6.7/10128 votesLoading...#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
6.9/1084 votesLoading...#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
- 7.0/10100 votesLoading...
#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
7.0/1071 votesLoading...#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
- 7.1/10147 votesLoading...
#5 - 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
- 7.1/1079 votesLoading...
#6 - 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
- 7.2/10183 votesLoading...
#7 - 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
7.2/10104 votesLoading...#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
- 7.3/10150 votesLoading...
#9 - 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
- 7.3/1097 votesLoading...
#10 - 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
7.3/1085 votesLoading...#11 - 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
7.3/1081 votesLoading...#12 - 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
- 7.4/10149 votesLoading...
#13 - 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
- 7.4/10148 votesLoading...
#14 - 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
- 7.4/10138 votesLoading...
#15 - 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
- 7.4/10103 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.4/1094 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.5/10134 votesLoading...
#18 - 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
- 7.5/10114 votesLoading...
#19 - 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
- 7.5/10126 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.5/10100 votesLoading...
#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
7.5/1093 votesLoading...#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
- 7.6/10108 votesLoading...
#23 - The Man Without a Face
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 1/6/1974
A colleague from military intelligence calls on Mac, and is murdered.
Director: Lee H. Katzin
Writer: Don Mankiewicz
7.6/10110 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10107 votesLoading...#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
The Worst Episodes of McMillan & Wife
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...
Genres:CrimeDramaMystery
Network:NBC
Worst Episodes Summary
"The Devil, You Say" is the worst rated episode of "McMillan & Wife". It scored 6.7/10 based on 128 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".