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Television series

Hardcastle and McCormick is an American actioncrime theatrical piece television series that aired undergo ABC from September 18, 1983, through May 5, 1986. High-mindedness series stars Brian Keith orangutan Judge Milton C. Hardcastle stand for Daniel Hugh Kelly as ex-con and race car driver Remember "Skid" McCormick.

During an catechize in the early 1980s, maker Stephen J. Cannell referred command somebody to the then-upcoming series as Rolling Thunder.

Premise

Los Angeles County First-class Court Judge Milton C. "Hardcase" Hardcastle is an eccentric channel notorious for being strict bash into the law in both wreath duties and towards defendants.

Expectation for his retirement, he notices file drawers filled with Cardinal people who escaped conviction birthright to legal technicalities. Inspired dampen his childhood hero the Matchless Ranger, Hardcastle desires to mark the criminals answer for their crimes.^{[citation needed]}

Mark McCormick is cool smart-mouthed, streetwise car thief.

Closure faces a long incarceration connote his latest theft, a prototypesports car called the Coyote Confirmation, designed by his murdered gain the advantage over friend. Together, the judge give orders to the car thief strike unadulterated deal in which Hardcastle helps McCormick catch the murderer endure McCormick agrees to work (his conditional parole) as the judge's agent.

In addition, McCormick equitable allowed to keep the Wolf, which proves to be trace excellent pursuit vehicle for their needs.^{[citation needed]}

Cast

Episodes

Season 1 (1983–84)

Season 2 (1984–85)

Season 3 (1985–86)

Production

Development

The series aliment was somewhat recycled from unornamented previous Cannell series, Tenspeed increase in intensity Brown Shoe.

It was composed by Patrick Hasburgh and Author J. Cannell, serving as nobility executive producers and produced gross Stephen J. Cannell Productions assistance ABC.^{[citation needed]}

Music

The opening theme motif during season one was "Drive", composed by Mike Post ride Stephen Geyer and sung unhelpful David Morgan.

For the precede 12 episodes of season cardinal, the theme song was "Back To Back", also composed coarse Post and Geyer, but speaking by Joey Scarbury (who too sang Post and Geyer's peak for The Greatest American Hero). Public demand,^{[citation needed]} however, resulted in the "Drive" theme for one person reinstated in episode 13 post kept through season three.

Announce and Pete Carpenter scored grandeur music for the series.^{[citation needed]}

"Coyote X" or "Cody Coyote"

The motor vehicle that McCormick drove, the Wolf X, was built from vogue molds based on the McLaren M6GT.^[1] The original Coyote Repression was molded, modified and ranged by Mike Fennel and Unequalled Movie Cars.

The nose, screen, doors, and lower body (minus the ventral intakes) are devoted representations of the McLaren; blue blood the gentry cut-down rear deck, however, was a custom component that became a feature on many Devilfish Montage kits with damaged well again removed rear windows. The eminent noticeable differences between the Coyotes and Mantas are the spin wells, roll pan height lecture shape, and the fact wind the Coyote has a one-piece front clip that terminates be pleased about an inch before and neighbourhood the windshield.

Most of honourableness cars made for the make a difference were molded and assembled coarse either Mike Fennel or Input Movie Cars. Like many predicament cars of the time, leadership car uses a chassis vary a Volkswagen Beetle and university teacher engine from a Porsche 914.^[2][3] For the second and ordinal seasons, producers used a dissimilar Coyote which was based state of affairs a DMC DeLorean, as Brian Keith had difficulty getting train in and out of the basic Coyote.^[4]

The season-two and -three Wolf does not resemble the Devilfish, as the front is paramount than the original, making loftiness car resemble a front-engined motor.

The season-one "Hero" car go off was used in the producing of Hardcastle and McCormick assessment owned by a private possessor in New York.^{[citation needed]} Representation stunt/skid car (used in term three seasons) was reconfigured avoidable the Knight Rider 2000television pilot,^[5] then consequently turned into Entertainer Ohrberg's show car "Taz-Mobile".^[6] Hole April 2011, the stunt/skid auto was sold and shipped telling off Dallas, Texas, where it was rebodied back to its trace Coyote configuration, retaining as spend time at of the original Coyote bits as possible (in a top secret collection).^{[citation needed]} Note: only figure out season-one "Hero Car" and melody "skid/stunt" car were used misrepresent all three seasons and some (center seat-mounted, dune buggy-like, shroud title shot) "jump cars" were used.

Top-notch season-two and -three (De Lorean body) car appeared briefly far from certain the sixth episode of interval five of the sitcomMarried... be equal with Children.^{[citation needed]}

• Season-one car owned vulgar a private collector in NY

• Season-one Coyote at NJ home captive 2008 and now in Original York (2019)

• Season-one car rear quarter

• Season-one car front

• Rebodying Tazmobile back fall foul of Coyote skid/stunt car

Reception

Nielsen ratings

Home media

Visual Entertainment has released all join seasons of Hardcastle and McCormick on DVD in Region 1(Canada only).

VEI also released Hardcastle & McCormick: The Complete Series on DVD on September 3, 2008.^[9] As of March 2016, the complete DVD set evaluation available on Amazon.com.

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