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About The Equalizer

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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  • Drama
  • Crime

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Episodes

88 episodes · 4 seasons

Season 1

1985 · 22 episodes · Last episode: 40 years ago

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    22. Pretenders

    Finale

    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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    21. Unpunished Crimes

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

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    20. No Conscience

    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.

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    19. Breakpoint

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

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    18. Unnatural Causes

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

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    17. Torn

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

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    16. Wash Up

    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.

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    15. Dead Drop

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

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    14. Out of the Past

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

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    13. Back Home

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

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    12. Reign of Terror

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

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    11. Desperately

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

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    10. Bump and Run

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

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    9. Mama's Boy

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

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    8. The Distant Fire

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

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    7. The Children's Song

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

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    6. The Confirmation Day

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

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    5. Lady Cop

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

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    4. The Lock Box

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

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    3. The Defector

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

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    2. China Rain

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

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    1. Pilot: The Equalizer

    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.

Season 2

1986 · 22 episodes · Last episode: 39 years ago

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    22. Re-Entry

    Finale

    McCall helps a young boy whose father was tricked into committing a crime.

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    21. Hand and Glove

    Nightmares become a reality for an invalid woman when a threatening figures from her dreams appears in her room.

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    20. First Light

    While McCall is testifying in Washington, Scott tries his hand and looks for thugs harassing a local merchant.

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    19. Coal Black Soul

    McCall is torn between a lovely psychiatrist and a man who calls and says he can't stop himself from murdering women.

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    18. A Place To Stay

    A young girl runs away from her quarreling parents and into the hands of a child pornographer.

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    17. Solo

    McCall gets involved romantically and professionally with a woman wanted in Pennsylvania for killing a cop.

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    16. Memories of Manon (2)

    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.

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    15. Memories of Manon (1)

    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.

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    14. Carnal Persuasion

    A wife appeals to the judge sentencing her husband and is offered her husband's freedom for sexual favors.

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    13. Beyond Control

    Control becomes McCall's client when a KGB agent who infiltrated a think tank is murdered.

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    12. High Performance

    A construction worker becomes both witness and target when she sees a murder and is spotted by the killer.

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    11. Heartstrings

    A woman asks McCall for help recovering her kidnapped newborn son.

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    10. The Cup

    Father Kostmayer hears the confession of a Polish agitator moments before he's gunned down.

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    9. Tip On a Sure Thing

    A bookie that doesn't like the odds on a race kidnaps the son of the jockey and demands the father throw the race.

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    8. The Line

    The mother of a youth killed while being harassed by an overzealous citizen's patrol appeals to McCall for help.

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    7. Counterfire

    The odds are against McCall when he's framed for the murder of a blind man.

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    6. Nightscape

    A rape victim asks McCall to stop her husband from tracking down her attackers.

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    5. Shades of Darkness

    McCall helps a National Guardsman who faces a murder charge and threats from the real killer.

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    4. Joyride

    Two boys drive off in a hearse; not knowing it contains a coffin full of crack.

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    3. A Community of Civilized Men

    McCall comes to the aid of a woman who's being squeezed to pay off her late husband's debts.

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    2. Nocturne

    A blind music critic asks for help when she hears the voice of the man who raped her years before.

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    1. Prelude

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

Season 3

1987 · 22 episodes · Last episode: 38 years ago

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    22. Always a Lady

    Finale

    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.

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    21. Target of Choice

    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.

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    20. Regrets Only

    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.

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    19. Last Call

    A rapist being hunted by a mob assassin takes hostage Kostmayer, Pete and several customers.

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    18. No Place Like Home

    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.

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    17. The Mystery of Manon (2)

    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.

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    16. The Mystery of Manon (1)

    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.

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    15. Something Green

    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.

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    14. Video Games

    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.

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    13. The Child Broker

    A young woman asks McCall to help her boyfriend break away from the control of a junior Fagin.

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    12. A Dance on the Dark Side

    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.

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    11. Christmas Presence

    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.

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    10. The Rehearsal

    McCall and Kostmayer are caught with an acting company rehearsing a new work when a psychopath boobytraps the theater exits with bombs.

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    9. Inner View

    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.

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    8. Shadow Play

    McCall helps a fellow Intelligence officer stay alive despite someone's efforts to keep him from talking to a Congressional committee.

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    7. Mission: McCall (2)

    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.

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    6. Mission: McCall (1)

    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.

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    5. Encounter in a Closed Room

    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.

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    4. In the Money

    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.

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    3. Suspicion of Innocence

    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.

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    2. Blood & Wine (2)

    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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    1. Blood & Wine (1)

    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.

Season 4

1988 · 22 episodes · Last episode: 37 years ago

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    22. Suicide Squad

    Finale

    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.

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    21. Endgame

    McCall helps two sisters whom are the victims of a revenge that has been plotted by a master strategy game player.

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    20. Race Traitors

    McCall answers a call for help from Kostmayer's old neighborhood, where a racist group is harassing a black family.

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    19. Heart 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.

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    18. The Caper

    A cleaning woman works at cross-purposes to McCall as she tries to solve a murder she witnessed.

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    17. Prisoners of Conscience

    McCall's search for a kidnapped Chilean poet gets very intense when he learns the kidnapper killed his father many years ago.

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    16. Time 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.

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    15. Starfire

    McCall tries to help a girl and her friend, a confused man who claims to an extraterrestrial being hunted by killers.

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    14. 17 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.

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    13. Lullaby of Darkness

    McCall tries to help a woman and her daughter escape from her abusive husband.

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    12. Silent Fury

    McCall tries to help a young woman who is one of the victims of a series of robberies directed against the deaf community.

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    11. Trial By Ordeal

    McCall becomes the defense counsel when a Company tribunal on charges of treason tries Control.

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    10. Past Imperfect

    An international crime cartel tries to use a man's estranged son against him when the man refuses to honor their wishes.

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    9. The 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.

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    8. The 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.

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    7. The 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.

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    6. Splinters

    Mickey Kostmayer is captured when a Company operation fails, and he's turned against McCall using drugs and torture.

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    5. The 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.

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    4. Eighteen With a Bullet

    McCall and Mickey try to help a young rock singer escape from her greedy, immoral manager.

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    3. Riding 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.

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    2. Sea 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.

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    1. The Last Campaign

    The aide to an ambitious candidate for state senator discovers that her boss is blackmailing the incumbent into endorsing his candidacy.

Cast & crew

Created by Richard Lindheim and Michael Sloan

  • Keith Szarabajka

    Keith Szarabajka

    Mickey Kostmayer

  • Lori Loughlin

    Lori Loughlin

    Jenny Morrow

  • Lisa Pelikan

    Lisa Pelikan

    Anne Fitzgerald / Diane Snyder

  • Vitamin C

    Vitamin C

    Susan

  • Telly Savalas

    Telly Savalas

    Brother Joseph Heiden

  • Michael Moriarty

    Michael Moriarty

    Dr. Peter Kapik

  • Luis Guzmán

    Luis Guzmán

    Gypsy Cabbie

  • Paul Jabara

    Paul Jabara

    Orchestra Music Teacher

  • James Russo

    James Russo

    Police Detective

  • Brad Sullivan

    Brad Sullivan

    Joshua

  • Lois Smith

    Lois Smith

    Marie Ganucci

  • Michael Wincott

    Michael Wincott

    Jordan

  • David Andrews

    David Andrews

    Del Larkin

  • Terrence Mann

    Terrence Mann

    Shadow Man

  • Robert Mitchum

    Robert Mitchum

    Richard Dyson

  • Charles Keating

    Charles Keating

    Kenneth Whitten

The Equalizer FAQ

Will there be new episodes of The Equalizer?

The Equalizer has ended, so no new episodes are scheduled. The final episode aired on August 24, 1989.

When did the latest episode of The Equalizer come out?

The most recent episode of The Equalizer, Season 4 Episode 22 "Suicide Squad", aired on August 24, 1989.

How many seasons of The Equalizer are there?

The Equalizer has 4 seasons with 88 episodes in total.

When did The Equalizer first air?

The Equalizer first aired on CBS on September 18, 1985.

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