Switched at Birth
A character has reason to suspect that they or their child was accidentally switched with another baby at the hospital. It never turns out to be true.
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Appearances
- The Dick Van Dyke Show: Season 3, episode 1, "That's My Boy??" (1963). Due to some confusion at the hospital when Ritchie was born, Rob and Laura start to think they brought home the wrong baby. They call the other parents they think have their baby, and when they show up at the door, it immediately becomes clear that Rob and Laura were wrong.
- Too Close for Comfort: Season 2, episode 3, "Who's Sara Now?" (1981). Henry reads a newspaper article about a nurse who admitted she switched babies at the hospital where she worked, which just happens to be the hospital where Sara was born, so he and Muriel start to think Sara might have been switched with another baby and is not really their child.
- The Golden Girls: Season 4, episode 24, "Foreign Exchange" (1989). Old friends of Sophia's from Sicily come to visit and tell Sophia that their daughter, Gina, got a blood test for her upcoming wedding and discovered she couldn't be related to her parents, and since she was born at the same time as Dorothy in the same hospital, they think Dorothy and Gina were switched at birth.
- The Nanny: Season 4, episode 19, "Fran's Roots" (1997). A woman calls Fran and tells her she thinks Fran and her daughter were switched at birth, and she's Fran's real mother.