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]
| 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 [a] |
| 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 |
| N/A | A wife of a Greek-American restaurateur swaps with a wife from California. | Panagiotakis | Unknown | Unaired [a] |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |