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The Best Episodes of Hardcastle and McCormick

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The Best Episodes of 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...

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    #1 - Rolling Thunder (1)

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    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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    #2 - Rolling Thunder (2)

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    #3 - Man in a Glass House

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    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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    #4 - The Crystal Duck

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    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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    Director:Bruce Kessler
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    #5 - Goin' Nowhere Fast

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    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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    #6 - The Black Widow

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    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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    #7 - The Boxer

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

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    #8 - Once Again with Vigorish

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    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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    #9 - Killer B's

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    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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    #10 - The Prince of Fat City

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    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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    #11 - Hotshoes

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    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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    #12 - Flying Down to Rio

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    Hardcastle & McCormick travel to Rio to track down a drug runner.

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    Director:Tony Mordente
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    #13 - Just Another Round of That Old Song

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    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.

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    #14 - Third Down and Twenty Years to Life

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    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 her, he reviews the case and sends Mark on an undercover investigation to the school as a football player.

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    #15 - Whistler's Pride

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    The judge inherits a rather short race horse.

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    Director:Tony Mordente
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    #16 - Mr. Hardcastle Goes to Washington

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    Hardcastle is up for a spot on the Supreme Court bench but some people don't want him to be chosen.

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    #17 - School for Scandal

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    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 put him away.

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    #18 - The Georgia Street Motors

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    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 lack of evidence.

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    #19 - The Homecoming (1)

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    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 daughter asks the judge for help, Hardcastle enlists McCormick to burglarize the local land office.

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    #20 - The Homecoming (2)

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    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 cabin.

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    #21 - Did You See the One That Got Away?

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    Hardcastle visits a man he sent to prison for life only to find that the man never made it there.

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    #22 - Really Neat Cars and Guys with a Sense of Humor

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    Hardcastle & McCormick go undercover at a computerized dating service in order to find out why wealthy clients are turning up dead.

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    #23 - Scared Stiff

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    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 the repeated abuse from the guards and the warden.

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    #24 - Outlaw Champion

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    Hardcastle and McCormick must help protect a famous race car driver who is in danger of losing his claim to fame as well as his life.

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    Director:Leo Penn
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    #25 - Ties My Father Sold Me

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    After breaking into the official records, Mark identifies his long-lost biological father as a lounge singer in Atlantic City and goes to see him. But the man turns out to be sought by a mobster who kidnaps Mark to force him to steal some incriminating tapes from a government safe.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Rolling Thunder (1)" is the best rated episode of "Hardcastle and McCormick". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Roger Young and written by Stephen J. Cannell, Patrick Hasburgh, it aired on 9/18/1983. This episode scored NaN points higher than the second highest rated, "Rolling Thunder (2)".