McCloud — Season 5
The Cowboy Cop On The Mean Streets Of New York
About this season
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 a special investigator.
Episodes (9)
1. The Barefoot Girls of Bleecker Street
Aired 22 September 1974 • 120 min
McCloud helps a runaway and her baby, amidst a curious stolen property investigation.
2. The Gang That Stole Manhattan
Aired 13 October 1974 • 120 min
McCloud is assigned to a film shoot, and suspects the production is a front.
3. Shivaree on Delancy Street
Aired 3 November 1974 • 120 min
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.
4. The 42nd Street Cavalry
Aired 17 November 1974 • 120 min
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.
5. The Concrete Jungle Caper
Aired 24 November 1974 • 120 min
The international drug trade and a dealer named Harry Hague have McCloud undercover and in prison to root out the Rhigas family of distributors.
6. The Man with the Golden Hat
Aired 12 January 1975 • 120 min
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.
7. Lady on the Run
Aired 26 January 1975 • 120 min
A woman pursues the hit man who killed her sister, and in Mexico City is pursued herself.
8. Sharks!
Aired 23 February 1975 • 120 min
Loan sharks accidentally kill a welcher, and a hardnosed Homicide lieutenant has the wrong man.
9. Return to the Alamo
Aired 30 March 1975 • 120 min
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.