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The Best Episodes of McMillan & Wife

Genres:CrimeDramaMystery
Network:NBC

Every episode of McMillan & Wife ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of McMillan & 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...
Episodes
39
Avg. Rating
7.5
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  • Cop of the Year
    8.2/10(151)
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    #1 - 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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  • Guilt by Association
    8.0/10(110)
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    #2 - 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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  • 'Til Death Do Us Part
    7.9/10(168)
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    #3 - '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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  • No Hearts, No Flowers
    7.9/10(126)
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    #4 - 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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  • Two Dollars on Trouble to Win
    7.9/10(118)
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    #5 - 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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  • Secrets for Sale
    7.9/10(113)
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    #6 - Secrets for Sale

    Season 5 Episode 4

    Aired 12/7/1975

    During an election, the city is beset by a fiscal crisis. Politicians are being blackmailed, and Sgt. Enright leaves the force to marry an heiress and work for a private detective agency.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Free Fall to Terror
    7.8/10(108)
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    #7 - 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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  • Aftershock
    7.8/10(125)
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    #8 - Aftershock

    Season 5 Episode 3

    Aired 11/9/1975

    Unusual interest is shown in the McMillans' house when Sally thinks of selling it. Then an earthquake reveals a body behind the brickwork.

    Director: Harry Falk

    Writer: N/A

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  • Greed
    7.8/10(95)
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    #9 - Greed

    Season 5 Episode 6

    Aired 2/15/1976

    Mildred and Agatha are named in a will. Heirs start dying, and next to inherit is Agatha, whose investigation runs parallel to McMillan's.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • An Elementary Case of Murder
    7.7/10(153)
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    #10 - 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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  • The Man Without a Face
    7.7/10(112)
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    #11 - 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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  • Downshift to Danger
    7.7/10(138)
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    #12 - 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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  • Night Train to L.A.
    7.7/10(114)
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    #13 - 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

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  • Love, Honor and Swindle
    7.7/10(108)
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    #14 - Love, Honor and Swindle

    Season 4 Episode 6

    Aired 2/16/1975

    It seems that Mac's sister is engaged to a con man out to diddle a mining company.

    Director: Lou Antonio

    Writer: Peter S. Fischer

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  • Deadly Inheritance
    7.6/10(112)
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    #15 - Deadly Inheritance

    Season 5 Episode 1

    Aired 9/28/1975

    At Andy Kenesaw's 90th birthday party, an attempt is made on his life, just before a stockholders' meeting of the company he founded with Mac's grandfather years before (Kenemac Alfalfa Corporation, est. 1901) is held to consider a merger bid from Harvest Foods Incorporated.

    Director: Lou Antonio

    Writer: Peter S. Fischer

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  • The Deadly Cure
    7.6/10(108)
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    #16 - The Deadly Cure

    Season 5 Episode 5

    Aired 1/18/1976

    Mac is wounded in a failed drug raid and sent to the hospital, where he sees a patient smothered, and slowly unravels the case.

    Director: James Sheldon

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Face of Murder
    7.5/10(152)
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    #17 - 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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  • Night of the Wizard
    7.5/10(140)
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    #18 - 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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  • Death of a Monster...Birth of a Legend
    7.5/10(131)
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    #19 - 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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  • The Game of Survival
    7.5/10(104)
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    #20 - 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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  • Point of Law
    7.5/10(93)
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    #21 - Point of Law

    Season 5 Episode 7

    Aired 3/7/1976

    A naval lieutenant facing a court-martial on a murder charge is appointed counsel in the person of Commander McMillan, USNR.

    Director: Lou Antonio

    Writer: N/A

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  • Coffee, Tea, or Cyanide?
    7.5/10(87)
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    #22 - Coffee, Tea, or Cyanide?

    Season 6 Episode 4

    Aired 1/30/1977

    You pays your money, you takes your choice. While on an airline flight, Mac witnesses passengers dying mysteriously.

    Director: James Sheldon

    Writer: N/A

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  • Husbands, Wives, and Killers
    7.4/10(152)
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    #23 - 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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  • Terror Times Two
    7.4/10(117)
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    #24 - 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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  • The Fine Art of Staying Alive
    7.4/10(107)
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    #25 - 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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Best Episodes Summary

"Cop of the Year" is the best rated episode of "McMillan & Wife". It scored 8.2/10 based on 151 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/19/1972. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Guilt by Association".