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The Equalizer

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Season 0

• _{Monday, October 29th, 2012}

  1: The Story of The Equalizer

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

Season 1

• _{Wednesday, September 18th, 1985}

  1: The Equalizer

  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.

• _{Wednesday, September 25th, 1985}

  2: China Rain

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

• _{Wednesday, October 2nd, 1985}

  3: The Defector

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

• _{Wednesday, October 9th, 1985}

  4: The Lock Box

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

• _{Wednesday, October 16th, 1985}

  5: Lady Cop

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

• _{Wednesday, October 23rd, 1985}

  6: The Confirmation Day

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

• _{Wednesday, October 30th, 1985}

  7: The Children's Song

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

• _{Wednesday, November 6th, 1985}

  8: The Distant Fire

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

• _{Wednesday, November 13th, 1985}

  9: Mama's Boy

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

• _{Wednesday, November 20th, 1985}

  10: Bump and Run

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

• _{Wednesday, December 4th, 1985}

  11: Desperately

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

• _{Wednesday, December 11th, 1985}

  12: Reign of Terror

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

• _{Wednesday, December 18th, 1985}

  13: Back Home

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

• _{Wednesday, January 15th, 1986}

  14: Out of the Past

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

• _{Wednesday, January 22nd, 1986}

  15: Dead Drop

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

• _{Wednesday, January 29th, 1986}

  16: Wash-Up

  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.

• _{Wednesday, February 5th, 1986}

  17: Torn

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

• _{Wednesday, February 12th, 1986}

  18: Unnatural Causes

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

• _{Wednesday, February 19th, 1986}

  19: Breakpoint

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

• _{Wednesday, March 5th, 1986}

  20: No Conscience

  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.

• _{Tuesday, April 1st, 1986}

  21: Unpunished Crimes

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

• _{Tuesday, April 8th, 1986}

  22: Pretenders

  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

• _{Wednesday, October 8th, 1986}

  1: Prelude

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

• _{Wednesday, October 15th, 1986}

  2: Nocturne

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

• _{Wednesday, October 22nd, 1986}

  3: A Community of Civilized Men

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

• _{Wednesday, October 29th, 1986}

  4: Joyride

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

• _{Wednesday, November 5th, 1986}

  5: Shades of Darkness

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

• _{Wednesday, November 12th, 1986}

  6: Nightscape

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

• _{Wednesday, November 19th, 1986}

  7: Counterfire

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

• _{Wednesday, November 26th, 1986}

  8: The Line

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

• _{Wednesday, December 3rd, 1986}

  9: Tip on a Sure Thing

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

• _{Wednesday, December 10th, 1986}

  10: The Cup

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

• _{Wednesday, December 17th, 1986}

  11: Heartstrings

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

• _{Wednesday, January 7th, 1987}

  12: High Performance

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

• _{Wednesday, January 14th, 1987}

  13: Beyond Control

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

• _{Wednesday, January 21st, 1987}

  14: Carnal Persuasion

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

• _{Wednesday, February 4th, 1987}

  15: Memories of Manon (1)

  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.

• _{Wednesday, February 11th, 1987}

  16: Memories of Manon (2)

• _{Wednesday, February 18th, 1987}

  17: Solo

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

• _{Wednesday, February 25th, 1987}

  18: A Place to Stay

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

• _{Wednesday, May 6th, 1987}

  19: Coal Black Soul

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

• _{Wednesday, May 13th, 1987}

  20: First Light

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

• _{Wednesday, May 20th, 1987}

  21: Hand and Glove

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

• _{Wednesday, May 27th, 1987}

  22: Re-Entry

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

Season 3

• _{Wednesday, September 23rd, 1987}

  1: Blood and Wine (1)

  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.

• _{Wednesday, September 23rd, 1987}

  2: Blood and Wine (2)

• _{Wednesday, September 30th, 1987}

  3: Suspicion of Innocence

  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.

• _{Wednesday, October 7th, 1987}

  4: In the Money

  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.

• _{Wednesday, October 14th, 1987}

  5: Encounter in a Closed Room

  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.

• _{Wednesday, October 28th, 1987}

  6: Mission: McCall (1)

  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.

• _{Wednesday, November 4th, 1987}

  7: Mission: McCall (2)

• _{Wednesday, November 11th, 1987}

  8: Shadow Play

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

• _{Wednesday, November 18th, 1987}

  9: Inner View

  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.

• _{Wednesday, December 2nd, 1987}

  10: The Rehearsal

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

• _{Wednesday, December 16th, 1987}

  11: Christmas Presence

  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.

• _{Wednesday, January 13th, 1988}

  12: A Dance on the Dark Side

  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.

• _{Wednesday, January 20th, 1988}

  13: The Child Broker

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

• _{Wednesday, January 27th, 1988}

  14: Video Games

  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.

• _{Wednesday, February 10th, 1988}

  15: Something Green

  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.

• _{Wednesday, February 17th, 1988}

  16: The Mystery of Manon (1)

  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.

• _{Wednesday, February 24th, 1988}

  17: The Mystery of Manon (2)

• _{Wednesday, March 16th, 1988}

  18: No Place Like Home

  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.

• _{Wednesday, March 23rd, 1988}

  19: Last Call

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

• _{Wednesday, March 30th, 1988}

  20: Regrets Only

  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.

• _{Wednesday, April 6th, 1988}

  21: Target of Choice

  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.

• _{Wednesday, May 4th, 1988}

  22: Always a Lady

  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

• _{Wednesday, October 26th, 1988}

  1: The Last Campaign

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

• _{Wednesday, November 2nd, 1988}

  2: Sea of Fire

  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.

• _{Wednesday, November 9th, 1988}

  3: Riding the Elephant

  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.

• _{Wednesday, November 16th, 1988}

  4: Eighteen with a Bullet

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

• _{Wednesday, December 7th, 1988}

  5: Day of the Covenant

  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.

• _{Wednesday, December 14th, 1988}

  6: Splinters

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

• _{Wednesday, January 11th, 1989}

  7: Making of a Martyr

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

• _{Wednesday, January 18th, 1989}

  8: The Sins of Our Fathers

  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.

• _{Wednesday, February 1st, 1989}

  9: The Visitation

  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.

• _{Wednesday, February 15th, 1989}

  10: Past Imperfect

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

• _{Wednesday, March 1st, 1989}

  11: Trial by Ordeal

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

• _{Wednesday, March 8th, 1989}

  12: Silent Fury

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

• _{Thursday, March 30th, 1989}

  13: Lullaby of Darkness

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

• _{Thursday, April 6th, 1989}

  14: 17 Zebra

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

• _{Thursday, April 13th, 1989}

  15: Starfire

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

• _{Thursday, April 20th, 1989}

  16: Time Present, Time Past

  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.

• _{Thursday, April 27th, 1989}

  17: Prisoners of Conscience

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

• _{Thursday, May 4th, 1989}

  18: The Caper

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

• _{Thursday, May 11th, 1989}

  19: Heart of Justice

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

• _{Sunday, June 11th, 1989}

  20: Race Traitors

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

• _{Thursday, August 10th, 1989}

  21: Endgame

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

• _{Thursday, August 24th, 1989}

  22: Suicide Squad

  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.