1974 • 9 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1 • Sep 22, 1974
McCloud helps a runaway and her baby, amidst a curious stolen property investigation.
Episode 2 • Oct 13, 1974
McCloud is assigned to a film shoot, and suspects the production is a front.
Episode 3 • Nov 03, 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.
Episode 4 • Nov 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.
Episode 5 • Nov 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.
Episode 6 • Jan 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.
Episode 7 • Jan 26, 1975
A woman pursues the hit man who killed her sister, and in Mexico City is pursued herself.
Episode 8 • Feb 23, 1975
Loan sharks accidentally kill a welcher, and a hardnosed Homicide lieutenant has the wrong man.
Episode 9 • Mar 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.