The Equalizer

9/25/1985

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

10/2/1985

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

10/9/1985

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

10/16/1985

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

10/23/1985

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

10/30/1985

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

11/6/1985

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

11/13/1985

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

11/20/1985

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

12/4/1985

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

12/11/1985

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

12/18/1985

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

1/15/1986

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

1/22/1986

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

1/29/1986

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.

2/5/1986

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

2/12/1986

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

2/19/1986

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

3/5/1986

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.

4/1/1986

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

4/8/1986

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.