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 Keith as Judge Milton C. Hardcastle and Daniel Hugh Kelly as ex-con and race car driver Mark "Skid" McCormick. The series premise was somewhat recycled from a previous Cannell series, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe.
Genre: Action & Adventure, Drama
Creator: Stephen J. Cannell, Patrick Hasburgh
Country: United States of America
Type: tv
Season: 1
Episode: 1
Duration: 1h
Release: 1983
Rating: 6.4
Season 1 - Hardcastle and McCormick
02 Oct 1983
"McCormick's former cell mate who's on parole is informed by his parole officer that because of a violation which wasn't his fault, he could be sent back to prison. That's when the parole ..."
09 Oct 1983
"A convict escapes from prison and takes the warden's wife with him but is she his hostage or accomplice. He then calls Hardcastle, who's shocked to hear from him. He then goes after him ..."
13 Nov 1983
"Hardcastle and McCormick take in a young gang member, who has hidden some stolen psychiatrist tapes that his fellow gang members and criminal Mr. Shelcroft are anxious to get their hands on."
15 Jan 1984
"Hardcastle is being considered for a Supreme Court position. And a man in Washington for some reason doesn't want him to get it."
29 Jan 1984
"Hardcastle wants to apprehend a man who's like a modern day Fagin who trains young people to steal. So he has McCormick join his ranks."
05 Feb 1984
"Hardcastle learns that a man he sent to prison who was up for parole has decided not to take it. Hardcastle goes to see him and he says that he was doing research on other parolees and ..."
1984-04-01
"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."
Season 2 - Hardcastle and McCormick
04 Nov 1984
"A mentally unbalanced woman with an obsession for older men finds her self attracted to Hardcastle when he appears on a court TV show."
14 Jan 1985
"A friend of Hardcastle's, a lawyer dies. At the funeral, he catches his young wife with another man. He talks to his friend's partner who was forced out of the practice by the wife and he ..."
21 Jan 1985
"There's nothing funny about the apparent suicide of an ex-con comedian whose girl friend jilted the owner of a comics' showcase club."
04 Feb 1985
"The judge's visiting aunts are a pair of snoop sisters who overhear a murder plot and refuse to leave until Hardcastle sees the matter through."
11 Feb 1985
"A hotel mogul's death reunites Hardcastle with a former movie star he once planned to marry, and involves both of them in the subsequent murder of a reporter."
1985-04-01
"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, her young children, with Hardcastle for safekeeping. While the kids initially refuse to tell the judge their name, the judge eventually realizes that they are Angie's children. Meanwhile, Hardcastle and McCormick discover something is amiss when some men unsuccessfully try to kidnap the kids. Following a hunch, Hardcastle pays a visit on a former madam named Dolores. The hunch pays off and the judge locates Angie. Convinced that Hardcastle has her best interests in mind, Angie tells the judge the whole story. Recognizing that the best way to protect Angie is to put Stevie in prison, Hardcastle arranges for her to testify. To his regret, the officers that pick up Angie are actually Stevie's men. Upon learning the truth, Hardcastle and McCormick \"convince\" one of Stevie's men to tell them where to find Angie. Following up on their lead, the two men capture Stevie and rescue Angie."
Season 3 - Hardcastle and McCormick
13 Jan 1986
"Hardcastle is persuaded to run for mayor, but he didn't expect murder to be a campaign issue."
