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The Best Episodes of Switch

Every episode of Switch ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Switch!

The Best Episodes of Switch

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...

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  1. Background image for The Cage
    7.9/10(14 votes)

    #1 - The Cage

    S3:E20

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for The Pirates of Tin Pan Alley
    7.8/10(12 votes)

    #2 - The Pirates of Tin Pan Alley

    S2:E1

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    7.8/10(11 votes)

    #3 - Fade Out

    S3:E5

    No description available

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    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Blue Crusaders Reunion
    7.8/10(11 votes)

    #4 - Blue Crusaders Reunion

    S3:E17

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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    7.7/10(13 votes)

    #5 - Eyewitness

    S2:E16

    A blind witness hires Pete and Mac for protection.

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    Director:Leo Penn
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Three Blond Mice
    7.7/10(14 votes)

    #6 - Three Blond Mice

    S3:E13

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Formula for Murder
    7.6/10(11 votes)

    #7 - Formula for Murder

    S3:E16

    No description available

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    7.5/10(12 votes)

    #8 - Legend of the Macunas (1)

    S3:E3

    No description available

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Thirty Thousand Witnesses
    7.5/10(15 votes)

    #9 - Thirty Thousand Witnesses

    S3:E9

    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).

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    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Photo Finish
    7.5/10(12 votes)

    #10 - Photo Finish

    S3:E21

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    Director:Ray Danton
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for The Things That Belong to Mickey Costello
    7.4/10(10 votes)

    #11 - The Things That Belong to Mickey Costello

    S2:E5

    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.

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    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Butterfly Mourning
    7.4/10(14 votes)

    #12 - Butterfly Mourning

    S2:E18

    Pete and Mac go after a dope smugger for manslaughter.

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    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for The Tong
    7.4/10(11 votes)

    #13 - The Tong

    S3:E11

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  15. Background image for The Four Horsemen
    7.3/10(13 votes)

    #14 - The Four Horsemen

    S2:E19

    Maggie kidnapped by ganster son to make Pete and Mack find out who is trying to kill his farher.

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    7.2/10(11 votes)

    #15 - Two on the Run

    S2:E23

    Pete is asked by one his inmate pals to locate a dancer who can clear him of murder charges.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    7.2/10(11 votes)

    #16 - Play-off

    S3:E19

    Ryan is forced to protect a kingpin's son at a golf tournament, otherwise Malcolm's life is forfeit.

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    7.1/10(15 votes)

    #17 - Dangerous Curves

    S3:E10

    No description available

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Quicker Than the Eye
    7.0/10(13 votes)

    #18 - Quicker Than the Eye

    S2:E7

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    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Gaffing the Skim
    7.0/10(14 votes)

    #19 - Gaffing the Skim

    S2:E8

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Eden's Gate
    7.0/10(12 votes)

    #20 - Eden's Gate

    S2:E20

    Pete, Mack, Maggie and Malcome investigate a crooked health spa.

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    Director:Gerald Mayer
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Lady of the Deep
    7.0/10(12 votes)

    #21 - Lady of the Deep

    S3:E8

    No description available

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    7.0/10(12 votes)

    #22 - Mexican Standoff

    S3:E18

    No description available

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    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for The Siege at the Bouziki Bar
    7.0/10(12 votes)

    #23 - The Siege at the Bouziki Bar

    S3:E22

    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).

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for The Lady from Liechtenstein (1)
    6.9/10(13 votes)

    #24 - The Lady from Liechtenstein (1)

    S2:E9

    No description available

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Whatever Happened to Carol Harmony?
    6.8/10(10 votes)

    #25 - Whatever Happened to Carol Harmony?

    S2:E6

    No description available

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    Director:Ivan Dixon

Best Episodes Summary

"The Cage" is the best rated episode of "Switch". It scored 7.9/10 based on 14 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 6/25/1978. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Pirates of Tin Pan Alley".