S5 E1 • The Barefoot Girls of Bleecker Street

McCloud helps a runaway and her baby, amidst a curious stolen property investigation.

Première diffusion : 22 septembre 1974

S5 E2 • The Gang That Stole Manhattan

McCloud is assigned to a film shoot, and suspects the production is a front.

Première diffusion : 13 octobre 1974

S5 E3 • Shivaree on Delancy Street

A tailor wins big on the numbers, but gang wars interfere with the payout. Sgt. Broadhurst is badly wounded and numbers money is planted on him, causing him to be investigated by Internal Affairs. The tailor becomes a witness in the wars, but heads off to Miami Beach with his winnings and his shiksa fiancée, followed by two hit men and McCloud.

Première diffusion : 3 novembre 1974

S5 E4 • The 42nd Street Cavalry

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.

Première diffusion : 17 novembre 1974

S5 E5 • The Concrete Jungle Caper

The international drug trade and a dealer named Harry Hague have McCloud undercover and in prison to root out the Rhigas family of distributors.

Première diffusion : 24 novembre 1974

S5 E6 • The Man with the Golden Hat

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.

Première diffusion : 12 janvier 1975

S5 E7 • Lady on the Run

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

Première diffusion : 26 janvier 1975

S5 E8 • Sharks!

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

Première diffusion : 23 février 1975

S5 E9 • Return to the Alamo

On the graveyard shift one lengthy night, Chief Clifford and much of the staff are out with the flu, the American Brotherhood Movement is blowing up buildings, Chris Coughlin is writing a story with a feminist angle on the NYPD, a robbery suspect's brother (an addict) tries to break him out (and both are sons of an Albany bigwig) by kidnapping the Acting Watch Commander (Sgt. Broadhurst), McCloud pulls in New York's top drug dealers in a citywide search for a junkie whose addicted newborn infant needs urgent treatment, and Sgt. Phyllis Norton is the Acting Deputy Watch Commander in charge.

Première diffusion : 30 mars 1975