List of Switch episodes

An ex-con (Robert Wagner) and a retired cop (Eddie Albert), partners in a private investigation agency, try to prove that a safecracker has been framed for a diamond robbery. Retitled "Las Vegas Roundabout" for syndication.

Mac poses as a movie producer to get the goods on an actor who blackmails on the side.

Pete and Mac borrow ideas from classic detective stories to thwart a crooked small-time private eye. They're decoying him from fencing stolen jewels by concocting a case he couldn't refuse.

In pursuit of a lawyer who made off with millions in a South American country, Pete and Mac head down to Rio to bring him back the old-fashioned way.

Note: Sharon Gless does not appear in this episode.

A group of con artists pull a con involving stock investors and their family.

Robin Morgan hires Pete and Mac to find her missing timber magnate father. She is convinced that her uncle is responsible.

Note: Sharon Gless does not appear in this episode.

Pete and Mac play on a hijacker's weakness for gambling and women to find the location of the armored truck heist loot.

Note: Sharon Gless does not appear in this episode.

Pete and Mac have only 11 days to get a jewel thief to produce a stolen emerald before the statute of limitations runs out on the crime.

A ruthless businessman figures out an insurance scam: He sets his plant ablaze and lets an ex-con, who has been working there, serves as the fall guy. Mac and Pete must lead the crooked businessman to confess his deed.

Aboard a cruise ship Pete and Mac try to solve the mysterious death of a bookkeeper.

A feuding mob family becomes victim to an intruder.

Pete and Mac are doing what they think is a routine background check when everyone — including the police, the FBI and the mob — want the check to stop immediately. The Writers Guild of America determined that the script for this episode was lifted from The Rockford Files episode "This Case Is Closed" broadcast the previous season (1974-75), and awarded writing credit solely to the two authors of that script (i.e., "John Thomas James" a.k.a. Roy Huggins, and Stephen J. Cannell).

In order to rescue a model abducted by white slavers, Pete and Mac pretend that the girl is a valuable pawn in a struggle between Soviet and American agents.

When someone attempts to take Pete's life, Mac recalls how their friendship came to happen.

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.

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.

A loony sculptor claims her grandfather wasn't really buried in his grave. It turns out he was, but there is also evidence that 4.3 million dollars 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 taking them with her.

Pete is accused of the rape/murder of a stewardess who died after stumbling upon a plot to rob the Federal Reserve System; guest-starring Don Ho.

A blackmailer (Joan Blondell) tries to frame Mac to avenge her husband's death in prison; guest-starring Dabney Coleman.

The death of a client's brother leads Pete and Mac to a protected mountain compound and a band of men planning to survive World War III.

Pete and Malcolm are suspected of stealing a million dollars of underworld money.

Note: Sharon Gless does not appear in this episode.

In Las Vegas, Pete and Mac hunt for a twice-stolen tote bag that a lot of shady people want, but for mysteriously different reasons.

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.

Pete and Mac travel to Casablanca to trick a syndicate kingpin (Ricardo Montalbán) who jailed an innocent American.

A wife comes to Pete when her estranged husband warns her that his involvement with a "death squad" has put her and their son in danger.

The ex-wife of a DJ and her companion die mysteriously, and Mac and Pete start an investigation.

A stolen attache case reveals a bundle of money and an apparent death note pinned to a picture of several priests.

The police decline to investigate the supposed suicide of a detective, a suspected cocaine user.

The manager of a ranch in which Mac has invested is being pressured to sell by a ruthless land speculator.

Mac goes after a singer whose alibi covers the thug responsible for the near-fatal beating of Pete.

Pete and Mac are asked to look into the suspicious behavior of a well-loved movie star.

A peppery old con artist is marked for murder after witnessing a payoff.

Pete poses as a carnival barker while investigating the abduction of a county-fair executive.

Impressionist Jim Bailey poses as a wealthy baroness to help Pete and Mac trap a womanizing crook.

A baroness is jeopardized by an announcement of the woman's marriage.

Pete and Mac pose as hit men after a reporter about to expose a union racket is an assassination-attempt victim.

Pete and Mac try to clear Maggie's framed fiancé, even though they know he's a crook.

Mac is framed for murder in an elaborate international swindle that also nets him a 100,000 ruble reward for the killing.

Acting only on a hunch and perhaps a bit of jealousy, Pete probes into the background of an old flame's fiancé, unaware that the man is a homicidal gigolo.

Pete and Mac play mob bosses to learn who made an attempt on Malcolm's life.

A blind music teacher hires Pete and Mac for protection after her presence at a murder is noted by the killer.

To help a friend — and without telling each other — Mac and Pete tackle a case involving murder, kidnapping and a revolutionary new camera.

Mac and Pete search for the killer of Mac's pilot friend, who died after flying back from Mexico.

Maggie is abducted by a mobster to ensure that Pete and Mac find whoever killed his father's buddy, and who likely has similar plans for Papa.

Pete investigates a posh spa that cures its wealthy clients of drinking and overeating by killing them; guest-starring June Allyson.

A fashion designer is murdered three times simultaneously during a fashion show: he drinks cyanide-laced champagne, gets shot, and has a spotlight tumble onto his head all at once. The rest of the episode is shown in flashbacks, as the story unfolds of how people stole the formula for his latest show-stopping fashion and tried — independently of each other but at the exact same moment — to kill him for trying to find out who did it.

Pete and Mac are invited to settle a racketeer's estate, a substantial legacy left to the three women in his life but coveted by his former partner, a sadistic loan shark.

Pete is asked by a former fellow inmate to locate a dancer who can clear him of murder charges.

An unidentified four-year-old African boy is left at Malcolm's doorstep, along with a note warning that the child needs protection.

Pete and Mac are hired by a murdered tennis pro's coach, who fears someone is trying to kill off the entire team.

A mechanic hires Mac and Pete to prove that the mysterious death of a top race-car driver was actually murder; guest-starring Morgan Fairchild.

Pete and Mac are hired by the producer of a movie after the film's leading lady has her life threatened.

A Las Vegas pilot crashes in the desert on a photo shoot, and Mac and Pete look into the cause.

Conclusion to the case of the missing pilot and the search for buried treasure.

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.

Pete and Mac are hired by a wealthy woman to locate her missing husband, a philanderer with a gambling problem. But the woman is murdered before they find her husband.

A marine biologist has disappeared along the coast of Mexico while engaged in a salvage operation for the government.

When a soccer team's star player is murdered, Pete poses as a goalkeeper and Mac masquerades as a trainer in hopes of drawing out the killer.

An all-woman cab company has been bombed and their drivers mugged, so they hire Mac and Pete to find out who and why.

Malcolm's cook is involved in a murder that may presage war among Chinese clans.

Mac becomes one of his own clients when he becomes a suspect in a 20-year old unsolved murder.

A zoo's veterinarian has mysteriously disappeared and the only clue may have to do with a rare white rhino.

An elderly captain and his deckhand are missing from a yacht found drifting where several vessels recently disappeared.

Mac and Pete bargain for the life of a girl held hostage by gunmen at a police officers' reunion.

Mac and Pete go under cover to determine who is responsible for a series of mishaps at the construction site of a luxurious island hotel.

A gambling mogul kidnaps Malcolm to ensure that Pete will protect his golfer son.

Pete and Mac investigate white-slavers who smuggle aliens from Latin America.

Some interesting underwater footage highlights this episode as Pete and Mac, in full business suits, dive into a swimming pool to defuse a nuclear bomb threatening to take out a society party and much of Los Angeles to boot.

The mob sends hitmen after a pregnant woman who can testify against them, and she takes refuge in Malcolm's bar while Pete, Maggie, and Mac are there.

Pete and Mac are separately hired by feuding sisters to find a stolen formula and the killer of the women's father; guest-starring Macdonald Carey.

An airline stewardess asks Pete and Mac to locate her sister, a militant ecologist, who went into hiding following a chemical-company bombing.