McCloud: Season 07 (1976)

For its seventh and final season on the air, McCloud was cut back from 120 to 90 minutes per episode, as were the other rotating components of The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie, which this season included Columbo, McMillan, Quincy, M.E., and (Lanigan's Rabbi). Dennis Weaver is back in his familiar Stetson and sheepskin coat as Sam McCloud, a New Mexico lawmaker transplanted to New York City, in season seven's quota of six new episodes. First up is "Bonnie and McCloud," in which McCloud's girlfriend apparently commits cold-blooded murder before a battery of eyewitnesses. This is followed by "It Was the Fight Before Christmas," wherein a pall is cast over the Yuletide season when McCloud is targeted for assassination. Things aren't much better for our hero when he is framed for the murder of a drug-dealing hackie in "The Great Taxi Cab Stampede." On the lighter side, McCloud and his boss Chief Clifford (J.D. Cannon) go undercover as bodyguards for a country & western singer (Hoyt Axton) touring the Soviet Union in "The Moscow Connection." In another international jaunt, McCloud heads to the U.K. to track down Irish terrorists in "London Bridges." And in the series finale, McCloud follows a trail of corpses, all drained of their blood, in "McCloud Meets Dracula." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi