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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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3.4 / 5

9th September 1975 - 9th July 1978
Producer
Glen A. Larson
Top Cast
Robert WagnerEddie AlbertCharlie Callas
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The James Caan Con
9th September 1975

Episode 1

An wannabe actor who blackmails women targets an actress who ask for help from Pete and Frank.

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The Late Show Murders
16th September 1975

Episode 2

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.

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The Old Diamond Game
23rd September 1975

Episode 3

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 . Mac and Pete decide to get him to give up the money by pretending to have a diamond mine they want to sell.

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Stung from Beyond
30th September 1975

Episode 4

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.

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The Deadly Missiles Caper
7th October 1975

Episode 5

A woman persuades Pete and Mac to investigate and prove her wealthy Father was murdered by her unscrupulous Uncle.

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The Man Who Couldn't Lose
14th October 1975

Episode 6

Pete and Mac try to uncover the location of a high jacked armored truck's loot.

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Death Heist
21st October 1975

Episode 7

Pete and Mac have only 11 days to solve an old emerald robbery.

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The Body at the Bottom
4th November 1975

Episode 8

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 murderer who disposed of his victim under the burnt warehouse.

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The Cruise Ship Murders
11th November 1975

Episode 9

No overview available.

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Kiss of Death
25th November 1975

Episode 10

No overview available.

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Death By Resurrection
2nd December 1975

Episode 11

A client asks Pete to do a background check on a man with possible mob connections, who wants to marry his daughter .

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The Cold War Con
9th December 1975

Episode 12

A fashion model is abducted by white slavers. Pete and Mac devise a plan to rescue her.

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Through the Past Deadly
16th December 1975

Episode 13

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 do with a man named Speer who's the man who brought Ryan and Mac together. While waiting for the police to find the one who planted the bomb Mac recalls how they got together. It was two years ago and Mac was trying to get Speer for killing his partner and sought Ryan's help because Speer killed someone close to Ryan.

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Mistresses, Murder and Millions
23rd December 1975

Episode 14

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 with somebody else.

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The Walking Bomb
6th January 1976

Episode 15

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.

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Ain't Nobody Here Named Barney
13th January 1976

Episode 16

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 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 take them with her.

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Come Die with Me
27th January 1976

Episode 17

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.

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One of Our Zeppelins Is Missing
10th February 1976

Episode 18

A car collector (Dabney. Coleman) is blackmailed by a revengeful woman out to punish Mac who she blames for putting her husband in prison.

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Before the Holocaust
17th February 1976

Episode 19

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.

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Big Deal in Paradise
24th February 1976

Episode 20

No overview available.

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The Case of the Purloined Case
2nd March 1976

Episode 21

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.

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The Girl on the Golden Strip
16th March 1976

Episode 22

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.

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Round Up the Usual Suspects
23rd March 1976

Episode 23

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.

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Death Squad
6th April 1976

Episode 24

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 illegal he tried to get out but they're telling him, he has to do it and they threatened his family. Before he could say anything else the ones following him show up and take him. Pete and Mac Try to Find out whats going on, the men Show trying to get the boy but When they couldn't Find him, they take the mother, they also take Maggie to ...