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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?

Murder by the Barrel

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

The Easy Sunday Murder Case

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

Husbands, Wives, and Killers

A mysterious note in a football begins a case.

Death Is a Seven Point Favorite

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

The Face of Murder

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

'Til Death Do Us Part

An Elementary Case of Murder

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

Night of the Wizard

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

Blues for Sally M

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.

Cop of the Year

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

Terror Times Two

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

No Hearts, No Flowers

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.

The Fine Art of Staying Alive

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

Two Dollars on Trouble to Win

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

Death of a Monster...Birth of a Legend

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.

The Devil, You Say

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

Free Fall to Terror

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

The Man Without a Face

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

Reunion in Terror

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

Cross & Double Cross

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.

Downshift to Danger

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

The Game of Survival

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

Buried Alive

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

Guilt by Association

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.

Night Train to L.A.

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

Love, Honor and Swindle

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.

Deadly Inheritance

Commissioner McMillan celebrates an old friend's wedding, but the honeymoon ends when the bride is murdered, and the intended victim may be closer to home.

Requiem for a Bride

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

Aftershock

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.

Secrets for Sale

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

The Deadly Cure

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

Greed

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

Point of Law

The wagers of sin. Mac is out to retrieve a set of diamonds swiped from his girl in Vegas.

All Bets Off

Mac is away on a fishing trip when his house is blown up by a  would-be assassin. Presumed dead, he investigates.

Dark Sunrise

Up against a hit man who announces himself.

Philip's Game

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

Coffee, Tea, or Cyanide?

The case is clear, according to the Deputy D.A., but Mac has his doubts.

Affair of the Heart

After a model commits suicide, Mac investigates her lonely life.

Have You Heard About Vanessa?

McMillan & Wife is a lighthearted American police procedural that aired on NBC from September 17, 1971 to April 24, 1977. Starring Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James in the title roles, the series premiered in 90-minute episodes as part of the wheel series NBC Mystery Movie, in rotation with Columbo and McCloud. Initially airing on Wednesday night, the original line-up was shifted to Sundays in the second season, where it aired for the rest of its run. This was the first element to be created specially for the Mystery Movie strand.

The Best Seasons of McMillan & Wife

The Best Seasons of McMillan & Wife

Season 4

Season 5

Season 2

Season 1

Season 3

Season 6