Seasons & episodes

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

S1 · E1Pilot: The Equalizer 1985-09-18 · 48 min＋

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.

S1 · E2China Rain 1985-09-25 · 48 min＋

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

S1 · E3The Defector 1985-10-02 · 48 min＋

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

S1 · E4The Lock Box 1985-10-09 · 48 min＋

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

S1 · E5Lady Cop 1985-10-16 · 48 min＋

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

S1 · E6The Confirmation Day 1985-10-23 · 48 min＋

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

S1 · E7The Children's Song 1985-10-30 · 48 min＋

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

S1 · E8The Distant Fire 1985-11-06 · 48 min＋

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

S1 · E9Mama's Boy 1985-11-13 · 48 min＋

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

S1 · E10Bump and Run 1985-11-20 · 48 min＋

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

S1 · E11Desperately 1985-12-04 · 48 min＋

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

S1 · E12Reign of Terror 1985-12-11 · 48 min＋

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

S1 · E13Back Home 1985-12-18 · 48 min＋

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

S1 · E14Out of the Past 1986-01-15 · 48 min＋

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

S1 · E15Dead Drop 1986-01-22 · 48 min＋

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

S1 · E16Wash Up 1986-01-29 · 48 min＋

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.

S1 · E17Torn 1986-02-05 · 48 min＋

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

S1 · E18Unnatural Causes 1986-02-12 · 48 min＋

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

S1 · E19Breakpoint 1986-02-19 · 48 min＋

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

S1 · E20No Conscience 1986-03-05 · 48 min＋

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.

S1 · E21Unpunished Crimes 1986-04-01 · 48 min＋

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

S1 · E22Pretenders 1986-04-08 · 48 min＋

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.

S2 · E1Prelude 1986-10-08 · 48 min＋

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