Murder by the Barrel
Episode 1 • 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?
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.
39 episodes total
Status
Ended
First Aired
1971
Rating
6.9/10
24 votes • HD
Episodes
Episode 1 • 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?
Episode 2 • Oct 20, 1971
After the crosswords... a woman's husband is kidnapped, and her dog.
Episode 3 • Nov 10, 1971
A valuable necklace under the eyes of Mac and Sally at a masked ball.
Episode 4 • Dec 08, 1971
A mysterious note in a football begins a case.
Episode 5 • Jan 05, 1972
A phiz for the fuzz. Sally becomes the prey of a jewel thief out to dispose of witnesses.
Episode 6 • Feb 16, 1972
Sally and Mac are sealed in their home by a killer.
Episode 1 • Sep 24, 1972
A man is done in by his wife, but he's not done yet. Evidently his ghost is unquiet.
Episode 2 • Oct 22, 1972
A composer is up against it, and Sally's somehow connected to him.
Episode 3 • Nov 19, 1972
After receiving the Cop of The Year award, Sgt. Enright is accused of the murder of his ex-wife--and the case against him seems air-tight.
Episode 4 • Dec 13, 1972
The mob abducts Mac and replaces him with a surgically-altered lookalike, to liquidate a squealer in a tightly-guarded hospital.
Episode 5 • Jan 14, 1973
Sally's next on a maniac's agenda; a psychiatrist assists.
Episode 6 • 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.
Episode 1 • Sep 30, 1973
It's off to Scotland to see the laird and the loch, where the game's afoot.
Episode 2 • 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.
Episode 3 • Nov 11, 1973
A suicide investigation reveals the executive had a merger in the works.
Episode 4 • Jan 06, 1974
A colleague from military intelligence calls on Mac, and is murdered.
Episode 5 • Jan 27, 1974
Mac's old football squad is being eliminated one by one.
Episode 6 • Feb 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.
Episode 1 • Sep 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.
Episode 2 • Oct 20, 1974
A temperamental tennis champion is suspected of murdering a newspaper magnate who had him suspended.
Episode 3 • Nov 10, 1974
A WWII intelligence colleague, long since thought to be dead, turns up and is murdered.
Episode 4 • Dec 08, 1974
Mildred is accosted while serving on a sequestered jury, then another juror is murdered in his locked room.
Episode 5 • Jan 19, 1975
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.
Episode 6 • Feb 16, 1975
It seems that Mac's sister is engaged to a con man out to diddle a mining company.
Episode 1 • 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.
Episode 2 • 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.
Episode 3 • Nov 09, 1975
Unusual interest is shown in the McMillans' house when Sally thinks of selling it. Then an earthquake reveals a body behind the brickwork.
Episode 4 • Dec 07, 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.
Episode 5 • 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.
Episode 6 • Feb 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.
Episode 1 • Dec 05, 1976
The wagers of sin. Mac is out to retrieve a set of diamonds swiped from his girl in Vegas.
Episode 2 • Jan 02, 1977
Mac is away on a fishing trip when his house is blown up by a would-be assassin. Presumed dead, he investigates.
Episode 3 • Jan 23, 1977
Up against a hit man who announces himself.
Episode 4 • Jan 30, 1977
You pays your money, you takes your choice. While on an airline flight, Mac witnesses passengers dying mysteriously.
Episode 5 • Mar 20, 1977
The case is clear, according to the Deputy D.A., but Mac has his doubts.
Episode 6 • Apr 24, 1977
After a model commits suicide, Mac investigates her lonely life.
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