Save money with our guides to car finance, get the best deals with the help of MoneySavingExpert. Searching the stock of an item in Argos will never be a pain again! Simply use our Argos stock checker to find if your item is in stock. We all know that feeling, searching, clicking, only to find out that the nearest one that has it in stock is only round the corner. Nintendo Switch Lite Handheld Console for £199.99 at Argos Save more when you shop with this Argos discount code for April 2021. Click now to argos.co.uk to snag this discounts. Shop and save now! Switch is an American action-adventure detective series starring Robert Wagner and Eddie Albert.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.
| Switch | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Detective fiction |
| Created by | Glen A. Larson |
| Starring | Robert Wagner Eddie Albert Charlie Callas Sharon Gless William Bryant James Hong Mindi Miller |
| Theme music composer | Glen A. Larson |
| Composer | Stu Phillips |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 70 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Glen A. Larson Jon Epstein Matthew Rapf |
| Running time | 44 minutes |
| Production companies | Glen Larson Productions Universal Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Original release | September 9, 1975 – August 20, 1978 |
Switch is an American action-adventure detective series starring Robert Wagner and Eddie Albert. 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.
Background[edit]
Switch was inspired by the 1973 movie The Sting[citation needed] and was similar to The Rockford Files, which had debuted a year earlier. It was created by Glen A. Larson; in his memoir, The Garner Files, Rockford Files star James Garner accuses Larson of essentially rewriting Rockford scripts without authorization for use on this show. Donald P. Bellisario was also one of the writers.
The series focused on two main characters, Frank MacBride (Eddie Albert) and Pete Ryan (Robert Wagner). MacBride was a retired bunco cop who once arrested Ryan, a con man. After Ryan's release from prison, the two men opened a detective agency in Los Angeles. Dewalt dg7000b manual. Their speciality involves the use of confidence tricks to trap criminals into revealing evidence of their guilt. Assisting them is another reformed con man, restaurant owner Malcolm Argos (Charlie Callas), and Maggie Philbin (Sharon Gless), Mac and Pete's naive-but-competent receptionist and assistant.
The series pilot for CBS aired on March 21, 1975, as a 90-minute made-for-television movie. During the second season, the series became more serious in tone and more of a traditional crime drama.[citation needed]William Bryant joined the cast as Lt. Shilton in season two, and Mindi Miller and James Hong joined the cast in season three. In the third season, Pete moves into an apartment above Malcolm's bar.
The modestly successful show[citation needed] was put on hiatus in early 1978, its time slot taken by The Incredible Hulk. The remaining 10 unaired episodes were broadcast the following summer before the series was canceled in August due to low ratings.
Episodes[edit]
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | ||||
| Pilot | March 21, 1975 | ||||
| 1 | 24 | September 9, 1975 | April 6, 1976 | ||
| 2 | 24 | September 21, 1976 | April 3, 1977 | ||
| 3 | 22 | September 23, 1977 | July 9, 1978 | ||
Cast[edit]
- Eddie Albert - Frank 'Mac' MacBride
- Robert Wagner - Peterson T. 'Pete' Ryan
- Charlie Callas - Malcolm Argos
- Sharon Gless - Maggie Philbin
- William Bryant - Lt. Shilton (seasons 2–3)
- James Hong - Wang, Malcolm's cook (season 3)
- Mindi Miller - Revel, a waitress who works at Malcolm's restaurant (season 3)
Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner are the only actors to appear in every episode. Sharon Gless appeared in all but three episodes, and Charlie Callas did not appear in four episodes during the run.
In addition, Anne Archer recurred in the first season as Laurie, a grifter who helps Mac and Pete with their sting operations (clips of the actress in character appeared in the opening credits sequence during the first and second seasons).
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Legacy[edit]
The short-lived 1976–1977 ABC crime drama The Feather and Father Gang was seen as an unsuccessful attempt to imitate Switch.[1][2] Coincidentally, Wagner would later costar with one of the stars of The Feather and Father Gang, Stefanie Powers, in another crime drama Hart to Hart which ran for 5 seasons beginning in 1979.
See also[edit]
- McCoy, a similarly themed TV series that also debuted in 1975.
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References[edit]
- ^McNeil, Alex, Total Television: The Comprehensive Guide to Programming From 1948 to the Present, New York: Penguin Books, 1996, p. 282.
- ^The New York Times: The Feather and Father Gang
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External links[edit]
- Switch at IMDb
- ‹The templateTV.com show is being considered for deletion.›Switch at TV.com
- Switch at CVTA