Switch - Episode Guide

Mac poses as a movie producer to get the goods on Anthony Kirk, an actor (Keir Dullea) who blackmails on the side. Switch has an amusing caper which takes full advantage of Universal Studios, where it is filmed. Keir Dullea plays an actor who uses disguises and blackmails actress Julie Sommars. Heroes Robert Wagner and Eddie Albert set up a frame which involves making Kirk think he has been discovered to star in an epic film. Première.

Lou Belasco, a private detective (Roger C. Carmel) acquires $1 million in gems stolen from his client by killing the jewel thief. To snare him, Pete and Mac must resort to tricks used by old gumshoes. The cops turn to Pete and Mac for a special job.

Paul Sinclair, a lawyer who embezzled a million dollars from a retirement home takes up residence in Brazil, a country from which he cannot be extradited. Ryan and MacBride face a real challenge -- how to get Sinclair and his embezzled one million dollars out of Brazil within a week in order to save the residents of a senior citizens' home from being evicted.

When a family of con artists stages seances to bilk rich widows out of their money, Pete and Mac decide to enliven the game. The distaff members of the Simon family stage seances to con rich widows and widowers into investing their money in the stock market through their 'broker". The Simon family conduct "seances" on unsuspecting people, including a kindly lady whose nephew enlists Pete and Mac to expose the con artists. They come up with a plan, including a costly loan of $100,000—at 10 per cent interest per week—from a loan shark they know. They fake Pete's death, and Mac, posing as his father, remorsefully attends a seance for the big windup.

Robin Morgan convinces Pete and Mac to come to the mountains of Oregon to help try to prove that her uncle was her father's murderer.

Pete and Mac try to get a hijacker to reveal where he and two partners hid a stolen armored car carrying $900,000.

A dim jewel thief waits almost seven years to fence a stolen emerald, but Pete and Mac catch him just before the statue of limitations runs out.

Ralph Kabelka, a businessman (Vic Tayback), sets fire to his plant and lets an ex-con employee take the blame. Kabelka creates the perfect alibi to cover the burning of his own business but makes the mistake of framing an ex-con, a former prison mate of Pete's.

Pete and Mac take an ocean cruise to get Harmon, a fellow passenger (Lloyd Bochner) to admit that he had his bookkeeper murdered. All the action takes place in Puerto Vallarta.

A syndicate don helps turn the tables on Jean Paul Jacquard, a swindling French Romeo (Ricardo Montalban).

A routine investigation of a wealthy man's prospective son-in-law stirs up a storm of violent reaction. This routine background check turns dangerous for Pete and Mac when local police, the FBI and the mob all want to stop their investigation.

Pete and Mac attempt to rescue Fran Yarrow, a model who was abducted by white slavers.

An attempt on Pete's life triggers flashbacks recalling the creation of his and Mac's partnership.

Ann Blyth makes a rare TV appearance (except for a cupcake commercial). She plays an apprehensive woman who hires Pete and Mac to keep an eye on her husband. But he's kidnapped while they are watching, and he Is held in $3 million ransom. To make amends for their embarrassment, Pete and Mac devise a plan to get the man back, without paying off the ransom.

Two robbers turn Earl Harper, a bank manager (Jacques Aubuchon) into a remote-controlled walking bomb.

An avant-garde artist (Ann Prentiss) is sure that someone is trying to kill her and that her dead uncle's body isn't in its casket. Against Mac's advice, Pete takes on the assignment of helping Paula Wirehouse (guest star Ann Prentiss) try to establish whether her despised Uncle Barney is really dead and buried. After discovering Barney's casket empty, Pete and Paula beat a grave-robbing charge, only to witness several attempts on the lives of two people near and dear to them — themselves.

An airline stewardess is murdered after she starts raising questions about a large shipment of Federal Reserve funds. Pete finds himself accused of the rape and murder of an airline stewardess who is killed after she stumbles onto a plot by her captain and his crew, to steal Federal reserve money which they are transporting.

Joan Blondell portrays Delores Lear, the matriarch of a family that specializes in extortion. Joan Blondell guest stars as head of a family specializing in extortion, who tries to frame Mac and get him sent to jail to pay for her husband getting killed in prison. After being foiled once by Pete and Mac, Mrs. Lear returns to millionaire C.C. Owens and threatens to destroy his entire antique car collection unless he helps her frame Mac.

A young man is murdered after stumbling onto something at a heavily guarded mountain gun club. Pete and Mac investigate the mysterious death of a client's brother and find themselves the target of a television commentator.

Pete and Malcolm are suspected of stealing a million dollars of underworld money. Pete suddenly becomes the possible target for a bullet from the syndicate when they believe that he and Malcolm are partners in a scheme which ripped them off for one million dollars. Given 24 hours to produce the missing million or else, Pete and Malcolm take off for the Bahamas, trying to keep Mac out of this for his own safety, only to discover that he is perhaps the only one who can save their lives.

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

A Las Vegas superstar hires Pete and Mac as bodyguards when he seems to be the target of a killer.

Pete and Mac find themselves in Casablanca, trying to out-con Fouad Jahrat, a local syndicate head, who is responsible for an innocent American being held indefinitely in the local jail.

Veronica Hamel plays Nabilla, their local contact, who has been successful in getting young Jack Wood out of jail. When she discovers that Mac is not really the millionaire he pretends to be, she has to discard one plan to solve Wood's predicament and opt for a more desperate solution.

A woman is placed in danger when her husband discovers a 'death squad' attempting to free a prisoner from jail.

A disc jockey's ex-wife and her friend are killed in a mysterious accident and Pete and Mac are called in. Sonny Bono pops up in the opening yarn about the seedy side of the music business involving the murder of a disc jockey's ex-wife. The sleuths start sniffing in this serviceable plot.

An airport sneak thief seeks Pete and Mac's help after a stolen attache case reveals a bundle of money and an apparent death note pinned to a picture of several priests..

Pete and Mac pose as potential drug buyers in order to clear the reputation of a former detective friend whose death was listed as a suicide.

Beverly Garland guest stars as Mac's friend and partner in a ranching venture. The manager or a ranch in which Mac has invested is being pressured to sell.

Pete lies near death in a hospital, a vengeful Mac zeroes in on a famous singer who is providing an alibi for the thug responsible.

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

Eileen Heckart guest stars as a veteran con artist who has to call on Pete and Mac to get her out of a situation which would prove deadly.

Pete joins the carnival environment of the Midway after a fair's administrative executive is kidnapped.

Jim Bailey poses as a wealthy baroness to help Pete and Mac set a trap for a fugitive.

Impressionist Jim Bailey's pose as a baroness is jeopardized by a newspaper announcement of the noblewoman's marriage.

Pete and Mac assume the roles of hit men to find out who is behind the attempted assassination of an investigative reporter.

Pete and Mac turn to safe robbing in order to shield Maggie from the truth about the man she has fallen in love with.

Mac is framed for murder and Pete lets nothing stand in the way to clear his partner.

Pete (Robert Wagner) probes the background of an old flame's fiance, unaware that he is homicidal. The engagement of Pete's college sweetheart to a man he distrusts sends Pete on a frenzied trail to reveal the man's true motives before the impending marriage. Tiffany Boiling and Joseph Mascolo guest star.

A contract is put out on Malcolm (Charlie Callas) by a mobster suspects him of sung to the DA.

Shirley Harris, a blind music teacher, hires Pete and Mac for protection after her presence at a murder is detected by the killer.

Pete and Mac independently tackle a case involving murder, kidnaping and a revolutionary new camera.

Pete and Mac figure that the best way to nail a dope smuggler who murdered a pilot is through the country singer he keeps securely under his wing.

Maggie is kidnapped and Pete and Mac have to discover who is threatening an old man's life in order to assure her safe return.

When a girlfriend of Pete's dies under mysterious circumstances, he and Mac investigate a plastic surgeon (June Allyson) and her wealthy patient (Jayne Meadows).

A half million dollars in jewelry is hijacked from Mac while he is escorting it to the opening of a fashion show. He and Pete find that there is more than simple robbery involved as a motive for the crime.

Pete and Mac act as executors and impartial referees when a wealthy racketeer leaves his entire fortune to be divided by the three women in his life.

Pete's insistence on helping out a former buddy almost leads to the disillusionment of the investigative team of MacBride and Ryan, and almost costs Pete his life.

Pete and Mac find babysitting with a four-year-old can be a dangerous business when the child is the son of the deposed leader of an African nation.

Pete and Mac follow the pro tennis circuit to track down a murderer. When a star tennis player is shot on the court, the team's coach enlists the help of his old friend, Pete Ryan, in locating the killer responsible.

Pete and Mac enter the perilous world of Grand Prix racing to solve the mysterious death of a top racing driver.

Pete takes on the role of movie studio security officer while Mac toils before the camera to find a star's would-be murderer.

Guest stars Wayne Newton, Dionne Warwick, George Maharis, Chuck McCann, Foster Brooks, Jack Colvin and Pamela Hensley appear in this two-hour special presentation of "Switch." Pete and Mac go to Las Vegas to help a young woman determine the cause of her pilot-father's fatal crash. During a flight over the crash site, Pete is literally dumped out of the airplane.

Pete and Mac go to Las Vegas to help a young woman determine the cause of her pilot father's fatal air crash, and discover that there is more than meets the eye.

A vaudeville performer is pulled from the gutter by a good friend and is back in the limelight doing his show —but his new-found popularity is marred when a series of attempts are made on his life. Pete and Mac look to the man's past to find out what's prompted the threats. David Wayne guests.

Janet Blair plays a wife who hires Pete and Mac to find her missing husband just before she is murdered.

Pete and Mac journey to Mexico to save an experiment in underwater habitation for its attractive young leader after she inherits the job from her father.

Pete plays goalkeeper and Mac masquerades as a trainer after a soccer team's star player is murdered. They hope to draw out the killer when Pete takes the place of the slain player.

Pete and Mac (Robert Wagner, Eddie Albert) try to learn who is using criminal tactics to drive an all-woman taxi company out of business.

Pete and Mac are surprised when they discover that the cook at the Bouziki Bar turns out to be a high-ranking member of a Chinese tong. A tong war will erupt in the Chinese community if Pete and Mac don't find their friend Wang.

Mac has an interest in the auction of a manuscript said to name the killer of an actress murdered after a lurid life. After claiming that he knows the identity of the man who murdered a famous actress 20 years ago, an eccentric man issues invitations to a wide range of suspects, but the answer is not as simple as one might be led to believe.

Mac and Pete investigate the disappearance of a young sweepstakes winner employed at the San Diego Zoo. A rare white rhinoceros may hold the vital clue in the zoo veterinarian's bizarre disappearance.

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 the police officers' reunion.

Pete and Mac look for a militant ecologist who went into hiding after a chemical-company bombing.

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.

A scientific project and a student who was working on it disappear from a school for the gifted.

The Bouziki Bar is besieged by professional killers who are after a murder witness in the last stages of pregnancy.

Feuding half-sisters accuse each other of stealing their dead father's skin-care formula.

An airline stewardess is looking for her sister, a militant ecologist who disappeared after a bombing at a chemical company.