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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!

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
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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".

  • The Case of the Purloined Case
    8.3/10(15)
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    #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

  • Butterfly Mourning
    8.3/10(13)
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    #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

  • The Cruise Ship Murders
    8.2/10(18)
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    #3 - The Cruise Ship Murders

    Season 1 Episode 9

    Aired 11/11/1975

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Through the Past Deadly
    8.2/10(15)
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    #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

  • Gaffing the Skim
    8.0/10(13)
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    #5 - Gaffing the Skim

    Season 2 Episode 8

    Aired 11/16/1976

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Cage
    7.9/10(14)
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    #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

  • Round Up the Usual Suspects
    7.8/10(12)
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    #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

  • The Pirates of Tin Pan Alley
    7.8/10(12)
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    #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

  • The Lady from Liechtenstein (1)
    7.8/10(12)
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    #9 - The Lady from Liechtenstein (1)

    Season 2 Episode 9

    Aired 11/23/1976

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Fade Out
    7.8/10(11)
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    #10 - Fade Out

    Season 3 Episode 5

    Aired 11/4/1977

    No description available

    Director: Lawrence Doheny

    Writer: N/A

  • Blue Crusaders Reunion
    7.8/10(11)
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    #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

  • One of Our Zeppelins Is Missing
    7.7/10(14)
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    #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

  • Eyewitness
    7.7/10(13)
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    #13 - Eyewitness

    Season 2 Episode 16

    Aired 1/23/1977

    A blind witness hires Pete and Mac for protection.

    Director: Leo Penn

    Writer: N/A

  • Three Blond Mice
    7.7/10(14)
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    #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

  • The James Caan Con
    7.6/10(24)
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    #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

  • Death Heist
    7.6/10(15)
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    #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

  • The Body at the Bottom
    7.6/10(16)
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    #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

  • The Walking Bomb
    7.6/10(15)
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    #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

  • Formula for Murder
    7.6/10(11)
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    #19 - Formula for Murder

    Season 3 Episode 16

    Aired 4/28/1978

    No description available

    Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.

    Writer: N/A

  • The Old Diamond Game
    7.5/10(17)
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    #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

  • Stung from Beyond
    7.5/10(24)
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    #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

  • Come Die with Me
    7.5/10(17)
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    #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

  • Big Deal in Paradise
    7.5/10(12)
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    #23 - Big Deal in Paradise

    Season 1 Episode 20

    Aired 2/24/1976

    No description available

    Director: Bruce Kessler

    Writer: N/A

  • Legend of the Macunas (1)
    7.5/10(12)
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    #24 - Legend of the Macunas (1)

    Season 3 Episode 3

    Aired 10/14/1977

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Thirty Thousand Witnesses
    7.5/10(15)
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    #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