"McMillan & Wife" (1971) TV series 1971-1977

User Rating:

7.6/10   

Creator:

Leonard Stern

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Release Date:

29 September 1971 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Tagline:

He's a police commissioner; she wants to help!

Plot:

San Francisco attorney Stewart MacMillan is named commissioner of the San Francisco police department...

Plot Keywords:

Police | Sergeant | San Francisco California | Character Name In Title

Awards:

Nominated for 5 Golden Globes. Another 3 wins & 7 nominations

Cast

Rock Hudson	...	Police Commissioner Stewart 'Mac' McMillan / ... (40 episodes, 1971-1977)
John Schuck	...	Sgt. Charles Enright / ... (29 episodes, 1971-1977)
Susan Saint James	...	Sally McMillan (25 episodes, 1971-1976)
Nancy Walker	...	Mildred (21 episodes, 1971-1976)

Also Known As:

McMillan (USA) (sixth season title)

Runtime:

120 min (15 episodes) | 90 min (24 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

San Francisco, California, USA

Company:

Talent Associates

Trivia:

Part of the original Sunday NBC Mystery Movie with rotated with the series "McCloud" (1970) and _"Columbo" (1971)_.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Psych: There Might Be Blood (#3.6)" (2008)

Not as interesting as its NBC Mystery Movie cohorts

This, along with "Columbo" and "McCloud" plus several lesser-known and short lived also-rans made up the NBC Mystery Movie franchise during most of the Seventies. Three or four rotating characters took turns headlining a 90-minute telefilm each week. Of the three most famous elements of the series, "McMillan" was the least unusual. "Mac" McMillan was the Police Chief of San Francisco whose wife Sally "helped" him solve various murders. Sally and the McMillan's housekeeper Mildred (Nancy Walker) were responsible for most of the unique elements of the show. The films were well-made and adequately complex to sustain interest over the longer-than-average running time of the series. Like everything Rock Hudson did during his career, this has new layers of interest since the revelations about his sexuality shortly before his death; the relationship between Mac and Sally seems sexless in hindsight, though that may be a product of the differences between the 1970s and today as much as Rock Hudson's homosexuality. One unusual episode in which Mac is called to Naval Reserve duty as defense counsel in a murder trial plays like a 20-years too early pilot for "JAG," but most of this series was solid if unexceptional police procedural with the wife thrown in for color.