About this season
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.
Episodes (24)
1. The Pirates of Tin Pan Alley
Aired 21 September 1976 • 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 off in "acccidents" set up by his burly but child-like henchman Ronnie. Pete devises a scheme to erase the master tapes of various artists whom Taggart has promised to the mobster, forcing him to take incautious actions.
2. The Twelfth Commandment
Aired 28 September 1976 • 60 min
3. Fleece of Snow
Aired 5 October 1976 • 60 min
4. The Argonaut Special
Aired 12 October 1976 • 60 min
5. The Things That Belong to Mickey Costello
Aired 19 October 1976 • 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.
6. Whatever Happened to Carol Harmony?
Aired 26 October 1976 • 60 min
7. Quicker Than the Eye
Aired 9 November 1976 • 60 min
8. Gaffing the Skim
Aired 16 November 1976 • 60 min
9. The Lady from Liechtenstein (1)
Aired 23 November 1976 • 60 min
10. The Lady from Liechtenstein (2)
Aired 30 November 1976 • 60 min
11. Switch Hitter
Aired 7 December 1976 • 60 min
12. Maggie's Hero
Aired 14 December 1976 • 60 min
Maggies love interest turns out to be an ex-con.
13. The Hundred Thousand Ruble Rumble
Aired 21 December 1976 • 60 min
14. Portraits of Death
Aired 4 January 1977 • 60 min
15. The Snitch
Aired 16 January 1977 • 60 min
16. Eyewitness
Aired 23 January 1977 • 60 min
A blind witness hires Pete and Mac for protection.
17. Camera Angles
Aired 30 January 1977 • 60 min
18. Butterfly Mourning
Aired 6 February 1977 • 60 min
Pete and Mac go after a dope smugger for manslaughter.
19. The Four Horsemen
Aired 13 February 1977 • 60 min
Maggie kidnapped by ganster son to make Pete and Mack find out who is trying to kill his farher.
20. Eden's Gate
Aired 20 February 1977 • 60 min
Pete, Mack, Maggie and Malcome investigate a crooked health spa.
21. The Hemline Heist
Aired 27 February 1977 • 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 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. (The three killers are all caught trying to escape in a coda at the end.)
22. Three for the Money
Aired 13 March 1977 • 60 min
23. Two on the Run
Aired 27 March 1977 • 60 min
Pete is asked by one his inmate pals to locate a dancer who can clear him of murder charges.
24. Heritage of Death
Aired 3 April 1977 • 60 min