As of July 2026, Hardcastle and McCormick Season 1 aired in 1983 with 23 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.

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Hardcastle and McCormick Season 1

1983 23 Episodes Action & Adventure · Drama ⭐ 6/10

If you want a crime drama that treats its mystery as more than a puzzle, Hardcastle and McCormick Season 1 is available on streaming right now. The 1-season run is exactly the right length for what it is doing. Its 6/10 TMDB score, built from 44 ratings, reflects a title that consistently delivers. Brian Keith's performance alone is worth the time investment. Available now — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

Hardcastle and McCormick Season 1 is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. Hardcastle and McCormick Season 1 treats its mystery as a means, not an end in itself. Season 1 of Hardcastle and McCormick includes 23 episodes. It aired from September 1983 to April 1984. This season stars Brian Keith, Daniel Hugh Kelly and Mary Jackson. Brian Keith and Daniel Hugh Kelly lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1983. What distinguishes the best crime dramas from the rest is whether the character work can carry scenes where the mystery takes a breath — Hardcastle and McCormick Season 1 passes that test consistently. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

For anyone who wants their crime drama to earn its twists, Hardcastle and McCormick Season 1 delivers. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. Best experienced as a single, sustained watch if your schedule allows. Brian Keith anchors it, but the writing does the real work. If you are going to commit to one crime drama this month, make it this one.

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🎬 Hardcastle and McCormick Season 1 — Episode Guide

Rolling Thunder (1)

As the series begins, ex-race car driver Mark McCormick accepts a job driving the Coyote X, an experimental car designed by a friend of his named Flip Johnson. Mark loses his job, however, after Flip is killed in a car accident and ownership of the car is granted to industrialist Martin Cody. Eventu...

Rolling Thunder (2)

Man in a Glass House

Hardcastle is quite upset when he is criticized in “Without Sin,” the autobiography of retired mobster Joseph Cadillac. Figuring that the mob, also the subject of Cadillac's criticism, will be angered as well, Hardcastle has Mark follow the author. Later, Hardcastle is surprised when Cadillac comes ...

The Crystal Duck

Teddy, McCormick's cellmate in prison, is out on parole. He has been staying with Mark in the guesthouse, without Hardcastle's knowledge or permission. Now, his parole officer, Quinlan, informs him that due to a minor infraction, he has the power to send him back to prison, unless he pays him a thou...

Goin' Nowhere Fast

A convict who has been having an affair with the warden's wife, escapes with her help. He then calls Hardcastle, which agitates him. He and McCormick go out to find him. Eventually, it's revealed that before Hardcastle chose McCormick, he gave this guy a try—and he proved Hardcastle wrong.

The Black Widow

Hardcastle wants to investigate a woman named Tina Grey. When Hardcastle goes to the police for info, a Captain Filapiano, who doesn't like Hardcastle, asks him to leave. Hardcastle then tells McCormick to get close to her. As they get closer, a gangster named Joe Beiber, whom she has been seeing, a...

Boxer Kid Calico is told to throw a fight in order to keep his kidnapped father alive.

Once Again with Vigorish

Hardcastle & McCormick set out to assist a lawyer, who is an old friend of Hardcastle's, convict a mobster who is running stolen property in semi-trucks.

Hardcastle persuades an old friend, played by Buddy Ebsen, to obtain a role in a movie in which the movie producer is using his films to cover up his drug smuggling operation.

The Prince of Fat City

A gang member is remanded into the judge's custody only to stay in the guest house with Mark, while the judge and Mark go after a psychiatrist who has been taping private sessions with clients revealing vital damaging information.

Mark is thrilled when he gets a shot at racing in big leagues—only to learn that his sponsor's auto parts business gets their inventory from stolen cars.

Flying Down to Rio

Hardcastle & McCormick travel to Rio to track down a drug runner.

Just Another Round of That Old Song

Keenan Wynn guest stars as an old bank robber, just released from prison, who attempts to locate the cash stored in an armored car that he robbed in the '40s.

Third Down and Twenty Years to Life

A law student at a local college claims that her brother, who was sent to prison for 20 years by Judge Hardcastle, was framed for murder. He ignores her, but when someone tries to kidnap her, he reviews the case and sends Mark on an undercover investigation to the school as a football player.

Whistler's Pride

The judge inherits a rather short race horse.

Mr. Hardcastle Goes to Washington

Hardcastle is up for a spot on the Supreme Court bench but some people don't want him to be chosen.

School for Scandal

Robert Culp guest stars as Arthur Farnel, an ex-con who runs a school leading and teaching their students how to break the law. Mark decides to go undercover in order to gather enough evidence to put him away.

The Georgia Street Motors

A group of retired judges decide to take the law into their own hands by delivering their own verdicts to criminals who slipped through the system or were given lesser sentences based on technicalities or lack of evidence.

The Homecoming (1)

Hardcastle returns to his hometown in Arkansas for a high school reunion, only to learn from an old friend that people are being swindled out of their farms. After the friend is murdered, and his daughter asks the judge for help, Hardcastle enlists McCormick to burglarize the local land office.

The Homecoming (2)

Hardcastle hides out with another old friend, recovering from his injuries, while he tries to figure out how to retrieve the evidence against the town officials. Meanwhile, Mark and Christy take refuge in an abandoned cabin.

🎭 Cast of Hardcastle and McCormick Season 1

Brian Keith

Milton Hardcastle

Daniel Hugh Kelly

Daniel Hugh Kelly

Mark "Skid" McCormick

Mary Jackson

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