Episode
Hardcastle and McCormick: Flying Down to Rio
Overview
Hardcastle & McCormick travel to Rio to track down a drug runner.
Details
- Series
- Hardcastle and McCormick
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1983-12-04
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Flying Down to Rio is Episode 12 in Season 1 of Hardcastle and McCormick. It aired on 1983-12-04. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 11: Hotshoes
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.
Episode 13: 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.
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Episode 10: 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.
Episode 14: 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.
Episode 9: Killer B's
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.
Episode 15: Whistler's Pride
The judge inherits a rather short race horse.
Episode 8: 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.
Episode 16: 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.
Episode 7: The Boxer
Boxer Kid Calico is told to throw a fight in order to keep his kidnapped father alive.
Episode 17: 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.
Episode 6: 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, and who is insanely jealous abducts them.
Episode 18: 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.