The WORST episodes of McMillan and Wife
Every episode of McMillan and Wife ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of McMillan and Wife!
Police Commissioner Stewart McMillan of San Francisco is a man with ponderous responsibilities. By good fortune, his wife Sally is something of a genius. They live in the city and have a shrewd housekeeper named Mildred, who is as often as not at odds with her slightly distraught sister Agatha. McMillan's duties require him to intervene personally when circumstances warrant in police cases, and here he is aided by the saturnine but enthusiastic Sgt. Enright. The commissioner's mother, Beatrice McMillan, a brilliant person, independent-minded and a very fast driver, breezes through now and again. In the last season, two of the actors have departed, and the show is renamed McMillan. Directors: Daniel Petrie, Hy Averback, Lee H. Katzin, etc.
#1 - 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.
#2 - Greed
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/15/1976
Mildred and Agatha are named in a will. Heirs start dying, and next to inherit is Agatha, whose investigation runs parallel to McMillan's.
#3 - Love, Honor and Swindle
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/16/1975
It seems that Mac's sister is engaged to a con man out to diddle a mining company.
#5 - Secrets for Sale
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/7/1975
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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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?
#10 - 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.
#11 - Death is a Seven Point Favorite
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/8/1971
A mysterious note in a football begins a case.
#12 - Reunion in Terror
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/27/1974
Mac's old football squad is being eliminated one by one.
#13 - Have You Heard About Vanessa?
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/24/1977
After a model commits suicide, Mac investigates her lonely life.
#14 - 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.
#15 - Philip's Game
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/23/1977
Up against a hit man who announces himself.
#16 - Aftershock
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/9/1975
Unusual interest is shown in the McMillans' house when Sally thinks of selling it. Then an earthquake reveals a body behind the brickwork.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - Downshift to Danger
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1974
The grand prize of the 20th Annual Golden State Rally in Monterey is an antique car collection willed by a late millionaire. Mischief develops into mishaps and worse, until an entrant is killed.
#20 - 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.
#22 - No Hearts, No Flowers
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/14/1973
Sally's next on a maniac's agenda; a psychiatrist assists.
#24 - 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.
#25 - An Elementary Case of Murder
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/1/1972
Mac's old flame is accused of murder and the evidence points to her, or does it? Barabara McNair guest-stars in this unusual episode which was lifted almost verbatim from Season 2 of 'Ironside' (staring Raymond Burr), Episode 9.