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Portrait of a Dead Girl (or Who Killed Miss U.S.A.?)

Episode number: 1

Overview: McCloud escorts a witness from New Mexico to New York City, but loses him to kidnappers and finds himself in a murder case involving Puerto Rican nationalists, a lady novelist, a Wall Street lawyer, and a dead beauty pageant winner.

Man from Taos (1) (or Who Says You Can't Make Friends in New York City?)

Episode number: 2

Overview: McCloud goes to help a lady in distress, but gets caught in a shootout that sends him back to Taos on Chief Clifford's orders. At the last minute, the Chief is kidnapped to force McCloud to act as a courier to Paris.

Manhattan Manhunt (1) (or Horse Stealing on Fifth Avenue)

Episode number: 3

Overview: McCloud is becoming famous thanks to press coverage. It doesn't endear him to the boys in blue, who have to deal with a string of drugstore holdups.

Murder Arena (1) (or The Concrete Corral)

Episode number: 4

Overview: McCloud is assigned to shepherd the cowboys at a visiting rodeo. They're old friends, and one of them is killed by a jealous rival over a woman, it appears.

Manhattan Manhunt (2) (or The Stage Is All the World)

Episode number: 5

Overview: McCloud, whose new-found celebrity (thanks to an article by Chris Coughlin in the Chronicle) vexes the Department, is assigned to protect a British theatrical maven who has received letters assailing his ""filthy, obscene"" productions and threatening his life.

Murder Arena (2) (or Walk in the Dark)

Episode number: 6

Overview: McCloud complains about his assignment to rodeo detail, so Chief Clifford sends him to Special Auxiliary Force VI under the command of Sgt. Dameron, where he works to catch a murderer in Central Park.

Man from Taos (2) (or Our Man in Paris)

Episode number: 7

Overview: In Paris, McCloud and a stewardess try to locate a mysterious arms smuggler with ties to an American mogul and a New York gubernatorial candidate.