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List of Wife Swap (American TV series) episodes

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This is a list of episodes for Wife Swap, an American reality show that aired between September 26, 2004 and April 16, 2020. Seasons 1 through 7 aired on ABC, while seasons 8 and 9 aired on Paramount Network.[1][2][3]

Season 1

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Episode(s) Synopsis Families Air Date
1 A laid-back, animal-loving wife swaps with an obsessively tidy wife. Pitts Policchio 9/26/2004
2 A New York City multi-millionairess swaps with a school bus driver and wood chopper from rural New Jersey. Spolansky Bradley 9/29/2004
3 A traditional Southern wife whose family enjoys hunting swaps with an animal rights activist. Smoak Beaver 10/6/2004
4 A dairy farmer swaps with a Southern belle who is spoiled by her husband. Donahoe Baker 10/20/2004
5 A spiritual wife swaps with a traditional Italian wife. Ghani Stallone 10/27/2004
6 An overweight wife whose family eats junk food and does not exercise swaps with a fitness fanatic. Smith Weiner 11/3/2004
7 A wife who runs her household like a military boot camp swaps with a wife who enforces hardly any discipline. Reimers Bittner 11/10/2004
8 A submissive stay-at-home wife swaps with a career woman who leads her household. Harris Van Noy 11/17/2004
9 Husband swap. A biker who doesn't care about the environment or his neighbors swaps with a new age environmentalist who lives on a commune. Paiss Davis 12/1/2004
10 A conservative Christian housewife swaps with a wife whose family enjoys punk rock. Ray Aguirre 12/8/2004
11 A strict mother swaps with a mother who spoils her daughters rotten. Elliot Burkhalter 12/15/2004
12 A single mother struggling to raise three out-of-control daughters swaps with a wealthy Ivy League-educated wife. Parsons Bramhall 1/12/2005
13 A housewife who prioritizes family and clutter swaps with a career-driven wife whose family does not spend much time together. Fontaine Herman 1/19/2005
14 A lesbian swaps with a fundamentalist Christian wife who is opposed to gay rights. Boone Luffey Gillespie 2/9/2005
15 A funeral director's wife swaps with a wife who lives on the road in a bus with her family. Pyke Smith 2/16/2005
16 A White housewife married to a Black man swaps with a domineering Black wife married to a White man. Bray Flummerfelt 2/23/2005
17 A military veteran who supports President George W. Bush swaps with a pacifist who opposes Bush and the Iraq war. Patrick Leierwood 3/2/2005
18 Boss Swap. A strict owner of an all-male car dealership swaps with a boss who takes a nurturing approach with her all-female coworkers. Silver Caden 3/7/2005
19 A successful career woman swaps with a wife who dropped out of mainstream society to live in a treehouse. Oeth Cedarquist 3/16/2005
20 Vacation Swap. A wealthy family who holidays in Aspen trades vacations with a working class family who holidays in an RV park. Hawn Orlando 3/23/2005
N/A A religious wife from rural Oklahoma swaps with one half of a gay male couple. Bedford Leonard Unaired (US)
2005 (UK)[4]

Season 2

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Episode(s) Synopsis Families Air Date
1 An etiquette teacher swaps with a wife who lets her kids run wild in public. Allison Hagerty 9/12/2005
2 A White wife who gambles long into the night and whose husband uses racial slurs swaps with an overprotective Black wife. Felix Wiggins 9/20/2005
3 A wife obsessed with baseball swaps with a punk rock-loving hairdresser. Collins Matlock 9/26/2005
4 An untidy, animal-loving wife swaps with a strict, neat mother of five children. Mayfield Wasdin 10/03/2005
5 A wife who puts her young daughter in beauty pageants swaps with an artist who shuns makeup and technology. Yonts Jan-Turan 10/10/2005
6 An overprotective mother of nine who lives in an RV swaps with a career-driven realtor who barely sees her kids. Downs Bailey 10/17/2005
7 A Manhattan wife who loves to party swaps with a conservative Kentucky wife who raises llamas. Nazario Lassell 10/24/2005
8 A housewife with a large modern home and party-loving husband swaps with an eco-conscious wife who hates materialism. Heiss Kestrel 11/07/2005
9 A wife whose husband hunts animals for food swaps with a raw food vegan who claims to get nutrients from the Sun. Hodge Kolpin 11/14/2005
10 A fitness-obsessed wife with an ex-drill sergeant husband swaps with an overweight wife whose husband waits on her. Johnson Blackburn 11/21/2005
11 A pastor's wife swaps with an atheist wife whose husband (Reginald Vaughn Finley Sr.) runs an atheist radio show. Stonerock Finley 11/28/2005
12 A police officer swaps with a housewife who lives to serve her husband. Fuentes Lawson 12/12/2005
13 A high-maintenance, high-spending wife swaps with a do-good wife who encourages civic responsibility in her children. Ast Green 12/19/2005
14 A construction worker whose house is messy and disorganized swaps with a wife who runs her family with an iron fist. Roy Maness 1/9/2006
15 A wife who believes in raising children without rules swaps with a strict wife whose family practices martial arts. Bimonte Hubbard 1/16/2006
16 A wife who prioritizes saving money at every opportunity swaps with a children's entertainer with a failing business. King Reeves 1/30/2006
17 A shopaholic who hosts parties and spoils her kids swaps with a frugal and devoutly religious mother of eight. Kraut Hardin 2/6/2006
18 "Wife Swap Saved My Marriage". Several couples from Season 1 are interviewed to see how the show affected them one year later. Couples from Season 1 2/20/2006
19 A wife who runs a modeling agency and seeks stardom for her two daughters swaps with a bear hunting, ice fishing wife from Wisconsin. Schachtner Martincak 2/27/2006
20 A Wiccan priestess whose husband worships her swaps with a wife who waits on her husband hand and foot. Thompson Askam 3/6/2006
21 A wife whose family lives as if they were in the Middle Ages swaps with a public school teacher. Stamper Haggerty 3/13/2006
22 A freak show performer swaps with a former beauty queen who runs a tanning salon. Kinison Czerniawski 3/27/2006
23 A laid-back wife who wants her kids to be her friends swaps with a controlling religious wife. West Grimes 4/10/2006
24 A wife from a modern cowboy family swaps with a wife who spoils her children, and whose husband spoils her. Ridgley Corrao 5/1/2006

Season 3

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Episode(s) Synopsis Families Air Date
1 An appearance-driven former beauty queen swaps with a blue-collar wife whose home is cluttered with junk shop items. Jeffery Greiner 9/18/2006
2 A wife from a family of modern-day pirates swaps with a wife who is obsessed with organizing. Baur Fine 9/18/2006
3 A wife who pushes her children to do sports swaps with a wife whose husband and son are addicted to video games. Boyd Milorey 9/20/2006
4 A wife who is fascinated by death swaps with a cosmetics executive with a short-tempered husband. Zemanek Brandon 9/25/2006
5 A strict wife obsessed with ballroom dancing swaps with a prison warden who commands no discipline at home. Slater Williams 10/2/2006
6 A former champion boxer swaps with a wife whose husband is a competitive eater (Eric Booker). Alcorn Booker 10/9/2006
7 A wealthy California wife who enjoys clothes shopping swaps with a wife who lives on a farm in Texas. Lovazzano Clover 10/16/2006
8 A cowgirl wife who supports her husband's traveling road show swaps with a wife who makes her husband do everything for her. Mink Oaks 11/13/2006
9 A wife who gives her teenage daughters free rein swaps with a wife who spies on her daughters and does not allow them to have friends over. Rowland Rivera 11/27/2006
10 A wife who does everything for her husband and three out-of-control sons swaps with a wife who runs a military-style home. Talbott Broider 12/4/2006
11 A Christian wife who believes chores are only for women swaps with a heavily tattooed atheist wife with a shaved head. Lawrence Caddel 12/4/2006
12 A professional bodybuilder swaps with a wife from a family of little people. Johnson Allemon 1/15/2007
13 An aspiring model swaps with a farm-dwelling grandmother who stresses traditional family values. Koopman Early 1/22/2007
14 A wife obsessed with her son's motocross career swaps with a self-proclaimed "green witch" who worships Mother Earth. Starling Sweany-Ernst 2/5/2007
15 A rock musician wife swaps with a ultra-conservative Christian housewife. Meeks Hoover 2/12/2007
16 A farmer who enforces a raw food diet on her children that includes raw meat swaps with an educated, urban, appearance-driven wife. Haigwood Hess-Webb 2/19/2007
17 A wife whose family business sells deer urine swaps with a salon owner who pampers her daughter. Lowe Hamilton 2/26/2007
18 A wife who owns a scrapyard swaps with a high-maintenance wife. Browne Robinson 4/27/2007
19 A psychic wife who is pampered by her husband swaps with a wife with out-of-control kids and a husband addicted to gambling. Silver Pitney 5/28/2007
20 A wife who is obsessed with her dogs and doesn't like people swaps with an environmentalist wife who lives in an eco-village. Rush Rios-Bolman 8/6/2007

Season 4

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Episode(s) Synopsis Families Air Date
1 A devout feminist swaps with the mother of a spoiled teenage beauty queen. Boss Gustaferro 1/2/2008
2 A laid-back wife with an immature husband swaps with a strict wife. Flynn Orris 1/9/2008
3 A wife from a family of clowns swaps with a wife whose kids have a strict chore regime and a limited social life. Harrison-Velasco Marshall 1/16/2008
4 A laid-back magician's wife swaps with a strict wife obsessed with cleanliness. Martin-Portala Galvan 1/23/2008
5 A burlesque performer swaps with a female lumberjack. McDonald Robarge 1/30/2008
6 A wife whose husband is a competitive truck puller swaps with a high-powered business executive. Zaring LaBrie 2/6/2008
7 A liberal Christian whose husband is a professor of theology swaps with a fundamentalist Christian who expects her daughters to be homemakers. Beckman-Heskett Childs 2/13/2008
8 An ex-military wife who works three jobs swaps with a rock-and-roll trophy wife. Phillips Blankenship 2/20/2008
9 An intellectual wife from a family of ghost hunters swaps with the wife of a Kentucky coal miner. Myers Sutton 2/27/2008
10 An older co-owner of a pet crematorium swaps with a younger shock jock radio host with an oddball husband. McGoldrick Noel 3/5/2008
11 A wife who makes her children work in the family bed and breakfast swaps with a wife who sacrifices for her children's dreams and has an out of control son. Graf Medici 3/12/2008
12 A wife obsessed with her son's wrestling career swaps with an artistic coffee-shop owner who does not believe in competitive sports. Ketchum Sheron 3/19/2008
13 A wife who runs a traveling carnival swaps with a wife who drives her daughters to be high-achievers. Gillette Turner 3/26/2008
14 A karaoke-loving wife swaps with an amateur kickboxer. Figaratto Martinez 4/2/2008
15 A deeply religious wife who shelters her children swaps with a party-loving wife who lets her children's boyfriend and girlfriend live in the house. Stockdale Tonkovic 4/23/2008
16 A messy wife who loves drag racing swaps with a fastidiously neat wife who lives to impress her family and social circle. Sundstorm Tower 4/30/2008
17 A wife who controls every minute of her children's schedule swaps with the wife of a bounty hunter who lets her children do whatever they want. Tassie Tyson 5/7/2008
18 An environmentally conscious artist swaps with the doting mother of a traveling motorcycle stunt-performing family. Coste Ives 5/14/2008
19 A control freak wife swaps with a wife who enjoys skateboarding and encourages self-expression. Pay Espinosa-Marquez 5/28/2008
20 A pig farmer swaps with a New York City belly dancer. Carmichael Hanna 6/25/2008

Season 5

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Episode(s) Synopsis Families Air Date
1 A wife whose mad scientist husband (Richard Heene) takes their children storm chasing swaps with a wife who is obsessed with child safety. Heene Martell 10/3/2008
2 A wife from a close-knit family of powerlifters swaps with a wife who organizes tea parties for little girls. McCaslin Deekens 10/10/2008
3 A wife from a lobster fishing family swaps with a shopaholic wife with undisciplined kids. Kinsman Thompson 10/17/2008
4 A wife from a family of ballet dancers swaps with a wife from the Louisiana bayou. Melton Dufrene 10/24/2008
5 A highly structured wife swaps with a Rastafarian wife. Martin Vallone 10/31/2008
6 A laid back wife swaps with an overbearing behavioral therapist who checks her children's desks at school. Brown Neighbors 11/7/2008
7 A wife who supports her aging husband's dreams of rock stardom swaps with a down-to-earth mother of nine children. Berwick Roachford 11/21/2008
8 A wife from the Florida Keys who loves to party swaps with a conservative wife whose husband is obsessed with sweepstakes. Cooper Kukta 12/12/2008
9 A wife who puts her baby daughter in beauty pageants swaps with a doctor who enjoys roller derby and doesn't care about appearances. Dusseau Smith-Snider 1/9/2009
10 A wife who is obsessed with coupons swaps with a wife whose family's excessive spending put them in debt. McIntyre Keyser 1/16/2009
11 A paintball-loving wife from rural Missouri swaps with a health-conscious San Francisco wife with a patronizing British husband. Long Stephens-Fowler 1/30/2009
12 A school teacher who emphasizes public education swaps with a wife who homeschools her children. Jones Martinson 2/6/2009
13 A career-driven realtor swaps with a wife who enjoys live action role playing. Bonnett Linkins 2/13/2009
14 A wife who practices laughter yoga and spoils her son swaps with a wife whose kids are unhappy due to life on a remote farm. Petersen Vaughn 2/27/2009
15 A strict wife who runs a martial arts school swaps with a wife who runs a community theater with her actor husband. Chi Edwards 3/6/2009
16 100th Episode. The storm-chasing Heene and psychic Silver families return to swap with each other after winning an audience poll. Heene Silver 3/13/2009
17 A wife from a family of jokesters swaps with a realtor whose children have a long chore list and no social life. Henstein Toulou 3/20/2009
18 A wife who runs a fitness boot camp with her husband swaps with an overweight, junk-food loving wife whose family enjoys demolition derby. Brown Holland 3/27/2009
19 A biker wife swaps with a strict wife obsessed with her family's Irish heritage. Mallick Stewart 4/3/2009
20 A materialistic wife obsessed with outward appearances and plastic surgery swaps with a wife whose family lives off-the-grid without electricity. Burroughs Padovan-Hickman 4/17/2009
21 An environmentally conscious vegan wife whose life is guided by astrology swaps with the wife of a cowboy from Texas. Brazenwood Taylor 4/24/2009
22 A wife whose family runs a haunted house swaps with a strict, old-fashioned wife who expects her children to be swimming champions. Schults Smith 5/1/2009

Season 6

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Episode(s) Synopsis Families Air Date
1 A wife who makes her children work in the family coffee shop and hot dog stand swaps with a wife who collects Reborn dolls and spoils her kids. Cameron Drago 4/2/2010
2 A wife whose family pop band seeks to achieve worldwide stardom swaps with a wife who is a social activist. Fulco Samel-Garloff 4/23/2010
3 A goth wife swaps with a wife who is obsessed with her sons playing ice hockey. Schroeder Wardle 4/30/2010
4 A wife who can't stand animals and orders her daughter around swaps with a laid-back wife whose house contains 29 pets. Adams Hess 4/30/2010
5 An inventor who believes in the power of manifesting one's goals swaps with an unemployed, overweight wife who lives in a trailer park. Beauvais Clayton 5/7/2010
6 An artistic wife who practices equality of gender roles with her husband swaps with a trophy wife whose husband is a male chauvinist. Haller-Wren Spencer 5/14/2010
7 A wife whose family puts on a traveling, clean-cut variety show swaps with a wife whose family enjoys low riding and believes in "keeping it real". Herrington Trevino 5/21/2010
8 A wife whose family lives like modern-day pioneers swaps with a wife whose family is obsessed with technology. Flannagan Logan 6/25/2010
9 A wife whose family focuses on their children's futures swaps with a survivalist whose family is preparing for the end of the world in 2012. Cathrea Stewart 7/9/2010
10 A wife who is obsessed with etiquette swaps with a wife whose family enjoys mud sports. McLeish O’Dell 7/16/2010
11 A workaholic, shopaholic wife with a stay-at-home husband swaps with a wife who owns an organic goat farm. Funderburgh Warren 7/23/2010
12 A wife who focuses her energy on one of her children, an aspiring rapper, swaps with a wife who hunts for cryptids and often ignores her teenage son. Parker Robinson 7/30/2010
13 A highly strict, competitive wife swaps with a laid-back wife who plays kickball. Harris Weasel 8/6/2010
14 A wife who teaches relationship workshops dressed as a superhero swaps with a strict wife whose family moved to the country to escape bad influences. Cyboran Owen-Ladino 8/13/2010

Season 7

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Episode(s) Synopsis Families Air Date
1 A religious wife who lives on a farm with no electricity swaps with a Las Vegas wife who loves to go to nightclubs. Kuncaitis Zdazinsky 3/21/2013
2 A Tea Party movement activist (Gina Loudon) swaps with a woman in a polyamorous relationship. Envy Loudon 3/28/2013
3 A self-proclaimed modern redneck swaps with a former beauty queen. Cochran Curry 4/4/2013
4 A strict disciplinarian swaps with a wife who emphasizes freedom and unschools her children. Avery-Lamb Martin 4/11/2013
5 An Italian wife who loves to eat swaps with a wife obsessed with fitness. DiBella LaRosh 4/18/2013
6 A pagan wife who believes in equal household duties swaps with a wife who dotes on her husband and champion tap dancer son. Fireheart Terry 4/25/2013
7 A wife whose children have no structure or rules swaps with a Russian tiger mother. Markiewicz Zusin 5/2/2013

Season 8

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Episode(s) Synopsis Families Air Date
1 A health-obsessed, perfectionist wife swaps with a stay-at-home husband who emphasizes fun. Benner McMichael 3/25/2019
2 A fire chief who runs her house like a battalion swaps with a stay-at-home wife who caters to her domineering husband. Lobdell Moon 4/11/2019
3 A high-tech wife who streams her family's life on the Internet swaps with a technophobic wife who lives off the grid. DeGarmo Mosby 4/18/2019
4 A gay millennial dad swaps with an old-fashioned wife with eight children. Goss Joseph 4/25/2019
5 A wealthy, workaholic wife swaps with a wife whose family lives in a converted school bus with a compost toilet. McCormick Muffley 5/2/2019
6 A sport-obsessed, competitive wife swaps with a laid-back yogi. Drudge Fusco 5/9/2019
7 A germaphobe who runs her house like a corporation swaps with a messy, free-spirited wife. Levine Williams 5/16/2019
8 A vegetarian Hindu with undisciplined children swaps with a rancher wife whose four-year-old works with the family's livestock. Chauhan Lenoir-Johnson 5/23/2019
9 A conservative stay-at-home wife swaps with a career-minded lesbian who believes in female empowerment. Dias Lunsford 5/30/2019
10 An authoritative, controlling wife swaps with a farmer who gives her children freedom to express themselves. Icgoren Legend 6/6/2019

Season 9

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Episode(s) Synopsis Families Air Date
1 A strict Nigerian wife swaps with a wife who gets little help from her husband in raising her spoiled children. Akinbode Mullis 2/13/2020
2 A school teacher swaps with a wife who believes in conspiracy theories and teaches her children that the Earth is flat. Frayall Dutcher 2/20/2020
3 A take-charge social media influencer swaps with the subservient wife of a biker. Villalpando Price 2/27/2020
4 A pagan witch swaps with the wife of a pastor who specializes in casting out demons and evil spirits. Floyd-Ely Clanton 3/5/2020
5 A liberal school teacher active in the Latino community swaps with a conservative wife whose husband is a Donald Trump supporter. Fussell Rodriguez 3/12/2020
6 An animal conservationist and snake wrangler swaps with a mother of six whose family enjoys sport hunting. Parker Mross 3/19/2020
7 A stay-at-home wife who runs a picture-perfect house swaps with a wife from a laid-back, hard-partying family. DiCesare Brown 3/26/2020
8 A circus wife with an overworked sword swallower husband swaps with an overwhelmed mother of four boys whose husband is obsessed with antiques. Steele Shepherd 4/2/2020
9 An active wife from a pro wrestling family swaps with a wife whose husband prefers video games over spending time with his family. Sharrer Peete 4/9/2020
10 A cosmopolitan, appearance-focused wife swaps with a wife from a down-to-earth farming family. Jackson Green 4/16/2020

References

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