Switch - Season 3

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Net Loss

1 - Net Loss

Air Date: September 23, 1977

Downshift

2 - Downshift

Air Date: September 30, 1977

Legend of the Macunas (1)

3 - Legend of the Macunas (1)

Air Date: October 14, 1977

Legend of the Macunas (2)

4 - Legend of the Macunas (2)

Air Date: October 21, 1977

Fade Out

5 - Fade Out

Air Date: November 4, 1977

Dancer

6 - Dancer

Air Date: December 5, 1977

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.

Go for Broke

7 - Go for Broke

Air Date: December 12, 1977

Lady of the Deep

8 - Lady of the Deep

Air Date: December 19, 1977

Thirty Thousand Witnesses

9 - Thirty Thousand Witnesses

Air Date: December 26, 1977

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).

Dangerous Curves

10 - Dangerous Curves

Air Date: January 2, 1978

The Tong

11 - The Tong

Air Date: January 9, 1978

Who Killed Lila Craig?

12 - Who Killed Lila Craig?

Air Date: January 16, 1978

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.

Three Blond Mice

13 - Three Blond Mice

Air Date: January 30, 1978

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.

Coranodo Circle

14 - Coranodo Circle

Air Date: February 7, 1978

Stolen Island (aka Death Island)

15 - Stolen Island (aka Death Island)

Air Date: March 28, 1978

Formula for Murder

16 - Formula for Murder

Air Date: April 28, 1978

Blue Crusaders Reunion

17 - Blue Crusaders Reunion

Air Date: May 5, 1978

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.

Mexican Standoff

18 - Mexican Standoff

Air Date: May 12, 1978

Play-off

19 - Play-off

Air Date: June 18, 1978

Ryan is forced to protect a kingpin's son at a golf tournament, otherwise Malcolm's life is forfeit.

The Cage

20 - The Cage

Air Date: June 25, 1978

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.

Photo Finish

21 - Photo Finish

Air Date: July 2, 1978

The Siege at the Bouziki Bar

22 - The Siege at the Bouziki Bar

Air Date: July 9, 1978

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).