The BEST episodes of McCloud
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
A "fish-out-of-water" cop show about a New Mexico lawman assigned to a Manhattan precinct. There's a healthy dose of matchstick-chewing and down-home phrases, but McCloud is one sharp country slicker who teaches his city counterparts a thing or two about nailing bad guys.
#1 - Encounter with Aries
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1971
McCloud is searching the stars above for answers when the wife of an astrologer is kidnapped and hidden with a ticking time bomb.
#2 - Somebody's Out to Get Jennie
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/24/1971
There's trouble in the skies above when McCloud investigates a fatal helicopter crash and a woman who claims that someone's trying to drive her insane.
#3 - Horse Stealing on Fifth Avenue
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/1970
(NOTE: For repeats, this episode was known as "Manhattan Manhunt, Part 1"). McCloud is becoming famous thanks to press coverage. It doesn't endear him to the boys in blue, who have to deal with a string of drugstore holdups.
#4 - Portrait of a Dead Girl (aka Who Killed Miss U.S.A.?)
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/17/1970
McCloud escorts a witness from New Mexico to New York City, but loses him to kidnappers and finds himself in a murder case involving Puerto Rican nationalists, a lady novelist, a Wall Street lawyer, and a dead beauty pageant winner.
#5 - Who Says You Can't Make Friends in New York City?
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1970
(NOTE: For televised repeats, this episode was known as "Man from Taos, Part 1"). McCloud goes to help a lady in distress, but gets caught in a shootout that sends him back to Taos on Chief Clifford's orders. At the last minute, the Chief is kidnapped to force McCloud to act as a courier to Paris.
#6 - The Concrete Corral
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1970
(NOTE: For televised repeats, this episode was known as "Murder Arena, Part 1"). McCloud is assigned to shepherd the cowboys at a visiting rodeo. They're old friends, and one of them is killed by a jealous rival over a woman, it appears.
#7 - The Stage is All the World
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/1970
(NOTE: For televised repeats, this episode was known as "Manhattan Manhunt, Part 2"). McCloud, whose new-found celebrity (thanks to an article by Chris Coughlin in the Chronicle) vexes the Department, is assigned to protect a British theatrical maven who has received letters assailing his ""filthy, obscene"" productions and threatening his life.
#8 - The Concrete Jungle Caper
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/24/1974
The international drug trade and a dealer named Harry Hague have McCloud undercover and in prison to root out the Rhigas family of distributors.
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#9 - Walk in the Dark
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/14/1970
(NOTE: For televised repeats, this episode was known as "Murder Arena, Part 2"). McCloud complains about his assignment to rodeo detail, so Chief Clifford sends him to Special Auxiliary Force VI under the command of Sgt. Dameron, where he works to catch a murderer in Central Park.
#10 - The Barefoot Stewardess Caper
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/3/1972
A bevy of international stewardesses have a second career as cat burglars.
#11 - Our Man in Paris
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/21/1970
(NOTE: For televised repeats, this episode was known as "Man from Taos, Part 2"). In Paris, McCloud and a stewardess try to locate a mysterious arms smuggler with ties to an American mogul and a New York gubernatorial candidate.
#12 - Top of the World, Ma!
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/3/1971
Two crime worlds collide when McCloud pursues a petty thief football player who is trying to get money from the mob powers that owe him.
#13 - The Disposal Man
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/29/1971
McCloud is forced to do some fancy footwork when a wealthy man is stalked by a professional assassin with an unknown employer.
#14 - A Little Plot at Tranquil Valley
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/12/1972
The black market is hot with sales of stolen penicillin that is being diluted and sent south of the border. When McCloud investigates too closely, he is held hostage by smugglers who want him out of their territory.
#15 - Fifth Man in a String Quartet
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/2/1972
The arrest of a musician accused of killing his teacher strikes a false note with McCloud when he uncovers the victim's family ties to the mob.
#16 - Give My Regrets to Broadway
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/23/1972
McCloud is feeling a little nervous about his place in the world when he investigates the murder of a fellow officer who took McCloud's place on duty as a favor.
#17 - The New Mexican Connection
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1972
A TV commentator's critique of police shootings tarnishes the department's stakeout squad, and Chris Coughlin is threatened to force the release of a murder suspect extradited to Taos by McCloud.
#18 - The Park Avenue Rustlers
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/24/1972
As part of a pilot program, McCloud is assigned a female partner, and the two go undercover against a big-time auto theft ring.
#19 - Showdown at the End of the World
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/7/1973
An ambitious junior executive in the mob uses fashion models to transport heroin into New York.
#20 - The Million Dollar Round Up
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/1973
A dying Roman mobster wills his ""Saracen Horse,"" a jewel-encrusted green jade treasure, to any of his criminal colleagues who can take possession of it.
#21 - Butch Cassidy Rides Again
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/14/1973
The NYPD demonstrates a bank robbery on live closed-circuit TV, and is bushwhacked by a gang of antiquated outlaws.
#22 - The Solid Gold Swingers
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/2/1973
While answering a high-rise apartment burglary call, McCloud stumbles on a body, which then disappears. The case leads to a VIP madam under indictment, whose girls are apparently being murdered by a serial killer.
#23 - A Cowboy in Paradise
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/1974
Just before presenting a rackets case, Chief Clifford goes to Hawaii for a police conference. Taos sends McCloud, too, and the Marshal is obliged to dragoon a vacationing N.Y. policewoman when the Chief is set up on a murder charge.
#24 - The Colorado Cattle Caper
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/24/1974
Modern-day cattle rustlers ship lethally contaminated beef to New York.
#25 - This Must Be the Alamo
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/24/1974
During a heat wave, Chief Clifford is called away and leaves Sgt. Broadhurst in charge. A football gambling ring that scores with ""inside dope on injuries"" loses a little black book and begins eliminating witnesses in a search for it, leading to an assault on precinct headquarters.