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* TheCameo: Creator/NatalieWood (Robert Wagner's then-wife) briefly appears in two episodes, "The Cruise Ship Murders" (1975) as a cruise ship passenger, and "The Cage" (1978) as the girl in the bubble bath.
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As a cop, Frank [=MacBride=] (Eddie Albert) once arrested Pete Ryan (Robert Wagner), a con man. After [=MacBride's=] retirement and Ryan's release from prison, the two men open a detective agency in Los Angeles. Their specialty involves the use of confidence tricks to trap criminals into revealing evidence of their guilt.
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As a cop, Frank [=MacBride=] (Eddie Albert) once arrested Pete Ryan (Robert Wagner), (Creator/RobertWagner), a con man. After [=MacBride's=] retirement and Ryan's release from prison, the two men open a detective agency in Los Angeles. Their specialty involves the use of confidence tricks to trap criminals into revealing evidence of their guilt.
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* SavingTheOrphanage: In "The Old Diamond Game" a million dollars are stolen from a nursing home, leaving it unable to pay off its debts. Mac and Pete have ten days to retrieve the money before the place is shut down.
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* SavingTheOrphanage: In "The Old Diamond Game" a million dollars are stolen from a nursing home, leaving it unable to pay off its debts.bills. Mac and Pete have ten days to retrieve the money before the place is shut down.
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Eddie Albert is almost twenty-four years older than Robert Wagner.
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Eddie Albert is almost twenty-four years older than Robert Wagner. In "Stung from Beyond," Mac and Pete even pretend to be a father and son.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Pete's full first name, Peterson, isn't even used until the fourth episode.
* PhonyPsychic: "Stung from Beyond" involves a family of these who use fake séances to con people into investing in the stock market.
* PhonyPsychic: "Stung from Beyond" involves a family of these who use fake séances to con people into investing in the stock market.
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Eddie Albert is almost twenty-four years older than Robert Wagner.
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* SavingTheOrphanage: In "The Old Diamond Game" a million dollars are stolen from a nursing home, leaving it unable to pay off its debts. Mac and Pete have ten days to retrieve the money before the place is shut down.
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* ThePrecariousLedge: When Mac is almost caught snooping in an office, he has to climb out of the window and stand on the ledge, dozens of feet above the ground, while he waits for the office to be empty again.
* PrivateEyeMonologue: During "The Late Show Murders," Pete occasionally reads aloud from a detective novel. The events of the novel match up suspiciously well with whatever the villain, a corrupt private eye, happens to be doing at the moment.
-->'''Pete''': I don't know what happened, but the lights went out. As I started to come around, my head felt like Chinese New Year and Mardi Gras all scrambled into one. I had only one thought: to find out who had given me the Pearl Harbor treatment.
* PrivateEyeMonologue: During "The Late Show Murders," Pete occasionally reads aloud from a detective novel. The events of the novel match up suspiciously well with whatever the villain, a corrupt private eye, happens to be doing at the moment.
-->'''Pete''': I don't know what happened, but the lights went out. As I started to come around, my head felt like Chinese New Year and Mardi Gras all scrambled into one. I had only one thought: to find out who had given me the Pearl Harbor treatment.
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* ShowWithinAShow: "The Saracen Horse," the detective novel Pete reads in "The Late Show Murders."
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As a cop, Frank [=MacBride=] (Eddie Albert) once arrested Pete Ryan (Robert Wagner), a con man. After [=MacBride's=] retirement and Ryan's release from prison, the two men open a detective agency in Los Angeles. Their speciality specialty involves the use of confidence tricks to trap criminals into revealing evidence of their guilt.
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* AndStarring" "Also starring Charlie Callas, Sharon Gless."
* BilledAboveTheTitle: Robert Wagner and Eddie Albert's names go before the title in the TitleSequence.
* BilledAboveTheTitle: Robert Wagner and Eddie Albert's names go before the title in the TitleSequence.
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* FreezeFrameEnding: Every episode ends with one.
* IdiosyncraticWipe: During scene transitions, the image shrinks to a small circle, which narrows and then widens like a spinning coin.
* LatexPerfection: In "The James Caan Con," blackmailing actor Anthony Kirk disguises himself as a middle-aged British man with a beard when he meets his victims.
* IdiosyncraticWipe: During scene transitions, the image shrinks to a small circle, which narrows and then widens like a spinning coin.
* LatexPerfection: In "The James Caan Con," blackmailing actor Anthony Kirk disguises himself as a middle-aged British man with a beard when he meets his victims.
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* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: Pete isn't counterfeiting money, he's ''simulating'' it.
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* DirtyCop: The villain of the pilot is a police lieutenant who steals money so he can spend it on gambling and prostitutes.
* ExperiencedProtagonist: Mac used to be one of the best bunco cops on the force, and Pete was a skilled con man.
* ExperiencedProtagonist: Mac used to be one of the best bunco cops on the force, and Pete was a skilled con man.
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* BottleEpisode: "The Siege at the Bouziki Bar" is a ClipShow featuring only three guest actors, with all but two scenes set in the titular bar.
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''Switch'' is an American action-adventure detective series that was broadcast on Creator/{{CBS}} for three seasons between 1975 and 1978.
As a cop, Frank [=MacBride=] (Eddie Albert) once arrested Pete Ryan (Robert Wagner), a con man. After [=MacBride's=] retirement and Ryan's release from prison, the two men open a detective agency in Los Angeles. Their speciality involves the use of confidence tricks to trap criminals into revealing evidence of their guilt.
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!!This series features examples of:
* {{Retool}}: During the second season, the series became more serious in tone and more of a traditional crime drama.
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''Switch'' is an American action-adventure detective series that was broadcast on Creator/{{CBS}} for three seasons between 1975 and 1978.
As a cop, Frank [=MacBride=] (Eddie Albert) once arrested Pete Ryan (Robert Wagner), a con man. After [=MacBride's=] retirement and Ryan's release from prison, the two men open a detective agency in Los Angeles. Their speciality involves the use of confidence tricks to trap criminals into revealing evidence of their guilt.
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!!This series features examples of:
* {{Retool}}: During the second season, the series became more serious in tone and more of a traditional crime drama.
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