S01:É01 - S01:E01 - Rolling Thunder
Mark McCormick and Judge Hardcastle target an industrialist suspected of the murder of Mark's best friend.
S01:É03 - S01:E03 - Man in a Glass House
A retired mobster's memoirs contain insulting remarks about Hardcastle and have the hood's former cohorts fearing for their lives.
S01:É04 - S01:E04 - The Crystal Duck
A parolee staying with McCormick holds up Hardcastle's poker game to pay off his blackmailing parole officer.
S01:É05 - S01:E05 - Goin' Nowhere Fast
Hardcastle tracks down a prison escapee who phoned the judge to let him know he was out.
S01:É06 - S01:E06 - The Black Widow
A femme fatale may be saving Hardcastle some work: the hoods she runs around with all tend to end up dead.
S01:É07 - S01:E07 - The Boxer
A crooked fight promoter pressures the father of an Olympic hopeful to have his son turn pro and take a dive, just like his dad did 30 years earlier.
S01:É08 - S01:E08 - Once Again With Vigorish
A DA wants to stop a loan shark who walked free by threatening her star witness's wife.
S01:É09 - S01:E09 - Killer B's
Hardcastle persuades Buddy Ebsen to play in a movie made by a producer who makes films to cover his drug-smuggling operation.
S01:É10 - S01:E10 - Prince of Fat City
Hardcastle takes in a paroled teen-gang leader who may be a killer and is definitely the target of a crime boss.
S01:É11 - S01:E11 - Hot Shoes
McCormick gets a shot at big-time racing and learns that his sponsor deals in stolen goods.
S01:É12 - S01:E12 - Flying Down to Rio
Mark and the judge take a "vacation" in the Caribbean to deactivate an illegal-arms dealer.
S01:É13 - S01:E13 - Just Another Round of That Old Song and Dance
After 25 years in prison, a parolee can't remember where he buried his loot, and he's not the only one interested in finding it.
S01:É14 - S01:E14 - Third Down and Twenty Years to Life
Hardcastle contests a young woman's claim that her brother, sent to prison by the judge for murder, was framed—until someone tries to abduct her.
S01:É15 - S01:E15 - Whistler's Pride
A convict bequeaths Hardcastle a race horse with short legs and a huge feed bill.
S01:É16 - S01:E16 - Mr. Hardcastle Goes to Washington
Hardcastle is nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, a position he wants almost as much as a certain newspaper publisher doesn't want him to get it.
S01:É17 - S01:E17 - School for Scandal
A former burglar who once charmed Hardcastle into a light sentence now runs a school for aspiring criminals.
S01:É18 - S01:E18 - Georgia Street Motor
Hardcastle and McCormick tackle three judges who are dispensing vigilante justice by killing ex-cons they feel have beaten the system.
S01:É19 - S01:E19 - Homecoming (Pt. 1)
On a return visit to his hometown, Hardcastle encounters people who are willing to kill a farmer who wouldn't sell his land for a thruway.
S01:É20 - S01:E20 - Homecoming (Pt. 2)
Hoping to make a killing on land speculation, townspeople who think they've murdered Hardcastle make McCormick their next target.
S01:É21 - S01:E21 - Did You See the One That Got Away
A man Hardcastle sentenced to life without parole somehow never got to prison and doesn't even have a record.
S01:É22 - S01:E22 - Really Neat Cars & Guys With a Sense of Humor
An auto-body man who patched McCormick's bullet-riddled car "borrows" it to impress a date who's running from a killer.
S01:É23 - S01:E23 - Scared Stiff
Hardcastle and McCormick are among the hostages taken by convicts demanding a probe of corruption among prison officials.
S01:É24 - S01:E24 - Outlaw Champion
A racecar hero is under pressure: an amateur he was drag-racing is injured, and the mob that finances him is upset at his lackluster racing record.
S01:É25 - S01:E25 - Ties My Father Sold Me
McCormick drags Hardcastle to Atlantic City on a mission he doesn't want to talk about.
S01:É26 - S01:E26 - You Would Cry Too, if It Happened to You
One of McCormick's old prison pals throws a party at the house to cover the theft of the judge's files and his antique furniture.
S01:É27 - S01:E27 - D-Day
Hardcastle's sister-in-law turns up something big with her surveillance project for a police-procedures course.
S01:É28 - S01:E28 - 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.
S01:É29 - S01:E29 - Never My Love
Hardcastle and McCormick return home from the funeral of McCormick's former girlfriend and find a message from her on their answering machine.
S01:É30 - S01:E30 - Whatever Happened to Guts
Hardcastle fills in for a judge on a TV court show, fascinating a woman who has a fatal fixation about older men on TV.
S01:É31 - S01:E31 - You and the Horse You Rode in On
After an argument with the judge, McCormick takes a posh sales job that cost his predecessor his life.
S01:É32 - S01:E32 - One of the Girls in Accounting
Persistence could prove fatal for a payroll clerk who's complaining that the city is paying 10 police officers no longer on the force.
S01:É33 - S01:E33 - It Could Have Been Worse, She Coulda Been a Welder
Hardcastle's niece protesting the proposed destruction of a popular college bar not only puts her in the spotlight, but also in danger.
S01:É34 - S01:E34 - Hate the Picture, Love the Frame
A gunrunner frames a Christmas present for the judge: a murder rap.
S01:É35 - S01:E35 - There Goes the Neighborhood
A rash of break-ins in the area prompts Hardcastle's neighbors to organize a neighborhood crime watch.
S01:É36 - S01:E36 - Too Rich and Too Thin
The judge checks in as a guest and Mark gets a job at a health retreat that has not proved salubrious to some of its wealthy clientele.
S01:É37 - S01:E37 - What's So Funny?
There's nothing funny about the apparent suicide of an ex-con comedian whose girlfriend jilted the owner of a comics' showcase club.
S01:É38 - S01:E38 - Hardcastle, Hardcastle, Hardcastle & Mccormick
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.
S01:É39 - S01:E39 - The Long Ago Girl
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.
S01:É40 - S01:E40 - You Don't Hear the One That Gets You
Returning from New Mexico with $20,000 in racing winnings, McCormick and Hardcastle are waylaid by a bank robber and his girl.
S01:É41 - S01:E41 - The Birthday Present
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.
S01:É42 - S01:E42 - Suprise on Seagull Beach
The judge discovers that both surf punks and unregenerate Nazis have an interest in his private beach.
S01:É43 - S01:E43 - Undercover Mccormick
McCormick poses as a policeman to nail renegade cops moonlighting as hit men.
S01:É44 - S01:E44 - The Game You Learn From Your Father
A baseball star the judge benched for life (without parole) is released when it's learned he was framed.
S01:É45 - S01:E45 - Angie's Choice
A fleeing murder witness leaves her two kids on the judge's doorstep.
S01:É46 - S01:E46 - She Ain't Deep, but She Sure Runs Fast
Hardcastle and McCormick crash-land in the Oregon wilderness, in an area inhabited by grizzlies and murderous mountain men.
S01:É47 - S01:E47 - Faster Heart
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.
S01:É48 - S01:E48 - The Yankee Clipper
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.
S01:É49 - S01:E49 - Something's Going on on This Train
Murder rides the rails on a private train to Chicago, whose passengers—including Hardcastle—were invited aboard under false pretenses.
S01:É50 - S01:E50 - The Career Breaker
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.
S01:É51 - S01:E51 - Do Not Go Gentle...
Hardcastle's doctor gives him some bad news—the judge has only six months to live.
S01:É52 - S01:E52 - Games People Play
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.
S01:É53 - S01:E53 - Strangle Hold
The death of McCormick's former lover leads him and Hardcastle into the rough-and-tumble world of women's wrestling.
S01:É54 - S01:E54 - You're 16, You're Beautiful and You're His
At a teenage beauty pageant, Hardcastle and McCormick uncover a ring that imports illegal aliens.
S01:É55 - S01:E55 - Mirage a Trois
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.
S01:É56 - S01:E56 - Conventional Warfare
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.
S01:É57 - S01:E57 - Duet for Two Wind Instruments
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.
S01:É58 - S01:E58 - If You Could See What I See
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.
S01:É59 - S01:E59 - Hardcastle for Mayor
Hardcastle is persuaded to run for mayor, but he didn't expect murder to be a campaign issue.
S01:É60 - S01:E60 - When I Look Back on All the Things
A default notice on an $18,000 loan takes Mark back six years to the circumstances that got him sent to prison.
S01:É61 - S01:E61 - Brother Can You Spare a Crime?
Hardcastle's brother pays a visit, swearing he's gone straight but actually intending to ask the judge for $100,000 to pay a gambling debt.
S01:É62 - S01:E62 - Round Up the Old Gang
Hardcastle visits his college roommate to return a basketball trophy, only to find the man being abducted by thugs in his office garage.
S01:É63 - S01:E63 - Mccormick's Bar and Grill
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.
S01:É64 - S01:E64 - Poker Night
Murderous liquor-store robbers take refuge at Hardcastle's house on poker night with another judge, a cop, and a DA sitting in.
S01:É65 - S01:E65 - In the Eye of the Beholder
McCormick swears he was bushwhacked by leprechauns burying gold on the property.
S01:É66 - S01:E66 - The Day the Music Died
In an Arizona tank town, McCormick finds a rock deejay he idolized in his teens, who's hit rock bottom and is intent on staying that way.
S01:É67 - S01:E67 - A Chip Off the Ol' Milt
Working as a paralegal, McCormick learns that a retirement home's owners are engaging in creative management of the residents' funds.