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The Worst Episodes of McCloud

Every episode of McCloud ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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

Worst Episodes Summary

"Man from Taos (2) (or Our Man in Paris)" is the worst rated episode of "McCloud". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Russ Mayberry and written by N/A, it aired on 10/21/1970. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "A Little Plot at Tranquil Valley".

  • Man from Taos (2) (or Our Man in Paris)
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    #1 - Man from Taos (2) (or Our Man in Paris)

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/21/1970

    In Paris, McCloud and a stewardess try to locate a mysterious arms smuggler with ties to an American mogul and a New York gubernatorial candidate.

    Director: Russ Mayberry

    Writer: N/A

  • A Little Plot at Tranquil Valley
    6.5/1099 votes
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    #2 - A Little Plot at Tranquil Valley

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 1/12/1972

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

    Director: Jack Smight

    Writer: Peter Allan Fields

  • Man from Taos (1) (or Who Says You Can't Make Friends in New York City?)
    6.9/1081 votes
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    #3 - Man from Taos (1) (or Who Says You Can't Make Friends in New York City?)

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1970

    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

  • Manhattan Manhunt (1) (or Horse Stealing on Fifth Avenue)
    6.9/1079 votes
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    #4 - Manhattan Manhunt (1) (or Horse Stealing on Fifth Avenue)

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/1970

    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

  • Fifth Man in a String Quartet
    7.0/1088 votes
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    #5 - Fifth Man in a String Quartet

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/2/1972

    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

  • Murder Arena (1) (or The Concrete Corral)
    7.1/1086 votes
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    #6 - Murder Arena (1) (or The Concrete Corral)

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1970

    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: N/A

  • Manhattan Manhunt (2) (or The Stage Is All the World)
    7.1/1084 votes
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    #7 - Manhattan Manhunt (2) (or The Stage Is All the World)

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/1970

    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.

    Director: Russ Mayberry, Bruce Kessler

    Writer: Norman Hudis

  • Somebody's Out to Get Jennie
    7.1/10105 votes
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    #8 - Somebody's Out to Get Jennie

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 11/24/1971

    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: N/A

  • Give My Regrets to Broadway
    7.1/1091 votes
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    #9 - Give My Regrets to Broadway

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 2/23/1972

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

    Director: Lou Antonio

    Writer: Peter Allan Fields

  • Bonnie and McCloud
    7.1/1072 votes
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    #10 - Bonnie and McCloud

    Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 10/24/1976

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

    Director: Steven Hilliard Stern

    Writer: Michael Sloan

  • Portrait of a Dead Girl (or Who Killed Miss U.S.A.?)
    7.2/10107 votes
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    #11 - Portrait of a Dead Girl (or Who Killed Miss U.S.A.?)

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/17/1970

    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

    Writer: William Link, Richard Levinson, Stanford Whitmore

  • Encounter with Aries
    7.2/10108 votes
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    #12 - Encounter with Aries

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1971

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

    Director: Russ Mayberry

    Writer: Peter Allan Fields

  • Our Man in the Harem
    7.3/1063 votes
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    #13 - Our Man in the Harem

    Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 1/11/1976

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

    Director: Glen A. Larson

    Writer: Glen A. Larson

  • Murder Arena (2) (or Walk in the Dark)
    7.4/1066 votes
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    #14 - Murder Arena (2) (or Walk in the Dark)

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/14/1970

    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.

    Director: Russ Mayberry, Nicholas Colasanto

    Writer: Leslie Stevens

  • The Disposal Man
    7.4/1091 votes
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    #15 - The Disposal Man

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 12/29/1971

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

    Director: Boris Sagal

    Writer: Dean Hargrove

  • Park Avenue Pirates
    7.4/1075 votes
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    #16 - Park Avenue Pirates

    Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1975

    Racketeers take over a record company.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Showdown at Times Square
    7.4/1061 votes
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    #17 - Showdown at Times Square

    Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/19/1975

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Million Dollar Round Up
    7.5/1074 votes
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    #18 - 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

  • The 42nd Street Cavalry
    7.5/1069 votes
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    #19 - 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

  • Three Guns for New York
    7.5/1057 votes
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    #20 - 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

  • Night of the Shark
    7.5/1058 votes
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    #21 - Night of the Shark

    Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 3/21/1976

    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: N/A

    Writer: Glen A. Larson

  • The Great Taxicab Stampede
    7.5/1062 votes
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    #22 - The Great Taxicab Stampede

    Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 1/16/1977

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

    Director: Ivan Dixon

    Writer: Michael Sloan

  • The Moscow Connection
    7.5/1066 votes
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    #23 - The Moscow Connection

    Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 1/23/1977

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

    Director: Bruce Kessler

    Writer: N/A

  • McCloud Meets Dracula
    7.5/1082 votes
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    #24 - McCloud Meets Dracula

    Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 4/17/1977

    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

  • Top of the World, Ma!
    7.6/10108 votes
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    #25 - 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