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.
Blood & Wine (1) (Episode 1) 8.0
Writer: Coleman Luck
Air date: 1987-09-23
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: McCall and a former terrorist, now a monk, are both searching for the monk's former partner, a terrorist who uses plastic surgery after each assignment to keep ahead of his enemies.
Blood & Wine (2) (Episode 2) 7.0
Writer: Coleman Luck
Air date: 1987-09-23
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: McCall and a former terrorist, now a monk, are both searching for the monk's former partner, a terrorist who uses plastic surgery after each assignment to keep ahead of his enemies.
Suspicion of Innocence (Episode 3) 8.0
Writer: Robert Eisele
Air date: 1987-09-30
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: McCall regrets persuading a young retarded friend of his into going to the police after he witnesses a murder; he's arrested for the crime.
In the Money (Episode 4) 4.7
Writer: Scott Shepherd
Air date: 1987-10-07
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: The trading on Wall Street gets a little rough; McCall and Mickey pull a half-drowned woman from the river after she gets in the way of some ruthless manipulators.
Encounter in a Closed Room (Episode 5) 7.0
Writer: Ann Lewis Hamilton
Air date: 1987-10-14
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: McCall tries to help a European defector free her parents from the KGB, who have kidnaped them to exert pressure on her to persuade another defector to return to their homeland.
Mission: McCall (1) (Episode 6) 7.0
Writer: Scott Shepherd
Air date: 1987-10-28
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: Scott discovers that his father has been kidnapped by someone, and following his father's instructions, contacts an old Company colleague, Richard Dyson, who sets things in motion to find out who has McCall and to get him back.
Mission: McCall (2) (Episode 7) 7.0
Writer: Scott Shepherd
Air date: 1987-11-04
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: Scott discovers that his father has been kidnapped by someone, and following his father's instructions, contacts an old Company colleague, Richard Dyson, who sets things in motion to find out who has McCall and to get him back.
Shadow Play (Episode 8) 7.0
Writer: Robert Eisele
Air date: 1987-11-11
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: McCall helps a fellow Intelligence officer stay alive despite someone's efforts to keep him from talking to a Congressional committee.
Inner View (Episode 9) 7.0
Writer: Jim Trombetta
Air date: 1987-11-18
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: A psychic can't convince the police that she has `seen' the next attack of a serial killer, so she turns to McCall for help in preventing it.
The Rehearsal (Episode 10) 7.0
Writer: Robert Eisele
Air date: 1987-12-02
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: McCall and Kostmayer are caught with an acting company rehearsing a new work when a psychopath boobytraps the theater exits with bombs.
Christmas Presence (Episode 11)
Writer: Coleman Luck
Air date: 1987-12-16
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: McCall asks Harley to help him handle a request for help from a six-year-old AIDS victim who is living with his grandmother and facing increasingly violent harassment from the frightened and angry neighbors.
A Dance on the Dark Side (Episode 12) 1.0
Writer: David Lightstone
Air date: 1988-01-13
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: A police station switchboard operator overhears a detective discussing the murder of his former partner and goes to McCall for help when she receives threats to keep her quiet.
The Child Broker (Episode 13)
Writer: Mick Curran
Air date: 1988-01-20
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: A young woman asks McCall to help her boyfriend break away from the control of a junior Fagin.
Video Games (Episode 14)
Writer: Peter McCabe
Air date: 1988-01-27
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: A reporter's wife asks McCall to find her husband, who has disappeared while working undercover on a call-girl operation involving blackmail and the death of his daughter.
Something Green (Episode 15)
Writer: Kevin Droney
Air date: 1988-02-10
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: The ex-wife of a European diplomat asks McCall to help her retrieve her son from his father before he can leave the country with the boy and $10 million in mob money.
The Mystery of Manon (1) (Episode 16)
Writer: Coleman Luck
Air date: 1988-02-17
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: Yvette Marcel asks her godfather Control and McCall for help dealing with her irrational father, who is intent on locating Manon, the mother she believed had been killed years before.
The Mystery of Manon (2) (Episode 17)
Writer: Coleman Luck
Air date: 1988-02-24
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: Yvette Marcel asks her godfather Control and McCall for help dealing with her irrational father, who is intent on locating Manon, the mother she believed had been killed years before.
No Place Like Home (Episode 18)
Writer: Robert Eisele
Air date: 1988-03-16
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: McCall comes to the aid of a recently dispossessed man and his family who has been moved in a welfare hotel and is facing pressure from the landlord to take part in his welfare scams.
Last Call (Episode 19)
Writer: Robert Crais
Air date: 1988-03-23
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: A rapist being hunted by a mob assassin takes hostage Kostmayer, Pete and several customers.
Regrets Only (Episode 20)
Writer: Robert Crais
Air date: 1988-03-30
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: A young woman trying to start her life over faces continuing harassment from her upscale, professional husband who won't let her go but who is smart enough to conceal his activities.
Target of Choice (Episode 21)
Writer: Kevin Droney
Air date: 1988-04-06
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: A man fears for his life and that of his family when the murderer he helped put away is paroled and turns up living in his neighborhood.
Always a Lady (Episode 22)
Air date: 1988-05-04
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: McCall's former protege at the Agency calls in a panic when she is apparently framed for the theft of a large amount of money from her gangster employer, but he arrives too late to save her life.