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Season 1 – Wife Swap

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Cameras follow two women from different backgrounds as they trade homes and families for two weeks. The women spend the first week following each other's detailed instructions on how to parent, socialize and run the household. Things change on the second week, when they are allowed to impose their own rules and run things as they please. At the end of the two weeks, the women and their spouses meet for an often-heated discussion, assessing each other's life choices and the effect the experiences had on their families.
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Bill Goodykoontz Arizona Republic 06/29/2023
It sounds hideous, but this reality show in which moms switch places for a couple of weeks is actually pretty well done. Wonders never cease. Go to Full Review Melanie McFarland Seattle Post-Intelligencer 03/02/2019
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"Wife Swap" is much more of a social experiment. The goal is to affect change in the other family's dynamic and in their own lives. There's no monetary prize involve, and, ultimately, that makes it a lot more enjoyable to watch, not to mention defensible. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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John Schwab

Narrator

Michael Davies

Executive Producer

Stephen Lambert

Executive Producer

Jenny Crowther

Executive Producer

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Sep 26, 2004 Pitts/Policchio A disorganized woman with 25 pets trades houses and families with an obsessively tidy woman who hates animals. Details Episode 2 Aired Sep 29, 2004 Spolansky/Bradley 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. Details Episode 3 Aired Oct 6, 2004 Smoak/Beaver The gun-toting matriarch of a Southern family swaps lives with an animal-rights activist; Amy swallows her comments about Glenn's firearms, while Aletha makes cutting remarks about Jeff's attitudes about cleanliness. Details Episode 4 Aired Oct 20, 2004 Donahoe/Baker A pampered Southern belle leaves her Tennessee home to swap places with a dairy-farming mother of six in rural upstate New York. Details Episode 5 Aired Oct 27, 2004 Ghani/Stallone An earthy woman who practices meditation with her interracial family trades with a traditional mother who is devoted to children and cleaning. Details Episode 6 Aired Nov 3, 2004 Smith/Weiner A fitness-focused, competitive mom of three in California swaps lives with a stay-at-home mother in Florida whose child-rearing emphasis is on sensitivity and kindness. Details Episode 7 Aired Nov 10, 2004 Bittner/Reimers A straight-laced, stay-at-home mother of five from South Florida trades lifestyles with a 38-year-old bus driver and mother of two from Virginia. Details Episode 8 Aired Nov 17, 2004 Harris/Van Noy An Oklahoma wife and mother who believes an obedient wife belongs in the kitchen swaps lives with an unorthodox working mother from Texas. Details Episode 9 Aired Dec 1, 2004 Paiss/Davis (Husband Swap) Husbands take a turn as an environmentalist father whose focus is on saving the planet swaps lives with a hard-living, leather-wearing biker dad. Details Episode 10 Aired Dec 8, 2004 Aguirre/Ray A freewheeling, punk-rock mother of three trades families and homes with a conservative, old-fashioned Southern mom. Details Episode 11 Aired Dec 15, 2004 Burkhalter/Elliott An indulgent stay-home mother from Mississippi who lives to please her children swaps places with a strict, driven mother from Maryland who lays down the law at work and at home. Details Episode 12 Aired Jan 12, 2005 Parsons/Bramhall A highly educated and compulsively organized mother trades families with a waitress who struggles to control her three wayward daughters. Details Episode 13 Aired Jan 19, 2005 Fontaine/Herman A coupon-clipping, bargain-seeking, stay-at-home, doting mother from Ohio trades lives with a high-powered executive from Maryland who disdains coupons, clutter and children ruling the house. Details Episode 14 Aired Feb 9, 2005 Boone Luffey/Gillespie A 33-year-old, politically liberal lesbian with an 8-year-old daughter trades places with an anti-gay, conservative Republican from Texas. Details Episode 15 Aired Feb 16, 2005 Pyke/Smith A woman whose husband insists they live in a converted bus traveling the country swaps places with a woman whose mortician husband spends more time with the dead than the living. Details Episode 16 Aired Feb 23, 2005 Flummerfelt/Bray Two integrated families swap lives and push racial stereotypes to the limit. Details Episode 17 Aired Mar 2, 2005 Patrick/Leierwood The wife from a pro-military family who believes all U.S. citizens should serve in the military swaps places with the wife from a family of peace activists. Details Episode 18 Aired Mar 7, 2005 Silver/Caden (Boss Swap) The strict manager of a car dealership trades jobs with the laid-back CEO of an all-female promotional merchandise firm. Details Episode 19 Aired Mar 16, 2005 Cedarquist/Oeth A low-tech, stay-at-home mother who lives in a tree house off of the electric grid trades places with a high-powered, plugged-in career mom from suburbia. Details Episode 20 Aired Mar 23, 2005 Hawn & Orlando (Vacation Swap) Matriarchs from two families trade lives for 10 days. Details

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Wife Swap — Season 1

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Season Info

Executive Producer
Michael Davies, Stephen Lambert, Jenny Crowther
Network
ABC
Rating
TV-PG
Genre
Reality, Documentary, Special Interest, Kids & Family
Original Language
English
Release Date
Sep 26, 2004