Network: ABC Family/Freeform
Episodes: 103 (hour)
Seasons: Five
TV show dates: June 6, 2011 — April 11, 2017
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Katie Leclerc, Vanessa Marano, Constance Marie, D. W. Moffett, Lea Thompson, Lucas Grabeel, Ivonne Coll, and Sean Berdy.
TV show description:
This dramatic TV series tells the story of two teenage girls who discover that they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital. As a result, they are raised in very different environments than what they would have been.
An artistic teenager, Bay Kennish (Vanessa Marano) grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a brother. Privileged and eccentric, she’s lived a charmed life with the family she thought was her own. She was raised by her stay-at-home mom Kathryn (Lea Thompson) and former professional baseball player father John (D. W. Moffett), in the wealthy neighborhood Mission Hills, Kansas, along with her brother Toby (Lucas Grabeel).
After studying blood types in school, Bay begins to wonder why her blood type does not match her parents’. The family has some genetic tests done and discover that Bay is not biologically related to them. They discover that the hospital mistakenly switched her with another female newborn, Daphne Vasquez (Katie Leclerc).
She’s a deaf teen living with her struggling single mother Regina (Constance Marie) and Puerto Rican grandmother (Ivonne Coll) in a working-class neighborhood in Riverside, Missouri. A case of meningitis caused Daphne to lose her hearing as a child so she attends Carlton, a school for the Deaf, where she plays basketball and learns sign language.
Emmett (Sean Berdy) is Daphne’s sweet but protective best friend. Also deaf, he has a passion for photography and can be often found taking pictures or riding his motorcycle. His mother Melody (Marlee Matlin), is best friends with Daphne’s mom, Regina.
Things come to a dramatic head when the families meet and struggle to learn how to live together for the sake of the girls.
Episode 103 — Long Live Love
Kathryn becomes nostalgic when she realizes that it’s been five years since the switch was discovered and the two families started living together. As she searches for memories, Kathryn discovers a long buried family secret – stretching all the way back to the switch – that changes everything. Daphne competes against Mingo for a six-week paid internship in sports medicine. Bay is celebrated for her tattoo work in a magazine spread, but her struggle to prove herself as an artist to John threatens to destroy their relationship. Toby meets Amelia (guest star Lauren Potter), a young woman with Down Syndrome who changes his perception about his son’s future. Melody, Emmett and Travis make some major decisions about their lives, and Regina takes a chance on love. (Courtesy Freeform. The finale is 90 minutes.)
First aired: April 11, 2017.
What do you think? Are you a fan of the Switched at Birth TV show? Do you think that it should have been cancelled or renewed for a sixth season?
I LOVE this show!!! Please keep it on forever!!!
Please don’t cancel this show. We love the characters, cast, and story. Its one of the few shows on TV that I can watch with my teens and not feel embarrassed.
Love this show!
I hope it comes back because I like the actors.
This show is my favorite show on tv, not only is it entertaining, but it shows people a whole other perspective to the world. It shows a perspective from the lives of deaf people, (something I am very interested in), and now it has even introduced the perspective to the lives and worlds of those with Down syndrome or those who know people with it. There are so many diverse topics on this show and they are one hundred percent relevant to today, in many people’s lives. I am very very very into the show, I can’t stress it enough,… Read more »
I hope they keep it for another season. If only to give the show the proper ending it deserves!! It is one of my favorite shows on tv to date!!
Great show for the family as well as educational and diversity components. My niece and I love this show! I hope it’s not cancelled.
Love this series. Hope it will continue. My partner and I think the whole premise is wonderful.Entertaining and educational.
love the show. it was so addictive and please don’t end it!! =(
This is such a wholesome show and we have so few family shows please do not cancel if you need to have the actors and actresses grow up and have families so be it. Please I am 59 years and my grandchildren and I love this clean tv show.
Thank you for hearing my comment
I love this show, I’ve watch it from day one. I’ve told all my friend and family what a great family show this is. It teaches great family lesson for kids and the shows were up to date the what is happen in the world” bring it back!!!!!!!!
I love this show. Please do not cancel it.
This high quality show must contunue, to help our two worlds become more like one. The inspiration to comunicate and understand transcends the “Switched At Birth” story. Learning how the gap can be bridged between hearing and deaf, with the artful insight of this show’s amazing team, is a message too important to be lost to ratings. Please tell others to watch for the first time or again. It is a great show on so many levels.
i’ve been waiting for season four where is it it ended at season three with Emmett in California
S3ened with Bay taking the fall for Daohne,midseason four need with Bay /Emmet breaking up in California..s4 returns Aug 24 2015
I love this show! I have never watched one through all the seasons like this one. Everyone I make watch it with me gets into it. I hope it keeps going. Even my husband loves it. We are waiting for the next episode!! The actors are great and the show always keep you hanging. I like how the situations make you think about what you would do, and that even though life has tough dilemmas it ‘s about working together to get through them.