7.7/10134 votes#1 - 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
- 7.5/10100 votes
#2 - 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
- 7.4/1094 votes
#3 - Buried Alive
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 11/10/1974
A WWII intelligence colleague, long since thought to be dead, turns up and is murdered.
Director: James Sheldon
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10107 votes
#4 - 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
- 7.7/10110 votes
#5 - 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 votes
#6 - 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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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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Season 4 Ratings Summary
"Downshift to Danger" is the best rated episode of "McMillan & Wife" season 4. It scored 7.7/10 based on 134 votes. Directed by Lou Antonio and written by Peter S. Fischer, it aired on 9/29/1974. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Game of Survival".