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''McCloud'' is an American television police drama that aired on NBC from 1970 to 1977. The series starred Dennis Weaver, and for six of its seven years on the air it aired as part of the ''NBC Mystery Movie'' wheel series that was produced for the network by Universal Television. The show was centered on Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of Taos, New Mexico, who was on loan to the New York City Police Department as a special investigator. ==History== The first choice for the role of McCloud was Fess Parker, who turned it down.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MichaelBarrier.com -- Interviews: Fess Parker )〕 Universal hired the highly experienced Dennis Weaver. 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. This premise of "a cowboy in the big city" was more or less adapted from the 1968 Don Siegel film ''Coogan's Bluff'', starring Clint Eastwood. Herman Miller was responsible for the story of ''Coogan's Bluff'' and co-wrote the screenplay with Dean Riesner and Howard A. Rodman. Indeed, Miller is credited as the creator of ''McCloud''. ''Coogan's Bluff'' reflects Richard Thorpe's 1942 film ''Tarzan's New York Adventure'' and the latter-day career of Bat Masterson. (Siegel appeared in the "Return to the Alamo" episode as "2nd Desk Sergeant".) Like Coogan, McCloud galloped the length and breadth of Manhattan (he was joined by a mounted unit in "The 42nd Street Cavalry"), and the sight of McCloud on horseback riding down the middle of a busy street (taken from an early episode) became one of the series' most famous images. NBC picked up the show for six 60-minute episodes in the fall of 1970, placing it in the rotation of its wheel series ''Four in One'' along with ''San Francisco International Airport'', ''The Psychiatrist'' and ''Rod Serling's Night Gallery''. The following fall, the network commissioned a new wheel series and lengthened ''McCloud'' from sixty to ninety minutes. NBC ordered two new series, ''McMillan & Wife'' and ''Columbo'', to fill the wheel and all three became part of the new ''NBC Mystery Movie'' series, which aired on Wednesday nights. The series became a hit, finishing at number 14 for Nielsen ratings for the 1971–1972 season. NBC then decided to try another competitive move and relocated ''McCloud'', along with ''McMillan'' and ''Columbo'', to Sunday nights for the following fall. The ''Mystery Movie'' series was an even bigger draw on Sundays, finishing at number 5 in the ratings for the season.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Museum of Broadcast Communications - Encyclopedia of Television )〕 Starting in the fifth season in the fall of 1974, the episodes were two hours long, but were dropped again to 90 minutes for the seventh and final season starting in the fall of 1976. The 46th and last episode, "McCloud Meets Dracula", was aired on April 17, 1977. Dennis Weaver received Emmy nominations in 1974 and 1975 for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series. The executive producer was Glen A. Larson, who also wrote for the series, as did Peter Allan Fields, Lou Shaw, Jimmy Sangster, and others. Larson won an Edgar Award for "The New Mexican Connection". In 1989, Weaver reprised the role in a made-for-television movie, ''The Return of Sam McCloud'', in which his character was now a United States Senator. It first aired on November 12, 1989. Diana Muldaur returned to reprise her role as McCloud's love interest, Chris Coughlin. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「McCloud (TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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