Hardcastle & McCormick
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Hardcastle & McCormick |
| Original title | Hardcastle and McCormick |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 1983-1986 |
| length | 48 minutes |
| Episodes | 67 in 3 seasons |
| genre |
Action series , crime thriller |
| Theme music |
David Morgan - Drive Joey Scarbury - Back to Back |
| idea |
Patrick Hasburgh Stephen J. Cannell |
| production |
Les Sheldon Stephen J. Cannell |
| music |
Mike Post , Pete Carpenter |
| First broadcast | September 18, 1983 (USA) on ABC |
| German-language first broadcast |
January 7, 1985 on Sat.1 |
| occupation | |
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Hardcastle & McCormick is an American action series produced by Stephen J. Cannell Productions from 1983 to 1986.
action
The retired judge of the Supreme Court of Los Angeles , Milton C. Hardcastle , would total 200 cases worked up that he could not complete. He is helped by Mark McCormick , a former racing driver who was convicted of car theft by the judge and is under his care. Together they are now clearing up these unresolved cases.
Sports car
A special sports car, the Coyote , was produced especially for the series . Instead of using a conventional model, a so-called kit car was used. This kit car was similar in design to the McLaren M6 GT and was called Manta Montage . Mike Fennel, creator of numerous movie vehicles in Hollywood, took the car and modified it to coyote for the first season. The basis is a VW Beetle . Under the fiberglass cover was a Type 4 engine from a VW-Porsche 914. The interior of the Coyote was unspectacular: There were simple seats, a steering wheel, and simple displays for oil pressure, speed, etc. The producer provided the interior shots the Ferrari 308 GTB he bought at the time. This can also be seen from the fact that the appropriate symbol is shown on the tachometer in the intro of the series.
Due to the size of the stuntman, which can also be seen in the pilot film (gives McCormick the message on the racetrack that Flip Johnson has died), part of the underbody on the driver's side had to be removed and a subsequent sheet metal welded in to give the drivers more space guarantee. The sheet metal ensured that the driver slid down a little. The sheet metal under the driver's side is easy to see during chases.
The Coyote has Centerline Champ 500 rims. The rims for the stunt vehicles are adapted Boltons Classic Wheels. For jumps a buggy was converted and the Coyote chassis was mounted on top. This can often be recognized by the fact that the stuntman with a helmet is sitting in the middle of the car and the vehicle has no headlights in the body. The car's engine noise is taken from a 1976 Lamborghini Countach and mixed with the engine of the Porsche 914. The Porsche engine can often be heard quite well when idling (in the pilot film when Marc parks the Coyote in front of the casino to meet Rick Vetromile).
Movie Cars Las Vegas built a new vehicle based on a Delorean for the second season because Brian Keith had problems getting into the first car. The new Coyote was created on the basis of a Delorean, which later also brought new interior shots with it. This vehicle was later also rebuilt as a buggy for jumps after the first vehicle had more or less served its purpose. A total of five vehicles were built in the entire series. The season 2 coyote made a guest appearance on A Terribly Nice Family after the series ended . In episode 6 of the 5th season called Kelly's Revenge , the car appears as the winning prize.
There are two copies of the Coyote X in Europe. One vehicle is in Italy, one in Germany. Since 2018, the owner of the German car has been Sebastian Fesser from Hanover, who imported the car from Jay Ohrberg, one of the co-designers of the car, from the Hollywood Cars Museum in Las Vegas.
Location
The address of Judge Milton Hardcastle's mansion, called Gulls Way, is 26800 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu 90265.
synchronization
The German dubbed version was created at Arena Synchron based on the dialogue books and directed by Thomas Danneberg , who also spoke Daniel Hugh-Kelly as McCormick. Brian Keith as Milton C. Hardcastle was voiced by Arnold Marquis . The voices of the two voice actors are also known as the duo Bud Spencer (Marquis) and Terence Hill (Danneberg).
Two German versions were made of the pilot film. In the late 1980s, CIC Video released the pilot on VHS tape. It had the additional title A Murder Disguised as an Accident . This VHS was uncut and therefore several minutes longer than the original German TV dubbed version. Due to the divergent synchronization, which is more oriented towards the original, this previously unreleased VHS version has become a collector's item.
| role | actor | Voice actor | VHS A murder disguised as an accident |
|---|---|---|---|
| Judge Milton C. "Hardcase" Hardcastle | Brian Keith | Arnold Marquis | Horst Schön |
| Mark "Skid" McCormick | Daniel Hugh Kelly | Thomas Danneberg | Hans-Jürgen Dittberner |
| Lieutenant Mike Delaney | John Hancock |
Helmut Krauss (1st part, Ep. 22, 25 & 43) Michael Chevalier (2nd part, Ep. 27) |
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| Lieutenant Frank Harper | Joe Santos |
Jürgen Kluckert (1st part, Ep. 36, 41 & 49) Reinhard Kuhnert (2nd part, Ep. 51) |
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| Flip Johnson | William Bryant | Heinz Theo branding | Wolfram Schaerf |
| Martin Cody | John Saxon | Engelbert von Nordhausen | Wolfgang Draeger |
Soundtrack
The theme music, called Drive , sung by David Morgan , was composed by Mike Post and Pete Carpenter . Replaced from the second season by the title Back to Back , composed by Post and Carpenter and sung by Joey Scarbury , protests by the fan base led to the reintroduction of the original theme music Drive from the second half of the second season.
Broadcast Notes
In Germany, the first twelve episodes of the series were broadcast for the first time from January to May 1985 on the private television station Sat.1. This was followed by 13 new episodes April to July 1986, 16 more from October 1987 to January 1988. ProSieben showed the last 25 episodes from October to November 1990. Repetitions were made on both Sat.1 (1987) and ProSieben (1990-1994), as also at Kabel eins (1995–2001), kabel eins classics (from 2007) and Family TV (from 2015).
Web links
- Hardcastle and McCormick in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Carstens: My car is a Hollywood star . Ed .: BILD Hannover. Axel Springer, Hanover September 10, 2019, p. 9 .
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Series | Hardcastle & McCormick. Retrieved October 26, 2018 .