The BEST episodes of McCloud
Every episode of McCloud ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of McCloud!
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 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - The Man with the Golden Hat
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/12/1975
After hanging his Stetson in a diner one night, McCloud is stymied by various attempts to relieve him of it. His clues lead to a ballet company on the verge of folding, and a philanthropic foundation with millions of dollars missing from its account books.
#11 - Lady on the Run
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/26/1975
A woman pursues the hit man who killed her sister, and in Mexico City is pursued herself.
#12 - Sharks!
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/23/1975
Loan sharks accidentally kill a welcher, and a hardnosed Homicide lieutenant has the wrong man.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - The Barefoot Stewardess Caper
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/3/1972
A bevy of international stewardesses have a second career as cat burglars.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#20 - Bonnie and McCloud
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/24/1976
The head of a trucking company is killed before eyewitnesses, and McCloud's girlfriend is the culprit.
#21 - Return to the Alamo
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/30/1975
On the graveyard shift one lengthy night, Chief Clifford and much of the staff are out with the flu, the American Brotherhood Movement is blowing up buildings, Chris Coughlin is writing a story with a feminist angle on the NYPD, a robbery suspect's brother (an addict) tries to break him out (and both are sons of an Albany bigwig) by kidnapping the Acting Watch Commander (Sgt. Broadhurst), McCloud pulls in New York's top drug dealers in a citywide search for a junkie whose addicted newborn infant needs urgent treatment, and Sgt. Phyllis Norton is the Acting Deputy Watch Commander in charge.
#22 - McCloud Meets Dracula
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/17/1977
Murder victims are found to be drained of blood, and an elderly star of vampire films is suspected; Chief Clifford is on the hunt for a random sniper.
#23 - Park Avenue Pirates
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1975
Racketeers take over a record company.
#24 - Showdown at Times Square
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/19/1975
The Chief (Clifford) is running a weekly bull session, that is, the detectives squawk and he gives them a talk. McCloud notices smoke signals coming from a nearby roof. The Chief (Stillwater) is seeking his grandson Johnny, who has followed a gang of thieves to New York. Johnny's father is in jail back home in Phoenix, framed by the gang.
#25 - Fire!
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/16/1975
Chris Coughlin's high-rise apartment building is torched by an arsonist for hire.
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