McCloud - Season 5

First aired: 9/22/1974 9 episodes

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Episodes

1. The Barefoot Girls of Bleecker Street

Aired: 9/22/1974

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

2. The Gang That Stole Manhattan

Aired: 10/13/1974

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

3. Shivaree on Delancy Street

Aired: 11/3/1974

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: 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.

5. The Concrete Jungle Caper

Aired: 11/24/1974

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: 1/12/1975

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: 1/26/1975

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

8. Sharks!

Aired: 2/23/1975

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

9. Return to the Alamo

Aired: 3/30/1975

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.