8.3/1015 votesLoading...#1 - The Case of the Purloined Case
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/2/1976
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1013 votesLoading...
#2 - Butterfly Mourning
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/6/1977
Pete and Mac go after a dope smugger for manslaughter.
Director: Sutton Roley
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1018 votesLoading...
#3 - The Cruise Ship Murders
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1975
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1015 votesLoading...
#4 - Through the Past Deadly
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/16/1975
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.
Director: Allen Baron
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1013 votesLoading...
#5 - Gaffing the Skim
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1976
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1014 votesLoading...
#6 - The Cage
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 6/25/1978
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1012 votesLoading...
#7 - Round Up the Usual Suspects
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/23/1976
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.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1012 votesLoading...
#8 - The Pirates of Tin Pan Alley
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1976
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1012 votesLoading...
#9 - The Lady from Liechtenstein (1)
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/1976
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1011 votesLoading...
#10 - Fade Out
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/1977
No description available
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1011 votesLoading...
#11 - Blue Crusaders Reunion
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 5/5/1978
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Leigh Vance
- 7.7/1014 votesLoading...
#12 - One of Our Zeppelins Is Missing
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/10/1976
A car collector (Dabney. Coleman) is blackmailed by a revengeful woman out to punish Mac who she blames for putting her husband in prison.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1014 votesLoading...
#14 - Three Blond Mice
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/30/1978
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1024 votesLoading...
#15 - The James Caan Con
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1975
An wannabe actor who blackmails women targets an actress who ask for help from Pete and Frank.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1015 votesLoading...
#16 - Death Heist
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/21/1975
Pete and Mac have only 11 days to solve an old emerald robbery.
Director: Glen A. Larson
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1016 votesLoading...
#17 - The Body at the Bottom
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/1975
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1015 votesLoading...
#18 - The Walking Bomb
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/6/1976
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1011 votesLoading...
#19 - Formula for Murder
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 4/28/1978
No description available
Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1017 votesLoading...
#20 - The Old Diamond Game
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/1975
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.
Director: Gordon Hessler
Writer: Glen A. Larson, Michael Sloan
- 7.5/1024 votesLoading...
#21 - Stung from Beyond
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1975
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1017 votesLoading...
#22 - Come Die with Me
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/27/1976
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1012 votesLoading...
#23 - Big Deal in Paradise
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/24/1976
No description available
Director: Bruce Kessler
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1012 votesLoading...
#24 - Legend of the Macunas (1)
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1977
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1015 votesLoading...
#25 - Thirty Thousand Witnesses
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/26/1977
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).
Director: Fernando Lamas
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Switch
Every episode of Switch ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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...
Genres:Action & AdventureDrama
Network:CBS
Best Episodes Summary
"The Case of the Purloined Case" is the best rated episode of "Switch". It scored 8.3/10 based on 15 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/2/1976. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Butterfly Mourning".