Hardcastle and McCormick (1983)

Action · Crime · Drama

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.

IMDb rating: 6.6 (3,562 votes)
Episode average: 7.7 ↑ +1.1 vs IMDb
Seasons: 3
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 3 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1983)

7.55 avg 23 episodes 8.0 → 6.9 60 min avg

Bad finale

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Rolling Thunder: Part 1	8.0	90
2	Rolling Thunder: Part 2	8.0	71
3	Man in a Glass House	7.1	60
4	The Crystal Duck	7.5	57
5	Goin' Nowhere Fast	7.6	49
6	The Black Widow	7.6	51
7	The Boxer	7.1	49
8	Once Again with Vigorish	7.2	50
9	Killer B's	7.5	52
10	The Prince of Fat City	7.3	46
11	Hotshoes	7.5	45
12	Flying Down to Rio	7.5	47
13	Just Another Round of That Old Song	8.1	51
14	Third Down and Twenty Years to Life	7.8	47
15	Whistler's Pride	7.8	45
16	Mr. Hardcastle Goes to Washington	7.8	44
17	School for Scandal	7.2	43
18	The Georgia Street Motors	7.4	42
19	The Homecoming: Part 1	8.0	46
20	The Homecoming: Part 2	8.4	54
21	Did You See the One That Got Away?	7.1	45
22	Really Neat Cars and Guys with a Sense of Humor	7.2	43
23	Scared Stiff	6.9	45

Season 2 (1984)

7.74 avg 22 episodes 8.2 → 7.6 60 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Outlaw Champion	8.2	49
2	Ties My Father Sold Me	7.4	43
3	You Would Cry Too, If It Happened to You	8.0	39
4	D-Day	7.4	44
5	Never My Love	7.5	43
6	Whatever Happened to Guts?	8.1	45
7	You and the Horse You Rode in On	7.7	42
8	One of the Girls from Accounting	7.9	42
9	It Coulda Been Worse, She Coulda Been a Welder	7.5	46
10	Hate the Picture, Love the Frame	8.0	43
11	Pennies from a Dead Man's Eyes	7.3	43
12	There Goes the Neighborhood	8.0	40
13	Too Rich and Too Thin	8.3	46
14	What's So Funny?	7.7	38
15	Hardcastle, Hardcastle, Hardcastle and McCormick	8.1	44
16	The Long Ago Girl	7.9	37
17	You Don't Hear the One That Gets You	7.6	42
18	The Birthday Present	8.1	38
19	Surprise on Seagull Beach	8.0	41
20	Undercover McCormick	6.7	40
21	The Game You Learn from Your Father	7.3	34
22	Angie's Choice	7.6	32

Season 3 (1985)

7.69 avg 22 episodes 7.7 → 8.2 60 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	She Ain't Deep But She Sure Runs Fast	7.7	39
2	Faster Heart	7.7	34
3	The Yankee Clipper	7.9	41
4	Something's Going on on This Train	7.7	36
5	The Career Breaker	8.2	35
6	Do Not Go Gentle	8.0	37
7	Games People Play	7.3	38
8	Strangle Hold	8.0	40
9	You're Sixteen, You're Beautiful, and You're His	7.0	37
10	Mirage a Trois	7.4	36
11	Conventional Warfare	8.0	35
12	Duet for Two Wind Instruments	8.0	35
13	If You Could See What I See	7.8	35
14	Hardcastle for Mayor	7.6	35
15	When I Look Back on All the Things	7.4	34
16	Brother, Can You Spare a Crime?	7.3	36
17	Round Up the Old Gang	7.5	35
18	McCormick's Bar and Grill	7.8	33
19	Poker Night	8.1	37
20	In the Eye of the Beholder	6.8	45
21	The Day the Music Died	7.8	35
22	A Chip Off the Ol' Milt	8.2	40