McMillan & Wife: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of McMillan & Wife Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
Downshift to Danger
Sep 29, 1974 · 90 min
The grand prize of the 20th Annual Golden State Rally in Monterey is an antique car collection willed by a late millionaire. Mischief develops into mishaps and worse, until an entr
The Game of Survival
Oct 20, 1974 · 90 min
A temperamental tennis champion is suspected of murdering a newspaper magnate who had him suspended.
Buried Alive
Nov 10, 1974 · 90 min
A WWII intelligence colleague, long since thought to be dead, turns up and is murdered.
Guilt by Association
Dec 8, 1974 · 90 min
Mildred is accosted while serving on a sequestered jury, then another juror is murdered in his locked room.
Night Train to L.A.
Jan 19, 1975 · 90 min
Mac heads south to a police convention on a train filled with officers, Mildred, and the author of Cops and Other Crooks, who is murdered en route.
Love, Honor and Swindle
Feb 16, 1975 · 90 min
It seems that Mac's sister is engaged to a con man out to diddle a mining company.