The Best Episodes of McCloud

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Robert Day

Writer: Michael Gleason

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

Director: Bruce Kessler

Writer: N/A

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

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

Director: Barry Shear

Writer: N/A

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

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

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

Director: Lou Antonio

Writer: Robert Hamner

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

Director: Russ Mayberry

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Lou Antonio

Writer: N/A

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

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

Director: Harry Falk

Writer: Glen A. Larson, Michael Gleason

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

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

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

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

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

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

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

Director: Boris Sagal

Writer: Dean Hargrove

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

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