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The Best Episodes of McMillan & Wife

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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...

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    #1 - Murder by the Barrel

    S1:E1

    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?

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    Director:John Astin
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    #2 - The Easy Sunday Murder Case

    S1:E2

    After the crosswords... a woman's husband is kidnapped, and her dog.

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    #3 - Husbands, Wives, and Killers

    S1:E3

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

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    Director:Daniel Petrie
    Writer:Unknown
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    #4 - Death Is a Seven Point Favorite

    S1:E4

    A mysterious note in a football begins a case.

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    Director:John Astin
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    #5 - The Face of Murder

    S1:E5

    A phiz for the fuzz. Sally becomes the prey of a jewel thief out to dispose of witnesses.

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    Director:Hy Averback
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    #6 - 'Til Death Do Us Part

    S1:E6

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

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    #7 - An Elementary Case of Murder

    S1:E7

    An old flame enters the picture.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #8 - Night of the Wizard

    S2:E1

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #9 - Blues for Sally M

    S2:E2

    A composer is up against it, and Sally's somehow connected to him.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #10 - Cop of the Year

    S2:E3

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #11 - Terror Times Two

    S2:E4

    The mob abducts Mac and replaces him with a surgically-altered lookalike, to liquidate a squealer in a tightly-guarded hospital.

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    Director:Ron Winston
    Writer:Unknown
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    #12 - No Hearts, No Flowers

    S2:E5

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

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    Director:Gary Nelson
    Writer:Unknown
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    #13 - The Fine Art of Staying Alive

    S2:E6

    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.

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    #14 - Two Dollars on Trouble to Win

    S2:E7

    Strange accidents surrounding a thoroughbred horse suggest its owner, an old family friend of Sally's, is a target for murder.

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

    S3:E1

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

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    Director:Daniel Petrie
    Writer:Unknown
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    #16 - The Devil, You Say

    S3:E2

    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.

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    Director:Alex March
    Writer:Unknown
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    #17 - Free Fall to Terror

    S3:E3

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

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    Director:Alf Kjellin
    Writer:Unknown
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    #18 - The Man Without a Face

    S3:E4

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

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    #19 - Reunion in Terror

    S3:E5

    Mac's old football squad is being eliminated one by one.

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    Director:Mel Ferber
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    #20 - Cross & Double Cross

    S3:E6

    Mac switches places with Claudio Manton, a hood with a striking resemblance, to intercept stolen gold trans-shipped from France via Portugal and Mexico.

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    Director:Alex March
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    #21 - Downshift to Danger

    S4:E1

    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.

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    #22 - The Game of Survival

    S4:E2

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

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    Director:Harry Falk
    Writer:Unknown
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    #23 - Buried Alive

    S4:E3

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

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    Director:James Sheldon
    Writer:Unknown
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    #24 - Guilt by Association

    S4:E4

    Mildred is accosted while serving on a sequestered jury, then another juror is murdered in his locked room.

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    Director:Harry Falk
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    #25 - Night Train to L.A.

    S4:E5

    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.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Murder by the Barrel" is the best rated episode of "McMillan & Wife". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by John Astin and written by Burt Prelutsky, it aired on 9/29/1971. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Easy Sunday Murder Case".