8.3/1075 votesLoading...#1 - The Day New York Turned Blue
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 2/22/1976
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Glen A. Larson
8.2/1078 votesLoading...#2 - This Must Be the Alamo
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 3/24/1974
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.
Director: Bruce Kessler
Writer: Glen A. Larson
8.2/1081 votesLoading...#3 - Return to the Alamo
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 3/30/1975
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.
Director: Walter Doniger
Writer: Glen A. Larson
8.1/1085 votesLoading...#4 - The Park Avenue Rustlers
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 12/24/1972
As part of a pilot program, McCloud is assigned a female partner, and the two go undercover against a big-time auto theft ring.
Director: Jack Arnold
Writer: N/A
8.1/1070 votesLoading...#5 - The Man with the Golden Hat
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 1/12/1975
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.
Director: Lou Antonio, Glen A. Larson
Writer: N/A
8.1/1058 votesLoading...#6 - London Bridges
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 3/6/1977
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.
Director: Noel Black
Writer: Michael Sloan
8.0/1098 votesLoading...#7 - The Colorado Cattle Caper
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 2/24/1974
Modern-day cattle rustlers ship lethally contaminated beef to New York.
Director: Robert Day
Writer: Michael Gleason
8.0/1080 votesLoading...#8 - The Gang That Stole Manhattan
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/1974
McCloud is assigned to a film shoot, and suspects the production is a front.
Director: Bruce Kessler
Writer: N/A
8.0/1062 votesLoading...#9 - Shivaree on Delancy Street
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 11/3/1974
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.
Director: Bruce Kessler
Writer: N/A
8.0/1068 votesLoading...#10 - The Concrete Jungle Caper
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 11/24/1974
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: N/A
7.9/1089 votesLoading...#11 - Butch Cassidy Rides Again
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 10/14/1973
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
7.9/1066 votesLoading...#12 - The Barefoot Girls of Bleecker Street
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1974
McCloud helps a runaway and her baby, amidst a curious stolen property investigation.
Director: Barry Shear
Writer: N/A
7.9/1065 votesLoading...#13 - Lady on the Run
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 1/26/1975
A woman pursues the hit man who killed her sister, and in Mexico City is pursued herself.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: N/A
7.8/1093 votesLoading...#14 - Showdown at the End of the World
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 1/7/1973
An ambitious junior executive in the mob uses fashion models to transport heroin into New York.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: Robert Hamner
7.8/1086 votesLoading...#15 - A Cowboy in Paradise
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/1974
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.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Jimmy Sangster
7.8/1051 votesLoading...#16 - Fire!
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 11/16/1975
Chris Coughlin's high-rise apartment building is torched by an arsonist for hire.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: N/A
7.8/1087 votesLoading...#17 - 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas...
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 12/26/1976
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.
Director: Dennis Weaver
Writer: Michael Sloan
7.7/10110 votesLoading...#18 - The Barefoot Stewardess Caper
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 12/3/1972
A bevy of international stewardesses have a second career as cat burglars.
Director: Harry Falk
Writer: Glen A. Larson, Michael Gleason
7.7/1091 votesLoading...#19 - The Solid Gold Swingers
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 12/2/1973
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.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: Michael Gleason
7.6/10108 votesLoading...#20 - Top of the World, Ma!
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 11/3/1971
A football player from Ohio who needs an operation goes to find the New York mobster who owes him money.
Director: Alex March
Writer: Peter Allan Fields
7.6/1051 votesLoading...#21 - The New Mexican Connection
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1972
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.
Director: Russ Mayberry, Hy Averback
Writer: Glen A. Larson
7.6/1068 votesLoading...#22 - Sharks!
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 2/23/1975
Loan sharks accidentally kill a welcher, and a hardnosed Homicide lieutenant has the wrong man.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1074 votesLoading...#23 - The Million Dollar Round Up
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/1973
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.
Director: Douglas Heyes
Writer: Douglas Heyes
7.5/1069 votesLoading...#24 - The 42nd Street Cavalry
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 11/17/1974
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.
Director: Jerry Jameson
Writer: Michael Gleason
7.5/1057 votesLoading...#25 - Three Guns for New York
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 11/23/1975
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.
Director: Bruce Kessler
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of McCloud
Every episode of McCloud ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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...
Genres:CrimeDrama
Network:NBC
Best Episodes Summary
"The Day New York Turned Blue" is the best rated episode of "McCloud". It scored 8.3/10 based on 75 votes. Directed by N/A 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".