List of McMillan and Wife episodes
This is a list of episodes for the television series McMillan & Wife. For the sixth season, the "Wife" was killed off and the title was shortened to McMillan.
All six seasons of this series have been released on DVD.[1]
Series overview
| Season | On-screen title | No. of episodes |
Premiered: | Ended: | DVD set release date |
Company | |
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| 1 | McMillan & Wife | 8 | 1971.Sep.17 | 1972.Mar.01 | 2005.Aug.09 | Universal Studios | |
| 2 | McMillan & Wife | 7 | 1972.Sep.24 | 1973.Apr.01 | 2010.Aug.24 | Visual Entertainment | |
| 3 | McMillan & Wife | 6 | 1973.Sep.30 | 1974.Feb.17 | 2011.Jun.07 | First Look Studios | |
| 4 | McMillan & Wife | 6 | 1974.Sep.29 | 1975.Mar.16 | 2011.Jul.05 | First Look Studios | |
| 5 | McMillan & Wife | 7 | 1975.Sep.28 | 1976.Mar.07 | 2011.Jul.05 | First Look Studios | |
| 6 | McMillan | 6 | 1976.Dec.05 | 1977.Apr.24 | 2011.Sep.20 | First Look Studios | |
Episodes
- No. = Overall episode number
- Ep = Episode number by season
Season 1: 1971–72
| No. | Ep | Title | Directed by: | Written by: | Original airdate |
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| 1 | 0 | "Once Upon a Dead Man" | Leonard Stern | Leonard Stern, Chester Krumholz |
September 17, 1971 |
| Series pilot: The wife of a San Francisco police commissioner drags him into a charity auction theft, which leads to a murder. | |||||
| 2 | 1 | "Murder by the Barrel" | John Astin | Oliver Hailey | September 29, 1971 |
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During the move-in to the McMillans' new house, Sally is terrified to discover a dead body in one of the barrels delivered by the movers. She calls Mac, but when he and Sgt. Enright arrive, the body is gone. As Sally tries to prove that she didn't imagine it, Mac and Enright investigate the moving company and discover that several people have lost items and have also reported missing persons on the same day. |
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| 3 | 2 | "The Easy Sunday Murder Case" | Barry Shear | Burt Prelutsky | October 20, 1971 |
| After a Saturday breakfast with Sally's mother, a wealthy woman's dog is taken for ransom. And they kidnapped her husband, too. | |||||
| 4 | 3 | "Husbands, Wives, and Killers" | Daniel Petrie | Leonard Stern, Robert Lewin |
November 10, 1971 |
| A valuable necklace under the eyes of Mac and Sally at a masked ball.[clarification needed] | |||||
| 5 | 4 | "Death Is a Seven Point Favorite" | John Astin | Robert Lewin, S.L. Bernard, Adam Edwards |
December 8, 1971 |
| Mac and Sally come to the aid of football star Billy Benton, after an attempt is made on his life. | |||||
| 6 | 5 | "The Face of Murder" | Hy Averback | Oliver Hailey | January 5, 1972 |
| Sally becomes the prey of a jewel thief out to dispose of witnesses. | |||||
| 7 | 6 | "'Til Death Do Us Part" | Robert Michael Lewis | Oliver Hailey | February 16, 1972 |
| When Mac investigates a psychotic killer who targets socially prominent people, the killer turns his attention to Mac and Sally by drugging their drinks. He then has a pest-exterminating company enclose the entire McMillan house in a huge airproof and soundproof bag and pump poison gas inside. | |||||
| 8 | 7 | "An Elementary Case of Murder" | Robert Michael Lewis | Paul Mason, Brad Radnitz |
March 1, 1972 |
| An old flame of Mac's comes to him for help. Her abusive manager and ex-boyfriend winds up dead and she asks for Mac's help. | |||||
Season 2: 1972–73
| No. | Ep | Title | Directed by: | Written by: | Original airdate |
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| 9 | 1 | "The Night of the Wizard" | Robert Michael Lewis | Steve Fisher | September 24, 1972 |
| A man is done in by his wife, but he's not done yet. Evidently his ghost is unquiet. | |||||
| 10 | 2 | "Blues for Sally M" | Robert Michael Lewis | Oliver Hailey, Alfred Brenner |
October 22, 1972 |
| Buzz Simms, a concert pianist of great promise and a friend of Sally's, is nearly strangled in his apartment. | |||||
| 11 | 3 | "Cop of the Year" | Robert Michael Lewis | Paul Mason, Edward D. Hoch, Oliver Hailey |
November 19, 1972 |
| Sgt. Enright receives a medal as "Cop of the Year," then he's accused of murdering his wife, and in the presence of Sally and Mac. | |||||
| 12 | 4 | "Terror Times Two" | Ron Winston | Gloria Goldsmith | December 13, 1972 |
| The mob abducts Mac and replaces him with a surgically-altered lookalike, to liquidate a squealer in a tightly-guarded hospital. | |||||
| 13 | 5 | "No Hearts, No Flowers" | Gary Nelson | Steve Fisher | January 14, 1973 |
| Sally's next on a maniac's agenda; a psychiatrist assists. | |||||
| 14 | 6 | "The Fine Art of Staying Alive" | Edward M. Abroms | Ted Leighton, Paul Mason, Oliver Hailey |
March 11, 1973 |
| Sally is kidnapped at an auction. The ransom is an old master, and she gives Mac clues which lead back to their first meeting. | |||||
| 15 | 7 | "Two Dollars on Trouble to Win" | Gary Nelson | Burt Prelutsky, Leonard Stern |
April 1, 1973 |
| Strange accidents around a thoroughbred stable suggest the owner, an old friend of Mac and Sally, is a target. | |||||
Season 3: 1973–74
| No. | Ep | Title | Directed by: | Written by: | Original airdate |
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| 16 | 1 | "Death of a Monster... Birth of a Legend" | Daniel Petrie | Gordon Cotler, Don M. Mankiewicz |
September 30, 1973 |
| The McMillans are vacation-bound to Scotland at Mac's ancestral home. He has just discovered the murdered body of his beloved uncle and his vacation turns into a whodunit. | |||||
| 17 | 2 | "The Devil, You Say" | Alex March | Steve Fisher | October 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. | |||||
| 18 | 3 | "Free Fall to Terror" | Alf Kjellin | Oliver Hailey, Edward D. Hoch |
November 11, 1973 |
| In this bizarre case, Mac's former law partner takes a suicide leap from a skyscraper window and his body never reaches the ground. | |||||
| 19 | 4 | "The Man Without a Face" | Lee H. Katzin | Paul Mason, Gordon Cotler, Don M. Mankiewicz |
January 6, 1974 |
| A traitorous double agent known only as Venice has killed an old friend from Mac's CIA days; Venice is a master of disguise, and Mac has never seen his real face. | |||||
| 20 | 5 | "Reunion in Terror" | Mel Ferber | Oliver Hailey, Henry Slesar |
January 27, 1974 |
| Mac's old college football team's reunion is coming up, but a killer is eliminating the team, one by one. | |||||
| 21 | 6 | "Cross & Double Cross" | Alex March | Paul Mason, Oliver Hailey |
February 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. | |||||
Season 4: 1974–75
| No. | Ep | Title | Directed by: | Written by: | Original airdate |
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| 22 | 1 | "Downshift to Danger" | Lou Antonio | Peter S. Fischer | September 29, 1974 |
| The grand prize of the 20th Annual Golden State Rally in Monterey is an antique car collection willed by Max, the late eccentric millionaire. Mischief develops into mishaps and worse, until an entrant is killed. | |||||
| 23 | 2 | "The Game of Survival" | Harry Falk | William Driskill | October 20, 1974 |
| A temperamental tennis champion is suspected of murdering a newspaper magnate who had him suspended. Bobby Riggs appears as himself. | |||||
| 24 | 3 | "Buried Alive" | James Sheldon | Howard Berk | November 10, 1974 |
| A World War II intelligence colleague, long since thought to be dead, turns up and is murdered. | |||||
| 25 | 4 | "Guilt by Association" | Harry Falk | Steven Bochco | December 8, 1974 |
| Mildred is accosted while serving on a sequestered jury, then another juror is murdered in his locked room. | |||||
| 26 | 5 | "Night Train to L.A." | Leonard Horn | David P. Lewis, Booker Bradshaw, Richard Danus |
January 19, 1975 |
| With a very pregnant Sally at home, 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. | |||||
| 27 | 6 | "Love, Honor and Swindle" | Lou Antonio | Peter S. Fischer | February 16, 1975 |
| Mac's sister Megan seems to be engaged to a confidence man out to swindle a mining company. | |||||
Season 5: 1975–76
| No. | Ep | Title | Directed by: | Written by: | Original airdate |
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| 28 | 1 | "The Deadly Inheritance" | Lou Antonio | Peter S. Fischer | September 28, 1975 |
| Mac's eccentric mother insists on helping the police as they search for the man who tried to murder her friend and who is trying to murder her now. | |||||
| 29 | 2 | "Requiem for a Bride" | E.W. Swackhamer | Howard Berk | October 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. Lynn Borden appears as Sharon Joyce in this episode. | |||||
| 30 | 3 | "Aftershock" | Harry Falk | Richard Bluel, Pat Fielder |
November 9, 1975 |
| Unusual interest is shown in the McMillans' house when Sally thinks of selling it. Then an earthquake reveals a body behind the brickwork. | |||||
| 31 | 4 | "Secrets for Sale" | Bob Finkel | Bill Driskill | December 7, 1975 |
| During an election, the city is beset by a fiscal crisis. Politicians are being blackmailed, and Sgt. Enright leaves the force to marry an heiress and work for a private detective agency. | |||||
| 32 | 5 | "The Deadly Cure" | James Sheldon | Richard Danus | January 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. | |||||
| 33 | 6 | "Greed" | Bob Finkel | Virginia Aldridge | February 15, 1976 |
| Mildred and Agatha are named in a will. Heirs start dying, and next to inherit is Agatha, whose investigation runs parallel to McMillan's. | |||||
| 34 | 7 | "Point of Law" | Lou Antonio | Howard Berk | March 7, 1976 |
| A naval lieutenant facing a court-martial on a murder charge is appointed counsel in the person of Commander McMillan, USNR. | |||||
Season 6: 1976–77
| No. | Ep | Title | Directed by: | Written by: | Original airdate |
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| 35 | 1 | "All Bets Off" | Jackie Cooper | Robert Swanson | December 5, 1976 |
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While vacationing in Los Angeles, Mac falls for a tennis pro whose stepson is being held ransom for a valuable diamond necklace. |
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| 36 | 2 | "Dark Sunrise" | Bob Finkel | Jerry McNeely | January 2, 1977 |
| Mac returns from a fishing trip to find himself presumed dead — the apparent victim of an assassination plot. | |||||
| 37 | 3 | "Phillip's Game" | Lou Antonio | Don M. Mankiewicz, Gordon Cotler, Leonard Stern |
January 23, 1977 |
| McMillan is wined and dined by an elegant hit man who has a flair for committing murder in imaginative ways. | |||||
| 38 | 4 | "Coffee, Tea, or Cyanide?" | James Sheldon | Richard Bluel, Pat Fielder, Steven Bochco |
January 30, 1977 |
| While Mac takes an airline flight to Hawaii, one of the passengers is poisoned — and then the poisoner is stabbed. Mac tries to find out who second killer is. | |||||
| 39 | 5 | "Affair of the Heart" | Jackie Cooper | Steven Bochco | March 20, 1977 |
| Mac's dentist finds a local TV-news anchorman, who had been his wife's lover, dead on his couch from a heart attack. Frantic, he tries to make it look like the man had died in a car crash, but it turns out he had been poisoned, and Mac tries to find out who did it. | |||||
| 40 | 6 | "Have You Heard About Vanessa?" | James Sheldon | Leonard Kantor | April 24, 1977 |
| Vanessa Vale, a glamor model, apparently jumps from the balcony of her 15th-story apartment to her death. But Mac investigates and finds signs of a struggle — she was pushed off. Then it turns out that she wasn't really Vanessa. Did someone try to kill Vanessa, or did Vanessa herself have something to do with it? | |||||
