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 (22)
1. Net Loss
Aired 23 September 1977 • 60 min
2. Downshift
Aired 30 September 1977 • 60 min
3. Legend of the Macunas (1)
Aired 14 October 1977 • 60 min
4. Legend of the Macunas (2)
Aired 21 October 1977 • 60 min
5. Fade Out
Aired 4 November 1977 • 60 min
6. Dancer
Aired 5 December 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.
7. Go for Broke
Aired 12 December 1977 • 60 min
8. Lady of the Deep
Aired 19 December 1977 • 60 min
9. Thirty Thousand Witnesses
Aired 26 December 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).
10. Dangerous Curves
Aired 2 January 1978 • 60 min
11. The Tong
Aired 9 January 1978 • 60 min
12. Who Killed Lila Craig?
Aired 16 January 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.
13. Three Blond Mice
Aired 30 January 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.
14. Coranodo Circle
Aired 7 February 1978 • 60 min
15. Stolen Island (aka Death Island)
Aired 28 March 1978 • 60 min
16. Formula for Murder
Aired 28 April 1978 • 60 min
17. Blue Crusaders Reunion
Aired 5 May 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.
18. Mexican Standoff
Aired 12 May 1978 • 60 min
19. Play-off
Aired 18 June 1978 • 60 min
Ryan is forced to protect a kingpin's son at a golf tournament, otherwise Malcolm's life is forfeit.
20. The Cage
Aired 25 June 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.
21. Photo Finish
Aired 2 July 1978 • 60 min
22. The Siege at the Bouziki Bar
Aired 9 July 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).