The Best Episodes of McMillan & Wife

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   8.3/10(162 votes)

   #1 - Cop of the Year

   S2:E311/19/1972

   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.

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   8.2/10(124 votes)

   #2 - Guilt by Association

   S4:E412/8/1974

   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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   Director:Harry Falk

   Writer:Steven Bochco
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   8.0/10(125 votes)

   #3 - Secrets for Sale

   S5:E412/7/1975

   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.

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   7.9/10(136 votes)

   #4 - No Hearts, No Flowers

   S2:E51/14/1973

   Sally's next on a maniac's agenda; a psychiatrist assists.

   Director:Gary Nelson

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Gary Nelson

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   7.9/10(120 votes)

   #5 - Free Fall to Terror

   S3:E311/11/1973

   A suicide investigation reveals the executive had a merger in the works.

   Director:Alf Kjellin

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Alf Kjellin

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   7.9/10(141 votes)

   #6 - Aftershock

   S5:E311/9/1975

   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:Unknown

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   Director:Harry Falk

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   7.8/10(184 votes)

   #7 - 'Til Death Do Us Part

   S1:E62/16/1972

   Sally and Mac are sealed in their home by a killer.

   Director:Robert Michael Lewis

   Writer:Oliver Hailey

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   Director:Robert Michael Lewis

   Writer:Oliver Hailey
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   7.8/10(117 votes)

   #8 - Love, Honor and Swindle

   S4:E62/16/1975

   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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   Director:Lou Antonio

   Writer:Peter S. Fischer
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   7.8/10(107 votes)

   #9 - Greed

   S5:E62/15/1976

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

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    7.7/10(168 votes)

    #10 - An Elementary Case of Murder

    S1:E73/1/1972

    An old flame enters the picture.

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    Writer:Unknown

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    7.7/10(126 votes)

    #11 - Two Dollars on Trouble to Win

    S2:E74/1/1973

    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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    Director:Gary Nelson

    Writer:Burt Prelutsky
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    7.7/10(126 votes)

    #12 - The Man Without a Face

    S3:E41/6/1974

    A colleague from military intelligence calls on Mac, and is murdered.

    Director:Lee H. Katzin

    Writer:Don Mankiewicz

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    Director:Lee H. Katzin

    Writer:Don Mankiewicz
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    7.7/10(152 votes)

    #13 - Downshift to Danger

    S4:E19/29/1974

    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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    Director:Lou Antonio

    Writer:Peter S. Fischer
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    7.7/10(126 votes)

    #14 - Deadly Inheritance

    S5:E19/28/1975

    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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    Director:Lou Antonio

    Writer:Peter S. Fischer
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    7.7/10(122 votes)

    #15 - The Deadly Cure

    S5:E51/18/1976

    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:Unknown

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    Director:James Sheldon

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    7.6/10(143 votes)

    #16 - Death of a Monster...Birth of a Legend

    S3:E19/30/1973

    It's off to Scotland to see the laird and the loch, where the game's afoot.

    Director:Daniel Petrie

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.6/10(116 votes)

    #17 - The Game of Survival

    S4:E210/20/1974

    A temperamental tennis champion is suspected of murdering a newspaper magnate who had him suspended.

    Director:Harry Falk

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Harry Falk

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    7.6/10(126 votes)

    #18 - Night Train to L.A.

    S4:E51/19/1975

    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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    Director:Leonard Horn

    Writer:Booker Bradshaw
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    7.6/10(104 votes)

    #19 - Point of Law

    S5:E73/7/1976

    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:Unknown

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    7.5/10(152 votes)

    #20 - Night of the Wizard

    S2:E19/24/1972

    A man is done in by his wife, but he's not done yet. Evidently his ghost is unquiet.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.5/10(110 votes)

    #21 - Buried Alive

    S4:E311/10/1974

    A WWII intelligence colleague, long since thought to be dead, turns up and is murdered.

    Director:James Sheldon

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.5/10(98 votes)

    #22 - Coffee, Tea, or Cyanide?

    S6:E41/30/1977

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

    Director:James Sheldon

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.4/10(168 votes)

    #23 - Husbands, Wives, and Killers

    S1:E311/10/1971

    A valuable necklace under the eyes of Mac and Sally at a masked ball.

    Director:Daniel Petrie

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.4/10(168 votes)

    #24 - The Face of Murder

    S1:E51/5/1972

    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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    Director:Hy Averback

    Writer:Oliver Hailey
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    7.4/10(127 votes)

    #25 - Terror Times Two

    S2:E412/13/1972

    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:Unknown

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    Director:Ron Winston

    Writer:Unknown