Sep 2004 - Aug 2010
5.1
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.
S1 Ep21
10.0
23rd Mar 2005
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.
S1 Ep20
10.0
7th Mar 2005
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.
S1 Ep18
10.0
16th Mar 2005
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.
S1 Ep17
10.0
2nd Mar 2005
A very conservative, former military mom with strong pro-war views swaps lives with a liberal, pacifist art teacher and anti-war protester.
S1 Ep16
10.0
23rd Feb 2005
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.
S1 Ep15
10.0
16th Feb 2005
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.
S1 Ep14
10.0
9th Feb 2005
One-half of a lesbian couple is switched with a conservative, God-fearing homemaker from Texas.
S1 Ep11
10.0
15th Dec 2004
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.
S6 Ep8
9.0
25th Jun 2010
A family who live like pioneers, including traditional roles for man and woman, swap with a family headed by a breadwinner mother and obsessed by modern technology
S1 Ep10
8.7
8th Dec 2004
A tattooed, punk rock mom swaps lives with a Southern Baptist, traditional mother.
S2 Ep18
1.0
20th Feb 2006
Several couples from Season 1 are interviewed to see how the show affected them one year later.
S5 Ep11
2.0
30th Jan 2009
The Long family are avid patriots who enjoy the "American way," which includes fast food, 4X4s and paintball, and the man in the family believes the wife is there to do "skirt work" such as cooking and cleaning. The wife will be switching places with the Stephens-Fowler family of California, who believe in higher education, taking care of the environment and a healthy style of living.
S6 Ep12
2.0
30th Jul 2010
A family who focus their energy on one of its five children, a 9-year-old hip-hop artist, swap with a family in which the parents are obsessed with tracking down Florida's "Swamp Ape" to the point of ignoring their teenage son.
S6 Ep11
3.0
23rd Jul 2010
A family that operates an organic goat farm swaps with an upscale family with a workaholic, shopaholic mom and a stay-at-home dad.
S6 Ep4
4.0
30th Apr 2010
An animal-obsessed family with 29 pets and a disregard for appearances swap moms with a fashion-obsessed family that don't tolerate animals.
S6 Ep2
5.3
23rd Apr 2010
A family of pop-star wannabes swaps with a family of social activists.
S1 Ep6
5.8
3rd Nov 2004
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.
S1 Ep1
5.9
26th Sep 2004
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.
S1 Ep12
6.0
12th Jan 2005
An educated and organized mother trades families with a waitress who struggles to control her three wayward daughters.
S2 Ep9
6.0
An animal rights activist mother who eats only raw food and has a vegan cat that doesn't eat meat swaps lives with a back-country mom whose motto is ""Kill it and grill it"".
S1 Ep1
5.9
26th Sep 2004
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.
S1 Ep2
7.7
29th Sep 2004
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.
S1 Ep3
7.0
6th Oct 2004
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.
S1 Ep5
6.7
27th Oct 2004
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.
S1 Ep6
5.8
3rd Nov 2004
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.
S1 Ep7
8.0
10th Nov 2004
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.
S1 Ep8
7.7
17th Nov 2004
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.
S1 Ep9
8.0
1st Dec 2004
The Paiss & Davis Families trade husbands.
S1 Ep10
8.7
8th Dec 2004
A tattooed, punk rock mom swaps lives with a Southern Baptist, traditional mother.
S1 Ep11
10.0
15th Dec 2004
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.
S1 Ep12
6.0
12th Jan 2005
An educated and organized mother trades families with a waitress who struggles to control her three wayward daughters.
S1 Ep13
8.0
19th Jan 2005
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.
S1 Ep14
10.0
9th Feb 2005
One-half of a lesbian couple is switched with a conservative, God-fearing homemaker from Texas.
S1 Ep15
10.0
16th Feb 2005
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.
S1 Ep16
10.0
23rd Feb 2005
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.
S1 Ep17
10.0
2nd Mar 2005
A very conservative, former military mom with strong pro-war views swaps lives with a liberal, pacifist art teacher and anti-war protester.
S1 Ep18
10.0
16th Mar 2005
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.
S1 Ep20
10.0
7th Mar 2005
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.
S1 Ep21
10.0
23rd Mar 2005
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.
