In 1993 Hardy appeared in an episode of "Inspector Morse", playing Andrew Baydon in "Twilight of the Gods". In 1994, he played Arthur Brooke in the BBC production of Middlemarch. In 2002, he played the role of pompous and eccentric Professor Neddy Welch in a WTTV/WGBH Boston co-production of "Lucky Jim", adapted from the novel by Kingsley Amis. It aired originally as part of the "Masterpiece" series on PBS in the U.S. and starred Stephen Tompkinson in the title role of Jim Dixon, a luckless lecturer at a provincial British university.