"McMillan & Wife" Reunion in Terror (TV Episode 1974) Poster

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(1974)

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8/10
I remember this one for just one standout scene...
AlsExGal2 May 2016
... but overall I remember it being a pretty exciting episode of the series. This time Mac is personally involved because somebody is shooting all of the members of Mac's college football team one by one. Mac assumes he will be among the dead if he does not figure things out.

So, at the team reunion, with all of the former members and their wives there, Mac is being extra vigilant. Apparently one team member ended up marrying a girl who had been "passed around" sexually by the team - with her consent of course. Now this guy feels like everybody is laughing at him. He is looking furiously at one old teammate in particular, because he and his wife are conversing and laughing just a little too hard. I think that he was one of the ex-lovers. So the angry team member grabs the wife of the man who is laughing and conversing with his wife and slowly makes his way up the stairs (covered in shag carpet- this is the 70s you know) while holding everybody at the reunion at gunpoint. I don't remember his EXACT words, but apparently he was going to rape the other guy's wife as payback for affairs his own wife entered into consensually BEFORE they were married. Color me confused by this inept poorly conceived plan for revenge that is just an act of evil. All this would do is make him a rapist, the lowest scum that crawls on the earth. Plus the police commissioner of the entire city is there (Mac). Once would be rapist gets upstairs, how does he think he is going to A. Keep his gun in his hand and B.manage to rape the teammate's wife while C. not having the entire group of still rather physically fit men overpower him. Actually Mac talks him out of this plan, there is an explanation of would-be-rapist teammate legally having the gun due to his profession, and he is not the killer.

I remember who the killer was, but you'll have to watch and find out who did it yourself.
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7/10
You gotta be a football hero
bkoganbing22 June 2015
It was the misfortune of a certain murderer to have most of us the targets in the city of San Francisco where Rock Hudson is now the police commissioner. Especially since it appears that Hudson is one of the targets.

It's a reunion of the college football team and at a reunion gathering Hudson gets word from Nancy Walker who took a message from one who was supposed to be there. He leaves a cryptic clue with her and then gets shot for his troubles. After that another of the team members is killed and of course the police commissioner takes responsibility personally for this case as he does in any McMillan&Wife episode.

Such folks as Roosevelt Grier and Michael Ansara were on the team with Rock and Buddy Hackett is there and he was the team manager. Hackett plays what he is, a comedian. But there's a lot of acid in his humor.

Another performance of note is that of Salome Jens who still goes by the nickname of Boom-Boom. She provides enough motive in and of herself for some murders as apparently she got around back in the day.

It all has to do with something that occurred back in the day and you'll to watch this good story to find out who and why.
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9/10
Now a Football Player!
Sylviastel4 February 2019
Stewart MacMillan reunites with his college football team twenty years later for a a reunion to remember. Buddy Hackett, Rosey Grier and Ned Wertimer (a frequent actor in the series in several roles) appear. When one of their mates gets killed, MacMillan and the others are all on high alert for being next. You would be surprised by what happens in the end of the episode. Wertimer gives a heartbreaking performance though.
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