Hardcastle and McCormick
Hardcastle and McCormick
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Hardcastle and McCormick

6.4 / 10
1983
3 seasons
67 episodes
Action & AdventureDramaCrime

Hardcastle and McCormick is an American action/drama television series from Stephen J. Cannell Productions, shown on ABC from 1983 through 1986. The series stars Brian Keith as Judge Milton C. Hardcastle and Daniel Hugh Kelly as ex-con and race car driver Mark "Skid" McCormick. The series premise was somewhat recycled from a previous Cannell series, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe.

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Seasons

  • Rolling Thunder (1)

    1.Rolling Thunder (1)

    18-09-198360m

    As the series begins, ex-race car driver Mark McCormick accepts a job driving the Coyote X, an experimental car designed by a friend of his named Flip Johnson. Mark loses his job,...

  • Rolling Thunder (2)

    2.Rolling Thunder (2)

    18-09-198360m

    See Part One

  • Man in a Glass House

    3.Man in a Glass House

    25-09-198342m

    Hardcastle is quite upset when he is criticized in “Without Sin,” the autobiography of retired mobster Joseph Cadillac. Figuring that the mob, also the subject of Cadillac's critic...

  • Ep 4

    4.The Crystal Duck

    02-10-198342m

    Teddy, McCormick's cellmate in prison, is out on parole. He has been staying with Mark in the guesthouse, without Hardcastle's knowledge or permission. Now, his parole officer, Qui...

  • Ep 5

    5.Goin' Nowhere Fast

    09-10-198342m

    A convict who has been having an affair with the warden's wife, escapes with her help. He then calls Hardcastle, which agitates him. He and McCormick go out to find him. Eventually...

  • Ep 6

    6.The Black Widow

    16-10-198342m

    Hardcastle wants to investigate a woman named Tina Grey. When Hardcastle goes to the police for info, a Captain Filapiano, who doesn't like Hardcastle, asks him to leave. Hardcastl...

  • Ep 7

    7.The Boxer

    23-10-198342m

    Boxer Kid Calico is told to throw a fight in order to keep his kidnapped father alive.

  • Ep 8

    8.Once Again with Vigorish

    30-10-198342m

    Hardcastle & McCormick set out to assist a lawyer, who is an old friend of Hardcastle's, convict a mobster who is running stolen property in semi-trucks.

  • Ep 9

    9.Killer B's

    06-11-198342m

    Hardcastle persuades an old friend, played by Buddy Ebsen, to obtain a role in a movie in which the movie producer is using his films to cover up his drug smuggling operation.

  • Ep 10

    10.The Prince of Fat City

    13-11-198342m

    A gang member is remanded into the judge's custody only to stay in the guest house with Mark, while the judge and Mark go after a psychiatrist who has been taping private sessions...

  • Hotshoes

    11.Hotshoes

    27-11-198360m

    Mark is thrilled when he gets a shot at racing in big leagues—only to learn that his sponsor's auto parts business gets their inventory from stolen cars.

  • Ep 12

    12.Flying Down to Rio

    04-12-198360m

    Hardcastle & McCormick travel to Rio to track down a drug runner.

  • Ep 13

    13.Just Another Round of That Old Song

    11-12-198360m

    Keenan Wynn guest stars as an old bank robber, just released from prison, who attempts to locate the cash stored in an armored car that he robbed in the '40s.

  • Ep 14

    14.Third Down and Twenty Years to Life

    01-01-198460m

    A law student at a local college claims that her brother, who was sent to prison for 20 years by Judge Hardcastle, was framed for murder. He ignores her, but when someone tries to...

  • Ep 15

    15.Whistler's Pride

    08-01-198460m

    The judge inherits a rather short race horse.

  • Ep 16

    16.Mr. Hardcastle Goes to Washington

    15-01-198460m

    Hardcastle is up for a spot on the Supreme Court bench but some people don't want him to be chosen.

  • Ep 17

    17.School for Scandal

    29-01-198460m

    Robert Culp guest stars as Arthur Farnel, an ex-con who runs a school leading and teaching their students how to break the law. Mark decides to go undercover in order to gather en...

  • Ep 18

    18.The Georgia Street Motors

    05-02-198460m

    A group of retired judges decide to take the law into their own hands by delivering their own verdicts to criminals who slipped through the system or were given lesser sentences ba...

  • The Homecoming (1)

    19.The Homecoming (1)

    05-03-198460m

    Hardcastle returns to his hometown in Arkansas for a high school reunion, only to learn from an old friend that people are being swindled out of their farms. After the friend is mu...

  • The Homecoming (2)

    20.The Homecoming (2)

    11-03-198460m

    Hardcastle hides out with another old friend, recovering from his injuries, while he tries to figure out how to retrieve the evidence against the town officials. Meanwhile, Mark an...

  • Did You See the One That Got Away?

    21.Did You See the One That Got Away?

    18-03-198460m

    Hardcastle visits a man he sent to prison for life only to find that the man never made it there.

  • Ep 22

    22.Really Neat Cars and Guys with a Sense of Humor

    25-03-198460m

    Hardcastle & McCormick go undercover at a computerized dating service in order to find out why wealthy clients are turning up dead.

  • Ep 23

    23.Scared Stiff

    01-04-198460m

    Mark and Hardcastle take a group of misfit kids to a local prison in order to scare them straight; but while they are there, they are taken hostages by prisoners who are frustrated...

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