The Pirates of Tin Pan Alley
Switch - S2 - E1
Darcy Taggart is a perpetually-smiling record producer who is secretly stealing songs from his own musicians and handing over bootleg copies to a mobster. When two of his musicians learn of the deal and try to cut in, he has them killed off in "acccidents" set up by his burly but child-like henchman Ronnie. Pete devises a scheme to erase the master tapes of various artists whom Taggart has promised to the mobster, forcing him to take incautious actions.
Switch: Season 2 - 24 Episode s
2x1 - The Pirates of Tin Pan Alley
September 21, 1976
Darcy Taggart is a perpetually-smiling record producer who is secretly stealing songs from his own musicians and handing over bootleg copies to a mobster. When two of his musicians learn of the deal and try to cut in, he has them killed off in "acccidents" set up by his burly but child-like henchman Ronnie. Pete devises a scheme to erase the master tapes of various artists whom Taggart has promised to the mobster, forcing him to take incautious actions.
2x2 - The Twelfth Commandment
September 28, 1976
2x3 - Fleece of Snow
October 5, 1976
2x4 - The Argonaut Special
October 12, 1976
2x5 - The Things That Belong to Mickey Costello
October 19, 1976
Pete's new girlfriend happens to be the former mistress of a Syndicate leader. When the mobster beats him nearly dead for stealing his girl, Mac sets out to exact revenge.
2x6 - Whatever Happened to Carol Harmony?
October 26, 1976
2x7 - Quicker Than the Eye
November 9, 1976
2x8 - Gaffing the Skim
November 16, 1976
2x9 - The Lady from Liechtenstein (1)
November 23, 1976
2x10 - The Lady from Liechtenstein (2)
November 30, 1976
2x11 - Switch Hitter
December 7, 1976
2x12 - Maggie's Hero
December 14, 1976
Maggies love interest turns out to be an ex-con.
2x13 - The Hundred Thousand Ruble Rumble
December 21, 1976
2x14 - Portraits of Death
January 4, 1977
2x15 - The Snitch
January 16, 1977
2x16 - Eyewitness
January 23, 1977
A blind witness hires Pete and Mac for protection.
2x17 - Camera Angles
January 30, 1977
2x18 - Butterfly Mourning
February 6, 1977
Pete and Mac go after a dope smugger for manslaughter.
2x19 - The Four Horsemen
February 13, 1977
Maggie kidnapped by ganster son to make Pete and Mack find out who is trying to kill his farher.
2x20 - Eden's Gate
February 20, 1977
Pete, Mack, Maggie and Malcome investigate a crooked health spa.
2x21 - The Hemline Heist
February 27, 1977
A fashion designer is murdered three times simultaneously as he presents during a fashion show -- by drinking cyanide-laced champagne, getting shot and having a spotlight tumble onto his head. The rest of the episode is shown in flashbacks, as the story unfolds of how people stole the formula for his latest show-stopping fashion and tried -- independently of each other but at the exact same moment -- to kill him for trying to find out who did it. (The three killers are all caught trying to escape in a coda at the end.)
2x22 - Three for the Money
March 13, 1977
2x23 - Two on the Run
March 27, 1977
Pete is asked by one his inmate pals to locate a dancer who can clear him of murder charges.
2x24 - Heritage of Death
April 3, 1977