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The Worst Episodes of McMillan & Wife

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Network:NBC

Every episode of McMillan & Wife ranked from worst to best. Explore 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...
Episodes
39
Avg. Rating
7.5
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  • The Devil, You Say
    6.6/10(131)
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    #1 - The Devil, You Say

    Season 3 Episode 2

    Aired 10/21/1973

    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.

    Director: Alex March

    Writer: N/A

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  • All Bets Off
    6.8/10(86)
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    #2 - All Bets Off

    Season 6 Episode 1

    Aired 12/5/1976

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

    Director: Jackie Cooper

    Writer: Robert Swanson

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  • Cross & Double Cross
    6.9/10(102)
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    #3 - Cross & Double Cross

    Season 3 Episode 6

    Aired 2/17/1974

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

    Director: Alex March

    Writer: Oliver Hailey

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  • Philip's Game
    6.9/10(73)
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    #4 - Philip's Game

    Season 6 Episode 3

    Aired 1/23/1977

    Up against a hit man who announces himself.

    Director: Lou Antonio

    Writer: Don Mankiewicz

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  • Have You Heard About Vanessa?
    7.0/10(80)
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    #5 - Have You Heard About Vanessa?

    Season 6 Episode 6

    Aired 4/24/1977

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

    Director: James Sheldon

    Writer: N/A

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  • Death Is a Seven Point Favorite
    7.1/10(151)
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    #6 - Death Is a Seven Point Favorite

    Season 1 Episode 4

    Aired 12/8/1971

    A mysterious note in a football begins a case.

    Director: John Astin

    Writer: Robert Lewin

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  • Reunion in Terror
    7.2/10(101)
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    #7 - Reunion in Terror

    Season 3 Episode 5

    Aired 1/27/1974

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

    Director: Mel Ferber

    Writer: Oliver Hailey

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  • Requiem for a Bride
    7.2/10(105)
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    #8 - Requiem for a Bride

    Season 5 Episode 2

    Aired 10/26/1975

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Dark Sunrise
    7.2/10(86)
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    #9 - Dark Sunrise

    Season 6 Episode 2

    Aired 1/2/1977

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Jerry McNeely

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  • Affair of the Heart
    7.2/10(82)
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    #10 - Affair of the Heart

    Season 6 Episode 5

    Aired 3/20/1977

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

    Director: Jackie Cooper

    Writer: Steven Bochco

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  • Murder by the Barrel
    7.3/10(191)
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    #11 - Murder by the Barrel

    Season 1 Episode 1

    Aired 9/29/1971

    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?

    Director: John Astin

    Writer: Burt Prelutsky

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  • The Easy Sunday Murder Case
    7.3/10(154)
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    #12 - The Easy Sunday Murder Case

    Season 1 Episode 2

    Aired 10/20/1971

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

    Director: Barry Shear

    Writer: Burt Prelutsky

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  • Blues for Sally M
    7.3/10(141)
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    #13 - Blues for Sally M

    Season 2 Episode 2

    Aired 10/22/1972

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Husbands, Wives, and Killers
    7.4/10(152)
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    #14 - Husbands, Wives, and Killers

    Season 1 Episode 3

    Aired 11/10/1971

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

    Director: Daniel Petrie

    Writer: N/A

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  • Terror Times Two
    7.4/10(117)
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    #15 - Terror Times Two

    Season 2 Episode 4

    Aired 12/13/1972

    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: N/A

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  • The Fine Art of Staying Alive
    7.4/10(107)
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    #16 - The Fine Art of Staying Alive

    Season 2 Episode 6

    Aired 3/11/1973

    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.

    Director: Edward M. Abroms

    Writer: Oliver Hailey

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  • Buried Alive
    7.4/10(97)
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    #17 - 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

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  • The Face of Murder
    7.5/10(152)
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    #18 - The Face of Murder

    Season 1 Episode 5

    Aired 1/5/1972

    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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  • Night of the Wizard
    7.5/10(140)
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    #19 - Night of the Wizard

    Season 2 Episode 1

    Aired 9/24/1972

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Death of a Monster...Birth of a Legend
    7.5/10(131)
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    #20 - Death of a Monster...Birth of a Legend

    Season 3 Episode 1

    Aired 9/30/1973

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

    Director: Daniel Petrie

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Game of Survival
    7.5/10(103)
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    #21 - 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

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  • Point of Law
    7.5/10(93)
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    #22 - Point of Law

    Season 5 Episode 7

    Aired 3/7/1976

    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: N/A

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  • Coffee, Tea, or Cyanide?
    7.5/10(87)
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    #23 - Coffee, Tea, or Cyanide?

    Season 6 Episode 4

    Aired 1/30/1977

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

    Director: James Sheldon

    Writer: N/A

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  • Deadly Inheritance
    7.6/10(111)
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    #24 - Deadly Inheritance

    Season 5 Episode 1

    Aired 9/28/1975

    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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  • The Deadly Cure
    7.6/10(108)
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    #25 - The Deadly Cure

    Season 5 Episode 5

    Aired 1/18/1976

    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: N/A

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Devil, You Say" is the worst rated episode of "McMillan & Wife". It scored 6.6/10 based on 131 votes. Directed by Alex March and written by N/A, it aired on 10/21/1973. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "All Bets Off".