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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!

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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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Switch Season 1 Episode 9 - The Cruise Ship Murders
    8.3/10(18 votes)

    S1:E9

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Switch Season 1 Episode 13 - Through the Past Deadly
    8.2/10(15 votes)

    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.

    Director:Allen Baron
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Switch Season 2 Episode 1 - The Pirates of Tin Pan Alley
    8.0/10(12 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Switch Season 1 Episode 23 - Round Up the Usual Suspects
    7.8/10(12 votes)

    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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Switch Season 2 Episode 16 - Eyewitness
    7.8/10(13 votes)

    S2:E16

    A blind witness hires Pete and Mac for protection.

    Director:Leo Penn
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Switch Season 3 Episode 5 - Fade Out
    7.8/10(13 votes)

    S3:E5

    No description available

    Director:Lawrence Doheny
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Switch Season 3 Episode 20 - The Cage
    7.8/10(15 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Switch Season 2 Episode 19 - The Four Horsemen
    7.7/10(13 votes)

    S2:E19

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

    Director:Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Switch Season 1 Episode 1 - The James Caan Con
    7.6/10(24 votes)

    S1:E1

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Switch Season 1 Episode 8 - The Body at the Bottom
    7.6/10(16 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Switch Season 1 Episode 15 - The Walking Bomb
    7.6/10(15 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Switch Season 1 Episode 18 - One of Our Zeppelins Is Missing
    7.6/10(14 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Switch Season 1 Episode 21 - The Case of the Purloined Case
    7.6/10(16 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Switch Season 2 Episode 21 - The Hemline Heist
    7.6/10(12 votes)

    S2:E21

    A fashion designer is murdered three times simultaneously as he presents during a fashion show -- by drinking cyanide-laced champagne, getting shot and having a spotlight tumble onto his head. The rest of the episode is shown in flashbacks, as the story unfolds of how people stole the formula for his latest show-stopping fashion and tried -- independently of each other but at the exact same moment -- to kill him for trying to find out who did it. (The three killers are all caught trying to escape in a coda at the end.)

    Director:Leo Penn
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Switch Season 3 Episode 17 - Blue Crusaders Reunion
    7.6/10(12 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Leigh Vance

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  16. Switch Season 1 Episode 4 - Stung from Beyond
    7.5/10(24 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:David Ketchum

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  17. Switch Season 1 Episode 7 - Death Heist
    7.5/10(15 votes)

    S1:E7

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

    Director:Glen A. Larson
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Switch Season 3 Episode 13 - Three Blond Mice
    7.5/10(15 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Switch Season 1 Episode 3 - The Old Diamond Game
    7.4/10(17 votes)

    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.

    Director:Gordon Hessler
    Writers:Glen A. Larson, Michael Sloan

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  20. Switch Season 1 Episode 16 - Ain't Nobody Here Named Barney
    7.4/10(16 votes)

    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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Switch Season 1 Episode 17 - Come Die with Me
    7.4/10(17 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Switch Season 1 Episode 22 - The Girl on the Golden Strip
    7.4/10(12 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Switch Season 3 Episode 16 - Formula for Murder
    7.4/10(12 votes)

    S3:E16

    No description available

    Director:Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Switch Season 1 Episode 20 - Big Deal in Paradise
    7.3/10(13 votes)

    S1:E20

    No description available

    Director:Bruce Kessler
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Switch Season 2 Episode 18 - Butterfly Mourning
    7.3/10(14 votes)

    S2:E18

    Pete and Mac go after a dope smugger for manslaughter.

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Cruise Ship Murders" is the best rated episode of "Switch". It scored 8.3/10 based on 18 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/11/1975. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Through the Past Deadly".