McMillan & Wife

McMillan & Wife
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Genre	Police procedural
Starring	Rock Hudson Susan Saint James
Theme music composer	Jerry Fielding
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	40 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Leonard B. Stern
Producer(s)	Paul Mason Jon Epstein
Running time	Seasons one - two, 90 min. Seasons three-six, 120 min.
Production company(s)	Talent Associates-Norton Simon
Distributor	Universal Television (original) NBCUniversal Television Distribution (current)
Release
Original network	NBC
Original release	September 17, 1971 (1971-09-17) – April 14, 1977 (1977-04-14)

McMillan & Wife (known simply as McMillan from 1976–77) was a lighthearted American police procedural that aired on NBC from 1971 to 1977. Starring Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James in the title roles, the series premiered in episodes as part of Universal Television's wheel series NBC Mystery Movie, in rotation with Columbo and McCloud. Initially airing on Wednesday night, the original lineup 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 especially for the Mystery Movie strand.

McMillan & Wife revolved around a 40-ish San Francisco police commissioner, Stuart McMillan (Rock Hudson) and his attractive, bright and affable 20 something wife Sally (Susan Saint James). Often, the storylines featured Mac and Sally attending fashionable parties and charity benefits before solving robberies and murders. John Schuck appeared as Sgt. Charles Enright and Nancy Walker was Mildred, the couple's sarcastic, hard-drinking maid, both characters serving as comic relief.

The show ran for five seasons as McMillan & Wife and a sixth season as McMillan on the NBC television network, from September 17, 1971, to April 24, 1977, for a total of 40 episodes.

Like the other two original shows in the NBC Mystery Movie, McMillan & Wife was an immediate hit. After its network run on NBC, it appeared regularly as part of The CBS Late Movie and later, in the form of syndicated reruns on local and cable television in the United States.

Since January 1, 2015, McMillan & Wife has been airing on Me-TV as part of the "MeTV Mystery Movie" late night block. The block includes the other two long running Sunday Mystery Movie series, McCloud and Columbo, the Wednesday Mystery Movie series Banacek, and the 1980s series of Perry Mason television films. Each week features a different series, with the series featured airing five episodes during its feature week.