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.

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

A football player from Ohio who needs an operation goes to find the New York mobster who owes him money.

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

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

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

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

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

The NYPD demonstrates a bank robbery on live closed-circuit TV, and is bushwhacked by a gang of antiquated outlaws.

While answering a high-rise apartment burglary call, McCloud stumbles on a body, which then disappears. The case leads to a VIP madam under indictment, whose girls are apparently being murdered by a serial killer.

Just before presenting a rackets case, Chief Clifford goes to Hawaii for a police conference. Taos sends McCloud, too, and the Marshal is obliged to dragoon a vacationing N.Y. policewoman when the Chief is set up on a murder charge.

Modern-day cattle rustlers ship lethally contaminated beef to New York.

During a heat wave, Chief Clifford is called away and leaves Sgt. Broadhurst in charge. A football gambling ring that scores with ""inside dope on injuries"" loses a little black book and begins eliminating witnesses in a search for it, leading to an assault on precinct headquarters.

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

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

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.

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.

The international drug trade and a dealer named Harry Hague have McCloud undercover and in prison to root out the Rhigas family of distributors.

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.

A woman pursues the hit man who killed her sister, and in Mexico City is pursued herself.

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

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.

Racketeers take over a record company.

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.

Chris Coughlin's high-rise apartment building is torched by an arsonist for hire.