McCloud was based on the 1968 Clint Eastwood film titled "Coogan's Bluff". which dealt with a Texas Ranger type going to New York City to Capture a Criminal who fled to the concrete canyons of New York City and dealing out frontier justice along the way.

Often Marshal Sam McCloud was often mistaken for a Texas Ranger or someone from Oklahoma or Arizona.

--Frank91165

Just love your site. I just saw my favorite episode of McCloud on the Hallmark Channel, It was Disposal Man. A revolting rich man, Arthur Yerby(Patrick O'Neal) was marked for murder and Sam had to find the killer before he could carry out the hit. He talked to a former hitman played by Arthur O'Connell for some tips. Sam also had to figure out who hired the hit man and since everybody hated Yerby, there were plenty of suspects. Randolph Mantooth wonderfully played Philip Yerby, the rich man's son and chief suspect. It ended with a kind of Greek tragedy feeling, the rich man alone without son, wife, or faithful lawyer. Sam and his girlfriend left too. Guess money can't buy happiness after all.

--loretta tucson

I was a big fan of the old NBC Mystery Movies. McCloud is on of my favourite shows. Which a western type lawman uses frontier justice to get his man. The series was based on a 1968 Clint Eatwood film titled "Coogans Bluff" which there was a lawman from Texas, Oklahoma or Arizona collaring a criminal who fled to the big city.

McCloud often wore Western Style clothes when he worked with The New York City Police Department which was his trademark and his catch phrase "There You Go".

--frank11784