The Best Episodes of McCloud Season 5

Episode Rankings

1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.9/10(77 votes)

   #1 - The Barefoot Girls of Bleecker Street

   S5:E19/22/1974

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

   Director:Barry Shear

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Barry Shear

   Writer:Unknown
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   8.1/10(89 votes)

   #2 - The Gang That Stole Manhattan

   S5:E210/13/1974

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

   Director:Bruce Kessler

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Bruce Kessler

   Writer:Unknown
3. 

   7.9/10(70 votes)

   #3 - Shivaree on Delancy Street

   S5:E311/3/1974

   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:Unknown

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   Director:Bruce Kessler

   Writer:Unknown
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   7.5/10(76 votes)

   #4 - The 42nd Street Cavalry

   S5:E411/17/1974

   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

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   Director:Jerry Jameson

   Writer:Michael Gleason
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   8.0/10(77 votes)

   #5 - The Concrete Jungle Caper

   S5:E511/24/1974

   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:Unknown

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   Director:Gene Levitt

   Writer:Unknown
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   8.1/10(80 votes)

   #6 - The Man with the Golden Hat

   S5:E61/12/1975

   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.

   Directors:Glen A. Larson, Lou Antonio

   Writer:Unknown

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   Directors:Glen A. Larson, Lou Antonio

   Writer:Unknown
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7. 

   7.8/10(74 votes)

   #7 - Lady on the Run

   S5:E71/26/1975

   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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   Director:Russ Mayberry

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   7.6/10(75 votes)

   #8 - Sharks!

   S5:E82/23/1975

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

   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Unknown

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   8.1/10(90 votes)

   #9 - Return to the Alamo

   S5:E93/30/1975

   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

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   Director:Walter Doniger

   Writer:Glen A. Larson