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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. Background image for The Day New York Turned Blue
    8.3/10(84 votes)

    #1 - The Day New York Turned Blue

    S6:E6

    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:Unknown
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  2. Background image for This Must Be the Alamo
    8.2/10(86 votes)

    #2 - This Must Be the Alamo

    S4:E5

    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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  3. Background image for Return to the Alamo
    8.1/10(89 votes)

    #3 - Return to the Alamo

    S5:E9

    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.

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  4. Background image for London Bridges
    8.1/10(62 votes)

    #4 - London Bridges

    S7:E5

    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
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  5. Background image for The Park Avenue Rustlers
    8.0/10(94 votes)

    #5 - The Park Avenue Rustlers

    S3:E3

    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:Unknown
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  6. Background image for The Colorado Cattle Caper
    8.0/10(107 votes)

    #6 - The Colorado Cattle Caper

    S4:E4

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

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  8. Background image for The Gang That Stole Manhattan
    8.0/10(88 votes)

    #7 - The Gang That Stole Manhattan

    S5:E2

    McCloud is assigned to a film shoot, and suspects the production is a front.

    Director:Bruce Kessler
    Writer:Unknown
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  9. Background image for The Man with the Golden Hat
    8.0/10(79 votes)

    #8 - The Man with the Golden Hat

    S5:E6

    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.

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  10. Background image for The Concrete Jungle Caper
    7.9/10(76 votes)

    #9 - The Concrete Jungle Caper

    S5:E5

    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:Unknown
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  11. Background image for Showdown at the End of the World
    7.8/10(102 votes)

    #10 - Showdown at the End of the World

    S3:E4

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

    Director:Lou Antonio
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  12. Background image for Butch Cassidy Rides Again
    7.8/10(98 votes)

    #11 - Butch Cassidy Rides Again

    S4:E1

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

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  13. Background image for The Barefoot Girls of Bleecker Street
    7.8/10(74 votes)

    #12 - The Barefoot Girls of Bleecker Street

    S5:E1

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

    Director:Barry Shear
    Writer:Unknown
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  14. Background image for Shivaree on Delancy Street
    7.8/10(69 votes)

    #13 - Shivaree on Delancy Street

    S5:E3

    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:Unknown
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  15. Background image for Fire!
    7.8/10(58 votes)

    #14 - Fire!

    S6:E3

    Chris Coughlin's high-rise apartment building is torched by an arsonist for hire.

    Director:Lou Antonio
    Writer:Unknown
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  16. Background image for 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas...
    7.8/10(90 votes)

    #15 - 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas...

    S7:E2

    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.

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  17. Background image for The Solid Gold Swingers
    7.7/10(98 votes)

    #16 - The Solid Gold Swingers

    S4:E2

    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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  18. Background image for Lady on the Run
    7.7/10(73 votes)

    #17 - Lady on the Run

    S5:E7

    A woman pursues the hit man who killed her sister, and in Mexico City is pursued herself.

    Director:Russ Mayberry
    Writer:Unknown
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  19. Background image for A Cowboy in Paradise
    7.6/10(95 votes)

    #18 - A Cowboy in Paradise

    S4:E3

    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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  20. Background image for The Moscow Connection
    7.6/10(71 votes)

    #19 - The Moscow Connection

    S7:E4

    The State Department sends Chief Clifford and McCloud to Moscow with a touring country & western singer, undercover.

    Director:Bruce Kessler
    Writer:Unknown
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  21. Background image for Top of the World, Ma!
    7.5/10(116 votes)

    #20 - Top of the World, Ma!

    S2:E2

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

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  22. Background image for The New Mexican Connection
    7.5/10(58 votes)

    #21 - The New Mexican Connection

    S3:E1

    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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  23. Background image for The Barefoot Stewardess Caper
    7.5/10(121 votes)

    #22 - The Barefoot Stewardess Caper

    S3:E2

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

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  24. Background image for The Million Dollar Round Up
    7.5/10(82 votes)

    #23 - The Million Dollar Round Up

    S3:E5

    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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  25. Background image for The 42nd Street Cavalry
    7.5/10(76 votes)

    #24 - The 42nd Street Cavalry

    S5:E4

    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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  26. Background image for Sharks!
    7.5/10(75 votes)

    #25 - Sharks!

    S5:E8

    Loan sharks accidentally kill a welcher, and a hardnosed Homicide lieutenant has the wrong man.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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Best Episodes Summary

"The Day New York Turned Blue" is the best rated episode of "McCloud". It scored 8.3/10 based on 84 votes. Directed by Unknown 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".