S6.E3

Fire!

Episode aired Nov 16, 1975
1h 34m

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Robert Reed and Diana Muldaur in McCloud (1970)

An arsonist torches Chris's building, killing her nephew and a janitor. When McCloud and Chris discover the building's owner was deep in the hole and probably committed the arson for money, ... Read allAn arsonist torches Chris's building, killing her nephew and a janitor. When McCloud and Chris discover the building's owner was deep in the hole and probably committed the arson for money, they launch two simultaneous undercover investigations -- one with McCloud as a builder lo... Read allAn arsonist torches Chris's building, killing her nephew and a janitor. When McCloud and Chris discover the building's owner was deep in the hole and probably committed the arson for money, they launch two simultaneous undercover investigations -- one with McCloud as a builder looking for a torch, the other as the torch himself.

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Goofs
When the fire captain gets into his car to go to a fire, if you look closely you can see on his door the seal for the city of Los Angeles. The show was set in New York.

Quotes
Sam McCloud: Chief, surely this town has got an old building someplace that I can use?
Peter B. Clifford: Old? Why don't we just put something up for you? Hate to see you use just any old building.

Connections
Edited from Emergency! (1972)

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5/10

Fires and the fire insurance money

Marshal Sam McCloud goes undercover to discover a ring of arsonists. He's got personal reasons for this one, an arsonist set fire Diana Muldaur's building and if Dennis Weaver hadn't been around to pick her up for a theater date he might not have discovered the fire and been able to rescue her. As it was a security guard and Muldaur's visiting nephew Skip Lowell might not have been killed.

Fires and the fire insurance money it can bring have often been a way of solving financial problems. Just a year earlier Jack Lemmon torched his factory in Save The Tiger and got an Oscar for it. This of course was from the point of view of the man who needed an arsonist. This is from the innocent people who can be killed there.

Weaver goes undercover both as a rich tycoon who buddies it up with the owner of the building Robert Reed. He also goes undercover as a pinch hit arsonist with Lonn Chapman, king of torches. That nearly gets him killed. I can't believe that the NYPD couldn't afford another guy to play the arsonist at least. I think that's what would have happened in real life.

Still fans of the series will like this.