77
| Nº | Ep | Title | Directed by: | Written by: | Original air date | |
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| 25 | 1 | "The Pirates of Tin Pan Alley" | David Impastato | Walter Dallenbach | September 21, 1976 | |
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The ex-wife of a DJ and her companion die mysteriously, and Mac and Pete start an investigation. | ||||||
| 26 | 2 | "The Twelfth Commandment" | Sutton Roley | Leigh Vance | September 28, 1976 | |
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A stolen attache case reveals a bundle of money and an apparent death note pinned to a picture of several priests. | ||||||
| 27 | 3 | "Fleece of Snow" | Leo Penn | Morton Fine | October 5, 1976 | |
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The police decline to investigate the supposed suicide of a detective, a suspected cocaine user. | ||||||
| 28 | 4 | "The Argonaut Special" | John Peyser | Walter Dallenbach | October 12, 1976 | |
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The manager of a ranch in which Mac has invested is being pressured to sell by a ruthless land speculator. | ||||||
| 29 | 5 | "The Things That Belong to Mickey Costello" | Sutton Roley | Shirl Hendryx | October 19, 1976 | |
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Mac goes after a singer whose alibi covers the thug responsible for the near-fatal beating of Pete. | ||||||
| 30 | 6 | "Quicker Than the Eye" | David Friedkin | Sue Milburn | November 9, 1976 | |
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A peppery old con artist is marked for murder after witnessing a payoff. | ||||||
| 31 | 7 | "Gaffing the Skim" | Bruce Evans | Robert Dellinger | November 16, 1976 | |
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Pete poses as a carnival barker while investigating the abduction of a county-fair executive. | ||||||
| 32 | 8 | "The Lady from Liechtenstein: Part 1" | David Impastato | Norman Hudis | November 23, 1976 | |
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Impressionist Jim Bailey poses as a wealthy baroness to help Pete and Mac trap a womanizing crook. | ||||||
| 33 | 9 | "The Lady from Liechtenstein: Part 2" | David Impastato | Norman Hudis | November 30, 1976 | |
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A baroness is jeopardized by an announcement of the woman's marriage. | ||||||
| 34 | 10 | "Switch-Hitter" | Edward M. Abroms | Stephen Kandel, Arthur Rowe, Gene Thompson | December 7, 1976 | |
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Pete and Mac pose as hit men after a reporter about to expose a union racket is an assassination-attempt victim. | ||||||
| 35 | 11 | "Maggie's Hero" | Noel Black | Edward J. Lakso | December 14, 1976 | |
| 36 | 12 | "The 100,000 Ruble Rumble" | Leo Penn | Morton Fine | December 21, 1976 | |
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Mac is framed for murder in an elaborate international swindle that also nets him a 100,000 ruble reward for the killing. | ||||||
| 37 | 13 | "Portraits of Death" | John Peyser | Shirl Hendryx | January 4, 1977 | |
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Acting only on a hunch and perhaps a bit of jealousy, Pete probes into the background of an old flame's fiance, unaware that the man is a homicidal gigolo. | ||||||
| 38 | 14 | "The Snitch" | Sigmund Neufeld Jr. | Jack Guss, Carey Wilber | January 16, 1977 | |
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Pete and Mac play mob bosses to learn who made an attempt on Malcolm's life. | ||||||
| 39 | 15 | "Eyewitness" | Leo Penn | Lewis Davidson | January 23, 1977 | |
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A blind music teacher hires Pete and Mac for protection after her presence at a murder is noted by the killer. | ||||||
| 40 | 16 | "Camera Angles" | Bruce Kessler | David Taylor | January 30, 1977 | |
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To help a friend — and without telling each other — Mac and Pete tackle a case involving murder, kidnapping and a revolutionary new camera. | ||||||
| 41 | 17 | "Butterfly Morning" | Sutton Roley | Robert Earll, Alan Godfrey | February 6, 1977 | |
| 42 | 18 | "The Four Horsemen" | Sigmund Neufeld Jr. | Michael I. Wagner | February 13, 1977 | |
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Maggie is abducted by a mobster to ensure that Pete and Mac find whoever killed his father's buddy, and who likely has similar plans for Papa. | ||||||
| 43 | 19 | "Eden's Gate" | Gerald Mayer | Robert Earll, David Taylor | February 20, 1977 | |
| 44 | 20 | "The Hemline Heist" | Leo Penn | Jack Guss | February 27, 1977 | |
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A fashion designer is murdered three times simultaneously during a fashion show: he drinks cyanide-laced champagne, gets shot, and has a spotlight tumble onto his head all at once. The rest of the episode is shown in flashbacks, as the story unfolds of how people stole the formula for his latest show-stopping fashion and tried — independently of each other but at the exact same moment — to kill him for trying to find out who did it. | ||||||
| 45 | 21 | "Three for the Money" | Sigmund Neufeld Jr. | Stephen Kandel | March 6, 1977 | |
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Gunmen kidnap Maggie and a stunt pilot's wife, as part of a plan to free a gangster from custody. | ||||||
| 46 | 22 | "Two on the Run" | Arnold Laven | Cynthia A. Cherbak | March 13, 1977 | |
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Pete and Mac are invited to settle a racketeer's estate, a substantial legacy left to the three women in his life but coveted by his former partner, a sadistic loan shark. | ||||||
| 47 | 23 | "Whatever Happened to Carol Harmony?" | Ivan Dixon | David P. Lewis, Leigh Vance | March 27, 1977 | |
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Pete is asked by a former fellow inmate to locate a dancer who can clear him of murder charges. | ||||||
| 48 | 24 | "Heritage of Death" | John Peyser | Larry Forrester | April 3, 1977 | |
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An unidentified four-year-old African boy is left at Malcolm's doorstep, along with a note warning that the child needs protection. | ||||||
Season 3: 1977–78
| Nº | Ep | Title | Directed by: | Written by: | Original air date | |
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| 49 | 1 | "Net Loss" | Reza Badiyi | Stephen Kandel | September 23, 1977 | |
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Pete and Mac are hired by a murdered tennis pro's coach, who fears someone is trying to kill off the entire team. | ||||||
| 50 | 2 | "Downshift" | Sigmund Neufeld Jr. | Robert Earll | September 30, 1977 | |
| 51 | 3 | "Legend of the Macunas: Part 1" | John Peyser | Leigh Vance | October 14, 1977 | |
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A Las Vegas pilot crashes in the desert on a photo shoot, and Mac and Pete look into the cause. | ||||||
| 52 | 4 | "Legend of the Macunas: Part 2" | John Peyser | Leigh Vance | October 21, 1977 | |
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Conclusion to the case of the missing pilot and the search for buried treasure. | ||||||
| 53 | 5 | "Fade Out" | Lawrence Doheny | Richard H. Landau | November 4, 1977 | |
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Pete and Mac are hired by the producer of a movie after the film's leading lady has her life threatened. | ||||||
| 54 | 6 | "Dancer" | Paul Krasny | Patrick Mathews | December 5, 1977 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 55 | 7 | "Go for Broke" | Sigmund Neufeld Jr. | Mel Goldberg, Chris Lucky | December 12, 1977 | |
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Pete and Mac are hired by a wealthy woman to locate her missing husband, a philanderer with a gambling problem. But the woman is murdered before they find her husband. | ||||||
| 56 | 8 | "Lady of the Deep" | Sigmund Neufeld Jr. | Larry Forrester | December 19, 1977 | |
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A marine biologist has disappeared along the coast of Mexico while engaged in a salvage operation for the government. | ||||||
| 57 | 9 | "Thirty Thousand Witnesses" | Fernando Lamas | Tom Bagen | December 26, 1977 | |
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Pete becomes a rather overaged 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. | ||||||
| 58 | 10 | "Dangerous Curves" | Phil Bondelli | Larry Forrester | January 2, 1978 | |
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An all-woman cab company has been bombed and their drivers mugged, so they hire Mac and Pete to find out who and why. | ||||||
| 59 | 11 | "The Tong" | Ray Danton | David Carren, Peter Allan Fields | January 9, 1978 | |
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Malcolm's cook is involved in a murder that may presage war among Chinese clans. | ||||||
| 60 | 12 | "Who Killed Lila Craig?" | Paul Krasny | Steve Fisher | January 16, 1978 | |
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Mac becomes one of his own clients when he becomes a suspect in a 20-year old unsolved murder. | ||||||
| 61 | 13 | "Three Blonde Mice" | James Sheldon | Michael I. Wagner | January 30, 1978 | |
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Some interesting underwater footage highlights this episode as Pete and Mac, in full business suits, dive into a swimming pool to defuse a nuclear bomb threatening to take out a society party and much of Los Angeles to boot. | ||||||
| 62 | 14 | "Coronado Circle" | Michael Caffey | Donald P. Bellisario | February 7, 1978 | |
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An elderly captain and his deckhand are missing from a yacht found drifting where several vessels recently disappeared. | ||||||
| 63 | 15 | "Stolen Island" | Fernando Lamas | Robert Earll | March 28, 1978 | |
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Pete and Mac look for a militant ecologist who went into hiding after a chemical-company bombing. | ||||||
| 64 | 16 | "Formula for Murder" | Sigmund Neufeld Jr. | Madeline Di Maggio, Kathy Donnell | April 28, 1978 | |
| 65 | 17 | "Blue Crusaders Reunion" | Seymour Robbie | Robert Earll, Leigh Vance | May 5, 1978 | |
| 66 | 18 | "Mexican Standoff" | Fernando Lamas | John Lewis Figueroa, Larry Forrester | May 12, 1978 | |
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Pete and Mac investigate white-slavers who smuggle aliens from Latin America. | ||||||
| 67 | 19 | "Play-Off" | Sigmund Neufeld Jr. | Larry Forrester | June 18, 1978 | |
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A gambling mogul kidnaps Malcolm to ensure that Pete will protect his golfer son. | ||||||
| 68 | 20 | "The Cage" | Phil Bondelli | Larry Forrester, Patrick Mathews | June 25, 1978 | |
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A zoo's veterinarian has mysteriously disappeared and the only clue may have to do with a rare white rhino. | ||||||
| 69 | 21 | "Photo Finish" | Ray Danton | Cynthia A. Cherbak | July 2, 1978 | |
| 70 | 22 | "The Siege at the Bouziki Bar" | Seymour Robbie | Larry Forrester, John Peyser | July 9, 1978 | |
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The mob sends hitmen after a pregnant woman who can testify against them, and she takes refuge in Malcolm's bar while Pete, Maggie, and Mac are there. | ||||||