8.1/10148 votesLoading...#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
- 8.0/10107 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.9/10164 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.9/10114 votesLoading...
#4 - 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
7.9/10111 votesLoading...#5 - 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
- 7.8/10122 votesLoading...
#6 - 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
- 7.8/10104 votesLoading...
#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
7.8/10123 votesLoading...#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
7.8/1093 votesLoading...#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
- 7.7/10150 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.7/10134 votesLoading...
#11 - 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
- 7.7/10110 votesLoading...
#12 - 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
- 7.7/10106 votesLoading...
#13 - 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
- 7.6/10108 votesLoading...
#14 - 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
7.6/10110 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10107 votesLoading...#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
7.6/1086 votesLoading...#17 - 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
- 7.5/10134 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.5/10114 votesLoading...
#19 - 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
- 7.5/10126 votesLoading...
#20 - 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
- 7.5/10100 votesLoading...
#21 - 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
7.5/1093 votesLoading...#22 - 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
- 7.4/10149 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.4/10148 votesLoading...
#24 - 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
- 7.4/10138 votesLoading...
#25 - 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
The Best Episodes of McMillan & Wife
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...
Genres:CrimeDramaMystery
Network:NBC
Best Episodes Summary
"Cop of the Year" is the best rated episode of "McMillan & Wife". It scored 8.1/10 based on 148 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/19/1972. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Guilt by Association".