About this season
McMillan & Wife is a lighthearted American police procedural that aired on NBC from September 17, 1971 to April 24, 1977. Starring Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James in the title roles, the series premiered in 90-minute episodes as part of the wheel series NBC Mystery Movie, in rotation with Columbo and McCloud. Initially airing on Wednesday night, the original line-up was shifted to Sundays in the second season, where it aired for the rest of its run. This was the first element to be created specially for the Mystery Movie strand.
Episodes (6)
1. Downshift to Danger
Aired 29 September 1974 • 90 min
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.
2. The Game of Survival
Aired 20 October 1974 • 90 min
A temperamental tennis champion is suspected of murdering a newspaper magnate who had him suspended.
3. Buried Alive
Aired 10 November 1974 • 90 min
A WWII intelligence colleague, long since thought to be dead, turns up and is murdered.
4. Guilt by Association
Aired 8 December 1974 • 90 min
Mildred is accosted while serving on a sequestered jury, then another juror is murdered in his locked room.
5. Night Train to L.A.
Aired 19 January 1975 • 90 min
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.
6. Love, Honor and Swindle
Aired 16 February 1975 • 90 min
It seems that Mac's sister is engaged to a con man out to diddle a mining company.