Glen A. Larson
Director
Switch (1975)
Season 3
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.
Released Sept. 9, 1975
Episode 60 min
None+
Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Keywords: tmdb.con-man, tmdb.ex-cop, tmdb.private-investigator, tmdb.los-angeles-california, tmdb.detective-agency, imdb.detective, imdb.partner + 7 more, imdb.con-artist, imdb.private-detective, imdb.father-son-relationship, imdb.sting-operation, imdb.private-investigator, imdb.retired-cop, imdb.maserati-mistral
Production Companies: Universal Television, Glen A. Larson Productions
Network: CBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S3E1 - Net Loss
Sept. 23, 1977, midnight
S3E2 - Downshift
Sept. 30, 1977, midnight
S3E5 - Fade Out
Nov. 4, 1977, midnight
S3E3 - Legend of the Macunas (1)
Oct. 14, 1977, midnight
S3E4 - Legend of the Macunas (2)
Oct. 21, 1977, midnight
S3E6 - 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.
Dec. 5, 1977, midnight
S3E7 - Go for Broke
Dec. 12, 1977, midnight
S3E8 - Lady of the Deep
Dec. 19, 1977, midnight
S3E9 - 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).
Dec. 26, 1977, midnight
S3E10 - Dangerous Curves
Jan. 2, 1978, midnight
S3E11 - The Tong
Jan. 9, 1978, midnight
S3E12 - 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.
Jan. 16, 1978, midnight
S3E20 - 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.
June 25, 1978, midnight
S3E14 - Coranodo Circle
Feb. 7, 1978, midnight
S3E17 - 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.
May 5, 1978, midnight
S3E15 - Stolen Island (aka Death Island)
March 28, 1978, midnight
S3E19 - Play-off
Ryan is forced to protect a kingpin's son at a golf tournament, otherwise Malcolm's life is forfeit.
June 18, 1978, midnight
S3E18 - Mexican Standoff
May 12, 1978, midnight
S3E13 - 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.
Jan. 30, 1978, midnight
S3E22 - 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).
July 9, 1978, midnight
S3E16 - Formula for Murder
April 28, 1978, midnight
S3E21 - Photo Finish
July 2, 1978, midnight
Network: CBS
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 60 min.
Released: Sept. 9, 1975
Last Air Date: July 9, 1978, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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