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Season guide

McCloud: Season 5

9 episodes Premiered Sep 22, 1974
Previously on McCloud

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.
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Season 5 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 5: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (6): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S5·E3 Core

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

S5·E4 Core

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

S5·E5 Core

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.

S5·E6 Core

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

S5·E7 Core

Lady on the Run

Jan 26, 1975

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

S5·E8 Mytharc

Sharks!

Feb 23, 1975

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

S5·E9 Mytharc

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

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