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?
It’s sad this show has ended. I this could have gone far. There was so many more stories to tell with this . I think if you found the right screen writer of our could make more to play in with everything. PLEASE find away to keep the.show going. Thank you so much.
I enjoyed this show & would have loved to see the 6th season – but instead i will have to leave my tv turned off to avoid all the garbage that does get renewed
Why do all the good shows get cancelled!? It is nice to have shows that aren’t reality TV. STOP taking the clean shows off and putting crappy shows that track our kid bad things!
i wish they would renew for alot more season of this show i would love to see bay grow up more and Daphanie grow up more and finish college and wonder who bay ends up with!!!! i love this show got to be my self when it on it was done in my launage ASL
It’s so disappointing that Switched at Birth is being cancelled!! I just can’t believe that it’s happening!! I will truly miss Bay, Daphne, and all their family and friends!! Please reconsider and keep the show going!!
SO disappointed to hear this show is canceled. I looked forward to this show every week. Please bring this show back. I want it, I miss it. Please, Please Please!
I LOVE THIS SHOW! PLEASE reconsider cancelling if that is your plan. There are sooo many directions you can take with your story line. The possibilities are endless! Can another network please take this show?!? HEY CW are you reading?! It’s also on Netflix!
I love the show watched it from the beginning still love it
I have been watching this show since Episode One. Best show out there, They always cancel the good shows and keep the stupid ones. Yes they should do a season six and beyond. There is too many reality shows. Please don’t cancel this show.
I love this show! I love all the actors and can’t wait to see it again,and now I hear it will be canceled! Why is it that nice wholesome shows get canceled and all the smutty shows stay on? What’s with people today?
My daughter and I love this show – we are so disappointed we have to wait till next year to see another episode! We have been watching for it every week- so sad to know it’s being cancelled as well.
Did no see my post come through. Began to insert code & opened a different page. I was so surprised with a show about the deaf population & comparing diverse life styles confrontations then overcoming their indiferences. My father taught at School For The Deaf in Riverside, CA for a few years. The students had camp sessions during the summer & my father would take me with him. I never missed a day! This was back in the early 1960’s when parents would place their children just because of a hearing deficiency! Despite my young age of 6-7 years old,… Read more »
I love Switched At Birth and I’m so sorry to see it end.
S@B is now cancelled, the 10 eps fifth season will be the end.
It’s a great show and teaches something. Please don’t cancel another good different show