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The Worst Episodes of McCloud

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Worst episode
S2E5 A Little Plot at Tranquil Valley
6.5121 votes
Best episode
S6E6 The Day New York Turned Blue
8.297 votes
Top season
Season 5
7.8avg
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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    McCloud Season 2 Episode 5 - A Little Plot at Tranquil Valley
    6.5/10(121 votes)

    S2:E5

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

    Director:Jack Smight
    Writer:Peter Allan Fields

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  2. McCloud Season 1 Episode 2 - Man from Taos (1) (or Who Says You Can't Make Friends in New York City?)
    6.9/10(100 votes)

    S1:E2

    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.

    Director:Douglas Heyes
    Writer:Leslie Stevens

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  3. McCloud Season 1 Episode 1 - Portrait of a Dead Girl (or Who Killed Miss U.S.A.?)
    7.0/10(143 votes)

    S1:E1

    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.

    Director:Richard A. Colla
    Writers:William Link, Richard Levinson, Stanford Whitmore

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  4. McCloud Season 1 Episode 3 - Manhattan Manhunt (1) (or Horse Stealing on Fifth Avenue)
    7.0/10(103 votes)

    S1:E3

    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.

    Director:Bruce Kessler
    Writer:Glen A. Larson

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  5. McCloud Season 2 Episode 3 - Somebody's Out to Get Jennie
    7.1/10(123 votes)

    S2:E3

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

    Director:Jack Smight
    Writer:Robert Presnell Jr.

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  6. McCloud Season 2 Episode 6 - Fifth Man in a String Quartet
    7.1/10(110 votes)

    S2:E6

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

    Director:Russ Mayberry
    Writer:James D. Buchanan

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  7. McCloud Season 1 Episode 4 - Murder Arena (1) (or The Concrete Corral)
    7.1/10(108 votes)

    S1:E4

    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.

    Director:Nicholas Colasanto
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. McCloud Season 7 Episode 1 - Bonnie and McCloud
    7.1/10(85 votes)

    S7:E1

    The head of a trucking company is killed before eyewitnesses, and McCloud's girlfriend is the culprit.

    Director:Steven Hilliard Stern
    Writer:Michael Sloan

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  9. McCloud Season 2 Episode 1 - Encounter with Aries
    7.2/10(130 votes)

    S2:E1

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

    Director:Russ Mayberry
    Writer:Peter Allan Fields

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  10. McCloud Season 2 Episode 7 - Give My Regrets to Broadway
    7.2/10(116 votes)

    S2:E7

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

    Director:Lou Antonio
    Writer:Peter Allan Fields

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  11. McCloud Season 7 Episode 6 - McCloud Meets Dracula
    7.3/10(106 votes)

    S7:E6

    Murder victims are found to be drained of blood, and an elderly star of vampire films is suspected; Chief Clifford is on the hunt for a random sniper.

    Director:Bruce Kessler
    Writer:Glen A. Larson

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  12. McCloud Season 1 Episode 5 - Manhattan Manhunt (2) (or The Stage Is All the World)
    7.3/10(102 votes)

    S1:E5

    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.

    Directors:Russ Mayberry, Bruce Kessler
    Writer:Norman Hudis

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  13. McCloud Season 6 Episode 1 - Park Avenue Pirates
    7.3/10(94 votes)

    S6:E1

    Racketeers take over a record company.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. McCloud Season 6 Episode 5 - Our Man in the Harem
    7.3/10(83 votes)

    S6:E5

    A patrolman's daughter is held captive in the Middle East.

    Director:E.W. Swackhamer
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. McCloud Season 7 Episode 3 - The Great Taxicab Stampede
    7.3/10(77 votes)

    S7:E3

    McCloud is framed for the murder of a drug-dealing hack, and exposes the ring.

    Director:Ivan Dixon
    Writer:Michael Sloan

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  16. McCloud Season 6 Episode 2 - Showdown at Times Square
    7.3/10(76 votes)

    S6:E2

    The Chief (Clifford) is running a weekly bull session, that is, the detectives squawk and he gives them a talk. McCloud notices smoke signals coming from a nearby roof. The Chief (Stillwater) is seeking his grandson Johnny, who has followed a gang of thieves to New York. Johnny's father is in jail back home in Phoenix, framed by the gang.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. McCloud Season 3 Episode 2 - The Barefoot Stewardess Caper
    7.4/10(133 votes)

    S3:E2

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

    Director:Harry Falk
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. McCloud Season 2 Episode 2 - Top of the World, Ma!
    7.4/10(124 votes)

    S2:E2

    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

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  19. McCloud Season 3 Episode 5 - The Million Dollar Round Up
    7.4/10(94 votes)

    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.

    Director:Douglas Heyes
    Writer:Douglas Heyes

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  20. McCloud Season 2 Episode 4 - The Disposal Man
    7.5/10(115 votes)

    S2:E4

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

    Director:Boris Sagal
    Writer:Dean Hargrove

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  21. McCloud Season 1 Episode 6 - Murder Arena (2) (or Walk in the Dark)
    7.5/10(88 votes)

    S1:E6

    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.

    Directors:Nicholas Colasanto, Russ Mayberry
    Writer:Leslie Stevens

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  22. McCloud Season 5 Episode 4 - The 42nd Street Cavalry
    7.5/10(86 votes)

    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.

    Director:Jerry Jameson
    Writer:Michael Gleason

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  23. McCloud Season 3 Episode 1 - The New Mexican Connection
    7.6/10(66 votes)

    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.

    Directors:Russ Mayberry, Hy Averback
    Writer:Glen A. Larson

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  24. McCloud Season 6 Episode 7 - Night of the Shark
    7.6/10(69 votes)

    S6:E7

    The American mob plans an Australian expansion, with the help of a planted Chairman on Sydney's Police Board. McCloud, on airport duty at JFK, has a shootout with a hit man and goes to Sydney as a witness.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Glen A. Larson

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  25. McCloud Season 6 Episode 4 - Three Guns for New York
    7.6/10(74 votes)

    S6:E4

    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:Jeff Sharkey

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Worst Episodes Summary

"A Little Plot at Tranquil Valley" is the worst rated episode of McCloud. It scored 6.5/10 from 121 votes. Directed by Jack Smight and written by Peter Allan Fields, it aired on January 12, 1972. This episode scored 0.4 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Man from Taos (1) (or Who Says You Can't Make Friends in New York City?)".

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