Hardcastle and McCormick is an American action crime drama television series that aired on ABC from September 18, 1983, through May 5, 1986.

The series stars Brian Keith as Judge Milton C. Hardcastle and Daniel Hugh Kelly as ex-con and race car driver Mark "Skid" McCormick.

Preparing for his retirement, he notices file drawers filled with 200 people who escaped conviction due to legal technicalities.

He faces a long incarceration for his latest theft, a prototype sports car called the Coyote X, designed by his murdered best friend.

[citation needed] The opening theme song during season one was "Drive", composed by Mike Post and Stephen Geyer and sung by David Morgan.

A season-two and -three (De Lorean body) car appeared briefly on the sixth episode of season five of the sitcom Married... with Children.