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"Classic TV Theme:  McMillan & Wife (Fielding)"

is a video on You Tube

(uploader / channel) - David Gideon

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viewer comments:

~~  Another great theme from the pen of Jerry Fielding who died so young.

~~  So much nostalgia from the 70s such wonderful piece of Music from Jerry Fielding and the touch of Henry Mancini with Rock Hudson as police commissioner and Susan Saint James as his wife thank you for the music!!!!

~~  This music makes me feel so good and takes me to a happy time,  The show was wonderful and made me laugh.  So hard to find it on TV now.  I could watch it over and over.

~~  Great theme and how cool is a real orchestra.  I liked this show because it never took itself so seriously with a lot of humor throughout.

~~  I never understood why a top movie star like Rock Hudson even considered doing this series.  Did he need the money?

        ~  TV work is different from making Pictures, it's a lot easier and a great way to make yourself known - everyone has a TV set at home, however, not everybody used to go to the movies.

~~  I was still watching shows on a black and white TV and I remember ringing my girlfriend (who had a colour set) and asking about the colour of Sally's outfits.

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As far as a show about a husband-and-wife solving mysteries together, McMillan & Wife was followed up in the '80s by Hart To Hart (with Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers), and both of these TV shows had a popular antecedent in the "Nick And Nora" films, aka "The Thin Man" series, during the 1930s and '40s.

        The Thin Man movies were based on a novel written by Dashiell Hammett.

stars of "Thin Man" movies:  Myrna Loy, Asta, and William Powell

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