The Equalizer

Name: The Equalizer
Genre: Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama
Released: 1985-09-18
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Edward Woodward

ENDED4 Seasons88 Episodes★ 7.2

The Equalizer is an action-adventure and crime series on CBS that ran from 1985 to 1989, ending after 4 seasons and 88 episodes.

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NetworkCBS

First AiredSep 18, 1985

Last AiredAug 24, 1989

GenreAction & Adventure, Crime, Drama

Runtime48 min

Created ByRichard Lindheim, Michael Sloan

LanguageEnglish

CountryCanada, United States

ProductionUniversal Television

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.

Cast

Edward Woodward

Robert McCall

Seasons & Episodes4 seasons · 88 episodes

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E1The Last Campaign

Oct 26, 198848m

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

E2Sea of Fire

Nov 2, 198848m

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.

E3Riding the Elephant

Nov 9, 198848m

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.

E4Eighteen With a Bullet

Nov 16, 198848m

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

E5The Day of the Covenant

Dec 7, 198848m

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.

E6Splinters

Dec 14, 198848m

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

E7The Making of a Martyr

Jan 11, 198948m

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

E8The Sins of the Father

Jan 18, 198948m

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.

E9The Visitation

Feb 1, 198948m

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.

E10Past Imperfect

Feb 15, 198948m

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

E11Trial By Ordeal

Mar 1, 198948m

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

E12Silent Fury

Mar 8, 198948m

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

E13Lullaby of Darkness

Mar 30, 198948m

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

E1417 Zebra

Apr 6, 198948m

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

E15Starfire

Apr 13, 198948m

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

E16Time Present, Time Past

Apr 20, 198948m

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.

E17Prisoners of Conscience

Apr 27, 198948m

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

E18The Caper

May 4, 198948m

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

E19Heart of Justice

May 11, 198948m

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

E20Race Traitors

Jun 11, 198948m

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

E21Endgame

Aug 10, 198948m

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

E22Suicide Squad

Aug 24, 198948m

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.

About The Equalizer

The Equalizer is an action & adventure, crime, drama series on CBS. The show first aired on Sep 18, 1985 and currently has 4 seasons and 88 episodes. The Equalizer has ended. It has a rating of 7.2/10 based on 71 votes. The cast includes Edward Woodward. Created by Richard Lindheim and Michael Sloan.