Episode guide
Hardcastle and McCormick: Season 1
23 episodes · premiered Sep 18, 1983
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- Episode 1: Rolling Thunder (1) Sep 18, 1983 · 1h 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…
- Episode 2: Rolling Thunder (2) Sep 18, 1983 · 1h See Part One
- Episode 3: Man in a Glass House Sep 25, 1983 · 42m 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…
- Episode 4: The Crystal Duck Oct 2, 1983 · 42m 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…
- Episode 5: Goin' Nowhere Fast Oct 9, 1983 · 42m 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…
- Episode 6: The Black Widow Oct 16, 1983 · 42m 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…
- Episode 7: The Boxer Oct 23, 1983 · 42m Boxer Kid Calico is told to throw a fight in order to keep his kidnapped father alive.
- Episode 8: Once Again with Vigorish Oct 30, 1983 · 42m 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.
- Episode 9: Killer B's Nov 6, 1983 · 42m 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.
- Episode 10: The Prince of Fat City Nov 13, 1983 · 42m 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…
- Episode 11: Hotshoes Nov 27, 1983 · 1h 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.
- Episode 12: Flying Down to Rio Dec 4, 1983 · 1h Hardcastle & McCormick travel to Rio to track down a drug runner.
- Episode 13: Just Another Round of That Old Song Dec 11, 1983 · 1h 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.
- Episode 14: Third Down and Twenty Years to Life Jan 1, 1984 · 1h 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…
- Episode 15: Whistler's Pride Jan 8, 1984 · 1h The judge inherits a rather short race horse.
- Episode 16: Mr. Hardcastle Goes to Washington Jan 15, 1984 · 1h Hardcastle is up for a spot on the Supreme Court bench but some people don't want him to be chosen.
- Episode 17: School for Scandal Jan 29, 1984 · 1h 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…
- Episode 18: The Georgia Street Motors Feb 5, 1984 · 1h 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…
- Episode 19: The Homecoming (1) Mar 5, 1984 · 1h 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…
- Episode 20: The Homecoming (2) Mar 11, 1984 · 1h 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…
- Episode 21: Did You See the One That Got Away? Mar 18, 1984 · 1h Hardcastle visits a man he sent to prison for life only to find that the man never made it there.
- Episode 22: Really Neat Cars and Guys with a Sense of Humor Mar 25, 1984 · 1h Hardcastle & McCormick go undercover at a computerized dating service in order to find out why wealthy clients are turning up dead.
- Episode 23: Scared Stiff Apr 1, 1984 · 1h 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…