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- This television docudrama series traces the career of John Dean, President Nixon's special counsel.
- A wealthy suburbanite's life changes drastically when her husband walks out on her and her children.
- Based on the book by Mary Carter"Tell Me My Name" is about a girl's visit to the woman who gave her up for adoption 19 years earlier. The adoption was a secret which now threatens to destroy the entire family.
- A college professor's well-ordered life is disrupted when his wife discovers he is having an affair with one of his students.
- 1971–19771h 16mTV-PG7.1 (70)TV EpisodeVanessa Vale, a glamor model, apparently jumps from the balcony of her 15th-story apartment to her death. But Mac investigates and finds signs of a struggle -- she was pushed off. Then Vanessa herself walks into the apartment, having gone incognito on a brief vacation. The victim, it turned out, was a lady friend of hers who was using the apartment; nobody thought to look under the makeup mask she had on her face when she was killed. Was the killer after Vanessa (it looks that way when her private plane, on which Mac is riding, is rigged to go into a tailspin) -- or was Vanessa hiding something?
- To fend off a nagging Assistant District Attorney, Mac invites her to his weekly poker game. Among the other participants is Mac's dentist, who consoles Mac for biting himself while his mouth was numb from recent work on a tooth. When the dentist leaves the poker game and goes home, he finds a local TV-news anchor dead on his couch, apparently from a heart attack. The dentist's wife (who was the TV news anchor's lover) and her father (the dentist's boss) are frantic, so the dentist loads the dead man into his own car and drives it to a culvert, crashing it so it looks like the news anchor had a heart attack while driving. But it wasn't a heart attack ... the man was poisoned by digitalis, which caused his heart to race out of control and conk out. Who gave him the digitalis, why ... and how?
- The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.
- Flo bunks with Alice after her trailer is stolen.
- When Mac is scheduled to take a first-class flight from San Francisco to Hawaii, an airline executive arrives early and in mechanic's garb on the pretext of inspecting the aircraft. His real mission is to poison his wife, via cyanide injected into a champagne bottle. But a drunken passenger clamoring for more gets the lethal dose by mistake. The plane develops serious engine trouble and turns back to Los Angeles. The executive goes up to the VIP lounge to await justice -- but it comes sooner than expected when someone follows him upstairs and stabs him. Mac and a flight attendant team to try to find the killer, who may well be a member of the flight crew.
- Based on the best-selling book, this movie focuses on John F. Kennedy's first run for a congressional seat in 1946.
- When Mac and DiMaggio go to meet a police informant at a waterfront setting (Mac complains that DiMaggio's car is not only cramped, but "has the baldest tires I've ever seen"), the informant's car suddenly starts up and nearly runs them down before plunging into the ocean. The informant is found later slumped in the driver's seat, with an empty suitcase beside him. It looks like he died from the impact, but Mac isn't sure and orders an investigation. Meanwhile, a suave "businessman" named Phillip shows up and starts following Mac around, inviting him and his girlfriend to dinner and gradually insinuating himself into their lives to the point where he becomes a stalker. Police records indicate that Phillip is a hired killer who's never been arrested, because he uses extremely creative ways to kill and set up alibis for himself. Phillip soon confirms that Mac is his target. Mac can do nothing to arrest him and gets increasingly agitated, which is just what Phillip wants -- he plans to kill Mac "in self-defense" when Mac loses his temper one time too many. Meanwhile, Mac is still investigating the murder of the informant, getting involved in a nasty real-estate dispute, and trying to find out who hired Phillip.
- Mac comes home from a weekend fishing trip and walks right into his own funeral. On the night he was away, his apartment was annihilated by a bomb, along with a man and a young woman. Mac stays "dead" while Enright harangues a mobster who had threatened Mac, but the mobster has an alibi for the killings. Mac and a policewoman then focus on the dead woman, a student at a community college near San Francisco. She had arranged to meet someone at Mac's apartment knowing he wouldn't be there, and had brought a burly student to serve as her bodyguard (thus his corpse was misidentified as Mac's). The young woman was researching something tied to a nearby parish church founded by Catholic missionaries in the 18th century -- but what had she uncovered?
- Gene Kelly and Henry Winkler host this musical special celebrating the career of composer Richard Rodgers through clips and live performances.
- Mac goes on vacation in Las Vegas to meet his girlfriend, a tennis professional (the first of six "girlfriends-of-the-week" who highlighted the "McMillan" series"). While she's preparing for a banquet at a Vegas tennis tournament, she's met by a man who presents her with her stepson's prize ring ("if I had been less civilized, I would have given you his finger to go with it"). The stepson, it appears, is being held hostage for the priceless diamond necklace the tennis pro is wearing, the last of her inheritance from her late husband. Mac quickly finds that it's a scam (the stepson was holed up with his girlfriend and was tricked into giving over the ring). Before the con man responsible for the theft can be found, he's murdered with a gun belonging to the tennis pro. Now Mac must clear his girlfriend of the murder and recover the necklace.
- Alice receives a pass from an ex-football player.
- Jesse Gifford, a champion rodeo rider, receives crippling injuries in the ring, resulting in the ending of his career. After his wife Shirley deserts him, he's left with the responsibility of raising two young sons with no job and no prospects.
- The adventures of a Yorkshire vet and his colleague in their everyday life.
- 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.
- The McMillans, Mildred and her sister Agatha go to visit a woman relative of Mildred and Agatha, a very wealthy woman who's dying -- but not quickly enough to suit one of her nephews, who's in debt to a loansharking company later described as "just this side of Murder, Incorporated." Threatened with death if he doesn't come up with the money right away, the nephew smothers the old lady in her bed. But when the will is read, the nephew isn't the prime beneficiary -- a young great-niece is. Someone soon guns down the niece, and the nephew (who's next in line for the money) is the prime suspect. But when Agatha sneaks onto the nephew's pleasure boat to investigate him, someone plants a firebomb onto the boat. The nephew agrees to save Agatha and gives her a life jacket, but can't get off himself before the engine explodes. Next, the McMillans discover that the murdered "great-niece" was an impersonator -- so Sally poses as the great-niece herself and shows up on the doorstep of the old lady's countrified financial manager, hoping he has some clues.
- After being shot while on a stakeout, Mac witnesses a murder in the hospital while partially under sedation while awaiting surgery. Everyone thinks Mac's story is a hallucination, but he's convinced one of the doctors murdered a patient.
- The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, from early youth to his election as President of the United States, as told from Eleanor's point of view.
- During a period of fiscal austerity for the city, Enright takes a lucrative position in a private detective agency in which a person blackmailing politicians might operate.
- 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.
- 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?
- A birthday celebration for a friend of Mac's mother ends in a murder attempt.
- In Connecticut in September 1923, the lives of three people collide: Josie, a domineering Irish woman with a quick tongue and a ruined reputation, her conniving father, tenant farmer Phil Hogan, and James Tyrone, Jr., Hogan's landlord and drinking companion, a cynical alcoholic haunted by the death of his mother.
- With Sally at home with the new baby, Mac is happy to entertain his mother, Beatrice, who has come to San Francisco for a visit. She has some big news: his sister Megan is getting married. Beatrice likes the young man but Mac's quick check of his background reveals that he has a manufactured identity and history. When he confronts him, he admits to being Randy Murphy and claims to have changed his name and history to hide his working class background from them - though not Megan - so they wouldn't think less of him. He does, however, seem to be keeping secrets and when Mac sees him in surveillance footage with a known thief, he concludes that his future brother-in-law is a con artist. With the wedding day fast approaching, Mac decides to run a little con job of his own...but then Murphy has been keeping a few secrets and has a surprise or two of his own.
- The story of a young veterinarian's apprenticeship to a somewhat eccentric older vet in the English countryside, and the young man's hesitating courtship of the daughter of a local farmer.
- With a very pregnant Sally at home McMillan, Sgt. Enright and Mildred travel to by train to Los Angeles to attend a police convention. In fact, they're traveling on a train that was chartered for them and about another dozen area policeman by the wealthy Aaron Hildeth. He's also invited Tommy Brown, an author whose recent book revealed supposed police corruption, in the hope that he might develop a more positive impression of the police force. The cops aren't happy to have him on board and one of them even gets into a fistfight with the writer. When Brown is found shot to death in his compartment - and since there is no one other than police officers on the train - Mac correctly assumes that the murderer has to be one of them.
- The McMillans' maid Mildred is serving on the jury deliberating on the fate of San Francisco football star Luke Johnson, but one night she is attacked in her hotel. The jury is moved to a different hotel and in their vote for a decision, jurors vote to acquit Luke Johnson - except for juror Tom Rhine, Jr. Later that night when Jerry, a guard, gets a phone message for Rhine from his stepmother Virginia Rhine, he and another guard go to Rhine's hotel room, and find him shot to death. McMillan must now investigate two murders - the murder of Luke Johnson's teammate Mo Draper (the subject of the trial) and the murder of juror Tom Rhine. The McMillans and Charlie Enright question Luke Johnson's lawyer, the Rhine family, team manager Andrew Brille, and Jerry the guard, but several attempts are made on their lives, including an attempted shooting of Stewart at a football game, before Stewart makes a startling discovery about the way Rhine died - and in turn learns the true reason why Tom Rhine was killed.
- In the second episode to discuss Mac's past life as a CIA operative, he's called on by his old boss to help investigate a "sleeper," a Communist agent who has lived undetected in the United States and adopted American customs until it's his -- or her -- moment to strike. An upcoming U.S.-Soviet intelligence summit is the apparent moment. The sleeper could be anybody, even Mac's intelligence buddy, because he or she is thoroughly Americanized and could be engaged in anything, including counterintelligence. Throw in several Soviet hit men assigned to waste the sleeper before Mac uncovers his or her identity ...
- Mac and Sally find themselves investigating a murder when their host, Ewing Webley, is murdered. Webley is a very rich man having made his fortune in the insurance industry and is survived by his son Walter and his much younger wife, Rachel. Many people had a motive for killing him. His wife may have been having an affair with tennis pro Ilia Astrov who's just had his sponsorship terminated by the now dead man; as well, the man didn't see eye to eye with his son who felt diminished by his father's success. In his will, Ewing Hubley left most of his estate to his son but the investigation reveals that his corporation was on the verge of bankruptcy and that recently obtained loans were redirected to the Webley charitable foundation. A case of mistaken identity is central to the case however.
- When multi-millionaire Maxwell Abbott dies, he arranges for 5 couples to participate in a winner-take-all automobile rally using his collection of classic cars. The prize: the vintage cars themselves, valued at nearly $2 million. McMillan was an old friend of Abbott's and he's pledged the collection to the police benevolent fund if he wins. It soon becomes apparent that someone is prepared to win at all costs. Forced to use Sally's old car after someone disables the classic Corvette they were supposed to use, the McMillan's set off but not before others have found their vehicles tampered with and someone phones in a bomb threat. The sabotage continues and McMillan wants to call the race off. He gets little support from the others who all have their own reasons for wanting to win the prize. When one of the participants is killed, McMillan finds himself dealing with a case of murder. The motive may not be as obvious as first appearances would suggest.
- Mac's incarcerated double is "sprung" from prison in a fake breakout so that he can impersonate Mac while Mac goes undercover to break a smuggling operation.
- 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.
- 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.
- When an engineer is laid off, he decides to employ his talents manufacturing inventions in his basement, much to the dismay of his family and friends.
- 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?
- McMillian has to track down a satanic cult that has taken a deadly Interest in Sally.
- 1971–19771h 13mTV-PG7.5 (119)TV EpisodeOn 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?
- 1971–19771h 16mTV-PG7.9 (108)TV EpisodeSomeone seems to want Sally's Uncle Cyrus dead. Mac and Sally are in a race to find who wants him dead before it's too late.
- 1971–19771h 13mTV-PG7.3 (100)TV EpisodeSally is kidnapped by an international syndicate that is after a Rembrandt painting currently on loan to the San Francisco Art Museum from the Prado.
- Sally is the victim of a purse-snatcher. But when her purse is returned, and the thief is found dead, Mac realizes Sally has a secret admirer with a deadly obsession.
- The mob doesn't want a man named Benson to testify. To prevent this, they kidnap Mac and replace him with a shady lookalike to impersonate him.
- Sergeant Enright's abusive ex-wife is shot while locked in a room alone with him, and the bullet that kills her came from his gun--a weapon he was holding at the time of the shooting.
- A composer/pianist whose latest work is dedicated to Sally is stabbed in his apartment which contains items that point to a relationship with her, although she had not met him previously.
- A séance is attended by the ghost of a woman's dead husband. The woman is a friend of the McMillans, and they they leap into action to rescue her sanity and her life.
- 1971–19771h 15mTV-PG7.8 (142)TV EpisodeNumerous bits of evidence indicate McMillan's former girlfriend shot and killed her husband, but the commissioner wants all of the facts before an arrest is made.