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.
(NOTE: For televised repeats, this episode was known as "Man from Taos, Part 1"). 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.
(NOTE: For repeats, this episode was known as "Manhattan Manhunt, Part 1"). 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.
(NOTE: For televised repeats, this episode was known as "Murder Arena, Part 1"). 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.
(NOTE: For televised repeats, this episode was known as "Manhattan Manhunt, Part 2"). 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.
(NOTE: For televised repeats, this episode was known as "Murder Arena, Part 2"). 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.
(NOTE: For televised repeats, this episode was known as "Man from Taos, Part 2"). 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.
McCloud is searching the stars above for answers when the wife of an astrologer is kidnapped and hidden with a ticking time bomb.
Two crime worlds collide when McCloud pursues a petty thief football player who is trying to get money from the mob powers that owe him.
There's trouble in the skies above when McCloud investigates a fatal helicopter crash and a woman who claims that someone's trying to drive her insane.
McCloud is forced to do some fancy footwork when a wealthy man is stalked by a professional assassin with an unknown employer.
The black market is hot with sales of stolen penicillin that is being diluted and sent south of the border. When McCloud investigates too closely, he is held hostage by smugglers who want him out of their territory.
The arrest of a musician accused of killing his teacher strikes a false note with McCloud when he uncovers the victim's family ties to the mob.
McCloud is feeling a little nervous about his place in the world when he investigates the murder of a fellow officer who took McCloud's place on duty as a favor.
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.
A bevy of international stewardesses have a second career as cat burglars.
As part of a pilot program, McCloud is assigned a female partner, and the two go undercover against a big-time auto theft ring.
An ambitious junior executive in the mob uses fashion models to transport heroin into New York.
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.
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 tailor wins big on the numbers, but gang wars interfere with the payout. Sgt. Broadhurst is badly wounded and numbers money is planted on him, causing him to be investigated by Internal Affairs. The tailor becomes a witness in the wars, but heads off to Miami Beach with his winnings and his shiksa fiancée, followed by two hit men and McCloud.
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.
On the graveyard shift one lengthy night, Chief Clifford and much of the staff are out with the flu, the American Brotherhood Movement is blowing up buildings, Chris Coughlin is writing a story with a feminist angle on the NYPD, a robbery suspect's brother (an addict) tries to break him out (and both are sons of an Albany bigwig) by kidnapping the Acting Watch Commander (Sgt. Broadhurst), McCloud pulls in New York's top drug dealers in a citywide search for a junkie whose addicted newborn infant needs urgent treatment, and Sgt. Phyllis Norton is the Acting Deputy Watch Commander in charge.
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.
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.
A patrolman's daughter is held captive in the Middle East.
During a New York City snowstorm, a union lawyer is placed in protective custody as a witness to graft, a working girl is slipping out-of-towners a mickey and painting them blue, a Federal Inspector is auditing the Department books, the mob plans an invasion of headquarters, and patrolmen have a strike meeting.
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.
The head of a trucking company is killed before eyewitnesses, and McCloud's girlfriend is the culprit.
On Christmas Eve, an assassin stalks McCloud, a spurned mistress attempts suicide, a sidewalk Santa turns mugger, junkies raid a hospital pharmacy, Chris's newspaper organizes a party for orphans at Westside Hospital with Chief Clifford as Santa, and the junkies take hostages.
McCloud is framed for the murder of a drug-dealing hack, and exposes the ring.
The State Department sends Chief Clifford and McCloud to Moscow with a touring country & western singer, undercover.
A peer of the realm, who's a photographer as well as a cat burglar, comes to America and, in flagrante delicto at a Long Island costume party, witnesses a killing at the hands of Irish bombers, all of which sends McCloud to Blighty, where the target remains to be found.
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.
After an attempt to rescue a New York damsel in distress results in a dangerous shoot-out, Police Chief Clifford sends McCloud back to Taos — only to call on his skills when the Chief's own life is in danger. [NOTE: This telemovie was re-edited for syndication from two season 1 episodes: "Who Says You Can't Make Friends in New York City" and "Our Man in Paris." Some material was cut and some linking voice-overs were added.]
The stage is set for murder when a controversial theater producer receives death threats. McCloud must turn away from the dazzling lights of the stage when an expert marksman superficially wounds him during a chase. [NOTE: This telemovie was re-edited for syndication from two season 1 episodes: "Horse Stealing on Fifth Avenue" and "The Stage is All the World." Some material was cut and some linking voice-overs were added.]
McCloud is the perfect man for the job of supervising cowboys at a visiting rodeo. When one of his friends is murdered, McCloud is ready to lay down some western-style justice to find the killer. [NOTE: This telemovie was re-edited for syndication from two season 1 episodes: "The Concrete Corral" and "Walk in the Dark." Some material was cut and some linking voice-overs were added.]
Senator Sam McCloud of New Mexico wrangles an unscrupulous chemical manufacturer. His niece is murdered investigating the outfit, while he escapes assassination attempts apparently from Arab terrorists, and it takes a showdown in London to settle things.
An interview with Glen A Larsen on the McCloud series.
