Hardcastle and McCormick

Overview

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.

Episodes

Rolling Thunder (1)

S01E01 Rolling Thunder (1)

September 18, 1983 60 min
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, however, after Flip...
Rolling Thunder (2)

S01E02 Rolling Thunder (2)

September 18, 1983 60 min
See Part One
Man in a Glass House

S01E03 Man in a Glass House

September 25, 1983 42 min
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 criticism, will be angered as well, Hardcastle has...

S01E04 The Crystal Duck

October 2, 1983 42 min
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, Quinlan, informs him that due to a minor...

S01E05 Goin' Nowhere Fast

October 9, 1983 42 min
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, it's revealed that...

S01E06 The Black Widow

October 16, 1983 42 min
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. Hardcastle then tells McCormick to get close...

S01E07 The Boxer

October 23, 1983 42 min
Boxer Kid Calico is told to throw a fight in order to keep his kidnapped father alive.

S01E08 Once Again with Vigorish

October 30, 1983 42 min
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.

S01E09 Killer B's

November 6, 1983 42 min
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.

S01E10 The Prince of Fat City

November 13, 1983 42 min
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 with clients...
Hotshoes

S01E11 Hotshoes

November 27, 1983 60 min
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.

S01E12 Flying Down to Rio

December 4, 1983 60 min
Hardcastle & McCormick travel to Rio to track down a drug runner.

S01E13 Just Another Round of That Old Song

December 11, 1983 60 min
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.

S01E14 Third Down and Twenty Years to Life

January 1, 1984 60 min
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 kidnap...

S01E15 Whistler's Pride

January 8, 1984 60 min
The judge inherits a rather short race horse.

S01E16 Mr. Hardcastle Goes to Washington

January 15, 1984 60 min
Hardcastle is up for a spot on the Supreme Court bench but some people don't want him to be chosen.

S01E17 School for Scandal

January 29, 1984 60 min
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 enough evidence to...

S01E18 The Georgia Street Motors

February 5, 1984 60 min
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 based on technicalities or...
The Homecoming (1)

S01E19 The Homecoming (1)

March 5, 1984 60 min
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 murdered, and his...
The Homecoming (2)

S01E20 The Homecoming (2)

March 11, 1984 60 min
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 and Christy take refuge in an abandoned...
Did You See the One That Got Away?

S01E21 Did You See the One That Got Away?

March 18, 1984 60 min
Hardcastle visits a man he sent to prison for life only to find that the man never made it there.

S01E22 Really Neat Cars and Guys with a Sense of Humor

March 25, 1984 60 min
Hardcastle & McCormick go undercover at a computerized dating service in order to find out why wealthy clients are turning up dead.

S01E23 Scared Stiff

April 1, 1984 60 min
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 because of...

Cast

Brian Keith
Brian Keith
Milton Hardcastle
Daniel Hugh Kelly
Daniel Hugh Kelly
Mark "Skid" McCormick
Joe Santos
Joe Santos
Frank Harper

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