The BEST episodes of McCloud season 5
Every episode of McCloud season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of McCloud season 5!
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 - The Barefoot Girls of Bleecker Street
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1974
McCloud helps a runaway and her baby, amidst a curious stolen property investigation.
#2 - The Gang That Stole Manhattan
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/1974
McCloud is assigned to a film shoot, and suspects the production is a front.
#3 - Shivaree on Delancy Street
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/3/1974
A tailor wins big on the numbers, but gang wars interfere with the payout. Sgt. Broadhurst is badly wounded and numbers money is planted on him, causing him to be investigated by Internal Affairs. The tailor becomes a witness in the wars, but heads off to Miami Beach with his winnings and his shiksa fiancée, followed by two hit men and McCloud.
#4 - The 42nd Street Cavalry
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/17/1974
McCloud's lackluster assignments make him grouse, so Chief Clifford sends him to the Mounted Unit. A fence sets up a munitions theft at a National Guard Armory (USMC) for a revolutionary group, and the cavalry is on its way.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - Sharks!
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/23/1975
Loan sharks accidentally kill a welcher, and a hardnosed Homicide lieutenant has the wrong man.
#9 - 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.