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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.
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The Equalizer is a action & adventure and drama TV series that premiered on CBS on September 18, 1985. It has 4 seasons and 88 episodes so far and has ended. The latest episode, Season 4 Episode 22 "Suicide Squad", aired on August 24, 1989.
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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88 episodes · 4 seasons
1985 · 22 episodes · Last episode: 40 years ago
E22
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.
E21
McCall is hired by an inventor whose designs were stolen by a huge corporation headed by a ruthless executive.
E20
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.
E19
McCall is among those taken hostage by terrorists seeking a Middle Eastern philanthropist.
E18
McCall's on the trail of a serial killer, leaving him little time for an actress fallen into the wrong crowd.
E17
McCall tries to divide his time between defending a woman from her abusive husband and settling with an old enemy.
E16
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.
E15
McCall assembles some old friends to protect a man marked for murder for no apparent reason.
E14
An ex-con is harassing the man whose testimony put him away-the man now married to McCall's former wife.
E13
A banker is harassing tenants of a potentially valuable property and planning to murder his wife.
E12
The new doctor at a local clinic refuses to give gang members drugs as `rent' for using their turf.
E11
A lonely, neglected wife gets more than she wanted when she considers a fling and ends up witnessing a murder.
E10
Muggers seek revenge on a student who injured one of them while escaping, and a vigilante killer pins McCall's ad to his victims.
E9
A career woman wants McCall's aid in ending her son's fascination with a charismatic drug dealer.
E8
A hit man wants help to prevent another killer from murdering a woman both McCall and the hitman once loved.
E7
Father and son protect a girl from would-be rapists intent on killing the only witness to a murder.
E6
McCall helps a former showgirl convinced someone is stalking her and a boy whose father helped steal antiques now wanted by two separate parties.
E5
A crooked cop is willing to murder to ensure that his new partner won't blow the whistle on his operations.
E4
McCall helps a man whose daughter has been abducted by a pimp who services covert government operations.
E3
McCall helps a double agent defect and a young boy stand up to bullies.
E2
McCall comes to the aid of a housekeeper when kidnappers grab her son by mistake.
E1
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.
1986 · 22 episodes · Last episode: 39 years ago
E22
McCall helps a young boy whose father was tricked into committing a crime.
E21
Nightmares become a reality for an invalid woman when a threatening figures from her dreams appears in her room.
E20
While McCall is testifying in Washington, Scott tries his hand and looks for thugs harassing a local merchant.
E19
McCall is torn between a lovely psychiatrist and a man who calls and says he can't stop himself from murdering women.
E18
A young girl runs away from her quarreling parents and into the hands of a child pornographer.
E17
McCall gets involved romantically and professionally with a woman wanted in Pennsylvania for killing a cop.
E16
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.
E15
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.
E14
A wife appeals to the judge sentencing her husband and is offered her husband's freedom for sexual favors.
E13
Control becomes McCall's client when a KGB agent who infiltrated a think tank is murdered.
E12
A construction worker becomes both witness and target when she sees a murder and is spotted by the killer.
E11
A woman asks McCall for help recovering her kidnapped newborn son.
E10
Father Kostmayer hears the confession of a Polish agitator moments before he's gunned down.
E9
A bookie that doesn't like the odds on a race kidnaps the son of the jockey and demands the father throw the race.
E8
The mother of a youth killed while being harassed by an overzealous citizen's patrol appeals to McCall for help.
E7
The odds are against McCall when he's framed for the murder of a blind man.
E6
A rape victim asks McCall to stop her husband from tracking down her attackers.
E5
McCall helps a National Guardsman who faces a murder charge and threats from the real killer.
E4
Two boys drive off in a hearse; not knowing it contains a coffin full of crack.
E3
McCall comes to the aid of a woman who's being squeezed to pay off her late husband's debts.
E2
A blind music critic asks for help when she hears the voice of the man who raped her years before.
E1
Men working for a dictator McCall helped put into power kidnap an American journalist.
1987 · 22 episodes · Last episode: 38 years ago
E22
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.
E21
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.
E20
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.
E19
A rapist being hunted by a mob assassin takes hostage Kostmayer, Pete and several customers.
E18
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.
E17
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.
E16
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.
E15
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.
E14
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.
E13
A young woman asks McCall to help her boyfriend break away from the control of a junior Fagin.
E12
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.
E11
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.
E10
McCall and Kostmayer are caught with an acting company rehearsing a new work when a psychopath boobytraps the theater exits with bombs.
E9
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.
E8
McCall helps a fellow Intelligence officer stay alive despite someone's efforts to keep him from talking to a Congressional committee.
E7
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.
E6
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.
E5
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.
E4
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.
E3
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.
E2
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.
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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.
1988 · 22 episodes · Last episode: 37 years ago
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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.
E21
McCall helps two sisters whom are the victims of a revenge that has been plotted by a master strategy game player.
E20
McCall answers a call for help from Kostmayer's old neighborhood, where a racist group is harassing a black family.
E19
A bitter man tries to get revenge on the men who brutalized his wife but he calls McCall when someone else gets them first.
E18
A cleaning woman works at cross-purposes to McCall as she tries to solve a murder she witnessed.
E17
McCall's search for a kidnapped Chilean poet gets very intense when he learns the kidnapper killed his father many years ago.
E16
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.
E15
McCall tries to help a girl and her friend, a confused man who claims to an extraterrestrial being hunted by killers.
E14
McCall investigates when a mission worker tells him about several winos who have died from heart attacks enroute to the hospital in paramedic ambulances.
E13
McCall tries to help a woman and her daughter escape from her abusive husband.
E12
McCall tries to help a young woman who is one of the victims of a series of robberies directed against the deaf community.
E11
McCall becomes the defense counsel when a Company tribunal on charges of treason tries Control.
E10
An international crime cartel tries to use a man's estranged son against him when the man refuses to honor their wishes.
E9
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.
E8
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.
E7
A gun control advocate whose husband was crippled by a stray bullet seeks McCall's help when she receives threatening phone calls.
E6
Mickey Kostmayer is captured when a Company operation fails, and he's turned against McCall using drugs and torture.
E5
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.
E4
McCall and Mickey try to help a young rock singer escape from her greedy, immoral manager.
E3
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.
E2
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.
E1
The aide to an ambitious candidate for state senator discovers that her boss is blackmailing the incumbent into endorsing his candidacy.
Created by Richard Lindheim and Michael Sloan
The Equalizer has ended, so no new episodes are scheduled. The final episode aired on August 24, 1989.
The most recent episode of The Equalizer, Season 4 Episode 22 "Suicide Squad", aired on August 24, 1989.
The Equalizer has 4 seasons with 88 episodes in total.
The Equalizer first aired on CBS on September 18, 1985.
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