Stephen J. Cannell Productions' Hardcastle and McCormick was an American action/drama television series that aired on ABC from 1983 until 1986. Judge Milton C. Hardcastle is played by Brian Keith, and ex-con and race car racer Mark "Skid" McCormick is played by Daniel Hugh Kelly. The basis of the series was borrowed from two prior Cannell series: Tenspeed and Brown Shoe.