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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 Cruise Ship Murders
    8.2/10(18 votes)

    #1 - The Cruise Ship Murders

    S1:E9

    No description available

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Through the Past Deadly
    8.2/10(15 votes)

    #2 - Through the Past Deadly

    S1:E13

    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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    Director:Allen Baron
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Round Up the Usual Suspects
    7.8/10(12 votes)

    #3 - Round Up the Usual Suspects

    S1:E23

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

    #4 - 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
  5. Background image for Dancer
    7.8/10(11 votes)

    #5 - Dancer

    S3:E6

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for One of Our Zeppelins Is Missing
    7.7/10(14 votes)

    #6 - One of Our Zeppelins Is Missing

    S1:E18

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Eyewitness
    7.7/10(13 votes)

    #7 - Eyewitness

    S2:E16

    A blind witness hires Pete and Mac for protection.

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    Director:Leo Penn
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for The Cage
    7.7/10(15 votes)

    #8 - 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
  10. Background image for The James Caan Con
    7.6/10(24 votes)

    #9 - The James Caan Con

    S1:E1

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Death Heist
    7.6/10(15 votes)

    #10 - Death Heist

    S1:E7

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for The Body at the Bottom
    7.6/10(16 votes)

    #11 - The Body at the Bottom

    S1:E8

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for The Walking Bomb
    7.6/10(15 votes)

    #12 - The Walking Bomb

    S1:E15

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for The Case of the Purloined Case
    7.6/10(16 votes)

    #13 - The Case of the Purloined Case

    S1:E21

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Legend of the Macunas (2)
    7.6/10(11 votes)

    #14 - Legend of the Macunas (2)

    S3:E4

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Fade Out
    7.6/10(12 votes)

    #15 - Fade Out

    S3:E5

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    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for The Old Diamond Game
    7.5/10(17 votes)

    #16 - The Old Diamond Game

    S1:E3

    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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  18. Background image for Stung from Beyond
    7.5/10(24 votes)

    #17 - Stung from Beyond

    S1:E4

    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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    Director:Unknown
  19. Background image for Come Die with Me
    7.5/10(17 votes)

    #18 - Come Die with Me

    S1:E17

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Big Deal in Paradise
    7.5/10(12 votes)

    #19 - Big Deal in Paradise

    S1:E20

    No description available

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    Director:Bruce Kessler
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Blue Crusaders Reunion
    7.5/10(12 votes)

    #20 - 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
  22. Background image for Ain't Nobody Here Named Barney
    7.4/10(16 votes)

    #21 - Ain't Nobody Here Named Barney

    S1:E16

    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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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for The Girl on the Golden Strip
    7.4/10(11 votes)

    #22 - The Girl on the Golden Strip

    S1:E22

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

    #23 - 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
  25. Background image for Butterfly Mourning
    7.4/10(14 votes)

    #24 - Butterfly Mourning

    S2:E18

    Pete and Mac go after a dope smugger for manslaughter.

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    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Three Blond Mice
    7.4/10(15 votes)

    #25 - 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

Best Episodes Summary

"The Cruise Ship Murders" is the best rated episode of "Switch". It scored 8.2/10 based on 18 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/11/1975. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Through the Past Deadly".