1983

S2.E1 ∙ Outlaw Champion

Sat, Sep 22, 1984

A race-car hero is under pressure: an amateur he was drag-racing lies critically injured, and the mob that finances him is upset at his lackluster racing record.

8.1 /10

S2.E2 ∙ Ties My Father Sold Me

Sat, Sep 29, 1984

Mccormick wants to go to Atlantic City, and Hardcastle comes with him. They go see a man Sonny Daye, who McCormick claims is his father. Later they discover that Daye is a criminal, and some people want him to do a job but he refuses, so they grab McCormick to make him.

7.1 /10

S2.E3 ∙ You Would Cry Too, If It Happened to You

Sat, Oct 06, 1984

When the judge goes to a convention, thieves take the opportunity to steal the contents of Gulls Way.

7.9 /10

S2.E4 ∙ D-Day

Sat, Oct 13, 1984

Hardcastle's sister-in-law turns up something big with her surveillance project for a police-procedures course.

7.2 /10

S2.E5 ∙ Never My Love

Sat, Oct 27, 1984

When Hardcastle and McCormick return home from the funeral of McCormick's former girl friend, they listen to a message from her on their answering machine and learn she's alive.

7.2 /10

S2.E6 ∙ Whatever Happened to Guts?

Sat, Nov 03, 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.

7.9 /10

S2.E7 ∙ You and the Horse You Rode in On

Sat, Nov 17, 1984

After an argument with the judge, McCormick takes a posh sales job that cost his predecessor his life.

7.6 /10

S2.E8 ∙ One of the Girls from Accounting

Sat, Nov 24, 1984

Persistence could prove fatal for a payroll clerk who's complaining that the city is paying 10 police officers no longer on the force.

7.6 /10

S2.E9 ∙ It Coulda Been Worse, She Coulda Been a Welder

Sat, Dec 01, 1984

Hardcastle's niece protesting the proposed destruction of a popular college bar not only puts her in the spotlight, but also in danger.

7.4 /10

S2.E10 ∙ Hate the Picture, Love the Frame

Sat, Dec 08, 1984

A gunrunner frames a Christmas present for the judge: a murder rap.

7.8 /10

S2.E11 ∙ Pennies from a Dead Man's Eyes

Sun, Dec 30, 1984

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.

7.2 /10

S2.E12 ∙ There Goes the Neighborhood

Sun, Jan 06, 1985

A rash of break-ins in the area prompts Hardcastle's neighbors to organize a neighborhood crime watch.

7.7 /10

S2.E13 ∙ Too Rich and Too Thin

Sun, Jan 13, 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 tells Hardcastle the wife was only interested in his money. Hardcastle learns the man died while at some health spa for the elderly. So he goes there as a client and McCormick goes as a trainer who puts Hardcastle through the wringer.

8.1 /10

S2.E14 ∙ What's So Funny?

Sun, Jan 20, 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.

7.5 /10

S2.E15 ∙ Hardcastle, Hardcastle, Hardcastle and McCormick

Sun, Feb 03, 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.

8 /10

S2.E16 ∙ The Long Ago Girl

Sun, Feb 10, 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.

7.7 /10

S2.E17 ∙ You Don't Hear the One That Gets You

Sun, Feb 17, 1985

Returning from New Mexico with $20,000 in racing winnings, McCormick and Hardcastle are waylaid by a bank robber and his girl.

7.5 /10

S2.E18 ∙ The Birthday Present

Sun, Feb 24, 1985

McCormick and a cop he dislikes grudgingly team up to give the judge the perfect birthday present: the continued incarceration of a vindictive killer who's about to be released.

7.8 /10

S2.E19 ∙ Surprise on Seagull Beach

Sun, Mar 03, 1985

The judge discovers that both surf punks and unregenerate Nazis have an interest in his private beach.

8 /10

S2.E20 ∙ Undercover McCormick

Sun, Mar 10, 1985

Two cops kill a known drug smuggler. Another cop, Rafael, the son of an old friend of Hardcastle pulls the judge over and asks for help in speaking to the Police Commissioner about it as the Commissioner isn't accepting his calls. (The Commission has hated Hardcastle for 27 years over an insult in court making things even less auspicious but eventually a meeting is arranged.) When Hardcastle brings Mark and Lt. Frank Harper to to speak with Rafael, they find him dead. McCormick is sent undercover as a police officer.

6.5 /10

S2.E21 ∙ The Game You Learn from Your Father

Sun, Mar 17, 1985

A man who was charged with armed robbery 15 years ago, whose trial Hardcastle presided over, is released when the true culprit a friend of his, makes a dying confession. The man seeks out Hardcastle, because Hardcastle wouldn't allow evidence that would have cleared him. Hardcastle tells him, he can't give him back the years he lost. But offers to help get back on his feet by getting him a try out with a baseball team, it seems he was a star baseball player when he was arrested. At the same time Hardcastle looks into something his friend said before he died--that he was paid to frame him. So Hardcastle tries to see if it's true.

7.2 /10