TV seriesAction & AdventureDrama
Switch Season 3
1975–1978 3 seasons 70 episodes 60 min
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 September 9, 1975 and August 20, 1978, bumping the Hawaii Five-O detective series to Friday nights.
Air timeline
1975–1978Complete3 seasons · 70 episodes
Seasons
Season 31977–197822 episodes
- 1Net Loss1977-09-23 · 60 min
S03E01 · Season 3
Net Loss
No synopsis for this episode yet.
- 2Downshift1977-09-30 · 60 min
S03E02 · Season 3
Downshift
No synopsis for this episode yet.
- 3Legend of the Macunas (1)1977-10-14 · 60 min
S03E03 · Season 3
Legend of the Macunas (1)
No synopsis for this episode yet.
- 4Legend of the Macunas (2)1977-10-21 · 60 min
S03E04 · Season 3
Legend of the Macunas (2)
No synopsis for this episode yet.
- 5Fade Out1977-11-04 · 60 min
S03E05 · Season 3
Fade Out
No synopsis for this episode yet.
- 6Dancer1977-12-05 · 60 min
S03E06 · Season 3
Dancer
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.
- 7Go for Broke1977-12-12 · 60 min
S03E07 · Season 3
Go for Broke
No synopsis for this episode yet.
- 8Lady of the Deep1977-12-19 · 60 min
S03E08 · Season 3
Lady of the Deep
No synopsis for this episode yet.
- 9Thirty Thousand Witnesses1977-12-26 · 60 min
S03E09 · Season 3
Thirty Thousand Witnesses
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).
- 10Dangerous Curves1978-01-02 · 60 min
S03E10 · Season 3
Dangerous Curves
No synopsis for this episode yet.
- 11The Tong1978-01-09 · 60 min
S03E11 · Season 3
The Tong
No synopsis for this episode yet.
- 12Who Killed Lila Craig?1978-01-16 · 60 min
S03E12 · Season 3
Who Killed Lila Craig?
Mac reacquaints himself with a number of people he hasn't seen in years after he and Pete reopen the case of a glamorous actress who was murdered 30 years earlier.
- 13Three Blond Mice1978-01-30 · 60 min
S03E13 · Season 3
Three Blond Mice
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.
- 14Coranodo Circle1978-02-07 · 60 min
S03E14 · Season 3
Coranodo Circle
No synopsis for this episode yet.
- 15Stolen Island (aka Death Island)1978-03-28 · 60 min
S03E15 · Season 3
Stolen Island (aka Death Island)
No synopsis for this episode yet.
- 16Formula for Murder1978-04-28 · 60 min
S03E16 · Season 3
Formula for Murder
No synopsis for this episode yet.
- 17Blue Crusaders Reunion1978-05-05 · 60 min
S03E17 · Season 3
Blue Crusaders Reunion
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.
- 18Mexican Standoff1978-05-12 · 60 min
S03E18 · Season 3
Mexican Standoff
No synopsis for this episode yet.
- 19Play-off1978-06-18 · 60 min
S03E19 · Season 3
Play-off
Ryan is forced to protect a kingpin's son at a golf tournament, otherwise Malcolm's life is forfeit.
- 20The Cage1978-06-25 · 60 min
S03E20 · Season 3
The Cage
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.
- 21Photo Finish1978-07-02 · 60 min
S03E21 · Season 3
Photo Finish
No synopsis for this episode yet.
- 22The Siege at the Bouziki Bar1978-07-09 · 60 min
S03E22 · Season 3
The Siege at the Bouziki Bar
The near-ultimate in budget-conscious "bottle shows" (all but two scenes are filmed inside Malcolm's Bouziki Bar; Pamela Bellwood and two firemen are the only guest actors; and much of the show is in flashbacks) finds Pete, Mac, Malcolm and Maggie trapped inside the bar with a very pregnant murder witness while mob hit men search unseen for a way in. Some sources give this episode's air date as August 13, 1978, when the show was run off as a summer series (and did very well in the ratings).
Cast
Robert WagnerPete Ryan
Eddie AlbertFrank MacBride
Charlie CallasMalcolm Argos
Sharon GlessMaggie Philbin
William BryantLieutenant Shilton
James HongWang
Jack ColvinLieutenant Koehler
Sydney ChaplinLance Lucarotti
Anne ArcherLaurie
John FujiokaWatanabe
Wayne NewtonSelf
Lara ParkerEster Kelly
Dionne WarwickSheriNick DimitriThug #1 (uncredited)
JoAnna CameronJenny Brown
Florida FriebusFiona
Pamela HensleySandra Summers
Foster BrooksDale Abee
Jeff CoreyA.J. Gunther
Stefan GieraschHerr MuellerSimilar series
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