Season 1

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.

1985-09-18 • 48 min

2. China Rain

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

1985-09-25 • 48 min

3. The Defector

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

1985-10-02 • 48 min

4. The Lock Box

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

1985-10-09 • 48 min

5. Lady Cop

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

1985-10-16 • 48 min

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.

1985-10-23 • 48 min

7. The Children's Song

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

1985-10-30 • 48 min

8. The Distant Fire

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

1985-11-06 • 48 min

9. Mama's Boy

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

1985-11-13 • 48 min

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.

1985-11-20 • 48 min

11. Desperately

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

1985-12-04 • 48 min

12. Reign of Terror

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

1985-12-11 • 48 min

13. Back Home

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

1985-12-18 • 48 min

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.

1986-01-15 • 48 min

15. Dead Drop

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

1986-01-22 • 48 min

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.

1986-01-29 • 48 min

17. Torn

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

1986-02-05 • 48 min

18. Unnatural Causes

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

1986-02-12 • 48 min

19. Breakpoint

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

1986-02-19 • 48 min

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.

1986-03-05 • 48 min

21. Unpunished Crimes

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

1986-04-01 • 48 min

22. Pretenders

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.

1986-04-08 • 48 min