McMillan & Wife (1974)
Attorney and US Navy vet Stewart "Mac" McMillan is appointed Commissioner of Police for the city of San Francisco. He often handles the very high profile cases personally. Helping him out ... See full summary »
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Episode 1 - Deadly Inheritance
Release Date: 28 Sep. 1975A birthday celebration for a friend of Mac's mother ends in a murder attempt.
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Episode 2 - Requiem for a Bride
Release Date: 26 Oct. 1975Mac's closest friend from France, a high-ranking police inspector who recently married a San Francisco socialite, comes to town to show her off and talk business with his wealthy father-in-law. Mac can't give his buddy the royal treatment because he's just arrested a bullying lawyer for witness intimidation. The lawyer, from the inside, apparently hires a gunman to follow Mac around and fire warning shots at him. When Mac and Sally attend a fancy-dress ball, the inspector's wife (herself an old friend of Mac's) asks to talk to Mac on an outside balcony. A rifle shot ...
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Episode 3 - Aftershock
Release Date: 9 Nov. 1975Mac and Sally waffle about whether or not to sell their house, a break-in, Mac's surprise birthday party, an earthquake, a skeleton, spies and con men, and stolen jewels.
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Episode 4 - Secrets for Sale
Release Date: 7 Dec. 1975During a period of fiscal austerity for the city, Enright takes a lucrative position in a private detective agency in which a person blackmailing politicians might operate.
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Episode 5 - The Deadly Cure
Release Date: 18 Jan. 1976Mac and crew receive a cryptic note from undercover officer, Trigamundo, during an investigation into the state's largest drug ring. At a stakeout of the Embarcadero Hotel, where a large drug buy is supposed to take place, Shields shoots Mac; Shields is taken into custody. But, their real target the top man, a.k.a. The Possum, is "tipped off" not to appear for the buy so he eludes capture. At the hospital, a wounded Mac is lying on a guerney in a corridor, heavily sedated and awaiting surgery, when Mac hears cries coming from a nearby room. Mac staggers towards the ...
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Episode 6 - Greed
Release Date: 15 Feb. 1976In an episode which introduces Mildred's sister Agatha to the cast (Nancy Walker had already committed to her own series for the following season, and Agatha was to become the new housekeeper), the McMillans, Mildred and Agatha go to visit a woman relative of Mildred and Agatha, a very wealthy woman who's dying -- but not quickly enough to suit one of her nephews, who's in debt to a loansharking company later described as "just this side of Murder, Incorporated." Threatened with death if he doesn't come up with the money right away, the nephew smothers the old lady in...
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Episode 7 - Point of Law
Release Date: 7 Mar. 1976Mac begins his annual two week stint with the Naval Reserves working in the JAG office. However, instead of pushing papers as he usually does he is assigned to a case where a female supply officer named Kit Boone is accused of murdering a co-worker who she claims tried to rape her. Mac soon discovers that there is more to this case than a simple claim of attempted rape and soon discovers that Kit is a suspect in a series of thefts from the naval supply warehouse. However, he also thinks that she is covering up for her estranged husband with whom she had an argument ...