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…

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…

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…

After finding his sister-in-law missing and her apartment ransacked, Hardcastle discovers that she had been secretly following her professor in hopes of earning extra credit in a police procedures course.

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.

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…

Hardcastle & McCormick go undercover at a computerized dating service in order to find out why wealthy clients are turning up dead.

Mark and Hardcastle take a group of misfit kids to a local prison in order to scare them straight; but while they are there, they are taken hostages by prisoners…

Hardcastle visits a man he sent to prison for life only to find that the man never made it there.

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…

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…

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…

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…

The judge inherits a rather short race horse.

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

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…

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

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.

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.

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…

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…

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.

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

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…

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…

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…

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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…

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…

The local District Attorney’s office is home to bullets and ballots as deadly rivals battle for power. One man is already dead and an innocent boy has been charged with…

Father Dowling is on the trail of a runaway teen who is taking a walk on the wild side of L.A.’s night life.

It is difficult to tell who is consulting with whom when Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of Father Dowling. The pair prove to be an unbeatable team as they…

An author who used Dowling and Steve as characters in his murder mystery dies before its completion.

While visiting the Chicago Museum to take in a Pharaoh’s burial chamber, Father Dowling and Sister Steve encounter an ancient Egyptian curse. Father Prestwick almost becomes a victim himself when…

Father Dowling and Sister Steve go out on a limb when they kidnap a chimp accused of murdering an animal activist. The killer-chimp will be put to sleep unless they…

When a rooftop sniper almost kills Father Dowling, Sister Steve goes undercover as a cab driver, hoping the flush out the would-be priest-killer.

A blast from the past rocks Father Dowling’s world when a man he’s never met shows up claiming to be his son. The man disappears before Father Dowling can question…

A hired killer has a change of heart when he discovers that Father Dowling is his intended victim. He warns the priest that someone else is certain to accept the…

Sister Steve has disguised herself as a trashy lady-of-the-evening in order to track down a witness who can clear the name of a young businessman charged with murder. But was…

Trouble is brewing for Father Dowling when his evil twin brother rolls into town. Blaine manages to frame his brother for a bank robbery, while protecting himself with a perfect…