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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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- E1 The James Caan ConNext upSep 9, 1975 · 60 min
Synopsis
An wannabe actor who blackmails women targets an actress who ask for help from Pete and Frank.
Guest stars: Keir Dullea (Anthony Kirk), John S. Ragin (Len Ekhardt), Julie Sommars (Lane Cameron), Len Lesser (Salesman), Don Ross (Guard)
- E2 The Late Show MurdersSep 16, 1975 · 60 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Stanley Kamel (Eddie Matlock), Roger C. Carmel (Private Investigator Belasco), Jaclyn Smith (Ali)
- E3 The Old Diamond GameSep 23, 1975 · 60 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Stefan Gierasch (Herr Mueller), Roberto Contreras (Rojo), Robert Webber (Paul Sinclair), Anne Archer (Laurie)
- E4 Stung from BeyondSep 30, 1975 · 60 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Ida Lupino (Mrs. Simon), Buddy Lester (Arnie Gold), Byron Morrow (Farrell), Joan Collins (Jackie Simon), Granville Van Dusen (Phil Simon), John Dehner (Mr. Simon), Gordon Jump (Chuck Kreski), Ivan Bonar (Manager)
- E5 The Deadly Missiles CaperOct 7, 1975 · 60 min
Synopsis
A woman persuades Pete and Mac to investigate and prove her wealthy Father was murdered by her unscrupulous Uncle.
Guest stars: Kathleen Quinlan (Robin Morgan), John Quade (Sheriff Jacobs), Stephen McNally (Steve Morgan), John Vernon (Jack Morgan), Martin Kove (Bud Ewing), Rance Howard (Collins), Ed Call (Leonard Freemont), Burt Mustin (Old Man)
- E6 The Man Who Couldn't LoseOct 14, 1975 · 60 min
Synopsis
Pete and Mac try to uncover the location of a high jacked armored truck's loot.
Guest stars: Joshua Shelley (Dutch), Paul Koslo (Roy Moss), Don Gordon (Deputy Graylow), Gayle Hunnicutt (Samantha), Richard Masur (Wes Atwater)
- E7 Death HeistOct 21, 1975 · 60 min
Synopsis
Pete and Mac have only 11 days to solve an old emerald robbery.
Guest stars: Richard Kiel (Loach), Henry Silva (Kirk Shaw), Booth Colman (Seegar), Jaclyn Smith (Ali)
- E8 The Body at the BottomNov 4, 1975 · 60 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: James Keach (Dean 'Skip' Crowe), Vic Tayback (Ralph Kabelka), H.B. Haggerty (Patrick Cassidy), Gino Conforti (Dominic)
- E9 The Cruise Ship MurdersNov 11, 1975 · 60 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Joan Freeman (Norma Harmon), Jared Martin (Todd), Natalie Wood (Cruise Ship Passenger (uncredited)), Russ Conway (Ship's Captain), Lloyd Bochner (Harmon)
- E10 Kiss of DeathNov 25, 1975 · 60 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Marc Lawrence (Don Vincenzo), Dina Merrill (Luciana), Gino Conforti (Dominic), Ricardo Montalban (Jean-Paul), Martine Beswick (Veronique)
- E11 Death By ResurrectionDec 2, 1975 · 60 min
Synopsis
A client asks Pete to do a background check on a man with possible mob connections, who wants to marry his daughter .
Guest stars: JoAnna Cameron (Jenny Brown), Don Porter (Paul Lorimer), George Wyner (Sterling), Charles Frank (Charlie), Alfred Ryder (Nathan Monk), Cheryl Ladd (Jill Lorimer), John Kerry (Bedford), Todd Martin (Patterson)
- E12 The Cold War ConDec 9, 1975 · 60 min
Synopsis
A fashion model is abducted by white slavers. Pete and Mac devise a plan to rescue her.
Guest stars: Madlyn Rhue (Evelynn Thurston), Burr DeBenning (Kevin Geschwin), Anne Archer (Laurie), Bill Fletcher (Zack)
- E13 Through the Past DeadlyDec 16, 1975 · 60 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Camilla Sparv (Britt Engstrom), Frank Marth (Speer)
- E14 Mistresses, Murder and MillionsDec 23, 1975 · 60 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Joe Maross (Lt. Gates), Shelly Novack (Strayhorn), Charles Drake (Charles Estabrook), Ann Blyth (Miriam Estabrook), Med Flory (Curtis Malinchak), Read Morgan (Sgt. Kinnell)
- E15 The Walking BombJan 6, 1976 · 60 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Terry Kiser (Hanna), Larry Manetti (Sgt. Valli), Patrick Duffy (Sgt. Musial), Charles Haid (Pepper)
- E16 Ain't Nobody Here Named BarneyJan 13, 1976 · 60 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Lucille Benson (Edna), Bernie Kopell (Selig), Ann Prentiss (Cora), Fred Holliday (Harkness), Lurene Tuttle (Rose), Paul Fix (Sheriff)
- E17 Come Die with MeJan 27, 1976 · 60 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: John Fujioka (Watanabe), Frank Aletter (Fred Willens), Don Ho (Don Ho), Jason Evers (Capt. Topping), Gretchen Corbett (Beryl), Linden Chiles (Bill), Ben Piazza (Ernie Riker)
- E18 One of Our Zeppelins Is MissingFeb 10, 1976 · 60 min
Synopsis
A car collector (Dabney. Coleman) is blackmailed by a revengeful woman out to punish Mac who she blames for putting her husband in prison.
Guest stars: Joan Blondell (Mrs. Lear), Alan Vint (Nate Lear), Estelle Winwood (Vivian Nigel), Dabney Coleman (C.C. Owens)
- E19 Before the HolocaustFeb 17, 1976 · 60 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Sydney Chaplin (Adler), Pamela Susan Shoop (Sue Zirk), Bruce Glover (Bach), David Sheiner (Bricker), Ross Elliott (Chief Mulray)
- E20 Big Deal in ParadiseFeb 24, 1976 · 60 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Ray Danton (Ralph Carson), Jeanne Bates (Mrs. Bates), Peter Mark Richman (Saunders), Anne Archer (Laurie), Charles Bateman (Wilkes)
- E21 The Case of the Purloined CaseMar 2, 1976 · 60 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Milt Kamen (Mendel Terrace), Jack Colvin (Detective Sgt. Colder), Lara Parker (Ester Kelly), Dionne Warwick (Sheri), Larry Storch (Benny Shore), Rick Podell (Detective Pitts)
- E22 The Girl on the Golden StripMar 16, 1976 · 60 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Wayne Newton (Paul Taylor), Jack Colvin (Det. Koehler)
- E23 Round Up the Usual SuspectsMar 23, 1976 · 60 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Edith Atwater (Mrs. Wood), George Voskovec (Lehman), Veronica Hamel (Nabilla), Fernando Lamas (Fouad), Sid Haig (Mahmud)
- E24 Death SquadApr 6, 1976 · 60 min
Synopsis
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 ...
Guest stars: William Sylvester (Ellis), Mark Goddard (Steve Martin), Jack Hogan (Hardy)
Cast & crew
Created by Glen A. Larson
Robert Wagner
Eddie Albert
Charlie Callas
Sharon Gless
James Hong
William Bryant
