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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#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 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.
#9 - The Barefoot Stewardess Caper
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/3/1972
A bevy of international stewardesses have a second career as cat burglars.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - Park Avenue Pirates
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1975
Racketeers take over a record company.
#21 - The Colorado Cattle Caper
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/24/1974
Modern-day cattle rustlers ship lethally contaminated beef to New York.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.