Season 1

Season 1 (1985)


Episodes: 22

Star Cast: Edward Woodward ,





Episodes List

Ep.1 Pilot: The Equalizer

Air Date: 1985-09-18

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.

Ep.2 China Rain

Air Date: 1985-09-25

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

Ep.3 The Defector

Air Date: 1985-10-02

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

Ep.4 The Lock Box

Air Date: 1985-10-09

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

Ep.5 Lady Cop

Air Date: 1985-10-16

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

Ep.6 The Confirmation Day

Air Date: 1985-10-23

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

Ep.7 The Children's Song

Air Date: 1985-10-30

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

Ep.8 The Distant Fire

Air Date: 1985-11-06

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

Ep.9 Mama's Boy

Air Date: 1985-11-13

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

Ep.10 Bump and Run

Air Date: 1985-11-20

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

Ep.11 Desperately

Air Date: 1985-12-04

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

Ep.12 Reign of Terror

Air Date: 1985-12-11

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

Ep.13 Back Home

Air Date: 1985-12-18

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

Ep.14 Out of the Past

Air Date: 1986-01-15

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

Ep.15 Dead Drop

Air Date: 1986-01-22

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

Ep.16 Wash Up

Air Date: 1986-01-29

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.

Ep.17 Torn

Air Date: 1986-02-05

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

Ep.18 Unnatural Causes

Air Date: 1986-02-12

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

Ep.19 Breakpoint

Air Date: 1986-02-19

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

Ep.20 No Conscience

Air Date: 1986-03-05

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.

Ep.21 Unpunished Crimes

Air Date: 1986-04-01

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

Ep.22 Pretenders

Air Date: 1986-04-08

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.