Wife Swap

TV-PG2004•1h 0m•6.0/10

Reality

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.0/10(8)

Have you ever wondered whether the grass is greener on the other side of the fence? Two wives discover that it often isn't when they hand over the keys to their homes and literally switch families ” but not bedrooms ” for two weeks on the new reality show Wife Swap, already a critically-acclaimed smash hit in its third season in the U.K.

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Production

RDF Media, Channel 4 Television

Language

Status

Ended

First Aired

September 26, 2004

Last Aired

August 13, 2010

Networks

ABC

Created By

Stephen Lambert

Where to Watch

Region US · Lang EN

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Seasons & Episodes

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Season

Pitts/Polchios

Air date: 2004-09-26

On the premiere episode, a disorganized, animal loving mother with 25 pets trades places and families with an obsessively tidy mother who loves to-do lists and detests animals.

Spolansky/Bradley

Air date: 2004-09-29

A 36-year-old multimillionaire heiress and mother of three from New York swaps lives with a 45-year-old wife and mother of two from rural New Jersey.

Smoak/Beaver

Air date: 2004-10-06

A gun-toting conservative who hasn't shared a bed with her husband in 10 years trades places with an anti-NRA animal rights activist with no job and less control over her daughter. By the end of week two, one of their husbands is in tears, while the other is tearing his hair out over his liberal new houseguest.

Donahoe/Baker

Air date: 2004-10-20

Ghani/Stallone

Air date: 2004-10-27

A free-spirited vegetarian with a messy streak leaves L.A to sample the life of a straight-laced stay-at-home Mom in New Jersey who had a rough time dealing with her counterpart's New Agey ways. However, after a week passes, it's their kids who are having trouble, as one group gets a rude awakening about their video-game habits.

Smith/Weiner

Air date: 2004-11-03

A fitness-minded type-A mom ditches California for the life of an emotional, overweight housewife in Florida. The switch shakes things up for both women, but even more so for the one who can't get used to a home devoid of fast food and friendly attitudes.

Bittner/Reimers

Air date: 2004-11-10

This week, in ""Bittner/Reimers,"" a strict, vegetarian, ex-Navy wife who disciplines her children swaps lives with a junk food-eating, living-large mother who allows her two headstrong teens free rein.

Harris/Van Noy

Air date: 2004-11-17

This week in ""Harris/Van Noy,"" an Oklahoma mother of three who agrees with her husband's edict that an obedient wife belongs in the kitchen, swaps lives with an unorthodox, working mother from Texas who believes her stay-at-home husband should rule the kitchen.

Paiss/Davis (Husband Swap)

Air date: 2004-12-01

The Paiss & Davis Families trade husbands.

E10

Aguirre/Ray

Air date: 2004-12-08

A tattooed, punk rock mom swaps lives with a Southern Baptist, traditional mother.

E11

Burkhalter/Elliott

Air date: 2004-12-15

A Mississippi stay-home mother who gets gets walked all over by her by her children swaps places with a strict mother from Maryland who lays down the law at home and at her job.

E12

Parsons/Bramhall

Air date: 2005-01-12

An educated and organized mother trades families with a waitress who struggles to control her three wayward daughters.

E13

Fontaine/Herman

Air date: 2005-01-19

A coupon-cutting, bargain-hunter, stay-at-home, mother from Ohio trades lives with a high-powered executive from Maryland who despises coupons, clutter and children ruling the house.

E14

Boone Luffey/Gillespie

Air date: 2005-02-09

One-half of a lesbian couple is switched with a conservative, God-fearing homemaker from Texas.

E15

Pyke/Smith

Air date: 2005-02-16

Stay-at-home mom Michelle Pyke swaps life at the family owned funeral home for life on the road in the Smith family's converted Greyhound bus.

E16

Flummerfelt/Bray

Air date: 2005-02-23

An assertive, domineering wife of an inter-racial couple swaps lives with a subservient, stay-at-home wife from a very different minded inter-racial couple.

E17

Patrick/Leierwood

Air date: 2005-03-02

A very conservative, former military mom with strong pro-war views swaps lives with a liberal, pacifist art teacher and anti-war protester.

E18

Cedarquist/Oeth

Air date: 2005-03-16

A home-schooling, stay-at-home mom who lives in a tree house swaps places with a Type A, Harvard educated mom who works full-time for a finance company.

E20

Boss Swap: Silver/Caden

Air date: 2005-03-07

A supportive, laid back CEO of an all women promotional firm swaps roles with a chauvinistic, tough-talking boss from an all-male car dealership who refuses to hire women for sales positions.

E21

Vacation Swap: Hawn/Orlando

Air date: 2005-03-23

A millionaire family accustomed to living a life of luxury leaves the butler behind when they go on vacation with a blue-collar family whose favorite vacation spot is a low-budget RV trailer park next to a dairy farm.