MAC, THE 'MERRY WIDOWER'
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hernemesis — 10 years ago(January 01, 2016 11:33 AM)
No, it was 18 months.
I watched an episode two nights ago, where John Schuck's character mentions to the new sergeant that Mrs. MacMillan had died in a plane crash, and I'm pretty sure that he said eight months earlier, not eighteen. I was shocked to see Mac flirting and getting cozy with the female guest star so soon after losing his wife. For a guy who was so madly in love and devoted, it doesn't ring true that he would become a ladies man so quickly.
In the next episode he's on a plane, flirting with another woman and has a passionate kissing scene with her later in the episode, while in another scene he flirts with a new widow and says maybe he should come back after she had finished grieving (paraphrasing). Very inappropriate, especially for a police commander.
I loved Mac with his wife, but really don't like Mac.2 and I'm not surprised that it ended when it did. -
PrometheusTree64 — 10 years ago(June 23, 2015 01:46 PM)
I remember John Shuck saying in 1976 how awful it was that they'd killed her off so flippantly with a reference to a plane crash when she'd been such a big part of the show.
But those NBC Sunday Mystery Movie things felt like an animal from the early-'70s and were dying out by the latter half of the decade anyway.
LBJ's mistress on JFK: