The BEST episodes of McMillan and Wife
Every episode of McMillan and Wife ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best 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 - Guilt by Association
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/8/1974
Mildred is accosted while serving on a sequestered jury, then another juror is murdered in his locked room.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - The Man Without a Face
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/6/1974
A colleague from military intelligence calls on Mac, and is murdered. First two-hour episode of the series.
#9 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - Philip's Game
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/23/1977
Up against a hit man who announces himself.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#23 - 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.