The BEST Episodes of McMillan and Wife
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Nov 23, 2021
Network: NBC
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 - The Game of Survival
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired Oct 20, 1974
A temperamental tennis champion is suspected of murdering a newspaper magnate who had him suspended.
9.00 
#2 - Guilt by Association
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired Dec 8, 1974
Mildred is accosted while serving on a sequestered jury, then another juror is murdered in his locked room.
9.00 
#3 - Deadly Inheritance
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired Sep 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.
9.00 
#4 - The Deadly Cure
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired Jan 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.
9.00 
#5 - All Bets Off
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired Dec 5, 1976
The wagers of sin. Mac is out to retrieve a set of diamonds swiped from his girl in Vegas.
9.00 
#6 - The Devil You Say
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired Oct 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.
8.50 
#7 - Murder by the Barrel
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired Sep 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?
8.43 
#8 - Husbands, Wives and Killers
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired Nov 10, 1971
A valuable necklace under the eyes of Mac and Sally at a masked ball.
8.00 
#9 - Till Death Do Us Part
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired Feb 16, 1972
Sally and Mac are sealed in their home by a killer.
8.00 
#10 - Night of the Wizard
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired Sep 24, 1972
A man is done in by his wife, but he's not done yet. Evidently his ghost is unquiet.
8.00 
#11 - Death of a Monster...Birth of a Legend
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired Sep 30, 1973
It's off to Scotland to see the laird and the loch, where the game's afoot.
8.00 
#12 - Freefall to Terror
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired Nov 11, 1973
A suicide investigation reveals the executive had a merger in the works.
8.00 
#13 - The Man Without a Face
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired Jan 6, 1974
A colleague from military intelligence calls on Mac, and is murdered. First two-hour episode of the series.
8.00 
#14 - Dark Sunrise
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired Jan 2, 1977
Mac is away on a fishing trip when his house is blown up by a would-be assassin. Presumed dead, he investigates.
8.00 
#15 - Affair of the Heart
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired Mar 20, 1977
The case is clear, according to the Deputy D.A., but Mac has his doubts.
8.00 
#16 - The Easy Sunday Murder Case
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired Oct 20, 1971
After the crosswords... a woman's husband is kidnapped, and her dog.
7.63 
#17 - Death is a Seven Point Favorite
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired Dec 8, 1971
A mysterious note in a football begins a case.
7.50 
#18 - An Elementary Case of Murder
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired Mar 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.
7.50 
#19 - No Hearts, No Flowers
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired Jan 14, 1973
Sally's next on a maniac's agenda; a psychiatrist assists.
7.00 
#20 - Buried Alive
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired Nov 10, 1974
A WWII intelligence colleague, long since thought to be dead, turns up and is murdered.
7.00 
#21 - Requiem for a Bride
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired Oct 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.
7.00 
#22 - Aftershock
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired Nov 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.
7.00 
#23 - Have You Heard About Vanessa?
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired Apr 24, 1977
After a model commits suicide, Mac investigates her lonely life.
7.00 
#24 - The Face of Murder
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired Jan 5, 1972
A phiz for the fuzz. Sally becomes the prey of a jewel thief out to dispose of witnesses.
6.75 
#25 - The Fine Art of Staying Alive
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired Mar 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.
6.00