Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 2

Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 2

Season 2

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Episodes22
DatesSep 23, 1984 - Apr 1, 1985
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Episodes

Outlaw Champion
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
Ties My Father Sold Me
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
You Would Cry, Too, If It Happened to You
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
D-Day
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
Never My Love
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
Whatever Happened to Guts
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
You and the Horse You Rode in On
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
One of the Girls From Accounting
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
It Coulda Been Worse...She Coulda Been a Welder
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
Hate the Picture...Love the Frame
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
Pennies from a Dead Man's Eyes
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
There Goes the Neighborhood
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
Too Rich and Too Thin
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
What's So Funny..?
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
Hardcastle, Hardcastle, Hardcastle and McCormick
Season 2Episode 1560 min

Hardcastle, Hardcastle, Hardcastle and McCormick

Hardcase's two aunts help out during a nursing home jewelry heist.
Feb 4, 1985
The Long Ago Girl
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
You Don't Hear the One That Gets You
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
The Birthday Present
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
Surprise on Seagull Beach
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
Undercover McCormick
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
The Game You Learn from Your Father
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
Angie's Choice
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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