McCloud: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of McCloud Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
The Barefoot Girls of Bleecker Street
Sep 22, 1974
McCloud helps a runaway and her baby, amidst a curious stolen property investigation.
The Gang That Stole Manhattan
Oct 13, 1974
McCloud is assigned to a film shoot, and suspects the production is a front.
Shivaree on Delancy Street
Nov 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
The 42nd Street Cavalry
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 revolut
The Concrete Jungle Caper
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.
The Man with the Golden Hat
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 phila
Lady on the Run
Jan 26, 1975
A woman pursues the hit man who killed her sister, and in Mexico City is pursued herself.
Sharks!
Feb 23, 1975
Loan sharks accidentally kill a welcher, and a hardnosed Homicide lieutenant has the wrong man.
Return to the Alamo
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 f