Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 2
Season 2
Network
Episodes22
DatesSep 23, 1984 - Apr 1, 1985
Episodes
Season 2Episode 160 min
Outlaw Champion
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.
Sep 23, 1984
Season 2Episode 260 min
Ties My Father Sold Me
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 sought by a mobster who kidnaps Mark to force him to steal some incriminating tapes from a government safe.
Sep 30, 1984
Season 2Episode 360 min
You Would Cry, Too, If It Happened to You
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 the estate has been stolen, including all of the judge's files on past cases.
Oct 7, 1984
Season 2Episode 460 min
D-Day
Hardcastle's sister-in-law, Didi, is taking a course from a policeman who is also a celebrated best-selling author, and finds big trouble by surreptitiously following him as he sets up a big drug buy.
Oct 14, 1984
Season 2Episode 560 min
Never My Love
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," Mark and the judge find political reasons may be to blame for her disappearance.
Oct 28, 1984
Season 2Episode 660 min
Whatever Happened to Guts
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 when the station's public relations person is murdered.
Nov 4, 1984
Season 2Episode 760 min
You and the Horse You Rode in On
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 presentation, Mark quits only to find out his boss is not yet willing to part ways, and kidnaps Hardcastle to keep Mark at the company.
Nov 18, 1984
Season 2Episode 860 min
One of the Girls From Accounting
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 their call, the woman informs him the officer is actually a member of an unofficial "underground" police and they are far from being safe.
Nov 25, 1984
Season 2Episode 960 min
It Coulda Been Worse...She Coulda Been a Welder
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 narrowly avoids a kidnapping.
Dec 2, 1984
Season 2Episode 1060 min
Hate the Picture...Love the Frame
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 case, McCormick tries to help his friend get out of jail.
Dec 9, 1984
Season 2Episode 1160 min
Pennies from a Dead Man's Eyes
The associates of a singer long thought to be dead are making a killing on his music rights, so when they discover the singer's alive, they decide to rectify the situation.
Dec 31, 1984
Season 2Episode 1260 min
There Goes the Neighborhood
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 their Captain, the judge forgets about his displeasure when the thieves are caught only to be found dead later from a mysterious virus.
Jan 7, 1985
Season 2Episode 1360 min
Too Rich and Too Thin
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.
Jan 14, 1985
Season 2Episode 1460 min
What's So Funny..?
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 involved with a woman named Pamela Bayer. The judge's earlier suspicions gain some validity when Hardcastle and McCormick see a group of men try to kidnap Pamela. After rescuing Pamela, Hardcastle and McCormick learn that the prospective kidnappers work for reputed mobster Sonny Austin, her ex-boyfriend. Realizing that Sonny, in an irrational attempt to win back his ex-girlfriend, has been assaulting all Pamela's dates, Hardcastle and McCormick try to find out who has been providing the mobster with her dating schedule. It turns out that Pamela has been primarily dating comedians employed at Boots Dikeman's club. Figuring that Leo Dikeman, Boots' main competitor, is probably encouraging Sonny, Hardcastle and McCormick decide to pay him a visit. Before they arrive, Sonny, realizing that he has been used, kills Leo. Facing a dead end in the case, the judge asks Mark to pose as one of Pamela's comedian boyfriends. Taking the bait, Sonny falls into the judge's trap.
Jan 21, 1985
Season 2Episode 1560 min
Hardcastle, Hardcastle, Hardcastle and McCormick
Hardcase's two aunts help out during a nursing home jewelry heist.
Feb 4, 1985
Season 2Episode 1660 min
The Long Ago Girl
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 burglar at her house, who looks like the deceased husband.
Feb 11, 1985
Season 2Episode 1760 min
You Don't Hear the One That Gets You
Returning from New Mexico with $20,000 in racing winnings, McCormick, and Hardcastle (Daniel Hugh-Kelly, Brian Keith) are waylaid by a bank robber and his girl.
Feb 18, 1985
Season 2Episode 1860 min
The Birthday Present
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. Unfortunately, the new trial winds up with Hardcastle being shot and the criminal escaping.
Feb 25, 1985
Season 2Episode 1960 min
Surprise on Seagull Beach
The judge (Brian Keith) discovers that both surf punks and unregenerate Nazis have an interest in his private beach.
Mar 4, 1985
Season 2Episode 2060 min
Undercover McCormick
McCormick {Daniel Hugh-Kelly) poses as a policeman to nail renegade cops moonlighting as hit men.
Mar 11, 1985
Season 2Episode 2160 min
The Game You Learn from Your Father
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 presiding judge, Hardcastle tries to help McGuire become a baseball player once again. But his attempt at a comeback is threatened when drugs are found in his locker.
Mar 18, 1985
Season 2Episode 2260 min
Angie's Choice
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.
Apr 1, 1985
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