Hardcastle and McCormick

A retired judge and his last defendant follow up on cases that were dismissed due to technicalities.

Cast:Brian Keith , Daniel Hugh Kelly , Joe Santos , John Hancock , Mary Jackson , Ed Bernard , Michael Swan , Daphne Reid , Wyatt Johnson , Gerry Gibson , Rick Fitts , Jonathan Banks , Beau Starr , Faye Grant , Steve Lawrence , Marilyn Jones , Stephen Elliott , Molly Cheek

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Rolling Thunder: Part 1

Sun, Sep 18, 1983

Retired judge Hardcastle recruits ex-con McCormick to team up with him in tracking down the guilty cases that slipped through the courts on technicalities. First on the docket: Martin Cody, the man who murdered McCormick's friend Flip.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Rolling Thunder: Part 2

Sun, Sep 18, 1983

Hardcastle and McCormick continue to forge their uneasy alliance and travel to Las Vegas with a plan to draw Martin Cody out into the open using the Coyote as irresistible bait.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Man in a Glass House

Sun, Sep 25, 1983

A mobster writes a book and in it he says some things about some people that are not nice. And among them is Hardcastle, who wants to get him. And his former associates are not pleased with it too and when they bring him to them and threaten him, he counters by saying he has records of everything they have done, so he tells them to back off. After he leaves, they meet with a fixer they've hired to get the records he has and kill him. While trying to get the records to a safe location, Hardcastle runs into him, literally, so Hardcastle wants to see what he has in his car but first a judge has to approve the search. While waiting, the fixer grabs the man's son and threatens him unless he gives the records. So he turns to Hardcastle for help.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ The Crystal Duck

Sun, Oct 2, 1983

McCormick's former cell mate who's on parole is informed by his parole officer that because of a violation which wasn't his fault, he could be sent back to prison. That's when the parole officer tells him there's a way out--that he should pay him $1000 a week, and he doesn't care how he gets it. When McCormick and Hardcastle go to play cards with some other judges, the guy robs them and McCormick knows he did it. Later McCormick tells Hardcastle about his friend and that he has been staying with him. When they go home they discover that they've been robbed. McCormick knows that his friend wouldn't have done it unless he had a good reason. They go see the parole officer and McCormick gets a weird vibe off the guy and notices he has something that looks like something that was at Hardcastle's. Later one the judges who was robbed issues a warrant for McCormick because he found out who robbed them and his link to McCormick. So Hardcastle has to try and prove McCormick's innocence or he'll go back to prison a three time loser.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Goin' Nowhere Fast

Sun, Oct 9, 1983

A convict escapes from prison and takes the warden's wife with him but is she his hostage or accomplice. He then calls Hardcastle, who's shocked to hear from him. He then goes after him with McCormick, but without telling him how he knows the man and what is he after.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ The Black Widow

Sun, Oct 16, 1983

When several men some of whom work for criminals turn up dead and they all appear to have dated the same woman. So Hardcastle looks into it but a Captain who doesn't like Hardcastle tells him to stay away. So Hardcastle has McCormick come on to her. Hardcastle eventually learns that McCormick is in danger.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ The Boxer

Sun, Oct 23, 1983

A boxer whom McCormick knows, is training for the Olympics. But a criminal is pressuring him to turn pro which would make him ineligible for the Olympics. So along with Hardcastle they try to help him.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Once Again with Vigorish

Sun, Oct 30, 1983

DA Pamela Peterson asks her long time friend Judge Hardcastle to help her finally put away loan shark, Frank Kelly after he once again beats legal charges after kidnapping the wife of the prosecutions key witness.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Killer B's

Sun, Nov 6, 1983

Hardcastle enlists his old friend Buddy Ebsen to help him infiltrate the film set of one of film producer Eddie Sands' productions, who he suspects is using his stunt drivers to smuggle drugs in from Mexico.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ The Prince of Fat City

Sun, Nov 13, 1983

Hardcastle and McCormick take in a young gang member, who has hidden some stolen psychiatrist tapes that his fellow gang members and criminal Mr. Shelcroft are anxious to get their hands on.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ Hotshoes

Sun, Nov 27, 1983

McCormick has the opportunity to get back into the racing world, taking the spot of an injured friend. Unfortunately, Hardcastle suspects the racing team is raising funds illegally. The team discovers Hardcastle is investigating them, and Mark's life is put in danger.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ Flying Down to Rio

Sun, Dec 4, 1983

Hardcastle and McCormick follow a gun-runner named Avery down to San Rio Blanco. When their investigation into Avery gets too close, the man uses his connections to get Hardcastle thrown in jail on a drug charge.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ Just Another Round of That Old Song

Sun, Dec 11, 1983

Mark and Milton side with a recently freed ex-con over a retired corrupt police officer in a race to recover the hidden proceeds from a twenty five year old theft.

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ Third Down and Twenty Years to Life

Sun, Jan 1, 1984

Hardcastle contests a young woman's claim that her brother, sent to prison by the judge for murder, was framed--until someone tries to abduct her.

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ Whistler's Pride

Sun, Jan 8, 1984

Hardcastle inherits a race horse and stumbles into the corrupt world of horse racing.

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ Mr. Hardcastle Goes to Washington

Sun, Jan 15, 1984

Hardcastle is being considered for a Supreme Court position. And a man in Washington for some reason doesn't want him to get it.

17Season 1

S1.E17 ∙ School for Scandal

Sun, Jan 29, 1984

Hardcastle wants to apprehend a man who's like a modern day Fagin who trains young people to steal. So he has McCormick join his ranks.

18Season 1

S1.E18 ∙ The Georgia Street Motors

Sun, Feb 5, 1984

Hardcastle learns that a man he sent to prison who was up for parole has decided not to take it. Hardcastle goes to see him and he says that he was doing research on other parolees and discovered that some paroled convicts were killed shortly after being released. Hardcastle learns that all the men killed were originally sentenced to death or life imprisonment. Essentially they were never ever to reenter society. McCormick suspects a vigilante. Hardcastle discovers that all of them were sentenced by one of three judges Hardcastle knew. Hardcastle decides to set a trap for them using McCormick as the bait.

19Season 1

S1.E19 ∙ The Homecoming: Part 1

Sun, Mar 4, 1984

When Hardcastle returns to Arkansas for his high school reunion, he is hailed as a local hero. But local officials want to build a highway through a classmate's farm, and when he doesn't sell, the locals take matters into their own hands. Will Hardcastle be forced to alter his opinion of his hometown?

20Season 1

S1.E20 ∙ The Homecoming: Part 2

Sun, Mar 11, 1984

While McCormick grieves, Hardcastle pulls himself out of the lake and drags himself up to an old friend's house. But how will they all prove their innocence?

21Season 1

S1.E21 ∙ Did You See the One That Got Away?

Sun, Mar 18, 1984

On the way back from a television interview, Hardcastle recognizes a convict who was supposed to be behind bars for life.

22Season 1

S1.E22 ∙ Really Neat Cars and Guys with a Sense of Humor

Sun, Mar 25, 1984

An auto-body man who patched McCormick's bullet-riddled car "borrows" it to impress a date---who's running from a killer.

23Season 1

S1.E23 ∙ Scared Stiff

Sun, Apr 1, 1984

Hardcastle and McCormick are among the hostages taken by convicts demanding a probe of corruption among prison officials.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Outlaw Champion

Sun, Sep 23, 1984

A race-car hero is under pressure: an amateur he was drag-racing lies critically injured, and the mob that finances him is upset at his lackluster racing record.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Ties My Father Sold Me

Sun, Sep 30, 1984

Mccormick wants to go to Atlantic City, and Hardcastle comes with him. They go see a man Sonny Daye, who McCormick claims is his father. Later they discover that Daye is a criminal, and some people want him to do a job but he refuses, so they grab McCormick to make him.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ You Would Cry Too, If It Happened to You

Sun, Oct 7, 1984

When the judge goes to a convention, thieves take the opportunity to steal the contents of Gulls Way.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ D-Day

Sun, Oct 14, 1984

Hardcastle's sister-in-law turns up something big with her surveillance project for a police-procedures course.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Never My Love

Sun, Oct 28, 1984

When Hardcastle and McCormick return home from the funeral of McCormick's former girl friend, they listen to a message from her on their answering machine and learn she's alive.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Whatever Happened to Guts?

Sun, Nov 4, 1984

A mentally unbalanced woman with an obsession for older men finds her self attracted to Hardcastle when he appears on a court TV show.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ You and the Horse You Rode in On

Sun, Nov 18, 1984

After an argument with the judge, McCormick takes a posh sales job that cost his predecessor his life.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ One of the Girls from Accounting

Sun, Nov 25, 1984

Persistence could prove fatal for a payroll clerk who's complaining that the city is paying 10 police officers no longer on the force.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ It Coulda Been Worse, She Coulda Been a Welder

Sun, Dec 2, 1984

Hardcastle's niece protesting the proposed destruction of a popular college bar not only puts her in the spotlight, but also in danger.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ Hate the Picture, Love the Frame

Sun, Dec 9, 1984

A gunrunner frames a Christmas present for the judge: a murder rap.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Pennies from a Dead Man's Eyes

Mon, Dec 31, 1984

The associates of a singer long thought to be dead are making a killing on his music rights, so when they discover the singer's alive, they decide to rectify the situation.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ There Goes the Neighborhood

Mon, Jan 7, 1985

A rash of break-ins in the area prompts Hardcastle's neighbors to organize a neighborhood crime watch.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ Too Rich and Too Thin

Mon, Jan 14, 1985

A friend of Hardcastle's, a lawyer dies. At the funeral, he catches his young wife with another man. He talks to his friend's partner who was forced out of the practice by the wife and he tells Hardcastle the wife was only interested in his money. Hardcastle learns the man died while at some health spa for the elderly. So he goes there as a client and McCormick goes as a trainer who puts Hardcastle through the wringer.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ What's So Funny?

Mon, Jan 21, 1985

There's nothing funny about the apparent suicide of an ex-con comedian whose girl friend jilted the owner of a comics' showcase club.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ Hardcastle, Hardcastle, Hardcastle and McCormick

Mon, Feb 4, 1985

The judge's visiting aunts are a pair of snoop sisters who overhear a murder plot and refuse to leave until Hardcastle sees the matter through.

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ The Long Ago Girl

Mon, Feb 11, 1985

A hotel mogul's death reunites Hardcastle with a former movie star he once planned to marry, and involves both of them in the subsequent murder of a reporter.

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ You Don't Hear the One That Gets You

Mon, Feb 18, 1985

Returning from New Mexico with $20,000 in racing winnings, McCormick and Hardcastle are waylaid by a bank robber and his girl.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ The Birthday Present

Mon, Feb 25, 1985

McCormick and a cop he dislikes grudgingly team up to give the judge the perfect birthday present: the continued incarceration of a vindictive killer who's about to be released.

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ Surprise on Seagull Beach

Mon, Mar 4, 1985

The judge discovers that both surf punks and unregenerate Nazis have an interest in his private beach.

20Season 2

S2.E20 ∙ Undercover McCormick

Mon, Mar 11, 1985

Two cops kill a known drug smuggler. The son of an old friend of Hardcastle's pulls him over and asks for help in speaking to the commissioner about it, but the commissioner isn't accepting his calls. When Hardcastle brings him and Lt. Frank Harper to the meet to speak to Rafael, they find him dead. So they send McCormick in undercover as a police officer.

21Season 2

S2.E21 ∙ The Game You Learn from Your Father

Mon, Mar 18, 1985

A man who was charged with armed robbery 15 years ago, whose trial Hardcastle presided over, is released when the true culprit a friend of his, makes a dying confession. The man seeks out Hardcastle, because Hardcastle wouldn't allow evidence that would have cleared him. Hardcastle tells him, he can't give him back the years he lost. But offers to help get back on his feet by getting him a try out with a baseball team, it seems he was a star baseball player when he was arrested. At the same time Hardcastle looks into something his friend said before he died--that he was paid to frame him. So Hardcastle tries to see if it's true.

22Season 2

S2.E22 ∙ Angie's Choice

Mon, Apr 1, 1985

A fleeing murder witness leaves her two kids on the judge's doorstep

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ She Ain't Deep But She Sure Runs Fast

Mon, Sep 23, 1985

While on vacation in the Oregon wilderness, the plane in which the Judge and Mark are passengers, crashes with the pilot dead. They come across a campsite destroyed by a grizzly bear and a murdered fisherman (Terry Bradshaw).They take an inflatable raft and brave a river full of rapids. They're spotted by 3 men who prey on those they find in the wilderness. It becomes a matter of life or death as they try to escape the murdering hunters.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Faster Heart

Mon, Sep 30, 1985

One of McCormick's old flames is nearly killed in a drag race---and then again in the hospital, where someone tries to give her a lethal injection.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ The Yankee Clipper

Mon, Oct 7, 1985

After a funeral for a friend who disappeared in Vietnam, McCormick discovers someone digging up the casket---and it's the buddy he thought he buried.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Something's Going on on This Train

Mon, Oct 14, 1985

Judge Hardcastle gets on a train that's supposed to be for a convention. Trouble is, there is no convention. Several other people are there for different reasons and then start getting killed off.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ The Career Breaker

Mon, Oct 28, 1985

The judge is jailed for raping a sheriff's daughter, a frame engineered by a sore loser in a fishing contest---but involving more than a trophy.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Do Not Go Gentle

Mon, Nov 4, 1985

Hardcastle gets told he only has six months to live, and starts behaving very diffrently.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ Games People Play

Mon, Nov 11, 1985

McCormick becomes a contestant on a TV quiz show that's rigged by two producers who couldn't come up with the $1 million prize.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Strangle Hold

Mon, Nov 18, 1985

The death of McCormick's former lover leads him and Hardcastle into the rough-and-tumble world of women's wrestling.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ You're Sixteen, You're Beautiful, and You're His

Mon, Nov 25, 1985

At a teen-age beauty pageant, Hardcastle and McCormick uncover a ring that imports illegal aliens.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ Mirage a Trois

Mon, Dec 2, 1985

Mark is mistaken for the boyfriend of a sheik's daughter, which could put him, her---and the U.S. oil supply---in grave danger.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ Conventional Warfare

Mon, Dec 9, 1985

A judges' convention is being held at the same hotel as a gathering of crime families, some of whom have grudges to settle among themselves.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ Duet for Two Wind Instruments

Mon, Dec 16, 1985

Hardcastle and McCormick investigate a case in which the judge's guilty sentence was reversed and the prisoner released, but neither the ex-con nor the victim wants the case reopened.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ If You Could See What I See

Mon, Jan 6, 1986

Mark hires a former cellmate's widow as a maid and it turns out she's psychic---and is being tormented by visions of Mark's murder.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ Hardcastle for Mayor

Mon, Jan 13, 1986

Hardcastle is persuaded to run for mayor, but he didn't expect murder to be a campaign issue.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ When I Look Back on All the Things

Mon, Feb 3, 1986

A default notice on an $18,000 loan takes Mark back six years to the circumstances that got him sent to prison.

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ Brother, Can You Spare a Crime?

Mon, Feb 10, 1986

Hardcastle's ne'er-do-well brother pays a visit, swearing he's gone straight---but actually intending to ask the judge for $100,000 to pay a gambling debt.

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ Round Up the Old Gang

Mon, Feb 17, 1986

Hardcastle visits his college roommate to return a basketball trophy, only to find the man being abducted by thugs in his office garage.

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ McCormick's Bar and Grill

Mon, Feb 24, 1986

McCormick's father wins a bar in a card game and deeds it to his son, who finds the place dilapidated, but desperately desired by the man who lost it.

19Season 3

S3.E19 ∙ Poker Night

Mon, Mar 3, 1986

Murderous liquor-store robbers take refuge at Hardcastle's house on poker night, with another judge, a cop and a DA sitting in.

20Season 3

S3.E20 ∙ In the Eye of the Beholder

Mon, Mar 17, 1986

McCormick swears he was bushwhacked by leprechauns burying gold on the property.

21Season 3

S3.E21 ∙ The Day the Music Died

Mon, Mar 31, 1986

In an Arizona tank town, McCormick finds a rock deejay he idolized in his teens, who's hit rock bottom and is intent on staying that way.

22Season 3

S3.E22 ∙ A Chip Off the Ol' Milt

Mon, May 5, 1986

Working as a paralegal, McCormick learns that a retirement home's owners are engaging in creative management of the residents' funds.