The TV series McMillan & Wife surfaced on Amazon Prime. It ran from 1971 - 77. Rock Hudson and Susan St. James played the main characters. I remember noticing this show when it was new, but I never watched it.
I don't know - maybe it was on Sunday nights and that was a school night, so I couldn't stay up, or something....
Rock Hudson plays the police commissioner. In San Francisco, I think. (Haven't ascertained that yet.)
The first three episodes of Season 2 contained references and homages that I really enjoyed:
Episode 1 was titled "The Night Of The Wizard" - and they mention the film Gaslight. Susan St. James says, "that movie with Charles Boyer" and Rock Hudson rejoins, "and Ingrid Bergman."
And then they say somebody is trying to "gaslight" this beleaguered woman in the episode.
Episode 2 of Season 2 is called "Blues For Sally M" and it clearly owes some of its content and inspiration to the feature film Play Misty For Me, which came out the same year when McMillan & Wife hit the television airwaves. Jazz musicians, etc.
And Episode 3, "Cop Of The Year," has a character whose last name is Thursby - a name I've only ever heard in The Maltese Falcon, a movie starring Humphrey Bogart, based on a novel by Dashiell Hammett.
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
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