The Feather and Father Gang

July 30, 1977, the final episode of The Feather and Father Gang aired. It is a 1976–1977 American crime-drama television series starring Stefanie Powers and Harold Gould, which centers on an attorney who enlists her con-man father and his team of bunco artists to help her solve crimes. The show aired from December 6, 1976, to July 30, 1977

Created by William Driskill, The Feather and Father Gang was perceived as an imitation for ABC of CBS's successful crime drama Switch, which aired from 1975 to 1978. Coincidentally, Powers later co starred with one of the stars of Switch, Robert Wagner, in another crime drama, Hart to Hart, which ran for five seasons beginning in 1979.

Larry White was the executive producer of The Feather and Father Gang. Driskill wrote the pilot episode, "Never Con a Killer", a 90-minute made-for-television movie that was broadcast as the series' sixth episode. Other writers who wrote episodes included George Kirgo, Harold Livingston, and Mann Rubin.

The Feather and Father Gang's first episode aired on December 6, 1976. After a three-month hiatus, it returned to the ABC lineup on March 7, 1977, as a weekly series beginning with its second episode, airing at 10:00 pm on Mondays until April 4, 1977. It then went into hiatus again, returning to the air on Friday, May 13, 1977, when ABC broadcast its pilot, "Never Con a Killer", filmed to run as a 90-minute made-for-television movie, as its sixth episode. On May 21, 1977, the show returned to 60-minute episodes and settled into a new time slot at 10:00 pm on Saturdays.

Criticized as a derivative and pale imitation of Switch and handicapped by its lack of a consistent broadcast day and time, The Feather and Father Gang garnered disappointing ratings and was cancelled after 14 episodes. Its last original episode aired on July 30, 1977, and the last rerun in prime time was on August 6, 1977