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.
Writer: Michael Sloan
Air date: 1985-09-18
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: A former government agent offers his services to people facing problems too big for them to handle, such as a woman being stalked by a psychopath and a man who learns of a blackmail scheme involving government officials.
Writer: Joel Surnow
Air date: 1985-09-25
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: McCall comes to the aid of a housekeeper when kidnappers grab her son by mistake.
Writer: Heywood Gould
Air date: 1985-10-02
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: McCall helps a double agent defect and a young boy stand up to bullies.
Writer: Joel Surnow
Air date: 1985-10-09
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: McCall helps a man whose daughter has been abducted by a pimp who services covert government operations.
Writer: Joel Surnow
Air date: 1985-10-16
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: A crooked cop is willing to murder to ensure that his new partner won't blow the whistle on his operations.
Air date: 1985-10-23
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: McCall helps a former showgirl convinced someone is stalking her and a boy whose father helped steal antiques now wanted by two separate parties.
Writer: Joel Surnow
Air date: 1985-10-30
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: Father and son protect a girl from would-be rapists intent on killing the only witness to a murder.
Writer: Joel Surnow
Air date: 1985-11-06
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: A hit man wants help to prevent another killer from murdering a woman both McCall and the hitman once loved.
Writer: Heywood Gould
Air date: 1985-11-13
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: A career woman wants McCall's aid in ending her son's fascination with a charismatic drug dealer.
Writer: Joel Surnow
Air date: 1985-11-20
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: Muggers seek revenge on a student who injured one of them while escaping, and a vigilante killer pins McCall's ad to his victims.
Writer: Charles Grant Craig
Air date: 1985-12-04
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: A lonely, neglected wife gets more than she wanted when she considers a fling and ends up witnessing a murder.
Writer: Steve Bello
Air date: 1985-12-11
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: The new doctor at a local clinic refuses to give gang members drugs as `rent' for using their turf.
Writer: Joel Surnow
Air date: 1985-12-18
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: A banker is harassing tenants of a potentially valuable property and planning to murder his wife.
Writer: Cyrus Nowrasteh
Air date: 1986-01-15
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: An ex-con is harassing the man whose testimony put him away-the man now married to McCall's former wife.
Writer: Maurice Hurley
Air date: 1986-01-22
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: McCall assembles some old friends to protect a man marked for murder for no apparent reason.
Writer: Mark Frost
Air date: 1986-01-29
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: A window washer witnesses the murder of his pro-union partner by their anti-union boss, who has his own witnesses to back his self-defense claim.
Writer: Carleton Eastlake
Air date: 1986-02-05
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: McCall tries to divide his time between defending a woman from her abusive husband and settling with an old enemy.
Writer: Scott Shepherd
Air date: 1986-02-12
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: McCall's on the trail of a serial killer, leaving him little time for an actress fallen into the wrong crowd.
Writer: Don Carlos Dunaway
Air date: 1986-02-19
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: McCall is among those taken hostage by terrorists seeking a Middle Eastern philanthropist.
Writer: Mark Frost
Air date: 1986-03-05
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: A womanizer is abducted and threatened with death if he doesn't give his captors what they want-but he can't figure out what.
Writer: Grenville Case
Air date: 1986-04-01
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: McCall is hired by an inventor whose designs were stolen by a huge corporation headed by a ruthless executive.
Writer: Scott Shepherd
Air date: 1986-04-08
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: An aspiring reporter, desperate for a scoop that will get her notice and a promotion, becomes convinced that something big is happening right in the next apartment.
