Sam McCloud

McCloud

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Dennis Weaver

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Sam McCloud Quotes

	Season 7 / Episode 6: - McCloud Meets Dracula Sam McCloud: Give it up, Belasco, you've got no place to go! Loren Belasco: You're wrong, policeman. I have a thousand years' head start on you!
	Season 7 / Episode 6: - McCloud Meets Dracula Sam McCloud: [McCloud and a cop are climbing up a bridge after Belasco] Hey Belasco! Give it up, you can't go any farther. You're an old man, Belasco, you can't handle this. Just hang on, I'll get a rope and get you down from there. Loren Belasco: Not necessary, policeman. You forget, I can fly. Cop: For him I'm risking my neck? I, I got four kids.
	Season 7 / Episode 6: - McCloud Meets Dracula Sam McCloud: [referring to Morris the butler] I've been around dead cats that make more noise than he does.
	Season 7 / Episode 6: - McCloud Meets Dracula Sam McCloud: [faced with Chris' stubbornness] You know, I once knew a Missouri mule that I could talk to easier.
	Season 7 / Episode 6: - McCloud Meets Dracula Sam McCloud: This place has got more room than a porcupine at a love-in.
	Season 7 / Episode 6: - McCloud Meets Dracula Loren Belasco: Cold... very cold... [moves closer to the fire] Sam McCloud: Why, I wouldn't stand too close to that fire there, that's hot enough to barbeque a four ton steer. Loren Belasco: Chill on a night like this penetrates back a thousand years.
	Season 7 / Episode 6: - McCloud Meets Dracula Loren Belasco: Take those wet clothes, Morris. See if you can dry them out. Sam McCloud: Oh, that won't be necessary, it's just my old, sheepskin, here. It's been through much worse than that. Just stand it up anywhere.
	Season 7 / Episode 6: - McCloud Meets Dracula Chris Coughlin: You do have a reputation for getting your mouth and your six-gun mixed up. Sam McCloud: Now what do you mean by that? Chris Coughlin: By shooting it off to the press. Sam McCloud: Really? Chris Coughlin: Really.
	Season 7 / Episode 4: - The Moscow Connection Tereshkoff: Marshal... why do I feel like I've been "rode hard and put away wet"? Sam McCloud: There you go.
	Season 7 / Episode 3: - The Great Taxicab Stampede Sam McCloud: [after trapping villain Keith Hampton in Times Square with an entire fleet of Hampton's cabs] Who says ya can't get a cab in this city when ya want one?
	Season 7 / Episode 2: - 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas... Peter B. Clifford: Well, I always knew I could count on you to make a spectacular entrance, McCloud, but that one was out of the blue! Sam McCloud: There ya go.
	Season 7 / Episode 2: - 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas... Kate O'Hannah: New York is the coldest city in the world to be in... when you're alone. Sam McCloud: Hey, why don't you tell me about it, I wrote the book.
	Season 7 / Episode 2: - 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas... Police Sergeant Grover: Oh, eh, I wanted to talk to you about... Sam McCloud: Not tonight Grover, I'm gonna be off in two minutes. I got a beautiful woman and a Christmas tree waiting for me. I wanna be trimmin' that tree, not hanging from it.
	Season 7 / Episode 1: - Bonnie and McCloud Peter B. Clifford: Sergeant, I use that title in this temporary sence, I thought I said I didn't want to see the two of you around here? Sergeant Joe Broadhurst: It seemed important, chief. Peter B. Clifford: It always does. Alright, spit it out. Sam McCloud: Two of Straker's men just worked me over. Doesn't that strike you as rather odd? Peter B. Clifford: Not really, I've suppressed the thought myself on many occasions.
	Season 7 / Episode 1: - Bonnie and McCloud Sheriff Matheson: Some cops go bad. Sam McCloud: Not this one. He's so straight it makes you cry.
	Season 7 / Episode 1: - Bonnie and McCloud Sam McCloud: I just had a run-in with a couple o' eighteen-wheelers across the highway there, did ya see 'em? They tried to kill us! Second Officer: You sure you didn't just try to cut in front of 'em? Truckers don't like that.
	Season 7 / Episode 1: - Bonnie and McCloud Sam McCloud: Ya know, a lot's happened t' me since I seen ya last, Bonnie. I've embarrassed the New York Police Department, I've been suspended from the force, I've been handcuffed to a fellow officer, I've been beaten up and sprayed with DDT. But since I've come this far, that is if you don't mind, I'd just as soon talk to ya alone.
	Season 7 / Episode 1: - Bonnie and McCloud Sam McCloud: You're a cog in Clifford's machinery! You're the butt end of his cigar! Sergeant Joe Broadhurst: I'm gonna make you eat those words, McCloud. Every one!
	Season 7 / Episode 1: - Bonnie and McCloud Sergeant Joe Broadhurst: My promotion is at stake. I'm not blowin' 15 years on the force and 8 years of marriage just to help make you a hero. Sam McCloud: You don't have to worry about your promotion, you're not gonna make Lieutenant. Do you know why? Huh? Do you know why? Sergeant Joe Broadhurst: You'd better spell it out for me, McCloud. Sam McCloud: [shouting] Because you have no guts. No guts! That's the trouble with you city policemen, you gotta have an order to breathe. You know, where I come from, when we get on the trail of something, we just mount up and ride off.
	Season 6 / Episode 7: - Night of the Shark Jennifer McGee: You know, you really should stay. Tomorrow is a big celebration in Sidney. The Australia day parade. Peter B. Clifford: The only parade I wanna see is me and that 6 foot side of beef climbing up that boarding ladder 11 a.m. sharp, comprende? Sam McCloud: Comprendo.
	Season 6 / Episode 7: - Night of the Shark Sam McCloud: It gives a fella kind of an incomplete feeling not knowing how he solved the case. Peter B. Clifford: Well, if it's any consilation, McCloud, I've always thought your methods were a little incomplete, you too for that matter.
	Season 6 / Episode 7: - Night of the Shark Jennifer McGee: Hotel? You're going to the airport! Sam McCloud: That's right, just as soon as I find out who tried to gullyjump me!
	Season 6 / Episode 7: - Night of the Shark Sam McCloud: Well, what can I say, I'm sorry. I feel like a bull in a prize flower bed. Jennifer McGee: You take the prize alright. Sam McCloud: You're about' prettiest bird-dog I've ever met.
	Season 6 / Episode 7: - Night of the Shark Jennifer McGee: Never mind who I am, who was that? Sam McCloud: I didn't get his name. Jennifer McGee: You hurled a perfect stranger off your balcony? Sam McCloud: Well what Australians throw off their balconies, friends?
	Season 6 / Episode 7: - Night of the Shark Sam McCloud: I hate to admit this, but maybe spending all that time on the plane might have some effect on me, I, eh, I'm a bit sleepy. Sargeant: Yeah, could be the Ozzie brew, too. I suppose I should have mentioned that in the U.S. it's 3 proof, here it's 12. Sam McCloud: 12? Well, it does warm up your innards, alright.
	Season 6 / Episode 6: - The Day New York Turned Blue Doctor: Look, one more thing, if you can't get Johnson to testify against this woman, this, eh, this kook who's going around painting the out of towners blue, I got one suggestion that just might help you. Sam McCloud: What's that? Doctor: Get her to switch to a water based paint.
	Season 6 / Episode 6: - The Day New York Turned Blue Sam McCloud: [driving on the streets of N.Y. in a blizzard] Well, when temperatures are up, tempers are up. Crimes of passion, assault. But when temperatures' down, it's nice and cold, well, crime rates down. People feel more like pulling back, tucking in. Sergeant Joe Broadhurst: Not me McCloud. Right now I could throttle somebody for sticking my out here.
	Season 6 / Episode 6: - The Day New York Turned Blue Peter B. Clifford: Can I buy you and the commissioner a drink? Sam McCloud: At 11 o'clock in the morning? Peter B. Clifford: Well, you been to bed yet? Sam McCloud: No. Peter B. Clifford: You? Deputy Police Commissioner Bob Denton: No. Peter B. Clifford: Then lets be wicked. Every now and then I like to get it out of my system.
	Season 6 / Episode 6: - The Day New York Turned Blue Sam McCloud: You know, playing possum is just basic police procedure back home.
	Season 6 / Episode 6: - The Day New York Turned Blue Sam McCloud: You know, you're lucky that I'm from outta town, because New York City Police Department doesn't allow their officers to fire a warning shot. Now I'd just as soon leave you here to prove that I didn't violate the law.

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