Season 1
23 episodes · Sep 18, 1983
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S1E1Rolling Thunder (1)
Sep 18, 198360mAs 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.
S1E3Man in a Glass House
Sep 25, 198342mHardcastle 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.
- S1E4
The Crystal Duck
Oct 2, 198342mTeddy, 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.
- S1E5
Goin' Nowhere Fast
Oct 9, 198342mA 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.
- S1E6
The Black Widow
Oct 16, 198342mHardcastle 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.
- S1E7
The Boxer
Oct 23, 198342mBoxer Kid Calico is told to throw a fight in order to keep his kidnapped father alive.
- S1E8
Once Again with Vigorish
Oct 30, 198342mHardcastle & 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.
- S1E9
Killer B's
Nov 6, 198342mHardcastle 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.
- S1E10
The Prince of Fat City
Nov 13, 198342mA 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.
S1E11Hotshoes
Nov 27, 198360mMark 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.
- S1E12
Flying Down to Rio
Dec 4, 198360mHardcastle & McCormick travel to Rio to track down a drug runner.
- S1E13
Just Another Round of That Old Song
Dec 11, 198360mKeenan 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.
- S1E14
Third Down and Twenty Years to Life
Jan 1, 198460mA 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.
- S1E16
Mr. Hardcastle Goes to Washington
Jan 15, 198460mHardcastle is up for a spot on the Supreme Court bench but some people don't want him to be chosen.
- S1E17
School for Scandal
Jan 29, 198460mRobert 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.
- S1E18
The Georgia Street Motors
Feb 5, 198460mA 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.
S1E19The Homecoming (1)
Mar 5, 198460mHardcastle 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.
S1E20The Homecoming (2)
Mar 11, 198460mHardcastle 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.
S1E21Did You See the One That Got Away?
Mar 18, 198460mHardcastle visits a man he sent to prison for life only to find that the man never made it there.
- S1E22
Really Neat Cars and Guys with a Sense of Humor
Mar 25, 198460mHardcastle & McCormick go undercover at a computerized dating service in order to find out why wealthy clients are turning up dead.
- S1E23
Scared Stiff
Apr 1, 198460mMark 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.