McCloud: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of McCloud Season 4.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
The Barefoot Girls of Bleecker Street
Sep 22, 1974 · 120 min
McCloud helps a runaway and her baby, amidst a curious stolen property investigation.
The Gang That Stole Manhattan
Oct 13, 1974 · 120 min
McCloud is assigned to a film shoot, and suspects the production is a front.
Shivaree on Delancy Street
Nov 3, 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
The 42nd Street Cavalry
Nov 17, 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 revolut
The Concrete Jungle Caper
Nov 24, 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.
The Man with the Golden Hat
Jan 12, 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 phila
Lady on the Run
Jan 26, 1975 · 120 min
A woman pursues the hit man who killed her sister, and in Mexico City is pursued herself.
Sharks!
Feb 23, 1975 · 120 min
Loan sharks accidentally kill a welcher, and a hardnosed Homicide lieutenant has the wrong man.
Return to the Alamo
Mar 30, 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 f