• Air date: 26 Sep '04 20 episodes
      Wife Swap is a British reality television programme produced by independent television production company RDF Media and created by Stephen Lambert for Channel 4, first broadcast in 2003. In the programme, two families, usually from different social classes and lifestyles, swap wives/mothers – and sometimes husbands – for two weeks. In fact, the programme will usually deliberately swap wives with dramatically different lifestyles, such as a messy wife swapping with a fastidiously neat one. Despite using a phrase from the swinging lifestyle, couples participating in the show do not share a bed with the "swapped" spouse while "swapping" homes. In November 2009, Channel 4 announced that they had cancelled Wife Swap, and no new episodes of the show would be made for the channel. The final episode was broadcast in December 2009.
  • List of Episodes (20)
    • 1. Nicola & Jayne

      26 Sep '04
      On the premiere episode, Caprice, a tidy and orderly Mom, swaps lives with Bambi, a carefree and fun Mom. Joe's Scene-By-Scene Review for this episode is complete! To read it, click the RECAP button below.
    • 2. Lizzy & Emma

      29 Sep '04
      An unemployed mother of eight from Rochdale swap with the Spry family, a couple with two children.
    • 3. Kellie & Maxine

      06 Oct '04
      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. Due to personal reasons, Joe's Scene-By-Scene Review could not be written for this episode. I apologize for any inconvenience.
    • 4. Belinda & Judith

      20 Oct '04
      with the day too thing...it was actyaully 4.45 not 5.45 (yes i know im getting picky
    • 5. Deborah & Linda

      27 Oct '04
      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.
    • 6. Darren & Nigel

      03 Nov '04
      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.
    • 7. Bittner/Reimers

      10 Nov '04
      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.
    • 8. Harris/Van Noy

      17 Nov '04
      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.
    • 9. Paiss/Davis (Husband Swap)

      01 Dec '04
      The Paiss & Davis Families trade husbands.
    • 10. Aguirre/Ray

      08 Dec '04
      A tattooed, punk rock mom swaps lives with a Southern Baptist, traditional mother.
    • 11. Burkhalter/Elliott

      15 Dec '04
      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.
    • 12. Parsons/Bramhall

      12 Jan '05
      An educated and organized mother trades families with a waitress who struggles to control her three wayward daughters.
    • 13. Fontaine/Herman

      19 Jan '05
      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.
    • 14. Boone Luffey/Gillespie

      09 Feb '05
      One-half of a lesbian couple is switched with a conservative, God-fearing homemaker from Texas.
    • 15. Pyke/Smith

      16 Feb '05
      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.
    • 16. Flummerfelt/Bray

      23 Feb '05
      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.
    • 17. Patrick/Leierwood

      02 Mar '05
      A very conservative, former military mom with strong pro-war views swaps lives with a liberal, pacifist art teacher and anti-war protester.
    • 18. Cedarquist/Oeth

      16 Mar '05
      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.
    • 20. Boss Swap: Silver/Caden

      07 Mar '05
      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.
    • 21. Vacation Swap: Hawn/Orlando

      23 Mar '05
      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.