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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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Season 1

  • Rolling Thunder (1)
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    Rolling Thunder (1)

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1983

    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.

    Director: Roger Young

    Writer: Stephen J. Cannell, Patrick Hasburgh

  • Rolling Thunder (2)
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    Rolling Thunder (2)

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/1983

    See Part One

    Director: Roger Young

    Writer: Stephen J. Cannell, Patrick Hasburgh

  • Man in a Glass House
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    Man in a Glass House

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/1983

    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.

    Director: Guy Magar

    Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

  • The Crystal Duck
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    The Crystal Duck

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/2/1983

    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.

    Director: Bruce Kessler

    Writer: N/A

  • Goin' Nowhere Fast
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    Goin' Nowhere Fast

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/9/1983

    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.

    Director: Guy Magar

    Writer: Patrick Hasburgh

  • The Black Widow
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    The Black Widow

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/16/1983

    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.

    Director: Richard Compton

    Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

  • The Boxer
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    The Boxer

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/23/1983

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

    Director: Tony Mordente

    Writer: Patrick Hasburgh

  • Once Again with Vigorish
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    Once Again with Vigorish

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/30/1983

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Patrick Hasburgh

  • Killer B's
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    Killer B's

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/6/1983

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Prince of Fat City
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    The Prince of Fat City

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/13/1983

    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.

    Director: Tony Mordente

    Writer: Patrick Hasburgh

  • Hotshoes
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    Hotshoes

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1983

    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.

    Director: Richard Compton

    Writer: Patrick Hasburgh

  • Flying Down to Rio
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    Flying Down to Rio

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/1983

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

    Director: Tony Mordente

    Writer: N/A

  • Just Another Round of That Old Song
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    Just Another Round of That Old Song

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/1983

    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.

    Director: Allen Reisner

    Writer: Patrick Hasburgh

  • Third Down and Twenty Years to Life
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    Third Down and Twenty Years to Life

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/1/1984

    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.

    Director: Georg Stanford Brown

    Writer: N/A

  • Whistler's Pride
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    Whistler's Pride

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/8/1984

    The judge inherits a rather short race horse.

    Director: Tony Mordente

    Writer: N/A

  • Mr. Hardcastle Goes to Washington
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    Mr. Hardcastle Goes to Washington

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/15/1984

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Patrick Hasburgh

  • School for Scandal
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    School for Scandal

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/29/1984

    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.

    Director: Tony Mordente

    Writer: Tom Blomquist

  • The Georgia Street Motors
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    The Georgia Street Motors

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/5/1984

    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.

    Director: Joseph Manduke

    Writer: N/A

  • The Homecoming (1)
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    The Homecoming (1)

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/5/1984

    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.

    Director: Tony Mordente

    Writer: Patrick Hasburgh

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    The Homecoming (2)

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/11/1984

    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.

    Director: Bruce Kessler

    Writer: Patrick Hasburgh

  • Did You See the One That Got Away?
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    Did You See the One That Got Away?

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/18/1984

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Lawrence Hertzog

  • Really Neat Cars and Guys with a Sense of Humor
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    Really Neat Cars and Guys with a Sense of Humor

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/25/1984

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Lawrence Hertzog

  • Scared Stiff
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    Scared Stiff

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 4/1/1984

    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.

    Director: Tony Mordente

    Writer: Tom Blomquist