Hardcastle and McCormick: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Hardcastle and McCormick Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
Outlaw Champion
Sep 23, 1984 · 60 min
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.
Ties My Father Sold Me
Sep 30, 1984 · 60 min
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 sough
You Would Cry Too, If It Happened to You
Oct 7, 1984 · 60 min
After telling his poker buddies to clean up the house before he gets back from the airport with the judge, McCormick returns with Hardcastle to discover that everything valuable on
D-Day
Oct 14, 1984 · 60 min
After finding his sister-in-law missing and her apartment ransacked, Hardcastle discovers that she had been secretly following her professor in hopes of earning extra credit in a p
Never My Love
Oct 28, 1984 · 60 min
Mark attends the funeral of an old friend, only to be surprised later to receive a message from her on his answering machine. After searching for evidence to her supposed "death,"
Whatever Happened to Guts?
Nov 4, 1984 · 60 min
When star of a television court show has to go into the hospital for surgery, he asks Hardcastle to fill in as the show's star. But, his enthusiasm for the show comes to a halt whe
You and the Horse You Rode in On
Nov 18, 1984 · 60 min
Finally tired of how Hardcastle is treating him, Mark seeks another job with a water filter manufacturer. But after the director misleads a group of potential buyers during a prese
One of the Girls from Accounting
Nov 25, 1984 · 60 min
While attending business downtown, Mark rushes to the aid of a woman being attacked by men in a mail truck. While he thinks he can find safety from the police officer reponding to
It Coulda Been Worse...She Coulda Been a Welder
Dec 2, 1984 · 60 min
The proposed destruction of a popular college bar brings Hardcastle's niece in the spotlight. With her protests making him upset, he must put aside their differences when she narro
Hate the Picture, Love the Frame
Dec 9, 1984 · 60 min
Hardcastle is arrested after a woman whom he had prevously had a chance encounter earlier is found dead in his home. Thinking the judge was framed due to his ruling on his latest c
Pennies from a Dead Man's Eyes
Dec 31, 1984 · 60 min
Jesse Wingo, the former famous singer, is spotted by McCormick at a talent contest. But when approached about his past, the contestant reveals his name to be Sam Jones. Puzzled at
There Goes the Neighborhood
Jan 7, 1985 · 60 min
Hardcastle's neighbors begin a Neighborhood Watch program after a series of local burglaries have them worried. After being overlooked by the organization for the selection of thei
Too Rich and Too Thin
Jan 14, 1985 · 60 min
After investigating the suicide of a comic, Hardcastle relizes that it wasn't really suicide after he and McCormick prevent the attempted kidnapping of the comic's wife.
What's So Funny?
Jan 21, 1985 · 60 min
Perplexed by the apparent suicide of ex-con Denny Frye, an up-and-coming comic, Hardcastle decides to investigate. Thanks to Mark, Hardcastle discovers that Denny was romantically
Hardcastle, Hardcastle, Hardcastle and McCormick
Feb 4, 1985 · 60 min
Hardcase's two aunts help out during a nursing home jewelry heist.
The Long Ago Girl
Feb 11, 1985 · 60 min
Hardcastle cuts his fishing trip short when he receives word of the death of his old girlfriend's current husband. After deciding to check up on her, he is shot as he interrupts a
You Don't Hear the One That Gets You
Feb 18, 1985 · 60 min
Mark is thrilled when he wins $20,000 racing in the Arizona Modified. His joy quickly dissipates when thieves hold him up and steal his winnings as well as the Coyote. Based on Har
The Birthday Present
Feb 25, 1985 · 60 min
With the judge's birthday coming up, Mark decides to unofficially help him close a cold case related to a soon-to-be-paroled crimial that Hardcastle put in jail for another crime.
Surprise on Seagull Beach
Mar 4, 1985 · 60 min
After finding strange German bullets on the beach, Hardcastle gets involved in an underground treasure hunt for World War II gold at the beach. Meanwhile, McCormick also gets invol
Undercover McCormick
Mar 11, 1985 · 60 min
Seeking Hardcastle's help on a case of corrupt cops, a young patrolman is killed before he or Hardcastle can seek higher help in the department. With the case dealing with bad cops
The Game You Learn From Your Father
Mar 18, 1985 · 60 min
A critically-wounded criminal admits to being paid to frame a former baseball player, Duke McGuire, for murder. Feeling responsible for his false incarceration since he was the pre
Angie's Choice
Apr 1, 1985 · 60 min
After seeing reputed mobster Stevie Ray kill a man named Tommy Chen, former prostitute Angie Bloom goes into hiding. Before disappearing, she decides to leave Nicky and Lindsey, he