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The Equalizer(TV show/series, 1985-1989)

48min per episode | Genres: Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama

Scripted Reality in 4 seasons with 88 episodes

The EqualizerRating: 3.5/5 (with 26 votes)
The Equalizer is an American spy thriller television series, originally airing on CBS from September 18, 1985, to August 24, 1989; which was co-created by Michael Sloan and Richard Lindheim. It starred Edward Woodward as Robert McCall, a retired intelligence agent with a mysterious past, who uses the skills from his former career to exact justice on behalf of innocent people who find themselves in dangerous circumstances, while sometimes also dealing with people from his past in covert operations who want to pull him back in or settle old scores. The show has inspired two further works, including three feature films and a re-imagined series. ()
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About The Equalizer

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.

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The Equalizer Seasons and Episodes

10/26/1988Season 4 - 22 episodes
#1 | 10/26/1988The Last Campaign
The aide to an ambitious candidate for state senator discovers that her boss is blackmailing the incumbent into endorsing his candidacy.
#2 | 11/02/1988Sea 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.
#3 | 11/09/1988Riding 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.
#4 | 11/16/1988Eighteen With a Bullet
McCall and Mickey try to help a young rock singer escape from her greedy, immoral manager.
#5 | 12/07/1988The 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.
#6 | 12/14/1988Splinters
Mickey Kostmayer is captured when a Company operation fails, and he's turned against McCall using drugs and torture.
#7 | 01/11/1989The 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.
#8 | 01/18/1989The Sins of the Father
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.
#9 | 02/01/1989The 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.
#10 | 02/15/1989Past Imperfect
An international crime cartel tries to use a man's estranged son against him when the man refuses to honor their wishes.
#11 | 03/01/1989Trial By Ordeal
McCall becomes the defense counsel when a Company tribunal on charges of treason tries Control.
#12 | 03/08/1989Silent Fury
McCall tries to help a young woman who is one of the victims of a series of robberies directed against the deaf community.
#13 | 03/30/1989Lullaby of Darkness
McCall tries to help a woman and her daughter escape from her abusive husband.
#14 | 04/06/198917 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.
#15 | 04/13/1989Starfire
McCall tries to help a girl and her friend, a confused man who claims to an extraterrestrial being hunted by killers.
#16 | 04/20/1989Time 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.
#17 | 04/27/1989Prisoners of Conscience
McCall's search for a kidnapped Chilean poet gets very intense when he learns the kidnapper killed his father many years ago.
#18 | 05/04/1989The Caper
A cleaning woman works at cross-purposes to McCall as she tries to solve a murder she witnessed.
#19 | 05/11/1989Heart 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.
#20 | 06/11/1989Race Traitors
McCall answers a call for help from Kostmayer's old neighborhood, where a racist group is harassing a black family.
#21 | 08/10/1989Endgame
McCall helps two sisters whom are the victims of a revenge that has been plotted by a master strategy game player.
#22 | 08/24/1989Suicide 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.
09/23/1987Season 3 - 22 episodes
10/08/1986Season 2 - 22 episodes
09/18/1985Season 1 - 22 episodes
10/29/2012Specials - 1 episode

Additional Information

Production countries: Canada, United States of America (USA)
Derivative works/Adaptions: "The Equalizer" (movie, 2014), "The Equalizer 2" (movie, 2018), "The Equalizer" (TV show/series, 2021-)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: German (DE), English (EN), French (FR)
Translated into 10 languages: Bulgarian (BG), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), French (FR), Italian (IT), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU)
Status: Ended
First episode released on: 09/18/1985
Last episode released on: 08/24/1989
Cast: Edward Woodward, Robert Lansing, Keith Szarabajka, Mark Margolis, Eddie Jones, William Zabka, Robert Moresco, Mitchell Lichtenstein, Kelly Lynch, Perry Lang, Dana Barron, Thomas G. Waites, Ken Jenkins, Gwen Verdon, Lanny Flaherty, Jasmine Guy, Martin Shakar, Richard Jordan, Macaulay Culkin, Melissa Leo, Lenny Von Dohlen, Caroline Lagerfelt, Ashley Crow, Michael Cerveris, Fred Williamson, Quentin Crisp, Michael Wincott, Héctor Elizondo, Melissa Sue Anderson, Corey Carrier, Chris Elliott, Jude Ciccolella, Anne Pitoniak, Dan Hedaya, Geoff Pierson, Alice Drummond, Daniel Davis, Oliver Platt, Wendell Pierce, James Rebhorn, Joe Spinell, Jill Larson, Mark Linn-Baker, Billy Wirth, Ron O'Neal, Rick Aviles, Dennis Christopher, Anne Heywood, Edward Binns, Verna Bloom, John Cameron Mitchell, William Sadler, Steve Rankin, Karen Young, Charles Cioffi, Don McManus, James Gammon, Trey Wilson, Joe Seneca, Joseph Mascolo, Max Casella, Adam Ant, Jacqueline Brookes, Paul Herman, Carlos Carrasco, Clayton Prince, Angela Goethals, Linda Thorson, Tony Ganios, Lisa Eichhorn, Nathan George, Susan Gibney, Elizabeth Franz, Anne Jackson, J. Smith-Cameron, Bobby Di Cicco, Howie Seago, Annabelle Gurwitch, Ad-Rock, Nick Bakay, George Plimpton, Ed O'Neill, Tony Musante, Blanche Baker, John Cale, Laila Robins, Robert Mitchum, Shirley Knight, David Brisbin, Tim de Zarn, Novella Nelson, Judith Malina, Ira Lewis, Peter Sellars, Bethel Leslie, Liane Alexandra Curtis, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Elizabeth Sung, Yvonne Wilder, Dave Florek, Lewis J. Stadlen, Ted Beniades, David Margulies, Michael Higgins, Kent Broadhurst, Madison Arnold, Steve Buscemi, Maureen Anderman, Leonardo Cimino, Freda Foh Shen, Sully Boyar, Robin Curtis, George Morfogen

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