Hardcastle and McCormick

- Season 3

(1985)

While on vacation in the Oregon wilderness, the plane in which the Judge and Mark are passengers, crashes with the pilot dead. They come across a campsite destroyed by a grizzly bear and a murdered fisherman (Terry Bradshaw).They take an inflatable raft and brave a river full of rapids. They're spotted by 3 men who prey on those they find in the wilderness. It becomes a matter of life or death as they try to escape the murdering hunters.

One of McCormick's old flames is nearly killed in a drag race---and then again in the hospital, where someone tries to give her a lethal injection.

After a funeral for a friend who disappeared in Vietnam, McCormick discovers someone digging up the casket---and it's the buddy he thought he buried.

Judge Hardcastle gets on a train that's supposed to be for a convention. Trouble is, there is no convention. Several other people are there for different reasons and then start getting killed off.

The judge is jailed for raping a sheriff's daughter, a frame engineered by a sore loser in a fishing contest---but involving more than a trophy.

Hardcastle gets told he only has six months to live, and starts behaving very diffrently.

McCormick becomes a contestant on a TV quiz show that's rigged by two producers who couldn't come up with the $1 million prize.

The death of McCormick's former lover leads him and Hardcastle into the rough-and-tumble world of women's wrestling.

At a teen-age beauty pageant, Hardcastle and McCormick uncover a ring that imports illegal aliens.

Mark is mistaken for the boyfriend of a sheik's daughter, which could put him, her---and the U.S. oil supply---in grave danger.

A judges' convention is being held at the same hotel as a gathering of crime families, some of whom have grudges to settle among themselves.

Hardcastle and McCormick investigate a case in which the judge's guilty sentence was reversed and the prisoner released, but neither the ex-con nor the victim wants the case reopened.

Mark hires a former cellmate's widow as a maid and it turns out she's psychic---and is being tormented by visions of Mark's murder.

Hardcastle is persuaded to run for mayor, but he didn't expect murder to be a campaign issue.

A default notice on an $18,000 loan takes Mark back six years to the circumstances that got him sent to prison.

Hardcastle's ne'er-do-well brother pays a visit, swearing he's gone straight---but actually intending to ask the judge for $100,000 to pay a gambling debt.

Hardcastle visits his college roommate to return a basketball trophy, only to find the man being abducted by thugs in his office garage.

McCormick's father wins a bar in a card game and deeds it to his son, who finds the place dilapidated, but desperately desired by the man who lost it.

Murderous liquor-store robbers take refuge at Hardcastle's house on poker night, with another judge, a cop and a DA sitting in.

McCormick swears he was bushwhacked by leprechauns burying gold on the property.

In an Arizona tank town, McCormick finds a rock deejay he idolized in his teens, who's hit rock bottom and is intent on staying that way.

Working as a paralegal, McCormick learns that a retirement home's owners are engaging in creative management of the residents' funds.