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McMillan & Wife Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 1973 - 1974
Episode 1
Death of a Monster... Birth of a Legend
Sun, Sep 30, 197373 mins
On vacation in the Scottish Highlands to visit his Uncle Michael (with Sally and Mildred in tow; Enright comes over later), Mac walks onto the grounds of the McMillan castle and shouts for Uncle Michael. The response is a rifle shot. Mac rushes in and finds Uncle Michael's lawyer and his housekeeper, who are trying to break into the "keep" which Uncle Michael uses as an office. Uncle Michael is dead on the floor, shot through the head with a rifle lying beside him. All the evidence points to suicide, but Mac won't believe it -- especially when two men run away from the castle on consecutive nights. Mac finds that the McMillan family has a centuries-long feud with the neighboring MacCready family, dating back to when a McMillan soldier caught a MacCready hiding in a secret passage on the eve of a battle -- and walled him in alive. The lawyer and several others in the case are MacCreadys, and perhaps one of them decided to finish the feud. Uncle Michael's irresponsible grandson soon arrives, inheriting the castle and, it's rumored, a hidden treasure. The grandson is also running the Highland Games, which spark monster sightings in a nearby "loch" (lake) similar to "Nessie." While hunting, Mac ducks several rifle bullets, and Sally dodges a huge man who practices caber-tossing -- at her. It's clear that someone believes in the existence of the treasure and thus has a perfect motive to kill Uncle Michael -- but who? The mystery deepens when Enright and Sally find that a wall of the keep has been recently re-mortared and the corpse of the long-dead MacCready is inside his secret passage. Is it a clue to the locked-room mystery, or another red herring?
Episode 2
The Devil You Say
Sun, Oct 21, 197372 mins
For the past 3 years, Sally has received an anonymous gift just before Halloween; but, inexplicably, neither Sally nor Mildred ever told Mac. As Sally packs to decorate for a party for children at the hospital, their local pharmacist telephones Sally to tell her she is in grave danger and meet him in room 112. Sally chats with a disbarred lawyer at the elevator and Mildred sees a murder in room 112. There is no corpse for Mac or Enright to find at the hospital. When Sally receives her newest gift, a film of a Satanic coven ritual, Mac reviews the other gifts: a scarab ring, black leather garter with four silver buckles and an antique bell.
Episode 3
Freefall to Terror
Sun, Nov 11, 197371 mins
A business magnate and friend of Mac's is getting mighty edgy when a car almost runs him down. Mac visits the businessman's upper-floor office, but outside the door he hears glass shattering and a woman screaming out the businessman's name. Mac rushes to the broken window, looks out, and sees...nothing. The woman, the businessman's secretary, won't talk. Mac leaves Enright in charge and goes to pick up Sally, hoping that she can interview the woman. As they return to the building, they see a human body plunging down the facade of the building. This time, it really is the businessman. Did he disappear in mid-air for three hours, or did he attempt suicide, stop and then try again successfully--or was he pushed out the broken window?
Episode 4
The Man Without a Face
Sun, Jan 6, 197498 mins
In the series' first two-hour episode, Mac is called back to his previous career in CIA intelligence when an agent is found fatally poisoned in a hotel room. Before dying, the agent had grabbed the Venetian blinds over his window and twisted them. Mac and the intelligence community realize the dead man was identifying his killer as "Venice," a notorious rogue agent who sells secrets anywhere and murders anyone who might recognize him. Mac and other agents seek out a woman named Elena Standish, an undercover operative who is the only person to survive a Venice attack. Venice goes after Elena several times, killing a contact and wounding Elena. Mac suspects that Venice is someone very close to him in the intelligence community.
Episode 5
Reunion in Terror
Sun, Jan 27, 197473 mins
Mac's college football team has a reunion coming up, but someone plans to spoil it with a gun. The killer, using a team photo as a reference, shoots the team members in the order of the numbers on their uniforms. Mac has to try to figure out the killer's motive before his number comes up -- literally.
Episode 6
Cross & Double Cross
Sun, Feb 17, 197498 mins
Commissioner McMillan switches places with his double, Claudio, in order to infiltrate a gold - smuggling ring. In the meantime, Claudio has great fun portraying the Commissioner. At a charity fundraiser, he kicks up his heels with Mildred.
