McMillan & Wife
Season 5
7 listed hours · 1971–1977 · NBC
From the desk
How this season is filed
Rock Hudson's police commissioner solves murders with martini banter while Susan Saint James's Sally does the smarter half of the sleuthing. NBC Mystery Movie jewel: husband-wife crime as comfort fashion. San Francisco gloss, cocktail chemistry, and a leading-man image the tabloids later rewrote in full.
TV Flash files Season 5 of McMillan & Wife (1971–1977) on NBC as a mid listed season (5; 5 of 6) — 7 listed hours, 1975-09-28–1976-03-07 from “Deadly Inheritance” (S05E01) to “Point of Law” (S05E07). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S05E02 Requiem for a Bride
Requiem for a Bride is late-run elegy in a marriage franchise. Comfort crime still the brief: martini banter, home-front sleuthing, the wheel still turning on glamour and a body.
- S05E01
Deadly Inheritance
A birthday celebration for a friend of Mac's mother ends in a murder attempt.
- S05E02
Requiem for a Bride
Mac'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 rings out and she falls dead. Everyone thinks that the hired gunman fired at Mac and made a tragic miss, and the police inspector threatens to go ballistic in his search for the killer. But was Mac the real target? The plot thickens when the inspector narrowly escapes a bombing and another person -- with no ties to the gunman -- is murdered. Were the inspector, his wife or possibly both of them the targets, and why?
- S05E03
Aftershock
Mac and Sally waffle about whether or not to sell their house, especially after a break-in, Mac's surprise birthday party, an earthquake, a skeleton, spies and con men, and stolen jewels.
- S05E04
Secrets for Sale
Secrets for Sale — Season 5, Episode 4 of McMillan & Wife. Aired 1975-12-07. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.
- S05E05
The Deadly Cure
The Deadly Cure — Season 5, Episode 5 of McMillan & Wife. Aired 1976-01-18. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.
- S05E06
Greed
Greed — Season 5, Episode 6 of McMillan & Wife. Aired 1976-02-15. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.
- S05E07
Point of Law
Mac goes onto temporary duty as a Navy JAG and is immediately given a case defending a Navy officer accused of murder. Mac soon discovers the victim isn't who he was supposed to be and his client isn't telling the whole truth.
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