The Equalizer
The Equalizer: Season 1
Season 2

Air Date

September 18, 1985

Episodes

22 episodes

The Equalizer

Season 1

Episodes

Pilot: The Equalizer

1. Pilot: The Equalizer

7.5
September 18, 1985
48 min

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.

China Rain

2. China Rain

7.5
September 25, 1985
48 min

McCall comes to the aid of a housekeeper when kidnappers grab her son by mistake.

The Defector

3. The Defector

8.0
October 2, 1985
48 min

McCall helps a double agent defect and a young boy stand up to bullies.

The Lock Box

4. The Lock Box

7.5
October 9, 1985
48 min

McCall helps a man whose daughter has been abducted by a pimp who services covert government operations.

Lady Cop

5. Lady Cop

8.5
October 16, 1985
48 min

A crooked cop is willing to murder to ensure that his new partner won't blow the whistle on his operations.

The Confirmation Day

6. The Confirmation Day

8.0
October 23, 1985
48 min

McCall helps a former showgirl convinced someone is stalking her and a boy whose father helped steal antiques now wanted by two separate parties.

The Children's Song

7. The Children's Song

8.0
October 30, 1985
48 min

Father and son protect a girl from would-be rapists intent on killing the only witness to a murder.

The Distant Fire

8. The Distant Fire

8.0
November 6, 1985
48 min

A hit man wants help to prevent another killer from murdering a woman both McCall and the hitman once loved.

Mama's Boy

9. Mama's Boy

8.0
November 13, 1985
48 min

A career woman wants McCall's aid in ending her son's fascination with a charismatic drug dealer.

Bump and Run

10. Bump and Run

8.0
November 20, 1985
48 min

Muggers seek revenge on a student who injured one of them while escaping, and a vigilante killer pins McCall's ad to his victims.

Desperately

11. Desperately

8.0
December 4, 1985
48 min

A lonely, neglected wife gets more than she wanted when she considers a fling and ends up witnessing a murder.

Reign of Terror

12. Reign of Terror

7.0
December 11, 1985
48 min

The new doctor at a local clinic refuses to give gang members drugs as `rent' for using their turf.

Back Home

13. Back Home

8.0
December 18, 1985
48 min

A banker is harassing tenants of a potentially valuable property and planning to murder his wife.

Out of the Past

14. Out of the Past

8.0
January 15, 1986
48 min

An ex-con is harassing the man whose testimony put him away-the man now married to McCall's former wife.

Dead Drop

15. Dead Drop

4.5
January 22, 1986
48 min

McCall assembles some old friends to protect a man marked for murder for no apparent reason.

Wash Up

16. Wash Up

7.0
January 29, 1986
48 min

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.

Torn

17. Torn

8.0
February 5, 1986
48 min

McCall tries to divide his time between defending a woman from her abusive husband and settling with an old enemy.

Unnatural Causes

18. Unnatural Causes

5.0
February 12, 1986
48 min

McCall's on the trail of a serial killer, leaving him little time for an actress fallen into the wrong crowd.

Breakpoint

19. Breakpoint

8.0
February 19, 1986
48 min

McCall is among those taken hostage by terrorists seeking a Middle Eastern philanthropist.

No Conscience

20. No Conscience

8.0
March 5, 1986
48 min

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.

Unpunished Crimes

21. Unpunished Crimes

7.0
April 1, 1986
48 min

McCall is hired by an inventor whose designs were stolen by a huge corporation headed by a ruthless executive.

Pretenders

22. Pretenders

8.0
April 8, 1986
48 min

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.