McMillan & Wife // Season 6

As a child, I remember how disappointed I was that Susan Saint James was not on the final season of McMillan. The onscreen chemistry of Hudson and St. James was what made the show. Now, since Rock Hudson has become a legend, I will buy this final season because it is a part of his works. I hope I will be better entertained watching this now then I did as a small child, when it was originally broadcast. Ironically, Sally and her son were killed in a plane crash. In real life, Susan St. James lost her son in a plane crash and nearly her husband. It is a sad case how irony from actor's t.v. or movie performances, reflect their own lives later. In memory of Rock Hudson, he was a true legend. Susan St. James, we love you.Revised 11-11-12: I finally got this dvd set and was plesantly surprised. The stories were great and Rock actually acted better and had a sense of humor to his acting. Martha Raye does nicely as a replacement for Nancy Walker. I was afraid I wouldn't like her because I didn't like her guest appearence last season. Richard Gilliard makes a nice addition to the cast. In ten years, he will later play Mary Jo Snively's boyfriend on Designing Women and in real life marry Jean Smart. John Schuck has a limited role but I never liked him to begin with, so I didn't miss him. All the stories were great but my favorite was Phillip's Game. In this episode, Mac is confronted with a hit man, who tells him that he is going to kill him. Shirley Jones guest stars in this episode. I won't say this is better than the episodes with Susan St. James but it is just as good and deserves to be in your McMillan collection. Now, someone help me by placing the answer in the comment area. Which episode mentions Mac's son was killed with Sally in the plane crash. In the first episdoe I only heard John Schuck mentioned Sally was killed.

Myself

I waited a while forn this season to be released in Australia but to no avail, so I ordered it here. All episodes are uncut, have great guest stars and good plots. The quality on Affair Of The Heart drops occasionally, but that is because, I assume, the missing scenes have been added top make it complete. Sgt.Enright being upgraded to a Lieutenant means is only seen briefly throughout the series, which is a shame. Richard Gilliland is good and Martha Rae is no Nancy Walker, but she does her best. At any rate, we now have the entire six seasons to enjoy whenever we feel the need to return to the 70s.

We really like these McMillan & Wife shows. Since we can't watch them on Monday night any more, we can watch the DVD's whenever we want.

How could Rock Hudson and the producers of McMillan and Wife simply write Wife off and set McMillan free to date a new woman in every episode, dump Mildred his wisecracking housekeeper and replace her with the amazingly annoying Martha Raye and expect viewers to be OK with that? I bought this season because I'm obsessive and wanted all of them but it is a pale imitation of the first 5 seasons. John Schuck has also been replaced with Richard Gilliand who is kind of funny but more dopey acting than anything else. Also, they didn't even use the same set! What is up with that? But the worst offense to me is that the season opened without any mention of Sally other than in passing. PLEASE! McMillan should have been a little sad for at least, oh, five minutes! Buy it if you are also compulsive, enjoy it but keep the wine handy. It helps.

The lack of the characters of the wife and original housekeeper spelt the end for this series. That said, the stories are still good .

Wow the show really suffered without characters Sally and Mildred and Sgt. Enright. I wonder why the actors quit. I really really really hated Martha Raye. She seemed to be playing the same meddling, annoying senior citizen that she had played on "Alice".

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Mcmillian is a cheif of police he finds out how kills people and bring them to justice. It is a great t.v. show. Francine