I also liked Hudson in the TV series "McMillan and Wife" in which he co-starred wit Susan St. James and Nancy Walker.
That show was one of three shows in weekly rotations for NBC's Mystery Movie. The other two shows were "Columbo" and "McCloud".
So, you'd see one every three weeks, which rather made it unique. This worked especially well for "Columbo" which, despite some phenomenal guest stars and very good writing, had a formulaic ending that always had Columbo confronting the bad guy, walking away from him as if he was stumped, and then turning and delivering the decisive solution to how the bad guy did it and how he tripped up. That worked delightfully every three weeks. If you see "Columbo" reruns, and they are in groups of three or four, the ending gets a bit predictable.
But "McMillan and Wife" always worked well for me. Set in San Francisco, Hudson was the police commissioner. His home was spectacular for a public servant in a city where a one-bedroom economy apartment can go for $2,500-$3,000 a month. His wife as a 20-something, bright, fashionable young woman..
Their bedroom was unusual in that it seemed to be on three levels, with stairs up to the bathroom and down into the bedroom from another part of the house.
Sigh.
Walker was their hard-drinking live-in maid, Mildred. John Schuck was McMillan's assistant in the PD.
