Episode
Hardcastle and McCormick: The Crystal Duck
Overview
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 that due to a minor infraction, he has the power to send him back to prison, unless he pays him a thousand dollars a week.
Details
- Series
- Hardcastle and McCormick
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 1983-10-02
- Runtime
- 42 min
Episode context
The Crystal Duck is Episode 4 in Season 1 of Hardcastle and McCormick. It aired on 1983-10-02. The runtime is 42 min.
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Episode 3: Man in a Glass House
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 angered as well, Hardcastle has Mark follow the author. Later, Hardcastle is surprised when Cadillac comes to him for help.
Episode 5: Goin' Nowhere Fast
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 him. Eventually, it's revealed that before Hardcastle chose McCormick, he gave this guy a try—and he proved Hardcastle wrong.
More episodes from this season
Episode 2: Rolling Thunder (2)
See Part One
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 1: Rolling Thunder (1)
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 his job, however, after Flip is killed in a car accident and ownership of the car is granted to industrialist Martin Cody. Eventually, Mark is brought before Hardcastle, who is presiding over his last case, Mark is given a choice: help the judge round-up two hundred men who walked out of the judge's courtroom on technicalities or go back to prison.
Episode 7: The Boxer
Boxer Kid Calico is told to throw a fight in order to keep his kidnapped father alive.
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 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 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 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 12: Flying Down to Rio
Hardcastle & McCormick travel to Rio to track down a drug runner.
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.