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.

Last Updated: 1/14/2023Network:NBC
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Top of the World, Ma!
star
10.00
1 votes

#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.

Directors: Alex March
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Somebody's Out to Get Jennie
star
9.00
2 votes

#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.

Directors: Jack Smight
The Disposal Man
star
9.00
1 votes

#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.

Directors: Boris Sagal
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Give My Regrets to Broadway
star
9.00
1 votes

#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.

Directors: Lou Antonio
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Encounter with Aries
star
8.50
2 votes

#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.

Directors: Russ Mayberry
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Portrait of a Dead Girl (aka Who Killed Miss U.S.A.?)
star
8.00
16 votes

#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.

Directors: Richard A. Colla
The New Mexican Connection
star
8.00
1 votes

#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.

The Park Avenue Rustlers
star
8.00
1 votes

#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.

Directors: Jack Arnold
Writer: Sy Salkowitz
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The Million Dollar Round Up
star
8.00
1 votes

#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.

Directors: Douglas Heyes
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The Man with the Golden Hat
star
8.00
1 votes

#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.

Writer: Lou Shaw
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Lady on the Run
star
8.00
1 votes

#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.

Directors: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Gilbert Edd
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Sharks!
star
8.00
1 votes

#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.

Writer: Lou Shaw
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Horse Stealing on Fifth Avenue
star
7.63
8 votes

#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.

Directors: Bruce Kessler
Who Says You Can't Make Friends in New York City
star
7.56
9 votes

#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.

Directors: Douglas Heyes
The Barefoot Stewardess Caper
star
7.50
2 votes

#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.

The Stage is All the World
star
7.00
2 votes

#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.

Directors: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Norman Hudis
The Concrete Corral
star
7.00
3 votes

#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.

Walk in the Dark
star
6.67
3 votes

#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.

Directors: Russ Mayberry
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The Concrete Jungle Caper
star
6.50
2 votes

#19 - 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.

Writer: Lou Shaw
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Bonnie and McCloud
star
6.00
1 votes

#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.

Directors: Steven H. Stern
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Return to the Alamo
star
0.00
0 votes

#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.

Directors: Walter Doniger
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McCloud Meets Dracula
star
0.00
0 votes

#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.

Directors: Bruce Kessler
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Park Avenue Pirates
star
0.00
0 votes

#23 - Park Avenue Pirates

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1975

Racketeers take over a record company.

Directors: E.W. Swackhamer
Writer: Lou Shaw
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Showdown at Times Square
star
0.00
0 votes

#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.

Writer: Lou Shaw
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Fire!
star
0.00
0 votes

#25 - Fire!

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/16/1975

Chris Coughlin's high-rise apartment building is torched by an arsonist for hire.

Directors: Lou Antonio
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