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Episodes: All (45)

Season: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7
Year: 1970  |  1971  |  1972  |  1973  |  1974  |  1975  |  1976  |  1977

Season 1

Season 1, Episode 1: Man from Taos: Part 1: Who Says You Can't Make Friends in New York City?

Original Air Date—16 September 1970
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.

Season 1, Episode 2: Manhattan Manhunt: Part 1: Horse Stealing on Fifth Avenue

Original Air Date—23 September 1970
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.

Season 1, Episode 3: Murder Arena: Part 1: The Concrete Corral

Original Air Date—30 September 1970
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.

Season 1, Episode 4: Manhattan Manhunt: Part 2: The Stage Is All the World

Original Air Date—7 October 1970
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.

Season 1, Episode 5: Murder Arena: Part 2: Walk in the Dark

Original Air Date—14 October 1970
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.

Season 1, Episode 6: Man from Taos: Part 2: Our Man in Paris

Original Air Date—21 October 1970
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.

Season 2

Season 2, Episode 1: Encounter with Aries

Original Air Date—22 September 1971
The kidnapping of a wealthy woman with an astrology fix -- 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.

Season 2, Episode 2: Top of the World, Ma!

Original Air Date—3 November 1971
In a story told mostly in flashbacks, a HUGE Ohio country boy -- so big that he parks cars by literally picking them up and placing them in spaces -- arrives in The Big Apple to collect on a $10,000 debt for services rendered to a New York mobster, who couldn't be less happy about the publicity the visitor (and his elderly mom) are stirring up. Stefanie Powers plays a "model" working both the mobster and the visitor.

Season 2, Episode 3: Somebody's Out to Get Jennie

Original Air Date—24 November 1971
When a business magnate already hiding out from his partners narrowly escapes death by bombing (killing the helicopter pilot and 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.

Season 2, Episode 4: The Disposal Man

Original Air Date—29 December 1971
A tip-off from an informant (Jack Carter in a 20-second cameo) and help from a retired hit man (Arthur O'Connell, on screen for a minute or two) 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. Features a rip-off of "The Lady From Shanghai's hall-of-mirrors gunfight in a museum at the end; the gunman, having fired three shots already, fires six more at the mirrors before running out of ammo.

Season 2, Episode 5: A Little Plot at Tranquil Valley

Original Air Date—12 January 1972
A very successful mortician has a sideline robbing legitimate drug shipments, he waters them down and puts them in caskets destined for South America. His two squabbling associates carry out the robberies, he's hectored by his wife on behalf of her dull-witted brother (who goes on a daylight heist and murders a security guard), the associates kidnap McCloud at the Statue of Liberty to get the blunderer out of a hospital ward, all the while a tour guide conducts visitors through the cemetery.

Season 2, Episode 6: Fifth Man in a String Quartet

Original Air Date—2 February 1972
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.

Season 2, Episode 7: Give My Regrets to Broadway

Original Air Date—23 February 1972
When a police patrol officer is killed in a grenade ambush, McCloud finds out the cop was using blackmail -- including a Broadway theatrical producer (Uncle Miltie!) to advance the career of his daughter.

Season 3

Season 3, Episode 1: The New Mexican Connection

Original Air Date—1 October 1972
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 -- including a famous popular singer and his manager -- pull every trick in the book to spring or kill the robber.

Season 3, Episode 2: The Barefoot Stewardess Caper

Original Air Date—3 December 1972
Flight attendants on the European beat assemble a jewelry collection by stealing it piecemeal, and murdering anyone who stands in their way.

Season 3, Episode 3: The Park Avenue Rustlers

Original Air Date—24 December 1972
McCloud and an undercover policewoman infiltrate a huge ring of car thieves and chop shops.

Season 3, Episode 4: Showdown at the End of the World

Original Air Date—7 January 1973
McCloud befriends a flight attendant who's being used as a pawn in a drug-smuggling ring.

Season 3, Episode 5: The Million Dollar Round Up

Original Air Date—4 February 1973
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.

Season 4

Season 4, Episode 1: Butch Cassidy Rides Again

Original Air Date—14 October 1973
When four elderly outlaws hold up a bank followed by a train, a computer says that their leader is "the son of Butch Cassidy," sending the NYPD into fits -- until McCloud follows the thread and realizes that they, and the elderly computer programmer, plan to hit a "stagecoach" (an armored car) for $2.5 million.

Season 4, Episode 2: The Solid Gold Swingers

Original Air Date—2 December 1973
A series of "psychotic" stranglings are actually hired hits, ordered by a madam facing trial against her girls, some of whom have some very creative ways to escape. Teri Garr's first appearance as Phyllis Norton.

Season 4, Episode 3: A Cowboy in Paradise

Original Air Date—20 January 1974
When McCloud and Clifford wind up together at a police convention in Hawaii, Clifford promptly looks up an old girlfriend who's now married to the Mob, and the Mob seizes the opportunity to throw Clifford in jail on a murder frame (to keep him from testifying back home).

Season 4, Episode 4: The Colorado Cattle Caper

Original Air Date—24 February 1974
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 (Claude Akins' prototype for Elroy P. Lobo) 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.

Season 4, Episode 5: This Must Be the Alamo

Original Air Date—24 March 1974
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.

Season 5

Season 5, Episode 1: The Barefoot Girls of Bleecker Street

Original Air Date—22 September 1974
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.

Season 5, Episode 2: The Gang That Stole Manhattan

Original Air Date—13 October 1974
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.

Season 5, Episode 3: Shivaree on Delancy Street

Original Air Date—3 November 1974
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.

Season 5, Episode 4: The 42nd Street Cavalry

Original Air Date—17 November 1974
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.

Season 5, Episode 5: The Concrete Jungle Caper

Original Air Date—24 November 1974
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.

Season 5, Episode 6: The Man with the Golden Hat

Original Air Date—12 January 1975
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?

Season 5, Episode 7: Lady on the Run

Original Air Date—26 January 1975
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.

Season 5, Episode 8: Sharks!

Original Air Date—23 February 1975
McCloud goes undercover to trap a ring of vicious loan sharks, only to be forced into flying a plane after he knocks out the pilot.

Season 5, Episode 9: Return to the Alamo

Original Air Date—30 March 1975
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.

Season 6

Season 6, Episode 1: Park Avenue Pirates

Original Air Date—21 September 1975
The syndicate has a major interest in a young singer.

Season 6, Episode 2: Showdown at Times Square

Original Air Date—19 October 1975
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.

Season 6, Episode 3: Fire!

Original Air Date—16 November 1975
An arsonist torches Chris's building, killing her nephew and a security guard. 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.

Season 6, Episode 4: Three Guns for New York

Original Air Date—23 November 1975
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.

Season 6, Episode 5: Our Man in the Harem

Original Air Date—11 January 1976
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. This has a slight resemblance to Lou Shaw's "Columbo" episode "A Case of Immunity" (episode 5.2), which aired a few months earlier.

Season 6, Episode 6: The Day New York Turned Blue

Original Air Date—22 February 1976
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!

Season 6, Episode 7: Night of the Shark

Original Air Date—21 March 1976
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.

Season 7

Season 7, Episode 1: Bonnie and McCloud

Original Air Date—24 October 1976
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.

Season 7, Episode 2: 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas...

Original Air Date—26 December 1976
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.

Season 7, Episode 3: The Great Taxicab Stampede

Original Air Date—16 January 1977
Framed for killing a drug-running taxicab driver -- actually, the driver's boss did it, with the help of McCloud's colleague Simms -- McCloud must deal with the victim's Israeli Army sister, who's coming after him with a gun.

Season 7, Episode 4: The Moscow Connection

Original Air Date—23 January 1977
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 mafiya drug pushers and help a scientist and his daughter -- who's involved in the heroin ring -- defect.

Season 7, Episode 5: London Bridges

Original Air Date—6 March 1977
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.

Season 7, Episode 6: McCloud Meets Dracula

Original Air Date—17 April 1977
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.

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