
Season 5
1974 · 9 episodes
Episodes

1. The Barefoot Girls of Bleecker Street
September 22, 1974 · 2h
McCloud helps a runaway and her baby, amidst a curious stolen property investigation.

2. The Gang That Stole Manhattan
October 13, 1974 · 2h
McCloud is assigned to a film shoot, and suspects the production is a front.

3. Shivaree on Delancy Street
November 3, 1974 · 2h
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
November 17, 1974 · 2h
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
November 24, 1974 · 2h
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
January 12, 1975 · 2h
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
January 26, 1975 · 2h
A woman pursues the hit man who killed her sister, and in Mexico City is pursued herself.

8. Sharks!
February 23, 1975 · 2h
Loan sharks accidentally kill a welcher, and a hardnosed Homicide lieutenant has the wrong man.

9. Return to the Alamo
March 30, 1975 · 2h
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.