7.6/1024 votes#1 - 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
- 6.9/1019 votes
#2 - The Late Show Murders
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1975
A ex-cop now private investigator murders a man who stole jewels and takes the jewels himself. Pete and Frank help the cops by linking the murder and the jewels to the private investigator.
Director: Gordon Hessler
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1017 votes
#3 - 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 votes
#4 - 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
- 7.2/1017 votes
#5 - The Deadly Missiles Caper
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/1975
A woman persuades Pete and Mac to investigate and prove her wealthy Father was murdered by her unscrupulous Uncle.
Director: Walter Doniger
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1015 votes
#6 - The Man Who Couldn't Lose
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/14/1975
Pete and Mac try to uncover the location of a high jacked armored truck's loot.
Director: Bruce Kessler
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1015 votes
#7 - 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 votes
#8 - 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
- 8.2/1018 votes
#9 - The Cruise Ship Murders
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1975
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1013 votes
#10 - Kiss of Death
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/25/1975
No description available
Director: Allen Baron
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1013 votes
#11 - Death By Resurrection
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/2/1975
A client asks Pete to do a background check on a man with possible mob connections, who wants to marry his daughter .
Director: Alf Kjellin
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1012 votes
#12 - The Cold War Con
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/9/1975
A fashion model is abducted by white slavers. Pete and Mac devise a plan to rescue her.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1015 votes
#13 - 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
- 6.8/1016 votes
#14 - Mistresses, Murder and Millions
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/23/1975
A business magnate involved in a hideous divorce is kidnapped, and the kidnappers later critically wound a police officer. Pete and Mac suspect that the man's soon-to-be-ex-wife and his girlfriend may be behind the kidnapping -- along with somebody else.
Director: Allen Baron
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1015 votes
#15 - 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
- 7.4/1016 votes
#16 - Ain't Nobody Here Named Barney
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/13/1976
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: N/A
- 7.5/1017 votes
#17 - 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
- 7.7/1014 votes
#18 - 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
- 7.2/1014 votes
#19 - Before the Holocaust
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/17/1976
Pete and Mac check out a gun club in the mountains which stockpiles supplies for wealthy buyers who want to hide in its bunkers in case of a nuclear war. The club's proprietors are swindlers who have already murdered an employee.
Director: Edward M. Abroms
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1012 votes
#20 - Big Deal in Paradise
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/24/1976
No description available
Director: Bruce Kessler
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1015 votes
#21 - 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
- 7.4/1011 votes
#22 - The Girl on the Golden Strip
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/16/1976
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1012 votes
#23 - 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
- 6.8/1015 votes
#24 - Death Squad
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 4/6/1976
A woman Pete knows shows UP with her son. She tells him her husband called and told her they're in danger and That they had to get away. She and Pete Go to meet her husband, he says he was hired to do something. When he found out its illegal he tried to get out but they're telling him, he has to do it and they threatened his family. Before he could say anything else the ones following him show up and take him. Pete and Mac Try to Find out whats going on, the men Show trying to get the boy but When they couldn't Find him, they take the mother, they also take Maggie to ...
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Switch Season 1
Every episode of Switch Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Switch Season 1!
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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Network:CBS
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The James Caan Con" is the best rated episode of "Switch" season 1. It scored 7.6/10 based on 24 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/9/1975. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "The Late Show Murders".