

Hardcastle and McCormick
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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1.Rolling Thunder (1)
18-09-198360mAs 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,...

2.Rolling Thunder (2)
18-09-198360mSee Part One

3.Man in a Glass House
25-09-198342mHardcastle 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
02-10-198342mTeddy, 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
09-10-198342mA 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
16-10-198342mHardcastle 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
23-10-198342mBoxer Kid Calico is told to throw a fight in order to keep his kidnapped father alive.
- Ep 8
8.Once Again with Vigorish
30-10-198342mHardcastle & 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
06-11-198342mHardcastle 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
13-11-198342mA 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...

11.Hotshoes
27-11-198360mMark 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
04-12-198360mHardcastle & McCormick travel to Rio to track down a drug runner.
- Ep 13
13.Just Another Round of That Old Song
11-12-198360mKeenan 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
01-01-198460mA 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
08-01-198460mThe judge inherits a rather short race horse.
- Ep 16
16.Mr. Hardcastle Goes to Washington
15-01-198460mHardcastle 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
29-01-198460mRobert 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
05-02-198460mA 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...

19.The Homecoming (1)
05-03-198460mHardcastle 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...

20.The Homecoming (2)
11-03-198460mHardcastle 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...

21.Did You See the One That Got Away?
18-03-198460mHardcastle 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
25-03-198460mHardcastle & 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
01-04-198460mMark 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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