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The Worst 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...

Seasons6

  1. Background image for The Devil, You Say
    6.6/10(140 votes)

    #1 - 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
  2. Background image for All Bets Off
    6.8/10(91 votes)

    #2 - All Bets Off

    S6:E1

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

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  3. Background image for Cross & Double Cross
    6.9/10(107 votes)

    #3 - 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
  4. Background image for Philip's Game
    7.1/10(79 votes)

    #4 - Philip's Game

    S6:E3

    Up against a hit man who announces himself.

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  5. Background image for Have You Heard About Vanessa?
    7.1/10(87 votes)

    #5 - Have You Heard About Vanessa?

    S6:E6

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

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    Director:James Sheldon
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Murder by the Barrel
    7.2/10(201 votes)

    #6 - 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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  8. Background image for Death Is a Seven Point Favorite
    7.2/10(157 votes)

    #7 - Death Is a Seven Point Favorite

    S1:E4

    A mysterious note in a football begins a case.

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    Director:John Astin
  9. Background image for Affair of the Heart
    7.2/10(87 votes)

    #8 - Affair of the Heart

    S6:E5

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

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  10. Background image for The Easy Sunday Murder Case
    7.3/10(161 votes)

    #9 - The Easy Sunday Murder Case

    S1:E2

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

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    7.3/10(108 votes)

    #10 - Reunion in Terror

    S3:E5

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

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    Director:Mel Ferber
  12. Background image for Requiem for a Bride
    7.3/10(113 votes)

    #11 - Requiem for a Bride

    S5:E2

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Dark Sunrise
    7.3/10(92 votes)

    #12 - Dark Sunrise

    S6:E2

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

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    Director:Unknown
  14. Background image for Husbands, Wives, and Killers
    7.4/10(159 votes)

    #13 - 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
  15. Background image for Blues for Sally M
    7.4/10(146 votes)

    #14 - 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
  16. Background image for Terror Times Two
    7.4/10(123 votes)

    #15 - 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
  17. Background image for The Fine Art of Staying Alive
    7.4/10(112 votes)

    #16 - 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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  18. Background image for The Face of Murder
    7.5/10(157 votes)

    #17 - 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
  19. Background image for Night of the Wizard
    7.5/10(147 votes)

    #18 - 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
  20. Background image for Death of a Monster...Birth of a Legend
    7.5/10(138 votes)

    #19 - 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
  21. Background image for Buried Alive
    7.5/10(102 votes)

    #20 - 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
  22. Background image for Deadly Inheritance
    7.5/10(119 votes)

    #21 - Deadly Inheritance

    S5:E1

    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.

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  23. Background image for Coffee, Tea, or Cyanide?
    7.5/10(94 votes)

    #22 - Coffee, Tea, or Cyanide?

    S6:E4

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

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    Director:James Sheldon
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Free Fall to Terror
    7.6/10(115 votes)

    #23 - 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
  25. Background image for The Man Without a Face
    7.6/10(120 votes)

    #24 - The Man Without a Face

    S3:E4

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

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  26. Background image for The Game of Survival
    7.6/10(109 votes)

    #25 - 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

Worst Episodes Summary

"The Devil, You Say" is the worst rated episode of "McMillan & Wife". It scored 6.6/10 based on 140 votes. Directed by Alex March and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/21/1973. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "All Bets Off".