Distributor:
Universal Home Entertainment Certificate: Not Rated |
10
Hours and 24 minutes Available to buy Extras: No
ANYONE
IN IT WE KNOW?
ROCK
HUDSON as Commissioner Stewart McMillan / SUSAN SAINT JAMES as Sally
McMillan / JOHN SCHUCK as Sgt Charles Enright / NANCY WALKER as Mildred
WHAT’S
IT ABOUT THEN?
We
love McMillan and Wife, it's so
cute, part of the NBC Mystery
Movie series and detailing the
often murderous cases of
Commissioner Stewart McMillan
who usually managed to get his
wife Sally involved (although to
be fair it was more often than
not Sally who got McMillan
involved) McMillan and Wife is
one of the best of the 1970's
Mystery Movie series.
The
show
probably had its roots in the Nick and Nora Thin Man films of the 1930's
and 1940's and featured much of the same banter between the leads that
characterised those films. Also heavily involved in the series was Mac's
right hand man Sgt Charles Enright and their none too polite housekeeper
Mildred but its the relationship between Mac and Sally that makes the
series a gem, the dialogue between the two is always sparkly and crisp
and its good to see a TV show where the leads are happily married
(interestingly Susan Saint James was hand picked by Hudson for the role
but the pair didn't get on too well - maybe because Saint James was
nominated for an Emmy for four years running), Sally it seems though as
the real nose for murders whether the pair are on a weekend retreat, at
a masquerade ball or even moving it seems a body is never far
away.
This
release by Universal features all 7 episodes from the first series as
well as the pilot Once Upon a Dead Man, like all Mystery Movies shows
the episodes are feature length and are spread across two double sided
discs. There are no special features but this is one very recommended
release.
