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The Best Episodes of McCloud

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Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of the small western town of Taos, New Mexico is assigned to the metropolitan New York City Police Department (NYPD) as a special investigator.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    McCloud Season 6 Episode 6 - The Day New York Turned Blue
    8.2/10(97 votes)

    S6:E6

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Glen A. Larson

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  2. McCloud Season 4 Episode 5 - This Must Be the Alamo
    8.1/10(100 votes)

    S4:E5

    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.

    Director:Bruce Kessler
    Writer:Glen A. Larson

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  3. McCloud Season 5 Episode 9 - Return to the Alamo
    8.1/10(102 votes)

    S5:E9

    In the second "Alamo" episode, Phyllis Norton, in her last appearance, takes over the station when Chief Clifford catches the flu, a thief kidnaps Broadhurst in order to swap him for the thief's brother, a drug-addicted mother kidnaps her addicted newborn daughter - and a time bomb ticks in the squad room ceiling.

    Director:Walter Doniger
    Writer:Glen A. Larson

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  4. McCloud Season 5 Episode 2 - The Gang That Stole Manhattan
    8.0/10(102 votes)

    S5:E2

    McCloud is assigned to a film shoot, and suspects the production is a front.

    Director:Bruce Kessler
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. McCloud Season 5 Episode 5 - The Concrete Jungle Caper
    7.9/10(85 votes)

    S5:E5

    The international drug trade and a dealer named Harry Hague have McCloud undercover and in prison to root out the Rhigas family of distributors.

    Director:Gene Levitt
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. McCloud Season 5 Episode 6 - The Man with the Golden Hat
    7.9/10(92 votes)

    S5:E6

    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.

    Directors:Glen A. Larson, Lou Antonio
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. McCloud Season 7 Episode 5 - London Bridges
    7.9/10(69 votes)

    S7:E5

    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.

    Director:Noel Black
    Writer:Michael Sloan

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  8. McCloud Season 3 Episode 3 - The Park Avenue Rustlers
    7.8/10(108 votes)

    S3:E3

    As part of a pilot program, McCloud is assigned a female partner, and the two go undercover against a big-time auto theft ring.

    Director:Jack Arnold
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. McCloud Season 4 Episode 1 - Butch Cassidy Rides Again
    7.8/10(110 votes)

    S4:E1

    The NYPD demonstrates a bank robbery on live closed-circuit TV, and is bushwhacked by a gang of antiquated outlaws.

    Director:Barry Shear
    Writer:Glen A. Larson

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  10. McCloud Season 5 Episode 3 - Shivaree on Delancy Street
    7.8/10(79 votes)

    S5:E3

    A black gang infiltrating a white ethnic gang's numbers racket makes four very big mistakes, in ascending order of importance: robbing and killing a pickup man for his bets and the numbers; shooting Broadhurst (knocking him out of the episode after the first scene) when he tries to interfere; framing the unconscious Broadhurst for skimming money from the numbers runners; and depriving a VERY well-connected Jewish tailor of his winnings.

    Director:Bruce Kessler
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. McCloud Season 7 Episode 2 - 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas...
    7.8/10(99 votes)

    S7:E2

    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.

    Director:Dennis Weaver
    Writer:Michael Sloan

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  12. McCloud Season 3 Episode 4 - Showdown at the End of the World
    7.7/10(115 votes)

    S3:E4

    An ambitious junior executive in the mob uses fashion models to transport heroin into New York.

    Director:Lou Antonio
    Writer:Robert Hamner

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  13. McCloud Season 4 Episode 2 - The Solid Gold Swingers
    7.7/10(111 votes)

    S4:E2

    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.

    Director:Lou Antonio
    Writer:Michael Gleason

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  14. McCloud Season 4 Episode 4 - The Colorado Cattle Caper
    7.7/10(124 votes)

    S4:E4

    Modern-day cattle rustlers ship lethally contaminated beef to New York.

    Director:Robert Day
    Writer:Michael Gleason

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  15. McCloud Season 5 Episode 1 - The Barefoot Girls of Bleecker Street
    7.7/10(90 votes)

    S5:E1

    McCloud helps a runaway and her baby, amidst a curious stolen property investigation.

    Director:Barry Shear
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. McCloud Season 6 Episode 3 - Fire!
    7.7/10(66 votes)

    S6:E3

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

    Director:Lou Antonio
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. McCloud Season 3 Episode 1 - The New Mexican Connection
    7.6/10(65 votes)

    S3:E1

    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.

    Directors:Russ Mayberry, Hy Averback
    Writer:Glen A. Larson

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  18. McCloud Season 4 Episode 3 - A Cowboy in Paradise
    7.6/10(108 votes)

    S4:E3

    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.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Jimmy Sangster

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  19. McCloud Season 5 Episode 7 - Lady on the Run
    7.6/10(84 votes)

    S5:E7

    A woman pursues the hit man who killed her sister, and in Mexico City is pursued herself.

    Director:Russ Mayberry
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. McCloud Season 5 Episode 8 - Sharks!
    7.6/10(83 votes)

    S5:E8

    Loan sharks accidentally kill a welcher, and a hardnosed Homicide lieutenant has the wrong man.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. McCloud Season 6 Episode 4 - Three Guns for New York
    7.6/10(74 votes)

    S6:E4

    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.

    Director:Bruce Kessler
    Writer:Jeff Sharkey

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  22. McCloud Season 6 Episode 7 - Night of the Shark
    7.6/10(69 votes)

    S6:E7

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Glen A. Larson

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  23. McCloud Season 7 Episode 4 - The Moscow Connection
    7.6/10(76 votes)

    S7:E4

    The State Department sends Chief Clifford and McCloud to Moscow with a touring country & western singer, undercover.

    Director:Bruce Kessler
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. McCloud Season 1 Episode 6 - Murder Arena (2) (or Walk in the Dark)
    7.5/10(88 votes)

    S1:E6

    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, Nicholas Colasanto
    Writer:Leslie Stevens

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  25. McCloud Season 2 Episode 4 - The Disposal Man
    7.5/10(115 votes)

    S2:E4

    A nabob is menaced by a professional killer with an unknown employer.

    Director:Boris Sagal
    Writer:Dean Hargrove

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Day New York Turned Blue" is the best rated episode of "McCloud". It scored 8.2/10 based on 97 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Glen A. Larson, it aired on 2/22/1976. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "This Must Be the Alamo".