Switch was an American action-adventure television series that was broadcast on the CBS network for three seasons between 1975 and 1978. CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) is a major television network and radio broadcaster in the United States. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ...
Inspired by the hit movie, The Sting, the tongue-in-cheek series starred TV veterans Robert Wagner as Pete Ryan and Eddie Albert as Frank MacBride. Ryan is an ex-con who was once sent to jail by MacBride. Now, the two former adversaries have joined forces in a unique detective agency that specializes in "out-conning the cons", pulling "sting" operations to catch crooks. The series co-starred comic actor Charlie Callas as the pair's occasional sidekick, Malcolm, while Sharon Gless, in an early TV role, played their receptionist, Maggie. The Sting was an Oscar winning caper film from 1973 based in the 1930s and centered around a convoluted plot by two professional grifters (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw). ... Robert Wagner (born 10 February 1930) is an American actor. ... Eddie Albert (April 22, 1906 – May 26, 2005) was an American stage, film, character actor and gardener, perhaps best known for starring as Bing Edwards in the Brother Rat films, and as Oliver Wendell Douglas in the television sitcom Green Acres. ... A private investigator, or PI, is a person who undertakes investigations. ... Sharon Gless (born 31 May 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an actress. ...
Malcolm, a small-time thief and con man who had gone straight and opened a restaurant was recruited by Pete and Frank to help them on cases, and Maggie was the firms's combination secretary-receptionist and all-around girl Friday.
By the middle of its second season, Switch had become a somewhat more traditional detectiveseries, with less of the elaborate con games, and in the fall of 1977 Pete moved into a new apartment above Malcolm's bouzouki bar, where Revel was the hostess and Wang the new cook.
An hour-long adventure series about an ex-cop and an ex-con who teamed up as private investigators; their speciality, like that of The Rogues, was fleecing the fleecers and out-conning the con artists.
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