SPOILER
Night of the Shark and Showdown at Times Square
Sidney Ellis wrote Night of the Shark
Lou Shaw wrote the Teleplay for Showdown at Times Square
plus 7 other McCloud stories and/or teleplays.
Aside from Writer Lou Shaw's 7 script writes everyone else having to do with script development had zero prior script writing for the McCloud characters. I found this story to be mean spirited in the extreme. By Season 6 there should be no call for Chief Clifford to be so outright disrespectful and belittling in his comments to all of the staff. He even shot a couple off to Chief Dan George. What could they have been thinking? I could barely watch this episode, it was so appalling.
Chief Clifford cut everyone off from the very beginning of this story. Let's face it they have had some great successes due to McCloud's enginuity. There writers should have done a far better job with character development than this pile of "Iron Horse" wreck! I can't give this one any better than a 3 and I love Cheif Dan George and all the characters in McCloud. No wonder this show was cancelled. Dennis Weaver is a treasure. He and Terry Carter had wonderful working charisma together. I just don't get the mood of this one.
Chief Clifford cut everyone off from the very beginning of this story. Let's face it they have had some great successes due to McCloud's enginuity. There writers should have done a far better job with character development than this pile of "Iron Horse" wreck! I can't give this one any better than a 3 and I love Cheif Dan George and all the characters in McCloud. No wonder this show was cancelled. Dennis Weaver is a treasure. He and Terry Carter had wonderful working charisma together. I just don't get the mood of this one.
