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:
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 (1975-03-21)

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
1	1	"The James Caan Con"	E.W. Swackhamer	Richard Powell	September 9, 1975 (1975-09-09)
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 (1975-09-16)
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 (1975-09-23)
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 (1975-09-30)
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 (1975-10-07)
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 (1975-10-14)
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 (1975-10-21)
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 (1975-11-04)
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 (1975-11-11)
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 (1975-11-25)
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 (1975-12-02)
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 (1975-12-09)
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 (1975-12-16)
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 (1975-12-23)
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
15	15	"The Walking Bomb"	John Peyser	David Chase, David Ketchum, Bruce Shelly	January 6, 1976 (1976-01-06)
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 (1976-01-13)
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 (1976-01-27)
18	18	"One of Our Zeppelins Is Missing"	Dick Moder	Gene R. Kearney	February 10, 1976 (1976-02-10)
19	19	"Before the Holocaust"	Edward M. Abroms	David Chase	February 17, 1976 (1976-02-17)
20	20	"Big Deal in Paradise"	Bruce Kessler	Lou Shaw	February 24, 1976 (1976-02-24)
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 (1976-03-02)
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 (1976-03-16)
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. Filmed on location in Las Vegas and on Lake Mead.
23	23	"Round Up the Usual Suspects"	John Newland	Anthony DiMarco, Gene R. Kearney, David Ketchum	March 23, 1976 (1976-03-23)
24	24	"Death Squad"	John Peyser	Lou Shaw	April 6, 1976 (1976-04-06)

Season 2: 1976–77

Nº	Ep	Title	Directed by:	Written by:	Original air date
25	1	"The Pirates of Tin Pan Alley"	David Impastato	Walter Dallenbach	September 21, 1976 (1976-09-21)
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 (1976-09-28)
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 (1976-10-05)
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 (1976-10-12)
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 (1976-10-19)
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 (1976-11-09)
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 (1976-11-16)
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 (1976-11-23)
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 (1976-11-30)
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 (1976-12-07)
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 (1976-12-14)
36	12	"The 100,000 Ruble Rumble"	Leo Penn	Morton Fine	December 21, 1976 (1976-12-21)
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 (1977-01-04)
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 (1977-01-16)
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 (1977-01-23)
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 (1977-01-30)
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 (1977-02-06)
42	18	"The Four Horsemen"	Sigmund Neufeld Jr.	Michael I. Wagner	February 13, 1977 (1977-02-13)
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 (1977-02-20)
44	20	"The Hemline Heist"	Leo Penn	Jack Guss	February 27, 1977 (1977-02-27)
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 (1977-03-06)
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 (1977-03-13)
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 (1977-03-27)
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 (1977-04-03)
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
49	1	"Net Loss"	Reza Badiyi	Stephen Kandel	September 23, 1977 (1977-09-23)
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 (1977-09-30)
51	3	"Legend of the Macunas: Part 1"	John Peyser	Leigh Vance	October 14, 1977 (1977-10-14)
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 (1977-10-21)
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 (1977-11-04)
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 (1977-12-05)
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 (1977-12-12)
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 (1977-12-19)
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 (1977-12-26)
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 (1978-01-02)
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 (1978-01-09)
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 (1978-01-16)
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 (1978-01-30)
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 (1978-02-07)
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 (1978-03-28)
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 (1978-04-28)
65	17	"Blue Crusaders Reunion"	Seymour Robbie	Robert Earll, Leigh Vance	May 5, 1978 (1978-05-05)
66	18	"Mexican Standoff"	Fernando Lamas	John Lewis Figueroa, Larry Forrester	May 12, 1978 (1978-05-12)
Pete and Mac investigate white-slavers who smuggle aliens from Latin America.
67	19	"Play-Off"	Sigmund Neufeld Jr.	Larry Forrester	June 18, 1978 (1978-06-18)
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 (1978-06-25)
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 (1978-07-02)
70	22	"The Siege at the Bouziki Bar"	Seymour Robbie	Larry Forrester, John Peyser	July 9, 1978 (1978-07-09)
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.

References

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