McCloud
A New Mexico deputy marshal gets assigned to Manhattan's 27th Precinct.
Cast:Dennis Weaver , J.D. Cannon , Terry Carter , Ken Lynch , Diana Muldaur , Sidney Clute , Ken Scott , John Finnegan , Teri Garr , Tracy Reed , Robert Weaver , Rick Weaver , Coleen Gray , Gino Ardito , William Bryant , Ben Frommer , Neville Brand , Lonny Chapman
S1.E0 ∙ Portrait of a Dead Girl
A marshal from New Mexico travels to New York City to deliver a witness who is supposed to testify in a murder trial. However, the witness is soon kidnapped from his custody, and in trying to get him back, the marshal finds that the case involves Puerto Rican nationalists, a lady novelist and a dead beauty queen, and a possible frame-up.
S1.E1 ∙ Who Says You Can't Make Friends in New York City?
When McCloud wins a gunfight with a hit man, he suspects the hired gun was sent by a smooth businessman with his finger in many pies.
S1.E2 ∙ Horse Stealing on Fifth Avenue
The horseback chase used in all subsequent episode titles caps this story of McCloud trying to track a drug thief who barely grazed him with a bullet, leading McCloud to believe the thief is an addict who can be helped.
S1.E3 ∙ The Concrete Corral
McCloud welcomes several of his New Mexico cowboy buddies to Madison Square Garden for a rodeo, but winds up in a murder investigation when a young cowboy is slain and the most unpopular man in the West takes it on the lam -- even though he didn't do it.
S1.E4 ∙ The Stage Is All the World
An extremely arrogant Broadway producer is receiving death threats for the content of his new play, and McCloud must find out if the threats are real or made up by the producer himself.
S1.E5 ∙ Walk in the Dark
A strangler of women -- including an undercover cop -- moves through Central Park with the greatest of ease, and McCloud, a sergeant and two policewomen must track him down before he kills again.
S1.E6 ∙ Our Man in Paris
When McCloud is summoned to JFK Airport by Chief Clifford, he finds Clifford held hostage by two crooks, one of whom keeps Clifford company at home while the second goes with McCloud on a pair of phony diplomatic passports to Paris, with this mission of concluding a secret business deal with smugglers. When McCloud gets out of the net, he and a friendly stewardess must track down the second thug and catch him before he can order Clifford murdered.
S2.E1 ∙ Encounter with Aries
The kidnapping of a woman who is married to a wealthy astrologer -- and the appearance of her kidnapper, who claims she is being held in a room with a ticking time bomb -- spur the woman's husband to bash in the kidnapper's head with a vase, leaving McCloud, Clifford and Broadhurst with a limited time to determine where the woman is and who is really behind the kidnapping.
S2.E2 ∙ Top of the World, Ma!
An easy going guy comes to New York looking to collect on money owed him and doesn't mind how many guys he has to beat up to collect it. The mobster who owes him is determined to stop him as much as McCloud is.
S2.E3 ∙ Somebody's Out to Get Jennie
When a business magnate already hiding out from his partners narrowly escapes death by bombing (killing an aide who visited his lakeside hideaway), he tries to communicate to his girlfriend that he's still alive -- prompting the associates to try to drive her insane and incompetent to find him via various scare tactics, and take over the company for themselves.
S2.E4 ∙ The Disposal Man
A tip-off from an informant and help from a retired hit man clue McCloud in to the existence of a hit man famed for leaving no traces of his crime, and reveal the nature of his target -- an honest businessman with an extreme talent for abrading everyone in his path.
S2.E5 ∙ A Little Plot at Tranquil Valley
A very successful mortician has a sideline robbing legitimate drug shipments--he waters them down and puts them in caskets destined for South America. Usually, his two squabbling associates carry out the robberies, but this time he's convinced by his wife to include her dull-witted brother, who goes on a daylight heist and murders a security guard. The associates kidnap McCloud at the Statue of Liberty and hold him for ransom in exchange for the brother.
S2.E6 ∙ Fifth Man in a String Quartet
A former student (Rick Weaver in the first of five annual appearances) is accused of the fatal stabbing of his ex-violin teacher, but the murder was actually a hit -- a "reformed" mobster and his lawyer, ambitious for political office, are trying to smoke out the violinist's identical twin brother, a thug with almost no redeeming qualities, to waste him before he goes honest and spills the beans about other crimes.
S2.E7 ∙ Give My Regrets to Broadway
When a police patrol officer is killed in a grenade ambush, McCloud finds out the cop was using blackmail -- including a Broadway theatrical producer to advance the career of his daughter.
S3.E1 ∙ The New Mexican Connection
When McCloud, on stakeout at a grocery store, spots a suspect in a three-year-old Taos bank robbery-bombing and arrests him, the thief's accomplices pull every trick in the book to spring or kill the robber.
S3.E2 ∙ The Barefoot Stewardess Caper
Flight attendants on the European beat assemble a jewelry collection by stealing it piecemeal, and murdering anyone who stands in their way.
S3.E3 ∙ The Park Avenue Rustlers
McCloud and an undercover policewoman infiltrate a huge ring of car thieves and chop shops.
S3.E4 ∙ Showdown at the End of the World
McCloud befriends a model who's being used as a pawn in a drug-smuggling ring in which mules leave drugs inside planes to be picked up by the cleaning crew.
S3.E5 ∙ The Million Dollar Round Up
A deadly game of Button Button Who's Got the Button, centered around a priceless statuette coveted by a murderous thief, a crooked cop, various operators and an 8-year-old pickpocket.
S4.E1 ∙ Butch Cassidy Rides Again
Four elderly outlaws hold up McCloud and Broadhurst, who have just robbed a bank during a public demonstration to show the effectiveness of new bank and police procedures. As the robberies continue, and after a sophisticated computer draws the conclusion that the gang's leader is "the son of Butch Cassidy," the NYPD is sent into fits trying to track them down.
S4.E2 ∙ The Solid Gold Swingers
McCloud gets himself involved in a series of murders of high-class escorts after a body he discovers in a senator's flat mysteriously disappears.
S4.E3 ∙ A Cowboy in Paradise
When McCloud and Clifford wind up together at a police convention in Hawaii, Clifford is framed for murder. With the help of Clifford's ex-fiancee, several of Clifford's cop friends who are also at the convention, and a Honolulu police detective, McCloud must find out who framed him and why.
S4.E4 ∙ The Colorado Cattle Caper
When a shipper of contaminated stolen beef kills a USDA inspector and flees to Colorado and his employers, McCloud tracks him down, only to run smack into a dumb-but-ambitious sheriff and his smart-but-wimpy deputy. Features McCloud's leap from a running horse to tackle a rustler from his dirt bike and roll down a hill punching him out.
S4.E5 ∙ This Must Be the Alamo
The first of four "Alamo" episodes has the 23rd Precinct (in its last appearance; the show moved to Police Headquarters the next year) under siege by mobsters desperate to locate the diary of a kept woman who knows all about football game fixing. First major role for Robby Weaver, as a phony newspaper reporter.
S5.E1 ∙ The Barefoot Girls of Bleecker Street
A madam uses underage girls to extort credit cards from the Johns -- but even she has to ask for McCloud's help when one of the girls gives birth and is stalked by a robber-killer posing as a Minnesota sheriff.
S5.E2 ∙ The Gang That Stole Manhattan
A film producer steals an idea about making a movie about a diamond-store robbery to cover the real-life robbery of said store, and kills the original screenwriter to boot.
S5.E3 ∙ Shivaree on Delancy Street
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.
S5.E4 ∙ The 42nd Street Cavalry
On temporary assignment with the NYPD Mounted Police, McCloud and a nervous policewoman botch the attempt to capture a group of radicals who stole a huge cache of weapons -- so both go undercover posing as crazed gun buyers.
S5.E5 ∙ The Concrete Jungle Caper
When a drug lord who strongly resembles McCloud disappears after a by, McCloud assumes his identity, goes to prison, and tries to con the crime family who was setting up a French Connection with the drug lord.
S5.E6 ∙ The Man with the Golden Hat
An accountant falls to his death after stealing McCloud's Stetson. The hat is tied to the embezzlement of $7 million by a consortium including the directors of a ballet company, but how?
S5.E7 ∙ Lady on the Run
A woman takes off for Mexico after apparently killing her sister's murderer, but she is actually seeking the hit man who killed them both. McCloud is assigned to escort her back to New York.
S5.E8 ∙ Sharks!
McCloud goes undercover to trap a ring of vicious loan sharks, investigate the murder of a Navajo woman who was indebted to them, and free the innocent man who is blamed for the murder, all while stepping on the toes of the soon-to-be-retired detective assigned to the case.
S5.E9 ∙ Return to the Alamo
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.
S6.E1 ∙ Park Avenue Pirates
A syndicate involved in the music industry has a major interest in a young singer. While they use pirating and bribery to sell more records, they lean on the singer's manager to get him to sign with their company.
S6.E2 ∙ Showdown at Times Square
When McCloud looks out a window and sees unusual smoke clouds, he tracks them to an Apache chief seeking his grandson -- the grandson has followed four armed robbers who framed his father to New York, where he kills one of them in self-defense and is murdered himself, leaving McCloud and the girlfriend of the dead thief to launch their own investigation.
S6.E3 ∙ Fire!
An arsonist torches Chris's building, killing her nephew and a janitor. When McCloud and Chris discover the building's owner was deep in the hole and probably committed the arson for money, they launch two simultaneous undercover investigations -- one with McCloud as a builder looking for a torch, the other as the torch himself.
S6.E4 ∙ Three Guns for New York
When three bank robbers finally get out of New Mexico prison, they high-tail it to New York -- both to get vengeance on McCloud for crippling the gang's leader and to force him to track down the bank loot -- which one of them dumped while fleeing and can't find again.
S6.E5 ∙ Our Man in the Harem
A crooked businessman hoping to land a Middle Eastern contract tries to "sweeten the pot" for the honest sheik and his extremely corrupt deputy by feeding women to the sheik's harem -- by kidnapping them.
S6.E6 ∙ The Day New York Turned Blue
The third "Alamo" episode has a blizzard and a police walkout endangering the life of a protected Mob witness in the lockup, while outside a prostitute paints her customers blue!
S6.E7 ∙ Night of the Shark
When McCloud and Clifford go to Sydney, Australia, to investigate a mob hit in New York, a panicked mole recognizes McCloud from a New Mexico murder case where he jumped bail, and puts out a contract on McCloud.
S7.E1 ∙ Bonnie and McCloud
When Bonnie Foster shoots her ex-boyfriend, the boss of a trucking company, and flees to Oklahoma with McCloud, the trucking company's goons send an entire fleet after them along with numerous Oklahoma state troopers eager to avenge the goons' murder of a cop.
S7.E2 ∙ 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas...
The final "Alamo" episode is set during the Christmas holidays, as McCloud helps a suicidal woman on a window ledge, deals with a psychotic stalker, and tries to rescue "Santa" Clifford and Chris, who are held hostage in a children's ward at a hospital by three drug thieves.
S7.E3 ∙ The Great Taxicab Stampede
Framed for killing a taxicab driver -- actually, the driver's boss, who is being investigated by the police for drug trafficking, did it-- McCloud must deal with the victim's Israeli Army sister, who's coming after him with a gun.
S7.E4 ∙ The Moscow Connection
When a country-singing buddy of McCloud's freaks out and nearly kills a woman just before a scheduled trip to Russia, McCloud and Clifford accompany him to Moscow, hoping both to nab Russian mafia drug smugglers and help a scientist and his daughter (who's involved in the heroin ring) defect.
S7.E5 ∙ London Bridges
Lord Charles Bridges, a noble cat burglar, swipes his party host's prize ring and hides on a balcony just in time to witness the owner's murder; on inspecting the ring, he discovers it contains microfilm plans of Buckingham Palace and places where Irish terrorists plan to plant bombs on the Queen's birthday.
S7.E6 ∙ McCloud Meets Dracula
While trying to get on a squad tracking down a sniper (which he ultimately does, by accident), McCloud happens onto a series of murder scenes where the victims' blood was drained from them through bite marks in the neck, leading him to a retired horror-film actor who seems to live as Dracula.
