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The Best Episodes of McCloud

Every episode of McCloud ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of McCloud!

The Best Episodes of McCloud

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...

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  1. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Portrait of a Dead Girl (or Who Killed Miss U.S.A.?)

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    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.

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  2. NaN/10(0 votes)

    #2 - Man from Taos (1) (or Who Says You Can't Make Friends in New York City?)

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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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  3. NaN/10(0 votes)

    #3 - Manhattan Manhunt (1) (or Horse Stealing on Fifth Avenue)

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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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  4. NaN/10(0 votes)

    #4 - Murder Arena (1) (or The Concrete Corral)

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    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.

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    Writer:N/A
  5. NaN/10(0 votes)

    #5 - Manhattan Manhunt (2) (or The Stage Is All the World)

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    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.

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  6. NaN/10(0 votes)

    #6 - Murder Arena (2) (or Walk in the Dark)

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    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.

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  8. NaN/10(0 votes)

    #7 - Man from Taos (2) (or Our Man in Paris)

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    S1:E7

    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.

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    Director:Russ Mayberry
    Writer:N/A
  9. NaN/10(0 votes)

    #8 - Encounter with Aries

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    The wife of an astrologer and widely-syndicated newspaper columnist is kidnapped in broad daylight.

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  10. NaN/10(0 votes)

    #9 - Top of the World, Ma!

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    A football player from Ohio who needs an operation goes to find the New York mobster who owes him money.

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  11. NaN/10(0 votes)

    #10 - Somebody's Out to Get Jennie

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    An industrial engineer is thought to have been died in an air crash, and his secretary is driven into a mental hospital.

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    Director:Jack Smight
    Writer:N/A
  12. NaN/10(0 votes)

    #11 - The Disposal Man

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

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    Director:Boris Sagal
  13. NaN/10(0 votes)

    #12 - A Little Plot at Tranquil Valley

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    Stolen penicillin is diluted and sent south of the border by the director of a famous cemetery.

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  14. NaN/10(0 votes)

    #13 - Fifth Man in a String Quartet

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    A musician is framed for the killing of his teacher, a violinist whose long-lost brother was in the mob.

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  15. NaN/10(0 votes)

    #14 - Give My Regrets to Broadway

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    A Broadway producer is implicated in the murder of a detective investigating his business practices.

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  16. NaN/10(0 votes)

    #15 - The New Mexican Connection

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    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.

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  17. NaN/10(0 votes)

    #16 - The Barefoot Stewardess Caper

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    A bevy of international stewardesses have a second career as cat burglars.

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  18. NaN/10(0 votes)

    #17 - The Park Avenue Rustlers

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

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    Director:Jack Arnold
    Writer:N/A
  19. NaN/10(0 votes)

    #18 - Showdown at the End of the World

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

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    Director:Lou Antonio
  20. NaN/10(0 votes)

    #19 - The Million Dollar Round Up

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    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.

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  21. NaN/10(0 votes)

    #20 - Butch Cassidy Rides Again

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

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  22. NaN/10(0 votes)

    #21 - The Solid Gold Swingers

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    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.

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  23. NaN/10(0 votes)

    #22 - A Cowboy in Paradise

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    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.

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  24. NaN/10(0 votes)

    #23 - The Colorado Cattle Caper

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

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  25. NaN/10(0 votes)

    #24 - This Must Be the Alamo

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    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.

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  26. NaN/10(0 votes)

    #25 - The Barefoot Girls of Bleecker Street

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    S5:E1

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

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    Director:Barry Shear
    Writer:N/A

Best Episodes Summary

"Portrait of a Dead Girl (or Who Killed Miss U.S.A.?)" is the best rated episode of "McCloud". It scored 7/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Richard A. Colla and written by Richard Levinson, William Link, Stanford Whitmore, it aired on 2/17/1970. This episode scored NaN points higher than the second highest rated, "Man from Taos (1) (or Who Says You Can't Make Friends in New York City?)".