S02-E01 of "McMillan & Wife" is so outrageous (in the show's usual blasé, low-key way) that it's almost successful as dry camp. Opening with a séance scene (in which the seer introduces us to everyone at the table like a movie narrator), we learn that a widowed friend of Mac and Sally's was tried for the murder of her husband but was acquitted. She's freaked out because he's taken to appearing to her in ghostly form at Madame Zara's to plead, "Why, Evie, why did you murder me?" Carole Cook plays Madame Zara (she also played a phony psychic named Madame Dorian in an episode of "Charlie's Angels" called "The Séance" in 1976), but writer Steve Fisher quickly dispenses with her as Mac investigates the man's demise (he was shot in the face with a shotgun, rendering the corpse unrecognizable à la "Laura"!). Suspects include Cameron Mitchell as nutty magician Harry Hastings whose nightclub act includes a crawling spider and bats flying through the audience; Eileen Brennan as another friend of the dead man and his wife whose own husband is away "in Hong Kong"; and Sharon Acker as the hysterical widow who keeps declaring, "Show yourself, Arthur!" Housekeeper Mildred thinks the killer is the widow; she's also got Sally jumping at creaks in the night. Meanwhile, Sgt. Enright has his toothache temporarily cured by the magician, a man who lives in a lakeside castle with "Open Sesame!" front doors (the nightclub business must be paying off!). Mac's conclusions at the finale don't quite cover all the holes in this teleplay; Fisher and director Robert Michael Lewis devote more time to a sword-and-fist fight while Sally is busy being molested by a mechanical demon.