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The Worst Episodes of McMillan & Wife

Every episode of McMillan & Wife ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of McMillan & Wife!

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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 Susan Saint James in the title roles, the series premiered

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    McMillan & Wife Season 3 Episode 2 - The Devil, You Say
    6.6/10(158 votes)

    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.

    Director:Alex March
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. McMillan & Wife Season 6 Episode 1 - All Bets Off
    6.8/10(101 votes)

    S6:E1

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

    Director:Jackie Cooper
    Writer:Robert E. Swanson

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  3. McMillan & Wife Season 3 Episode 6 - Cross & Double Cross
    6.9/10(121 votes)

    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.

    Director:Alex March
    Writer:Oliver Hailey

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  4. McMillan & Wife Season 6 Episode 3 - Philip's Game
    7.1/10(88 votes)

    S6:E3

    Up against a hit man who announces himself.

    Director:Lou Antonio
    Writer:Don Mankiewicz

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  5. McMillan & Wife Season 6 Episode 6 - Have You Heard About Vanessa?
    7.1/10(98 votes)

    S6:E6

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

    Director:James Sheldon
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. McMillan & Wife Season 1 Episode 1 - Murder by the Barrel
    7.2/10(232 votes)

    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?

    Director:John Astin
    Writer:Burt Prelutsky

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  7. McMillan & Wife Season 1 Episode 4 - Death Is a Seven Point Favorite
    7.2/10(173 votes)

    S1:E4

    A mysterious note in a football begins a case.

    Director:John Astin
    Writer:Robert Lewin

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  8. McMillan & Wife Season 3 Episode 5 - Reunion in Terror
    7.2/10(120 votes)

    S3:E5

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

    Director:Mel Ferber
    Writer:Oliver Hailey

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  9. McMillan & Wife Season 6 Episode 2 - Dark Sunrise
    7.2/10(103 votes)

    S6:E2

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Jerry McNeely

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  10. McMillan & Wife Season 6 Episode 5 - Affair of the Heart
    7.2/10(95 votes)

    S6:E5

    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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  11. McMillan & Wife Season 2 Episode 2 - Blues for Sally M
    7.3/10(161 votes)

    S2:E2

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. McMillan & Wife Season 5 Episode 2 - Requiem for a Bride
    7.3/10(133 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. McMillan & Wife Season 1 Episode 2 - The Easy Sunday Murder Case
    7.4/10(186 votes)

    S1:E2

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

    Director:Barry Shear
    Writer:Burt Prelutsky

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  14. McMillan & Wife Season 1 Episode 3 - Husbands, Wives, and Killers
    7.4/10(177 votes)

    S1:E3

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

    Director:Daniel Petrie
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. McMillan & Wife Season 2 Episode 4 - Terror Times Two
    7.4/10(134 votes)

    S2:E4

    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:Unknown

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  16. McMillan & Wife Season 2 Episode 6 - The Fine Art of Staying Alive
    7.4/10(124 votes)

    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.

    Director:Edward M. Abroms
    Writer:Oliver Hailey

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  17. McMillan & Wife Season 1 Episode 5 - The Face of Murder
    7.5/10(177 votes)

    S1:E5

    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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  18. McMillan & Wife Season 2 Episode 1 - Night of the Wizard
    7.5/10(165 votes)

    S2:E1

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. McMillan & Wife Season 4 Episode 3 - Buried Alive
    7.5/10(115 votes)

    S4:E3

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

    Director:James Sheldon
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. McMillan & Wife Season 5 Episode 1 - Deadly Inheritance
    7.5/10(136 votes)

    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.

    Director:Lou Antonio
    Writer:Peter S. Fischer

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  21. McMillan & Wife Season 6 Episode 4 - Coffee, Tea, or Cyanide?
    7.5/10(103 votes)

    S6:E4

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

    Director:James Sheldon
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. McMillan & Wife Season 3 Episode 1 - Death of a Monster...Birth of a Legend
    7.6/10(148 votes)

    S3:E1

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

    Director:Daniel Petrie
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. McMillan & Wife Season 4 Episode 2 - The Game of Survival
    7.6/10(122 votes)

    S4:E2

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

    Director:Harry Falk
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. McMillan & Wife Season 4 Episode 5 - Night Train to L.A.
    7.6/10(134 votes)

    S4:E5

    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

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  25. McMillan & Wife Season 5 Episode 5 - The Deadly Cure
    7.6/10(130 votes)

    S5:E5

    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:Unknown

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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 158 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".