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The Equalizer

1985–1989 · Ended · CBS · 4 seasons · 88 episodes · Action & Adventure, Crime · Canada

Creator Richard Lindheim, Michael Sloan · Starring Edward Woodward, Keith Szarabajka, Robert Lansing

If the rules are against you he'll change them. If the odds are against you he'll even them.

Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.
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Episodes

22 episodes · October 1988 – August 1989
  1. Episode 1: 1. The Last CampaignOctober 26, 1988 · 48 min
    The aide to an ambitious candidate for state senator discovers that her boss is blackmailing the incumbent into endorsing his candidacy.
  2. Episode 2: 2. Sea of FireNovember 2, 1988 · 48 min
    A desperate high school principal calls on McCall for help in combating the gang responsible for the rape of a girl in the school gymnasium.
  3. Episode 3: 3. Riding the ElephantNovember 9, 1988 · 48 min
    McCall helps a Thai boxer and his girl friend extricate themselves from the clutches of a racketeer with old connections to McCall's former employers.
  4. Episode 4: 4. Eighteen With a BulletNovember 16, 1988 · 48 min
    McCall and Mickey try to help a young rock singer escape from her greedy, immoral manager.
  5. Episode 5: 5. The Day of the CovenantDecember 7, 1988 · 48 min
    Scott learns first hand about the anti-apartheid movement when his girl friend becomes the target of a zealous Afrikaner who believes she's a terrorist.
  6. Episode 6: 6. SplintersDecember 14, 1988 · 48 min
    Mickey Kostmayer is captured when a Company operation fails, and he's turned against McCall using drugs and torture.
Show 16 more episodes
  1. Episode 7: 7. The Making of a MartyrJanuary 11, 1989 · 48 min
    A gun control advocate whose husband was crippled by a stray bullet seeks McCall's help when she receives threatening phone calls.
  2. Episode 8: 8. The Sins of the FatherJanuary 18, 1989 · 48 min
    McCall reluctantly agrees to help the wife of a mobster find her kidnapped son, who's a pawn in a game of revenge against his father.
  3. Episode 9: 9. The VisitationFebruary 1, 1989 · 48 min
    McCall's reunion with a former lover is interrupted when her medical skills are needed to deal with a deadly virus being carried by a pair of thugs responsible for killing an international arms dealer.
  4. Episode 10: 10. Past ImperfectFebruary 15, 1989 · 48 min
    An international crime cartel tries to use a man's estranged son against him when the man refuses to honor their wishes.
  5. Episode 11: 11. Trial By OrdealMarch 1, 1989 · 48 min
    McCall becomes the defense counsel when a Company tribunal on charges of treason tries Control.
  6. Episode 12: 12. Silent FuryMarch 8, 1989 · 48 min
    McCall tries to help a young woman who is one of the victims of a series of robberies directed against the deaf community.
  7. Episode 13: 13. Lullaby of DarknessMarch 30, 1989 · 48 min
    McCall tries to help a woman and her daughter escape from her abusive husband.
  8. Episode 14: 14. 17 ZebraApril 6, 1989 · 48 min
    McCall investigates when a mission worker tells him about several winos who have died from heart attacks enroute to the hospital in paramedic ambulances.
  9. Episode 15: 15. StarfireApril 13, 1989 · 48 min
    McCall tries to help a girl and her friend, a confused man who claims to an extraterrestrial being hunted by killers.
  10. Episode 16: 16. Time Present, Time PastApril 20, 1989 · 48 min
    Scott is kidnapped along with a former Bulgarian agent McCall helped to defect ten years earlier, and later undergoes his baptism into his father's world when he accompanies a team trying to rescue the man.
  11. Episode 17: 17. Prisoners of ConscienceApril 27, 1989 · 48 min
    McCall's search for a kidnapped Chilean poet gets very intense when he learns the kidnapper killed his father many years ago.
  12. Episode 18: 18. The CaperMay 4, 1989 · 48 min
    A cleaning woman works at cross-purposes to McCall as she tries to solve a murder she witnessed.
  13. Episode 19: 19. Heart of JusticeMay 11, 1989 · 48 min
    A bitter man tries to get revenge on the men who brutalized his wife but he calls McCall when someone else gets them first.
  14. Episode 20: 20. Race TraitorsJune 11, 1989 · 48 min
    McCall answers a call for help from Kostmayer's old neighborhood, where a racist group is harassing a black family.
  15. Episode 21: 21. EndgameAugust 10, 1989 · 48 min
    McCall helps two sisters whom are the victims of a revenge that has been plotted by a master strategy game player.
  16. Episode 22: 22. Suicide SquadAugust 24, 1989 · 48 min
    McCall comes to the aid of a college student who's lost his athletic scholarship and fears disappointing his parents, and turns to drug dealing as a way to make the big money they expect.

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Film and series details

EPISODE LENGTH
48 minutes
FIRST AIRED
September 18, 1985
LAST AIRED
August 24, 1989
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Universal Television

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