Episode
Hardcastle and McCormick: Scared Stiff
Overview
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 who are frustrated because of the repeated abuse from the guards and the warden.
Details
- Series
- Hardcastle and McCormick
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 23
- Air date
- 1984-04-01
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Scared Stiff is Episode 23 in Season 1 of Hardcastle and McCormick. It aired on 1984-04-01. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 21: Did You See the One That Got Away?
Hardcastle visits a man he sent to prison for life only to find that the man never made it there.
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.
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 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 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 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 15: Whistler's Pride
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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 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.
Episode 12: Flying Down to Rio
Hardcastle & McCormick travel to Rio to track down a drug runner.