McMillan & Wife

TV Series
1971–1977
PG
2h

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7.2/10

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Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

San Francisco Police Commissioner Stewart "Mac" McMillan and his amateur detective wife keep their marriage unpredictable while solving the city's most baffling crimes.San Francisco Police Commissioner Stewart "Mac" McMillan and his amateur detective wife keep their marriage unpredictable while solving the city's most baffling crimes.San Francisco Police Commissioner Stewart "Mac" McMillan and his amateur detective wife keep their marriage unpredictable while solving the city's most baffling crimes.

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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

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Nominated for 7 Primetime Emmys
- 3 wins & 17 nominations total

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Trivia
Rock Hudson originally didn't like the series, but agreed to make it because of the bad films he was being offered. He said, "Television is the monster of all time that eats everything and everybody. When they wanted McMillan & Wife to go to two hours I said, 'Why? The thing doesn't even hold up for ninety minutes!'." After the series ended he saw an episode repeated on television and admitted, "It was better than I thought. Why didn't I put more into it?".

Goofs
There an inconsistently with the spelling of Commissioner McMillan's first name. In at least one early episode, the first name was shown spelled as, "Stuart," while later it was commonly spelled as "Stewart." Given that he is supposed to be of direct Scottish descent, it would more likely be that his name should be spelled as Stuart.

Alternate versions
The DVD versions are each 1:16 in length, except for the pilot which is 1:35. The streaming versions, however, are each about 1:10 in length

Connections
Edited into The NBC Mystery Movie (1971)

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Featured review

8/10

all the ingredients for a great show

The plots are a little slow, but they are funny in about five different ways and so cleverly written that it really is a shocker what happened. I like that sally wears a football jersey to bed. Everybody in the show plays off each other really well and adds their best to make you not want to change the channel even though it is on really late at night.It's at it's best when Mildred dances the tango or mac and sally have double entendre' conversations while laying in bed. But don't watch the last season,everyone pretty much left and it's just a run down looking Rock Hudson and Mildred's VERY ANNOYING sister solving mysteries together.