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The first choice for the role of McCloud was Fess Parker, who turned it down. [1] Universal hired Dennis Weaver, who was well known as a "western" actor from Gunsmoke.The pilot, "Portrait of a Dead Girl", aired on February 17, 1970, and established the premise by having McCloud escort a prisoner from New Mexico to New York City, only to become embroiled in solving a complicated murder case.
McCloud is initially assigned crowd control duty on the shoot but things gets serious when someone is found murdered at one of the shooting locations. To make matters worse, the film's male lead ( Larry Hagman ) interferes with the investigation, trying to emulate the skills of the detective character he plays on TV to try to solve the case.
Suhor appeared in a number of movies and TV series, most notably as Cicely in an Emmy Award-winning episode of Northern Exposure and as series regular Louise McCloud for three seasons on The Young Riders. She also guest-starred on Brooklyn Bridge (in a recurring role), Murder, She Wrote, Star Trek: Voyager, Renegade, and Sheena.
In his longest-running role, starting in 1970, Carter starred in the TV detective series McCloud as NYPD Sergeant Joe Broadhurst, partner of the title character played by Dennis Weaver. Carter's role lasted for seven years. [1] [2] [3] In 1970, he starred with Van Johnson and Ray Milland in the TV movie Company of Killers. [3]
Sommars is best known for her work on television. She made her television debut in 1960, at the age of 18, in an episode of The Loretta Young Show. [4] She later appeared in Gunsmoke; Shirley Temple's Storybook; The Great Adventure; Bonanza; Run, Buddy, Run; Perry Mason; Ben Casey; Death Valley Days; The Fugitive; The Man from U.N.C.L.E.; Get Smart; and Love, American Style.
Fox McCloud, the main character in the Star Fox series James McCloud, Fox's father; The title character of Brewster McCloud, a 1970 film by Robert Altman; Sam McCloud, main character of McCloud (TV series), an American television police drama that aired from 1970 to 1977; Louise "Lou" McCloud, from the television series The Young Riders
Stuart Phillips (born September 9, 1929) is an American composer of film scores and television series theme music, conductor and record producer. He is best known for composing the theme tunes to the television series McCloud , Battlestar Galactica , and Knight Rider .
Myles Pollard was born in Perth, and grew up in remote communities in Western Australia, where his father was a school principal and his mother taught music.Although they moved every two to five years, Pollard spent the latter part of his high-school years in Perth.