S01-E07 has Mac reuniting with an old flame, singer Lee Richards (Barbara McNair); she's in trouble when her estranged husband disappears just after a recording surfaces of the couple having an argument, ending with a gun shot and the sound of a body being dragged. Sally (a pregnant Susan Saint James) is bedbound, but she's quite wonderful here bristling at Mac's involvement with an ex-girlfriend, while the interracial detail is commendably never brought up (Rock Hudson and McNair even share a chaste kiss). One of the better early episodes, although when Mac puts the pieces of the mystery together, the details take a few minutes to sink in (something about a book of matches in the trash and frozen food that was thawed and then re-frozen!). The police commissioner never does find the body of the missing man (how well did the killer hide it?), but the interactions between the principals is well-accomplished. Writer Brad Radnitz ably rewrote a 1968 episode of his from "Ironside", titled "An Obvious Case of Guilt". Good show.
Review of An Elementary Case of Murder
