The Worst Episodes of McCloud

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

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

Director: Jack Smight

Writer: Peter Allan Fields

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Lou Antonio

Writer: Peter Allan Fields

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

Director: Steven Hilliard Stern

Writer: Michael Sloan

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: Richard Levinson, William Link, Stanford Whitmore

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

Director: Russ Mayberry

Writer: Peter Allan Fields

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

Director: Glen A. Larson

Writer: Glen A. Larson

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 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

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

Director: Ivan Dixon

Writer: Michael Sloan

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

Racketeers take over a record company.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

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

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

Director: Bruce Kessler

Writer: N/A

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