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#1 - Murder by the Barrel
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1971
On moving day, Sally discovers a dead body in a moving barrel. When she leaves to tell Mac, the barrel disappears. What happened to it?
Director: John Astin
Writer: Burt Prelutsky
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#2 - The Easy Sunday Murder Case
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/20/1971
After the crosswords... a woman's husband is kidnapped, and her dog.
Director: Barry Shear
Writer: Burt Prelutsky
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#3 - Husbands, Wives, and Killers
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/10/1971
A valuable necklace under the eyes of Mac and Sally at a masked ball.
Director: Daniel Petrie
Writer: N/A
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#4 - Death Is a Seven Point Favorite
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/8/1971
A mysterious note in a football begins a case.
Director: John Astin
Writer: Robert Lewin
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#5 - The Face of Murder
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/5/1972
A phiz for the fuzz. Sally becomes the prey of a jewel thief out to dispose of witnesses.
Director: Hy Averback
Writer: Oliver Hailey
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#6 - 'Til Death Do Us Part
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/16/1972
Sally and Mac are sealed in their home by a killer.
Director: Robert Michael Lewis
Writer: Oliver Hailey
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#7 - An Elementary Case of Murder
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/1/1972
An old flame enters the picture.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#8 - Night of the Wizard
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1972
A man is done in by his wife, but he's not done yet. Evidently his ghost is unquiet.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#9 - Blues for Sally M
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/22/1972
A composer is up against it, and Sally's somehow connected to him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#10 - Cop of the Year
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 11/19/1972
After receiving the Cop of The Year award, Sgt. Enright is accused of the murder of his ex-wife--and the case against him seems air-tight.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#11 - Terror Times Two
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 12/13/1972
The mob abducts Mac and replaces him with a surgically-altered lookalike, to liquidate a squealer in a tightly-guarded hospital.
Director: Ron Winston
Writer: N/A
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#12 - No Hearts, No Flowers
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 1/14/1973
Sally's next on a maniac's agenda; a psychiatrist assists.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: N/A
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#13 - The Fine Art of Staying Alive
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 3/11/1973
Sally is kidnapped at an art museum. The ransom: a priceless painting owned by Spain that they are unwilling to relinquish. Mac's only clue takes him back to the day he proposed to Sally.
Director: Edward M. Abroms
Writer: Oliver Hailey
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#14 - Two Dollars on Trouble to Win
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 4/1/1973
Strange accidents surrounding a thoroughbred horse suggest its owner, an old family friend of Sally's, is a target for murder.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: Burt Prelutsky
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#15 - Death of a Monster...Birth of a Legend
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1973
It's off to Scotland to see the laird and the loch, where the game's afoot.
Director: Daniel Petrie
Writer: N/A
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#16 - The Devil, You Say
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/21/1973
Mildred thinks she's witnessed a murder, and Sally receives a strange gift in the mail: film of a satanic ritual. More gifts reveal someone has it in for Mildred and a yen for Sally.
Director: Alex March
Writer: N/A
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#17 - Free Fall to Terror
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 11/11/1973
A suicide investigation reveals the executive had a merger in the works.
Director: Alf Kjellin
Writer: N/A
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#18 - The Man Without a Face
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 1/6/1974
A colleague from military intelligence calls on Mac, and is murdered.
Director: Lee H. Katzin
Writer: Don Mankiewicz
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#19 - Reunion in Terror
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 1/27/1974
Mac's old football squad is being eliminated one by one.
Director: Mel Ferber
Writer: Oliver Hailey
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#20 - Cross & Double Cross
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 2/17/1974
Mac switches places with Claudio Manton, a hood with a striking resemblance, to intercept stolen gold trans-shipped from France via Portugal and Mexico.
Director: Alex March
Writer: Oliver Hailey
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#21 - Downshift to Danger
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1974
The grand prize of the 20th Annual Golden State Rally in Monterey is an antique car collection willed by a late millionaire. Mischief develops into mishaps and worse, until an entrant is killed.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
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#22 - The Game of Survival
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/20/1974
A temperamental tennis champion is suspected of murdering a newspaper magnate who had him suspended.
Director: Harry Falk
Writer: N/A
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#23 - Buried Alive
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 11/10/1974
A WWII intelligence colleague, long since thought to be dead, turns up and is murdered.
Director: James Sheldon
Writer: N/A
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#24 - Guilt by Association
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 12/8/1974
Mildred is accosted while serving on a sequestered jury, then another juror is murdered in his locked room.
Director: Harry Falk
Writer: Steven Bochco
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#25 - Night Train to L.A.
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 1/19/1975
Mac heads south to a police convention on a train filled with officers, Mildred, and the author of Cops and Other Crooks, who is murdered en route.
Director: Leonard Horn
Writer: Booker Bradshaw
The Best Episodes of McMillan and Wife
Every episode of McMillan and Wife ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of McMillan and Wife!
McMillan & Wife is a lighthearted American police procedural that aired on NBC from September 17, 1971 to April 24, 1977. Starring Rock Hudson and...
Genres:CrimeDramaMystery
Network:NBC
Best Episodes Summary
"Murder by the Barrel" is the best rated episode of "McMillan and Wife". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by John Astin and written by Burt Prelutsky, it aired on 9/29/1971. This episode scored NaN points higher than the second highest rated, "The Easy Sunday Murder Case".