Hardcastle and McCormick: Season 1
Episode Guide
Season 1 Progress Shield
Rolling Thunder (1)
Sep 18, 1983 · 60 min
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,
Man in a Glass House
Sep 25, 1983 · 42 min
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 critic
The Crystal Duck
Oct 2, 1983 · 42 min
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, Qui
Goin' Nowhere Fast
Oct 9, 1983 · 42 min
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
The Black Widow
Oct 16, 1983 · 42 min
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. Hardcastl
The Boxer
Oct 23, 1983 · 42 min
Boxer Kid Calico is told to throw a fight in order to keep his kidnapped father alive.
Once Again with Vigorish
Oct 30, 1983 · 42 min
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.
Killer B's
Nov 6, 1983 · 42 min
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.
The Prince of Fat City
Nov 13, 1983 · 42 min
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
Hotshoes
Nov 27, 1983 · 60 min
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.
Flying Down to Rio
Dec 4, 1983 · 60 min
Hardcastle & McCormick travel to Rio to track down a drug runner.
Just Another Round of That Old Song
Dec 11, 1983 · 60 min
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.
Third Down and Twenty Years to Life
Jan 1, 1984 · 60 min
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
Mr. Hardcastle Goes to Washington
Jan 15, 1984 · 60 min
Hardcastle is up for a spot on the Supreme Court bench but some people don't want him to be chosen.
School for Scandal
Jan 29, 1984 · 60 min
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 en
The Georgia Street Motors
Feb 5, 1984 · 60 min
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 ba
The Homecoming (1)
Mar 5, 1984 · 60 min
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 mu
The Homecoming (2)
Mar 11, 1984 · 60 min
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 an
Did You See the One That Got Away?
Mar 18, 1984 · 60 min
Hardcastle visits a man he sent to prison for life only to find that the man never made it there.
Really Neat Cars and Guys with a Sense of Humor
Mar 25, 1984 · 60 min
Hardcastle & McCormick go undercover at a computerized dating service in order to find out why wealthy clients are turning up dead.
Scared Stiff
Apr 1, 1984 · 60 min
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