<![CDATA[Why was Sally always called Mrs. McMillan?]]>Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — McMillan & Wife

eliz7212-1 — 11 years ago(June 20, 2014 08:36 PM)

This used to drive me nuts. I'm watching an old episode and no one calls her Sally. Not Enright, Not Mildred. Always Mrs. McMillan.
They were all friends, no?
And I know it shows a measure of respect but Sally was so young.
I do remember an episode where Mildred and Sally were going on some investigation and Sally says: 'you should call me Sally"
This is the only thing that bugged me about this show and I can't imagine that it didn't bug anyone else

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I think it was mostly out of respect. It was also a different era & I think people were more respectful in general.

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I hear you but because they were all friends I would have thought that Sally would have said "Please call me Sally". I guess I am completely wrong. lol
I had a co-worker (many many years ago) and we had a supervisor who was the boss' daughter. Her name also was Sally. My co-worker refused to call her by her last name because she was younger than all of us. My co-worker would call her Sally. I once said "Aren't we supposed to call her Mrs. Mody because she is our supervisor?" My co-worker then replied "I don't care, she's younger than me and I don't call anyone younger than me Mrs. Anything". After a while she was fired.
Thank god I never called that supervisor by her first name. lol

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She was Enright's boss' wife and Mildred's boss. So calling her Mrs. McMillan seems appropriate. Besides, she usually referred to Enright by his rank.

]]>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1544657https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1544657Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:28:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why was Sally always called Mrs. McMillan? on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:28:39 GMT]]>Tobey — 11 years ago(August 15, 2014 05:38 PM)

I think what you wrote about respect is right on the nose, regardless of her age. Mildred has probably been a housekeeper all her life and would never dream of calling her employers anything but Mr. or Mrs.
Enright would do it out of respect for both Mac and Mrs. McMillan, he always seemed like a gentleman.

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