This is a list of episodes for the television series McCloud.
At present, the first two seasons and the pilot have been released in a single DVD box set by Universal Studios.
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| Season | № of episodes |
Premiered: | Ended: | DVD set release date |
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| Pilot | 1 | 1970.02.17 | 2005.08.09 | ||
| 1 | 6 | 1970.09.16 | 1970.10.21 | ||
| 2 | 7 | 1971.09.22 | 1972.02.23 | ||
| 3 | 5 | 1972.10.01 | 1973.02.04 | -- | |
| 4 | 5 | 1973.10.14 | 1974.02.24 | -- | |
| 5 | 9 | 1974.09.22 | 1975.03.20 | -- | |
| 6 | 7 | 1975.09.21 | 1976.03.21 | -- | |
| 7 | 6 | 1976.10.24 | 1977.04.17 | -- | |
| Special | 1 | 1989.11.12 | -- | ||
| № | Title | Directed by: | Written by: | Airdate |
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| 0 | "McCloud: Who Killed Miss U.S.A.?" "Portrait of a Dead Girl" |
Richard A. Colla | Stanford Whitmore, Richard Levinson, William Link |
February 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. | ||||
6 episodes.
| № | Title | Directed by: | Written by: | Airdate |
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| 1 | "Man from Taos (Part 1)" "Who Says You Can't Make Friends in New York City?" |
Douglas Heyes | Leslie Stevens | September 16, 1970 |
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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. |
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| 2 | "Manhattan Manhunt (Part 1)" "Horse Stealing on Fifth Avenue" |
Bruce Kessler | Glen A. Larson | September 23, 1970 |
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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. |
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| 3 | "Murder Arena (Part 1)" "The Concrete Corral" |
Nicholas Colasanto | Warren Douglas, David P. Harmon |
September 30, 1970 |
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McCloud is assigned to keep an eye on a boisterous bunch of rodeo riders at Madison Square Garden. While there McCloud encounters more than-old friends, an ex-girlfriend and murder. Doug McClure has an uncredited cameo in the tag scene. |
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| 4 | "Manhattan Manhunt (Part 2)" "The Stage Is All the World" |
Russ Mayberry | Norman Hudis | October 7, 1970 |
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Continued from episode 2: |
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| 5 | "Murder Arena (Part 2)" "Walk in the Dark" |
Russ Mayberry | Leslie Stevens | October 14, 1970 |
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Continued from episode 3: |
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| 6 | "Man from Taos (Part 2)" "Our Man in Paris" |
Russ Mayberry | Matthew Howard | October 21, 1970 |
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Continued from episode 1: |
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7 episodes.
| № | Title | Directed by: | Written by | Airdate |
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| 7 | "Encounter with Aries" | Russ Mayberry | Peter Allan Fields | September 22, 1971 |
| The wife (Susan Strasberg) of an astrologer and widely-syndicated newspaper columnist (Sebastian Cabot) is kidnapped in broad daylight. | ||||
| 8 | "Top of the World, Ma!" | Alex March | Peter Allan Fields, Ray Danton |
November 3, 1971 |
| A football player from Ohio who needs an operation goes to find the New York mobster who owes him money. | ||||
| 9 | "Somebody's Out to Get Jennie" | Jack Smight | Robert Presnell Jr. | November 24, 1971 |
| An industrial engineer is thought to have died in an air crash, and his secretary is driven into a mental hospital. | ||||
| 10 | "The Disposal Man" | Boris Sagal | Mel Arrighi, Dean Hargrove |
December 29, 1971 |
| To stop a paid killer, you've got to think like one. McCloud's looking for a former hit man to help him prevent the murder of a tycoon. | ||||
| 11 | "A Little Plot at Tranquil Valley" | Jack Smight | Peter Allan Fields | January 12, 1972 |
| Stolen penicillin is diluted and sent south of the border by the director of a famous cemetery. | ||||
| 12 | "The Fifth Man in a String Quartet" | Russ Mayberry | James D. Buchanan, Ronald Austin |
February 2, 1972 |
| A musician is framed for the killing of his teacher, a violinist whose long-lost brother was in the mob. | ||||
| 13 | "Give My Regrets to Broadway" | Lou Antonio | Peter Allan Fields | February 23, 1972 |
| A Broadway producer is implicated in the murder of a detective investigating his business practices. | ||||
5 episodes.
| № | Title | Directed by: | Written by: | Airdate |
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| 14 | "The New Mexican Connection" | Russ Mayberry, Hy Averback |
Glen A. Larson | October 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. | ||||
| 15 | "The Barefoot Stewardess Caper" | Harry Falk | Glen A. Larson, Michael Gleason, B.W. Sandefur |
December 3, 1972 |
| A bevy of international stewardesses have a second career as cat burglars. | ||||
| 16 | "The Park Avenue Rustlers" | Jack Arnold | Sy Salkowitz | December 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. | ||||
| 17 | "Showdown at the End of the World" | Lou Antonio | Robert Hamner | January 7, 1973 |
| An ambitious junior executive in the mob uses fashion models to transport heroin into New York. | ||||
| 18 | "The Million Dollar Roundup" | Douglas Heyes | Douglas Heyes | February 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. | ||||
5 episodes.
| № | Title | Directed by: | Written by: | Airdate |
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| 19 | "Butch Cassidy Rides Again" | Barry Shear | Glen A. Larson | October 14, 1973 |
| The NYPD demonstrates a bank robbery on live closed-circuit TV, and is bushwhacked by a gang of antiquated outlaws. | ||||
| 20 | "The Solid Gold Swingers" | Lou Antonio | Michael Gleason | December 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. | ||||
| 21 | "A Cowboy in Paradise" | Jerry Paris | Jimmy Sangster | January 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. | ||||
| 22 | "The Colorado Cattle Caper" | Robert Day | Michael Gleason | February 24, 1974 |
| On escort duty in Colorado, McCloud runs into a cattle-rustling ring providing meat for Eastern markets. Guest-starring Claude Akins and John Denver. | ||||
| 23 | "This Must Be the Alamo" | Bruce Kessler | Glen A. Larson | March 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. | ||||
9 episodes.
| № | Title | Directed by: | Written by: | Airdate |
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| 24 | "The Barefoot Girls of Bleecker Street" | Barry Shear | Lou Shaw | September 22, 1974 |
| Marshall McCloud is up against a credit-card burglary ring that employs runaway teen-aged girls in a nightclub scam. | ||||
| 25 | "The Gang That Stole Manhattan" | Bruce Kessler | Nicholas E. Baehr, Gerry Day, Bethel Leslie |
October 13, 1974 |
| A gangster Sting-like movie being shot in New York may be a clever cover-up for an actual crime. The real gangsters hope the location-filming will divert police attention while they pull off a multi-million-dollar jewel heist. | ||||
| 26 | "Shivaree on Delancy Street" | Bruce Kessler | Mort Fine | November 3, 1974 |
| A tailor (Danny Thomas) 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. | ||||
| 27 | "The 42nd Street Cavalry" | Jerry Jameson | Michael Gleason | November 17, 1974 |
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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. |
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| 28 | "The Concrete Jungle Caper" | Gene Levitt | Lou Shaw, Jimmy Sangster |
November 24, 1974 |
| The international drug trade and a dealer named Harry Hague (John Russell) have McCloud undercover and in prison to root out the Rhigas family of distributors. | ||||
| 29 | "The Man with the Golden Hat" | Lou Antonio | Lou Shaw, Glen A. Larson |
January 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. Jaclyn Smith guest stars. | ||||
| 30 | "Lady on the Run" | Russ Mayberry | Gilbert Edd | January 26, 1975 |
| A woman pursues the hit man who killed her sister, and in Mexico City is pursued herself. | ||||
| 31 | "Sharks!" | E.W. Swackhamer | Lou Shaw, Stephen Lord |
February 23, 1975 |
| The murder of an Indian girl causes McCloud to take on the case. McCloud poses as a businessman in desperate need of money, the best way to trap the shark. | ||||
| 32 | "Return to the Alamo" | Walter Doniger | Glen A. Larson | March 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. | ||||
7 episodes.
| № | Title | Directed by: | Written by: | Airdate |
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| 33 | "Park Avenue Pirates" | E.W. Swackhamer | Lou Shaw | September 21, 1975 |
| McCloud pursues a record-company executive who is pirating records done by a popular performer. | ||||
| 34 | "Showdown at Times Square" | Ron Satlof | Lou Shaw, Sidney Ellis |
October 19, 1975 |
| 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. 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. | ||||
| 35 | "Fire!" | Lou Antonio | Robert Hamilton, Lou Shaw |
November 16, 1975 |
| Chris Coughlin's high-rise apartment building is torched by an arsonist for hire. | ||||
| 36 | "Three Guns for New York" | Bruce Kessler | Jeff Sharkey | November 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. | ||||
| 37 | "Our Man in the Harem" | E.W. Swackhamer | Lou Shaw, Glen A. Larson |
January 11, 1976 |
| A patrolman's daughter is held captive in the Middle East. | ||||
| 38 | "The Day New York Turned Blue" | E.W. Swackhamer | Glen A. Larson | February 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. | ||||
| 39 | "Night of the Shark" | Ron Satlof | Glen A. Larson | March 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. This episode featured actual location shooting in Australia. | ||||
6 episodes.
| № | Title | Directed by: | Written by: | Airdate |
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| 40 | "Bonnie and McCloud" | Steven H. Stern | Michael Sloan | October 24, 1976 |
| The head of a trucking company is killed before eyewitnesses, and McCloud's girlfriend is the culprit. | ||||
| 41 | "'Twas the Fight Before Christmas..." | Dennis Weaver | Michael Sloan, Allan R. Folsom, David H. Balkan |
December 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. | ||||
| 42 | "The Great Taxicab Stampede" | Ivan Dixon | Michael Sloan, Gregory S. Dinallo |
January 16, 1977 |
| McCloud is framed for the murder of a drug-dealing hack, and exposes the ring. | ||||
| 43 | "The Moscow Connection" | Bruce Kessler | Michael Kozoll | January 23, 1977 |
| The State Department sends Chief Clifford and McCloud to Moscow with a touring country & western singer, undercover. | ||||
| 44 | "London Bridges" | Noel Black | Michael Sloan | March 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. | ||||
| 45 | "McCloud Meets Dracula" | Bruce Kessler | Glen A. Larson | April 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. Tom Snyder appears as himself. | ||||
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| 46 | "The Return of Sam McCloud" | Alan J. Levi | Michael Sloan | November 12, 1989 |
| Senator Sam McCloud of New Mexico wrangles an unscrupulous chemical manufacturer. His niece is murdered investigating the outfit, while he escapes assassination attempts apparently from Arab terrorists, and it takes a showdown in London to settle things. | ||||