NaN/100 votesLoading...#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
6.4/1098 votesLoading...#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
6.9/1081 votesLoading...#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
6.9/1079 votesLoading...#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
7.0/1087 votesLoading...#5 - 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
7.0/1088 votesLoading...#6 - 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
7.1/1084 votesLoading...#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
7.1/10106 votesLoading...#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
7.1/1091 votesLoading...#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
7.1/1072 votesLoading...#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
7.2/10108 votesLoading...#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: Richard Levinson, William Link, Stanford Whitmore
7.2/10109 votesLoading...#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
7.3/1063 votesLoading...#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
7.4/1066 votesLoading...#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
7.4/1091 votesLoading...#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
7.4/1061 votesLoading...#16 - 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
7.4/1063 votesLoading...#17 - 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
7.5/10107 votesLoading...#18 - 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
7.5/1073 votesLoading...#19 - 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
7.5/1068 votesLoading...#20 - 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
7.5/1077 votesLoading...#21 - Park Avenue Pirates
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1975
Racketeers take over a record company.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1057 votesLoading...#22 - 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
7.5/1058 votesLoading...#23 - 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
7.5/1066 votesLoading...#24 - 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
7.5/1082 votesLoading...#25 - 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
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".