The Equalizer

Ended / 7:00pm CBS 45 min.
Robert McCall is a former agent of a shadowy, unnamed government agency, who is trying to make up for the unspoken sins of his past. His atonement comes in the form of an advertisement in a New York newspaper that features the quote: "Got a problem? Odds against you? Call the Equalizer." McCall uses his finely honed skills and occasionally the agents and resources from his old agency to combat the injustices perpetrated against those who can't seek protection from the law.

Season 4

22 Episodes

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.
Aug 24 1989
Endgame 4x21
McCall helps two sisters whom are the victims of a revenge that has been plotted by a master strategy game player.
Aug 10 1989
McCall answers a call for help from Kostmayer's old neighborhood, where a racist group is harassing a black family.
Jun 11 1989
A bitter man tries to get revenge on the men who brutalized his wife but he calls McCall when someone else gets them first.
May 11 1989
A cleaning woman works at cross-purposes to McCall as she tries to solve a murder she witnessed.
May 04 1989
McCall's search for a kidnapped Chilean poet gets very intense when he learns the kidnapper killed his father many years ago.
Apr 27 1989
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.
Apr 20 1989
McCall tries to help a girl and her friend, a confused man who claims to an extraterrestrial being hunted by killers.
Apr 13 1989
McCall investigates when a mission worker tells him about several winos who have died from heart attacks enroute to the hospital in paramedic ambulances.
Apr 06 1989
McCall tries to help a woman and her daughter escape from her abusive husband.
Mar 30 1989
McCall tries to help a young woman who is one of the victims of a series of robberies directed against the deaf community.
Mar 08 1989
McCall becomes the defense counsel when a Company tribunal on charges of treason tries Control.
Mar 01 1989
An international crime cartel tries to use a man's estranged son against him when the man refuses to honor their wishes.
Feb 15 1989
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.
Feb 01 1989
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.
Jan 18 1989
A gun control advocate whose husband was crippled by a stray bullet seeks McCall's help when she receives threatening phone calls.
Jan 11 1989
Mickey Kostmayer is captured when a Company operation fails, and he's turned against McCall using drugs and torture.
Dec 14 1988
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.
Dec 07 1988
McCall and Mickey try to help a young rock singer escape from her greedy, immoral manager.
Nov 16 1988
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.
Nov 09 1988
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.
Nov 02 1988
The aide to an ambitious candidate for state senator discovers that her boss is blackmailing the incumbent into endorsing his candidacy.
Oct 26 1988

Season 3

22 Episodes

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.
May 04 1988
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.
Apr 06 1988
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.
Mar 30 1988
A rapist being hunted by a mob assassin takes hostage Kostmayer, Pete and several customers.
Mar 23 1988
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.
Mar 16 1988
Feb 24 1988
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.
Feb 17 1988
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.
Feb 10 1988
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.
Jan 27 1988
A young woman asks McCall to help her boyfriend break away from the control of a junior Fagin.
Jan 20 1988
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.
Jan 13 1988
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.
Dec 16 1987
McCall and Kostmayer are caught with an acting company rehearsing a new work when a psychopath boobytraps the theater exits with bombs.
Dec 02 1987
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.
Nov 18 1987
McCall helps a fellow Intelligence officer stay alive despite someone's efforts to keep him from talking to a Congressional committee.
Nov 11 1987
Nov 04 1987
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.
Oct 28 1987
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.
Oct 14 1987
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.
Oct 07 1987
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.
Sep 30 1987
Sep 23 1987
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.
Sep 23 1987

Season 2

22 Episodes

McCall helps a young boy whose father was tricked into committing a crime.
May 27 1987
Nightmares become a reality for an invalid woman when a threatening figures from her dreams appears in her room.
May 20 1987
While McCall is testifying in Washington, Scott tries his hand and looks for thugs harassing a local merchant.
May 13 1987
McCall is torn between a lovely psychiatrist and a man who calls and says he can't stop himself from murdering women.
May 06 1987
A young girl runs away from her quarreling parents and into the hands of a child pornographer.
Feb 25 1987
Solo 2x17
McCall gets involved romantically and professionally with a woman wanted in Pennsylvania for killing a cop.
Feb 18 1987
Feb 11 1987
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.
Feb 04 1987
A wife appeals to the judge sentencing her husband and is offered her husband's freedom for sexual favors.
Jan 21 1987
Control becomes McCall's client when a KGB agent who infiltrated a think tank is murdered.
Jan 14 1987
A construction worker becomes both witness and target when she sees a murder and is spotted by the killer.
Jan 07 1987
A woman asks McCall for help recovering her kidnapped newborn son.
Dec 17 1986
The Cup 2x10
Father Kostmayer hears the confession of a Polish agitator moments before he's gunned down.
Dec 10 1986
A bookie that doesn't like the odds on a race kidnaps the son of the jockey and demands the father throw the race.
Dec 03 1986
The mother of a youth killed while being harassed by an overzealous citizen's patrol appeals to McCall for help.
Nov 26 1986
The odds are against McCall when he's framed for the murder of a blind man.
Nov 19 1986
A rape victim asks McCall to stop her husband from tracking down her attackers.
Nov 12 1986
McCall helps a National Guardsman who faces a murder charge and threats from the real killer.
Nov 05 1986
Joyride 2x04
Two boys drive off in a hearse; not knowing it contains a coffin full of crack.
Oct 29 1986
McCall comes to the aid of a woman who's being squeezed to pay off her late husband's debts.
Oct 22 1986
A blind music critic asks for help when she hears the voice of the man who raped her years before.
Oct 15 1986
Prelude 2x01
Men working for a dictator McCall helped put into power kidnap an American journalist.
Oct 08 1986

Season 1

22 Episodes

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.
Apr 08 1986
McCall is hired by an inventor whose designs were stolen by a huge corporation headed by a ruthless executive.
Apr 01 1986
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.
Mar 05 1986
McCall is among those taken hostage by terrorists seeking a Middle Eastern philanthropist.
Feb 19 1986
McCall's on the trail of a serial killer, leaving him little time for an actress fallen into the wrong crowd.
Feb 12 1986
Torn 1x17
McCall tries to divide his time between defending a woman from her abusive husband and settling with an old enemy.
Feb 05 1986
Wash-Up 1x16
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.
Jan 29 1986
McCall assembles some old friends to protect a man marked for murder for no apparent reason.
Jan 22 1986
An ex-con is harassing the man whose testimony put him away-the man now married to McCall's former wife.
Jan 15 1986
A banker is harassing tenants of a potentially valuable property and planning to murder his wife.
Dec 18 1985
The new doctor at a local clinic refuses to give gang members drugs as `rent' for using their turf.
Dec 11 1985
A lonely, neglected wife gets more than she wanted when she considers a fling and ends up witnessing a murder.
Dec 04 1985
Muggers seek revenge on a student who injured one of them while escaping, and a vigilante killer pins McCall's ad to his victims.
Nov 20 1985
A career woman wants McCall's aid in ending her son's fascination with a charismatic drug dealer.
Nov 13 1985
A hit man wants help to prevent another killer from murdering a woman both McCall and the hitman once loved.
Nov 06 1985
Father and son protect a girl from would-be rapists intent on killing the only witness to a murder.
Oct 30 1985
McCall helps a former showgirl convinced someone is stalking her and a boy whose father helped steal antiques now wanted by two separate parties.
Oct 23 1985
A crooked cop is willing to murder to ensure that his new partner won't blow the whistle on his operations.
Oct 16 1985
McCall helps a man whose daughter has been abducted by a pimp who services covert government operations.
Oct 09 1985
McCall helps a double agent defect and a young boy stand up to bullies.
Oct 02 1985
McCall comes to the aid of a housekeeper when kidnappers grab her son by mistake.
Sep 25 1985
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.
Sep 18 1985