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Season 1

  • S01E01 The Equalizer

    • September 18, 1985
    • CBS

    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.

  • S01E02 China Rain

    • September 25, 1985
    • CBS

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

  • S01E03 The Defector

    • October 2, 1985
    • CBS

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

  • S01E04 The Lock Box

    • October 9, 1985
    • CBS

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

  • S01E05 Lady Cop

    • October 16, 1985
    • CBS

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

  • S01E06 The Confirmation Day

    • October 23, 1985
    • CBS

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

  • S01E07 The Children's Song

    • October 30, 1985
    • CBS

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

  • S01E08 The Distant Fire

    • November 6, 1985
    • CBS

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

  • S01E09 Mama's Boy

    • November 13, 1985
    • CBS

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

  • S01E10 Bump and Run

    • November 20, 1985
    • CBS

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

  • S01E11 Desperately

    • December 4, 1985
    • CBS

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

  • S01E12 Reign of Terror

    • December 11, 1985
    • CBS

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

  • S01E13 Back Home

    • December 18, 1985
    • CBS

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

  • S01E14 Out of the Past

    • January 15, 1986
    • CBS

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

  • S01E15 Dead Drop

    • January 22, 1986
    • CBS

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

  • S01E16 Wash-Up

    • January 29, 1986
    • CBS

    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.

  • S01E17 Torn

    • February 5, 1986
    • CBS

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

  • S01E18 Unnatural Causes

    • February 12, 1986
    • CBS

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

  • S01E19 Breakpoint

    • February 19, 1986
    • CBS

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

  • S01E20 No Conscience

    • March 5, 1986
    • CBS

    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.

  • S01E21 Unpunished Crimes

    • April 1, 1986
    • CBS

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

  • S01E22 Pretenders

    • April 8, 1986
    • CBS

    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.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Prelude

    • October 8, 1986
    • CBS

    Men working for a dictator McCall helped put into power kidnap an American journalist.

  • S02E02 Nocturne

    • October 15, 1986
    • CBS

    A blind music critic asks for help when she hears the voice of the man who raped her years before.

  • S02E03 A Community of Civilized Men

    • October 22, 1986
    • CBS

    McCall comes to the aid of a woman who's being squeezed to pay off her late husband's debts.

  • S02E04 Joyride

    • October 29, 1986
    • CBS

    Two boys drive off in a hearse; not knowing it contains a coffin full of crack.

  • S02E05 Shades of Darkness

    • November 5, 1986
    • CBS

    McCall helps a National Guardsman who faces a murder charge and threats from the real killer.

  • S02E06 Nightscape

    • November 12, 1986
    • CBS

    A rape victim asks McCall to stop her husband from tracking down her attackers.

  • S02E07 Counterfire

    • November 19, 1986
    • CBS

    The odds are against McCall when he's framed for the murder of a blind man.

  • S02E08 The Line

    • November 26, 1986
    • CBS

    The mother of a youth killed while being harassed by an overzealous citizen's patrol appeals to McCall for help.

  • S02E09 Tip on a Sure Thing

    • December 3, 1986
    • CBS

    A bookie that doesn't like the odds on a race kidnaps the son of the jockey and demands the father throw the race.

  • S02E10 The Cup

    • December 10, 1986
    • CBS

    Father Kostmayer hears the confession of a Polish agitator moments before he's gunned down.

  • S02E11 Heartstrings

    • December 17, 1986
    • CBS

    A woman asks McCall for help recovering her kidnapped newborn son.

  • S02E12 High Performance

    • January 7, 1987
    • CBS

    A construction worker becomes both witness and target when she sees a murder and is spotted by the killer.

  • S02E13 Beyond Control

    • January 14, 1987
    • CBS

    Control becomes McCall's client when a KGB agent who infiltrated a think tank is murdered.

  • S02E14 Carnal Persuasion

    • January 21, 1987
    • CBS

    A wife appeals to the judge sentencing her husband and is offered her husband's freedom for sexual favors.

  • S02E15 Memories of Manon (1)

    • February 4, 1987
    • CBS

    Control's goddaughter is threatened with the death of her father, a Canadian agent, unless she can reveal his informant. Then with little time left, McCall tells Kostmayer of his personal reasons for wanting to save Yvette and her father.

  • S02E16 Memories of Manon (2)

    • February 11, 1987
    • CBS
  • S02E17 Solo

    • February 18, 1987
    • CBS

    McCall gets involved romantically and professionally with a woman wanted in Pennsylvania for killing a cop.

  • S02E18 A Place to Stay

    • February 25, 1987
    • CBS

    A young girl runs away from her quarreling parents and into the hands of a child pornographer.

  • S02E19 Coal Black Soul

    • May 6, 1987
    • CBS

    McCall is torn between a lovely psychiatrist and a man who calls and says he can't stop himself from murdering women.

  • S02E20 First Light

    • May 13, 1987
    • CBS

    While McCall is testifying in Washington, Scott tries his hand and looks for thugs harassing a local merchant.

  • S02E21 Hand and Glove

    • May 20, 1987
    • CBS

    Nightmares become a reality for an invalid woman when a threatening figures from her dreams appears in her room.

  • S02E22 Re-Entry

    • May 27, 1987
    • CBS

    McCall helps a young boy whose father was tricked into committing a crime.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Blood and Wine (2)

    • September 23, 1987
    • CBS
  • S03E01 Blood and Wine (1)

    • September 23, 1987
    • CBS

    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.

  • S03E02 Suspicion of Innocence

    • September 30, 1987
    • CBS

    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.

  • S03E03 In the Money

    • October 7, 1987
    • CBS

    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.

  • S03E04 Encounter in a Closed Room

    • October 14, 1987
    • CBS

    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.

  • S03E05 Mission: McCall (1)

    • October 28, 1987
    • CBS

    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.

  • S03E06 Mission: McCall (2)

    • November 4, 1987
    • CBS
  • S03E07 Shadow Play

    • November 11, 1987
    • CBS

    McCall helps a fellow Intelligence officer stay alive despite someone's efforts to keep him from talking to a Congressional committee.

  • S03E08 Inner View

    • November 18, 1987
    • CBS

    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.

  • S03E09 The Rehearsal

    • December 2, 1987
    • CBS

    McCall and Kostmayer are caught with an acting company rehearsing a new work when a psychopath boobytraps the theater exits with bombs.

  • S03E10 Christmas Presence

    • December 16, 1987
    • CBS

    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.

  • S03E11 A Dance on the Dark Side

    • January 13, 1988
    • CBS

    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.

  • S03E12 The Child Broker

    • January 20, 1988
    • CBS

    A young woman asks McCall to help her boyfriend break away from the control of a junior Fagin.

  • S03E13 Video Games

    • January 27, 1988
    • CBS

    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.

  • S03E14 Something Green

    • February 10, 1988
    • CBS

    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.

  • S03E15 The Mystery of Manon (1)

    • February 17, 1988
    • CBS

    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.

  • S03E16 The Mystery of Manon (2)

    • February 24, 1988
    • CBS
  • S03E17 No Place Like Home

    • March 16, 1988
    • CBS

    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.

  • S03E18 Last Call

    • March 23, 1988
    • CBS

    A rapist being hunted by a mob assassin takes hostage Kostmayer, Pete and several customers.

  • S03E19 Regrets Only

    • March 30, 1988
    • CBS

    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.

  • S03E20 Target of Choice

    • April 6, 1988
    • CBS

    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.

  • S03E21 Always a Lady

    • May 4, 1988
    • CBS

    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.

Season 4

  • S04E01 The Last Campaign

    • October 26, 1988
    • CBS

    The aide to an ambitious candidate for state senator discovers that her boss is blackmailing the incumbent into endorsing his candidacy.

  • S04E02 Sea of Fire

    • November 2, 1988
    • CBS

    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.

  • S04E03 Riding the Elephant

    • November 9, 1988
    • CBS

    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.

  • S04E04 Eighteen with a Bullet

    • November 16, 1988
    • CBS

    McCall and Mickey try to help a young rock singer escape from her greedy, immoral manager.

  • S04E05 Day of the Covenant

    • December 7, 1988
    • CBS

    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.

  • S04E06 Splinters

    • December 14, 1988
    • CBS

    Mickey Kostmayer is captured when a Company operation fails, and he's turned against McCall using drugs and torture.

  • S04E07 Making of a Martyr

    • January 11, 1989
    • CBS

    A gun control advocate whose husband was crippled by a stray bullet seeks McCall's help when she receives threatening phone calls.

  • S04E08 The Sins of Our Fathers

    • January 18, 1989
    • CBS

    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.

  • S04E09 The Visitation

    • February 1, 1989
    • CBS

    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.

  • S04E10 Past Imperfect

    • February 15, 1989
    • CBS

    An international crime cartel tries to use a man's estranged son against him when the man refuses to honor their wishes.

  • S04E11 Trial by Ordeal

    • March 1, 1989
    • CBS

    McCall becomes the defense counsel when a Company tribunal on charges of treason tries Control.

  • S04E12 Silent Fury

    • March 8, 1989
    • CBS

    McCall tries to help a young woman who is one of the victims of a series of robberies directed against the deaf community.

  • S04E13 Lullaby of Darkness

    • March 30, 1989
    • CBS

    McCall tries to help a woman and her daughter escape from her abusive husband.

  • S04E14 17 Zebra

    • April 6, 1989
    • CBS

    McCall investigates when a mission worker tells him about several winos who have died from heart attacks enroute to the hospital in paramedic ambulances.

  • S04E15 Starfire

    • April 13, 1989
    • CBS

    McCall tries to help a girl and her friend, a confused man who claims to an extraterrestrial being hunted by killers.

  • S04E16 Time Present, Time Past

    • April 20, 1989
    • CBS

    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.

  • S04E17 Prisoners of Conscience

    • April 27, 1989
    • CBS

    McCall's search for a kidnapped Chilean poet gets very intense when he learns the kidnapper killed his father many years ago.

  • S04E18 The Caper

    • May 4, 1989
    • CBS

    A cleaning woman works at cross-purposes to McCall as she tries to solve a murder she witnessed.

  • S04E19 Heart of Justice

    • May 11, 1989
    • CBS

    A bitter man tries to get revenge on the men who brutalized his wife but he calls McCall when someone else gets them first.

  • S04E20 Race Traitors

    • June 11, 1989
    • CBS

    McCall answers a call for help from Kostmayer's old neighborhood, where a racist group is harassing a black family.

  • S04E21 Endgame

    • August 10, 1989
    • CBS

    McCall helps two sisters whom are the victims of a revenge that has been plotted by a master strategy game player.

  • S04E22 Suicide Squad

    • August 24, 1989
    • CBS

    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.

Additional Specials

  • SPECIAL 0x1 The Story of The Equalizer

    • October 29, 2012
    • CBS

    The Story of The Equalizer featuring interviews with William Zabka (Scott McCall), Keith Szarabajka (Mickey Kostmayer) and producers Coleman Luck and Robert Eisele.