The WORST episodes of McCloud
Every episode of McCloud ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - The Colorado Cattle Caper
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/24/1974
Modern-day cattle rustlers ship lethally contaminated beef to New York.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - Park Avenue Pirates
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1975
Racketeers take over a record company.
#13 - 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.
#14 - Fire!
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/16/1975
Chris Coughlin's high-rise apartment building is torched by an arsonist for hire.
#15 - Three Guns for New York
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/23/1975
Paroled bank robbers from New Mexico think McCloud took off with their $400,000 twelve years before. They kidnap Chris Coughlin, shoot two FBI agents with McCloud's .45 Colt Frontier Six Shooter, and force him back to Taos after the money.
#16 - Our Man in the Harem
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/11/1976
A patrolman's daughter is held captive in the Middle East.
#17 - The Day New York Turned Blue
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/22/1976
During a New York City snowstorm, a union lawyer is placed in protective custody as a witness to graft, a working girl is slipping out-of-towners a mickey and painting them blue, a Federal Inspector is auditing the Department books, the mob plans an invasion of headquarters, and patrolmen have a strike meeting.
#18 - Night of the Shark
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/21/1976
The American mob plans an Australian expansion, with the help of a planted Chairman on Sydney's Police Board. McCloud, on airport duty at JFK, has a shootout with a hit man and goes to Sydney as a witness.
#19 - 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas...
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/26/1976
On Christmas Eve, an assassin stalks McCloud, a spurned mistress attempts suicide, a sidewalk Santa turns mugger, junkies raid a hospital pharmacy, Chris's newspaper organizes a party for orphans at Westside Hospital with Chief Clifford as Santa, and the junkies take hostages.
#20 - The Great Taxicab Stampede
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/16/1977
McCloud is framed for the murder of a drug-dealing hack, and exposes the ring.
#21 - The Moscow Connection
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/23/1977
The State Department sends Chief Clifford and McCloud to Moscow with a touring country & western singer, undercover.
#22 - London Bridges
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/6/1977
A peer of the realm, who's a photographer as well as a cat burglar, comes to America and, in flagrante delicto at a Long Island costume party, witnesses a killing at the hands of Irish bombers, all of which sends McCloud to Blighty, where the target remains to be found.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.