Episode
Hardcastle and McCormick: Third Down and Twenty Years to Life
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Hardcastle and McCormick
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 1984-01-01
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Third Down and Twenty Years to Life is Episode 14 in Season 1 of Hardcastle and McCormick. It aired on 1984-01-01. The runtime is 60 min.
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More episodes from this season
Episode 12: Flying Down to Rio
Hardcastle & McCormick travel to Rio to track down a drug runner.
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 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 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 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 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.
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 19: 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.
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 20: 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.