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Season guide

Switch: Season 3

22 episodes Premiered Sep 23, 1977
Previously on Switch

Season 3 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Switch Season 2.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 3: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (18): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S3·E6 Core

Dancer

Dec 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.

S3·E9 Core

Thirty Thousand Witnesses

Dec 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 an

S3·E12 Mytharc

Who Killed Lila Craig?

Jan 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.

S3·E13 Core

Three Blond Mice

Jan 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

S3·E17 Core

Blue Crusaders Reunion

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.

S3·E19 Core

Play-off

Jun 18, 1978

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

S3·E20 Core

The Cage

Jun 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 g

S3·E22 Mytharc

The Siege at the Bouziki Bar

Jul 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 muc

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