Who Says You Can't Make Friends in New York City?
- Episode aired Sep 16, 1970
- TV-PG
- 48m
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7.2/10
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When McCloud wins a gunfight with a hit man, he suspects the hired gun was sent by a smooth businessman with his finger in many pies.When McCloud wins a gunfight with a hit man, he suspects the hired gun was sent by a smooth businessman with his finger in many pies.When McCloud wins a gunfight with a hit man, he suspects the hired gun was sent by a smooth businessman with his finger in many pies.
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- TriviaThe title on the DVD, and the title that comes up on the screen at sign-on, is "Man from Taos" (see Alternate Versions).
- GoofsAs this is the first episode of the series, Season 1, Episode 1, McCloud doing a TV press conference would make it impossible for him to do undercover police work as he did throughout the run of the series.
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Elevator Operator: The best thing about not taking sides, Mack, is knowing you ain't on a wrong one.
- Alternate versions1.1 "Who Says You Can't Make Friends in New York City?" was combined with 1.6, "Our Man in Paris" to form the feature length "Man from Taos", which also includes some new dialogue to link the two stories.
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Amazingly complex and illogical.
"Who Says You Can't Make Friends in New York City?" is a very strange choice for a premier episode of the new series, "McCloud". First, you'd think that it would be set in New York...though a major portion of the episode takes place in Paris. Second, and more importantly, there are just so many plot holes and problems that it's an extremely weak episode.
When the show begins, Diana Muldaur delivers a prologue which pretty much contradicts everything in the pilot movie. Why? I have no idea as she was in both films and it made no sense to change the other facts around.
McCloud is relaxing in his hotel room when he's interrupted several times by an arguing couple in another room. He goes to investigate and sees a woman and man in the room...and they promise to keep the noise down. On his way out, McCloud tells her to be sure to call if she needs help. Soon after she calls and sends him on an errand. Once there, a hitman tries to kill him. McCloud returns fire...killing the man. Inexplicably, the NYPD seems angry at him...and the Chief (J.D. Cannon) tells him he must leave New York and return to New Mexico in the morning.
Once aboard the plane, McCloud is summoned off it for a phone call. It's the Chief telling him to meet him. It turns out to be a trap and soon both the Chief and McCloud are being held prisoner. McCloud is told to accompany one of them to Paris to deliver a briefcase. And, if he doesn't, the Chief will be killed. Oddly, McCloud tells no one about this and heads to Paris with the guy. Eventually, he and the French authorities are able to capture the guy and the money in the briefcase.
McCloud returns to New York and decides that the case isn't over. What happened to that woman from the beginning of the story? About that, you'll need to find out for yourself.
So much about this one is overly complicated and hard to believe. Again and again, I kept thinking that this scene or that scene made little sense. Plus the whole notion of traveling to Paris and freeing the Chief seemed incredibly far-fetched. But it didn't stop there...so much of it left me wondering why they crammed so much into the episode and why so much of it was strange and hard to believe.
I'd never watched "McCloud" until tonight...and I've so far seen the pilot more and this first episode. I have not been impressed and unless things improve significantly, I'm going to stop with season one.
When the show begins, Diana Muldaur delivers a prologue which pretty much contradicts everything in the pilot movie. Why? I have no idea as she was in both films and it made no sense to change the other facts around.
McCloud is relaxing in his hotel room when he's interrupted several times by an arguing couple in another room. He goes to investigate and sees a woman and man in the room...and they promise to keep the noise down. On his way out, McCloud tells her to be sure to call if she needs help. Soon after she calls and sends him on an errand. Once there, a hitman tries to kill him. McCloud returns fire...killing the man. Inexplicably, the NYPD seems angry at him...and the Chief (J.D. Cannon) tells him he must leave New York and return to New Mexico in the morning.
Once aboard the plane, McCloud is summoned off it for a phone call. It's the Chief telling him to meet him. It turns out to be a trap and soon both the Chief and McCloud are being held prisoner. McCloud is told to accompany one of them to Paris to deliver a briefcase. And, if he doesn't, the Chief will be killed. Oddly, McCloud tells no one about this and heads to Paris with the guy. Eventually, he and the French authorities are able to capture the guy and the money in the briefcase.
McCloud returns to New York and decides that the case isn't over. What happened to that woman from the beginning of the story? About that, you'll need to find out for yourself.
So much about this one is overly complicated and hard to believe. Again and again, I kept thinking that this scene or that scene made little sense. Plus the whole notion of traveling to Paris and freeing the Chief seemed incredibly far-fetched. But it didn't stop there...so much of it left me wondering why they crammed so much into the episode and why so much of it was strange and hard to believe.
I'd never watched "McCloud" until tonight...and I've so far seen the pilot more and this first episode. I have not been impressed and unless things improve significantly, I'm going to stop with season one.
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- planktonrules
- Jan 29, 2020
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