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Switch Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

25 Episodes 1975 - 1976

Episode 0

Las Vegas Roundabout

Fri, Mar 21, 197590 mins

Frank MacBride and Pete Ryan are private investigators who were on opposite sides of the law. Frank was a cop and Pete is a con man Frank pursued and eventually arrested. They are hired by a lawyer to help him prove his client who's a convicted safe cracker, didn't rob a safe. The damning piece of evidence is that some of the items that were stolen were found in his car. Frank and Pete try to find out who the actual thief by approaching a fence and he tells them a cop, the one who arrested the safe cracker, is the one who robbed the safe and planted the evidence in his car. But despite all this, Frank says they don't have enough to clear the man. So he thinks they should try and get him to steal again. They learn he likes to gamble so that's how they plan to get him. But Pete is worried he might get wise to them.

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Episode 1

The James Caan Con

Tue, Sep 9, 197560 mins

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

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Episode 2

The Late Show Murders

Tue, Sep 16, 197560 mins

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.

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Episode 3

The Old Diamond Game

Tue, Sep 23, 197560 mins

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.

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Episode 4

Stung from Beyond

Tue, Sep 30, 197560 mins

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.

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Episode 5

The Deadly Missiles Caper

Tue, Oct 7, 197560 mins

A woman persuades Pete and Mac to investigate and prove her wealthy Father was murdered by her unscrupulous Uncle.

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Episode 6

The Man Who Couldn't Lose

Tue, Oct 14, 197560 mins

Pete and Mac try to uncover the location of a high jacked armored truck's loot.

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Episode 7

Death Heist

Tue, Oct 21, 197560 mins

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

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Episode 8

The Body at the Bottom

Tue, Nov 4, 197560 mins

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.

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Episode 9

The Cruise Ship Murders

Tue, Nov 11, 197560 mins

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Episode 10

Kiss of Death

Tue, Nov 25, 197560 mins

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Episode 11

Death by Resurrection

Tue, Dec 2, 197560 mins

A client asks Pete to do a background check on a man with possible mob connections, who wants to marry his daughter .

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Episode 12

The Cold War Con

Tue, Dec 9, 197560 mins

A fashion model is abducted by white slavers. Pete and Mac devise a plan to rescue her.

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Episode 13

Through the Past Deadly

Tue, Dec 16, 197560 mins

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.

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Episode 14

Mistresses, Murder and Millions

Tue, Dec 23, 197560 mins

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.

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Episode 15

The Walking Bomb

Tue, Jan 6, 197660 mins

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.

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Episode 16

Ain't Nobody Here Named Barney

Tue, Jan 13, 197660 mins

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.

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Episode 17

Come Die with Me

Tue, Jan 27, 197660 mins

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.

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Episode 18

One of Our Zeppelins Is Missing

Tue, Feb 10, 197660 mins

A car collector (Dabney. Coleman) is blackmailed by a revengeful woman out to punish Mac who she blames for putting her husband in prison.

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Episode 19

Before the Holocaust

Tue, Feb 17, 197660 mins

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.

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Episode 20

Big Deal in Paradise

Tue, Feb 24, 197660 mins

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Episode 21

The Case of the Purloined Case

Tue, Mar 2, 197660 mins

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.

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Episode 22

The Girl on the Golden Strip

Tue, Mar 16, 197660 mins

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.

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Episode 23

Round Up the Usual Suspects

Tue, Mar 23, 197660 mins

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.

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Episode 24

Death Squad

Tue, Apr 6, 197660 mins

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 ensure Pete and Mac don't interfere. Pete and Mac try to Find out whats going on and save the women.

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