Show Info

Status: Ended
First Aired: June 6, 2011
Seasons: 5
Episodes: 103
Networks: ABC Family, Freeform
Genres: Drama, Family

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Switched at Birth(2011)

One mistake changed two families forever.

TMDB Rating: 7.5 (205 votes)

Overview

The story of two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital. Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a brother, while Daphne Vasquez, who lost her hearing at an early age due to a case of meningitis, grew up with a single mother in a working-class neighborhood. Things come to a dramatic head when both families meet and struggle to learn how to live together for the sake of the girls.

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Season 1

30 episodes • 2011Avg: 8.8

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	This Is Not a Pipe	Jun 6, 2011	8.6
2	American Gothic	Jun 13, 2011	8.5
3	Portrait of My Father	Jun 20, 2011	7.4
4	Dance Amongst Daggers	Jun 27, 2011	8.5
5	Dogs Playing Poker	Jul 4, 2011	9.3
6	The Persistence of Memory	Jul 11, 2011	9.0
7	The Stag Hunt	Jul 18, 2011	9.7
8	Pandora's Box	Jul 25, 2011	9.5
9	Paradise Lost	Aug 1, 2011	9.2
10	The Homecoming	Aug 8, 2011	9.8
11	Starry Night	Jan 3, 2012	8.0
12	The Tempest	Jan 10, 2012	9.0
13	Self-Portrait with a Bandaged Ear	Jan 17, 2012	8.0
14	Les Soeurs d'Estrees	Jan 24, 2012	8.5
15	Expulsion From the Garden of Eden	Jan 31, 2012	8.5
16	Las Dos Fridas	Feb 7, 2012	9.0
17	Protect Me From What I Want	Feb 14, 2012	8.0
18	The Art of Painting	Feb 21, 2012	9.0
19	Write a Lonely Soldier	Feb 28, 2012	8.5
20	Game On	Mar 6, 2012	9.0
21	The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters	Mar 13, 2012	8.5
22	Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time	Mar 20, 2012	9.0
23	This Is the Color of My Dreams	Sep 3, 2012	9.0
24	The Intruder	Sep 10, 2012	9.0
25	The Shock of Being Seen	Sep 17, 2012	9.0
26	Tree of Forgiveness	Sep 24, 2012	9.0
27	The Declaration of Independence	Oct 1, 2012	9.0
28	We Are the Kraken of Our Own Sinking Ships	Oct 8, 2012	9.0
29	The Trial	Oct 15, 2012	9.5
30	Street Noises Invade the House	Oct 22, 2012	9.0

Season 2

21 episodes • 2013Avg: 8.8

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	The Door to Freedom	Jan 7, 2013	9.0
2	The Awakening Conscience	Jan 14, 2013	7.3
3	Duel Between Two Women	Jan 21, 2013	9.0
4	Dressing for the Charade	Jan 28, 2013	9.0
5	The Acquired Inability to Escape	Feb 4, 2013	9.0
6	Human/Need/Desire	Feb 11, 2013	9.5
7	Drive in the Knife	Feb 18, 2013	9.5
8	Tight Rope Walker	Feb 25, 2013	9.5
9	Uprising	Mar 4, 2013	9.5
10	Introducing the Miracle	Mar 11, 2013	9.0
11	Mother and Child Divided	Jun 10, 2013	9.5
12	Distorted House	Jun 17, 2013	9.0
13	The Good Samaritan	Jun 24, 2013	9.0
14	He Did What He Wanted	Jul 1, 2013	6.7
15	Ecce Mono	Jul 8, 2013	9.5
16	The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living	Jul 15, 2013	9.0
17	Prudence, Avarice, Lust, Justice, Anger	Jul 22, 2013	6.3
18	As the Shadows Deepen	Jul 29, 2013	9.5
19	What Goes Up Must Come Down	Aug 5, 2013	9.5
20	The Merrymakers	Aug 12, 2013	6.7
21	Departure of Summer	Aug 19, 2013	9.5

Season 3

22 episodes • 2014Avg: 9.2Golden Era

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Drowning Girl	Jan 13, 2014	9.0
2	Your Body is a Battleground	Jan 20, 2014	9.5
3	Fountain	Jan 27, 2014	9.5
4	It Hurts to Wait With Love If Love Is Somewhere Else	Feb 3, 2014	9.0
5	Have You Really the Courage?	Feb 10, 2014	9.5
6	The Scream	Feb 17, 2014	9.5
7	Memory Is Your Image of Perfection	Feb 24, 2014	9.5
8	Dance Me to the End of Love	Mar 3, 2014	9.0
9	The Past (Forgotten-Swallowed)	Mar 10, 2014	9.0
10	The Ambush	Mar 17, 2014	9.0
11	Love Seduces Innocence, Pleasure Entraps, and Remorse Follows	Mar 24, 2014	9.5
12	Love Among the Ruins	Jun 16, 2014	9.0
13	Like a Snowball Down a Mountain	Jun 23, 2014	9.5
14	Oh, Future	Jun 30, 2014	10.0
15	And We Bring the Light	Jul 7, 2014	9.5
16	The Image Disappears	Jul 14, 2014	9.5
17	Girl with Death Mask (She Plays Alone)	Jul 21, 2014	9.0
18	It Isn't What You Think	Jul 28, 2014	9.0
19	You Will Not Escape	Aug 4, 2014	6.3
20	The Girl on the Cliff	Aug 11, 2014	9.5
21	And Life Begins Right Away	Aug 18, 2014	9.5
22	Yuletide Fortune Tellers	Dec 8, 2014	8.8

Season 4

20 episodes • 2015Avg: 9.1Golden Era

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	And It Cannot Be Changed	Jan 6, 2015	9.5
2	Bracing The Waves	Jan 13, 2015	9.5
3	I Lock The Door Upon Myself	Jan 20, 2015	9.5
4	We Were So Close That Nothing Use to Stand Between Us	Jan 27, 2015	9.0
5	At the First Clear Word	Feb 3, 2015	8.5
6	Black and Gray	Feb 10, 2015	9.0
7	Fog and Storm and Rain	Feb 17, 2015	9.5
8	Art Like Love Is Dedication	Feb 24, 2015	9.5
9	The Player's Choice	Mar 3, 2015	9.5
10	There Is My Heart	Mar 10, 2015	9.5
11	To Repel Ghosts	Aug 24, 2015	9.0
12	How Does a Girl Like You get to be a Girl Like You	Aug 31, 2015	9.0
13	Between Hope and Fear	Sep 7, 2015	9.5
14	We Mourn, We Weep, We Love Again	Sep 14, 2015	9.0
15	Instead of Damning the Darkness, it's Better to Light a Little Lantern	Sep 21, 2015	9.0
16	Borrowing Your Enemy's Arrows	Sep 28, 2015	9.0
17	To The Victor Belong The Spoils	Oct 5, 2015	9.0
18	The Accommodations Of Desire	Oct 12, 2015	6.3
19	A Mad Tea Party	Oct 19, 2015	9.5
20	And Always Searching For Beauty	Oct 26, 2015	9.5

Season 5

10 episodes • 2017Avg: 8.6

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	The Call	Jan 31, 2017	8.3
2	This Has to Do With Me	Feb 7, 2017	8.0
3	Surprise	Feb 14, 2017	8.5
4	Relation of Lines and Colors	Feb 21, 2017	8.5
5	Occupy Truth	Feb 28, 2017	6.5
6	Four Ages in Life	Mar 7, 2017	8.7
7	Memory (The Heart)	Mar 21, 2017	9.5
8	Left in Charge	Mar 28, 2017	9.0
9	The Wolf is Waiting	Apr 4, 2017	9.5
10	Long Live Love	Apr 11, 2017	9.5

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