1983

S3.E1 ∙ She Ain't Deep But She Sure Runs Fast

Sun, Sep 22, 1985

While on vacation in the Oregon wilderness, the plane in which the Judge and Mark are passengers, crashes with the pilot dead. They come across a campsite destroyed by a grizzly bear and a murdered fisherman (Terry Bradshaw).They take an inflatable raft and brave a river full of rapids. They're spotted by 3 men who prey on those they find in the wilderness. It becomes a matter of life or death as they try to escape the murdering hunters.

7.5 /10

S3.E2 ∙ Faster Heart

Sun, Sep 29, 1985

One of McCormick's old flames is nearly killed in a drag race---and then again in the hospital, where someone tries to give her a lethal injection.

7.5 /10

S3.E3 ∙ The Yankee Clipper

Sun, Oct 06, 1985

After a funeral for a friend who disappeared in Vietnam, McCormick discovers someone digging up the casket---and it's the buddy he thought he buried.

7.7 /10

S3.E4 ∙ Something's Going on on This Train

Sun, Oct 13, 1985

Judge Hardcastle gets on a train that's supposed to be for a convention. Trouble is, there is no convention. Several other people are there for different reasons and then start getting killed off.

7.3 /10

S3.E5 ∙ The Career Breaker

Sun, Oct 27, 1985

The judge is jailed for raping a sheriff's daughter, a frame engineered by a sore loser in a fishing contest---but involving more than a trophy.

7.8 /10

S3.E6 ∙ Do Not Go Gentle

Sun, Nov 03, 1985

Hardcastle gets told he only has six months to live, and starts behaving very diffrently.

7.7 /10

S3.E7 ∙ Games People Play

Sun, Nov 10, 1985

McCormick becomes a contestant on a TV quiz show that's rigged by two producers who couldn't come up with the $1 million prize.

7 /10

S3.E8 ∙ Strangle Hold

Sun, Nov 17, 1985

The death of McCormick's former lover leads him and Hardcastle into the rough-and-tumble world of women's wrestling.

7.8 /10

S3.E9 ∙ You're Sixteen, You're Beautiful, and You're His

Sun, Nov 24, 1985

At a teen-age beauty pageant, Hardcastle and McCormick uncover a ring that imports illegal aliens.

6.9 /10

S3.E10 ∙ Mirage a Trois

Sun, Dec 01, 1985

Mark is mistaken for the boyfriend of a sheik's daughter, which could put him, her---and the U.S. oil supply---in grave danger.

7.3 /10

S3.E11 ∙ Conventional Warfare

Sun, Dec 08, 1985

A judges' convention is being held at the same hotel as a gathering of crime families, some of whom have grudges to settle among themselves.

7.8 /10

S3.E12 ∙ Duet for Two Wind Instruments

Sun, Dec 15, 1985

Hardcastle and McCormick investigate a case in which the judge's guilty sentence was reversed and the prisoner released, but neither the ex-con nor the victim wants the case reopened.

7.8 /10

S3.E13 ∙ If You Could See What I See

Sun, Jan 05, 1986

Mark hires a former cellmate's widow as a maid and it turns out she's psychic---and is being tormented by visions of Mark's murder.

7.5 /10

S3.E14 ∙ Hardcastle for Mayor

Sun, Jan 12, 1986

Hardcastle is persuaded to run for mayor, but he didn't expect murder to be a campaign issue.

7.3 /10

S3.E15 ∙ When I Look Back on All the Things

Sun, Feb 02, 1986

A default notice on an $18,000 loan takes Mark back six years to the circumstances that got him sent to prison.

7.1 /10

S3.E16 ∙ Brother, Can You Spare a Crime?

Sun, Feb 09, 1986

Hardcastle's ne'er-do-well brother pays a visit, swearing he's gone straight---but actually intending to ask the judge for $100,000 to pay a gambling debt.

7.5 /10

S3.E17 ∙ Round Up the Old Gang

Sun, Feb 16, 1986

Hardcastle visits his college roommate to return a basketball trophy, only to find the man being abducted by thugs in his office garage.

7.3 /10

S3.E18 ∙ McCormick's Bar and Grill

Sun, Feb 23, 1986

McCormick's father wins a bar in a card game and deeds it to his son, who finds the place dilapidated, but desperately desired by the man who lost it.

7.4 /10