HARDCASTLE AND MCCORMICK

19836.5 RATING3 SEASONS67 EPISODESACTION & ADVENTURE

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.

PRINCIPAL CAST

BRIAN KEITHMilton Hardcastle

DANIEL HUGH KELLYMark "Skid" McCormick

JOE SANTOSFrank Harper

SERIES GUIDE

SEASONS & EPISODES

SEASON

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S01 E01

1983-09-18 / 60 MIN

ROLLING THUNDER (1)

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 is killed in a car accident and ownership of the car is granted to industrialist Martin Cody. Eventually, Mark is brought before Hardcastle, who is presiding over his last case, Mark is given a choice: help the judge round-up two hundred men who walked out of the judge's courtroom on technicalities or go back to prison.

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S01 E02

1983-09-18 / 60 MIN

ROLLING THUNDER (2)

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S01 E03

1983-09-25 / 42 MIN

MAN IN A GLASS HOUSE

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 Mark follow the author. Later, Hardcastle is surprised when Cadillac comes to him for help.

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S01 E04

1983-10-02 / 42 MIN

THE CRYSTAL DUCK

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 infraction, he has the power to send him back to prison, unless he pays him a thousand dollars a week.

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S01 E05

1983-10-09 / 42 MIN

GOIN' NOWHERE FAST

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 before Hardcastle chose McCormick, he gave this guy a try, and he proved Hardcastle wrong.

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S01 E06

1983-10-16 / 42 MIN

THE BLACK WIDOW

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 to her. As they get closer, a gangster named Joe Beiber, whom she has been seeing, and who is insanely jealous abducts them.

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S01 E07

1983-10-23 / 42 MIN

THE BOXER

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

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S01 E08

1983-10-30 / 42 MIN

ONCE AGAIN WITH VIGORISH

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.

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S01 E09

1983-11-06 / 42 MIN

KILLER B'S

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.

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S01 E10

1983-11-13 / 42 MIN

THE PRINCE OF FAT CITY

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 revealing vital damaging information.

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S01 E11

1983-11-27 / 60 MIN

HOTSHOES

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.

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S01 E12

1983-12-04 / 60 MIN