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 the show… Me and my daughter have been watching it since it started.. this has been our show… Our time together after a rough day from school and work… We would of loved for it to be renewed as this has brought many families like myself together as a family to sit n relax . We will miss our TV time.. we are sad to realize that the show has been cancelled… Why do all the good family oriented shows get cancelled and not the trashy realities. This is why so many teenage kids are the way they… Read more »
Please renew the show I never found something so interesting and that show made me want to take sign language cause that’s how bad I love the show I would really love it if you renew the show it’s like the best show that was out there and I am so glad I found that show cause now I’m hooked lol
Please bring back the show! It’s a great for tv not to many interesting shows on tv right you can watch with family.
Great show, please don’t cancel ever
I LOVE this show!!!! I have been a faithful watcher since the beginning!!!! Very invested in these characters!! A “real life” type show that a lot of people watched!! This will leave a very large hole in our tv viewing! Lots of the other shows are fluff or crap! Sorry to loose a great one like “Switched at Birth”!!
I absolutely love this show! Is there anything that can be done to bring it back? Maybe another network? I am so sad it’s over. Why cancel a good, clean show?
I wish they would renew this show, it was a great show for the whole family!
This was a fantastic show and even enticed me to learn sign language. I will certainly miss this show and wish you would consider renewing it. There were a lot of real life lessons to be learned on this show.
I am definitely going to miss Switched at Birth. I have already watched the episode and now watching it again. I cried through the end of the show. No I don’t think they should have ended the show I would watch more seasons definitely.
I hope despite it already being advertised that’s a final season it comes back for a 6th the end of season 5 was depressing.
I got into watching Switched at Birth through my 8 year old granddaughter. Was babysitting her. She put on the show and from that moment on I was hooked. I watched all the series in less than a week. One i heard it was coming back on I was so excited. Then it comes on for season 5 and then it finished for good. Boy i am right peed off. I actually cried. My Tuesday night is real boring and it’s only been 1 day. The cast was fabulous.
I love switch at birth It’s my favorite tv show. It’s sad they are not going to show no more of it I am going to miss watching it every Tuesday I wish you guy’s would make more for us to watch
Me and my husband has watched since the beggining please bring it back. All the good shows were cancelled for no reason
pls renew switched birth ok should fired big boss like tv directors i love to watch very intersting they should bring more deaf player ok pls have switched birth back ok ok thanks
#bringbackswitched@birth
I absolutely LOVE this show. The series finale was great but I am so sad to see it go. This show could have run for 10 and still been wonderful. If there is any way to bring it back- I would be extatic!!!!!