McCloud (TV Series)

The Day New York Turned Blue (1976)

Dennis Weaver: Sam McCloud

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Quotes 

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Sam McCloud : You know, playing possum is just basic police procedure back home.