List of The Equalizer (1985 TV series) episodes

Robert McCall, disenchanted with "The Company" (an otherwise unnamed American intelligence agency), quits and starts his own detective agency. His first cases are helping a computer clerk whose life is in danger after he stumbles across some incriminating data, and a woman being stalked by a crazed man. Guest Star: Jerry Stiller as Brahms.

When a Chinese maid's young son is snatched by mistake in place of the son of the woman's wealthy employers, McCall is hired to locate the boy. Guest Star: Keith Szarabajka as Mickey Kostmayer. This character's first appearance.

McCall comes to the aid of a Russian double agent who wants to defect to the west but when the man is murdered, McCall must protect his ballerina daughter. Meanwhile, McCall also helps a teenager stand up to a group of bullies while balancing time with his latest mistress. Guest star Melissa Leo

When a teenage girl is abducted by a pimp who runs an anything-goes, invitation-only brothel, the girl's parents hire McCall to find their missing daughter. Guest star Adam Ant. Appearances by Lori Petty and Luis Guzman.

A young policewoman hires McCall when she finds that her partner and his cronies are corrupt, and intend to make sure that she doesn't blow the whistle on them.

A teenage boy hires McCall for help after his father stole a truckload of antiques, which resulted in the man's friend being shot dead and the boy's father now being wanted by the Mob. McCall also helps an old lady who is sure someone is stalking her.

McCall takes his estranged son Scott for a weekend away in the country to try and bond, but they don't exactly have a quiet time when they end up protecting a girl from a group of young thugs led by Dillart (Bradley Whitford) who killed her boyfriend and now intend to keep her from talking.

McCall is forced to team up with a known hitman, to save the life of a woman they both used to love from a killer.

A single mother (Christine Baranski) hires McCall to straighten up her troubled teenage son (Adam Horovitz), who is going off the rails after falling in with a drug runner with martial arts skills.

McCall must track down a vigilante who is killing punks in his name, while also helping a female student who is in danger from some thugs after an attempted car-jacking against her went wrong, leaving one of them dead and the surviving thugs seeking retribution. Guest star Meat Loaf.

McCall protects a lonely wife after a stranger tried to lure her into an affair, breaking into an apartment and murdering a man in the process. Things get even worse when the stranger turns out to be a hit-man.

McCall does his best to rectify the situation when the new doctor at a local clinic in gang territory is targeted by the vicious gang after she refuses to give them drugs as payment for working on their turf.

When McCall is hired to protect the elderly residents of a run down apartment block, who are being harassed by the block's banker owner (Frank Converse), he also discovers that the man has arranged to have his estranged wife (Marisa Berenson) murdered.

A deranged, dying ex-con is harassing the man who testified against him. McCall is called for protection by the man's wife – the woman who McCall was married to years before.

When a man is marked for murder after innocently having his name used in a mailing racket, McCall assembles a team of contacts to stake out the group behind the scam and let it be known that McCall's client is innocent.

McCall is hired by two skyscraper window washers, who are certain that their boss is trying to have them killed after they set about forming a union. Robert Davi appears.

McCall is hired to protect a woman and her young daughter (played by a 9-year-old Melissa Joan Hart) from her abusive husband about to be released from prison, but finds his time divided as he also tries to get even with a contact who betrayed him years before.

A serial killer, who targets lonely middle aged women and leaves an orchid at the scene of the crime, is on the loose. McCall investigates, while also being hired by a young wannabe actress who has fallen foul of a flashy pimp.

McCall is attending a wedding reception when the party is suddenly taken hostage by a group of terrorists (the ringleader played by Tony Shalhoub) who have kidnapped a Middle East philanthropist.

A womanizer is kidnapped and beaten up for a piece of information that his captors want – but he doesn't know what it is. Given 36 hours, the man hires McCall to help him, a case with many turns.

McCall is hired by a boy to help his inventor father, whose designs were ripped off by a multi-million dollar corporation run by a ruthless executive.

McCall is hired by a fledgling reporter who is convinced that her new apartment neighbor is up to no good. But she can't prove anything, and the police don't want to know.

A dictator, who McCall helped bring to power, kidnaps an American journalist who McCall must now rescue. Lori Loughlin plays the journalist's daughter, Jenny.

McCall comes to the aid of a blind rape victim who hears the voice of her attacker. Ashford & Simpson appear.

A widow is being pressed to pay off her husband's debts, and enlists McCall's help to keep the collectors off her back. Jennifer Grey plays the widow's daughter.

A hearse, bearing a coffin full of crack cocaine, is stolen and taken for a joyride by two young boys (one played by Christian Slater) who are unaware of the contents of the coffin.

McCall must clear a National Guardsman wrongly charged with murder. Olympia Dukakis plays a judge.

McCall is asked by a rape victim (Frances Fisher) to stop her husband from seeking revenge on her attackers.

While protecting a waitress from a stalker (played by Vincent D'Onofrio), McCall is framed for the murder of a blind transient by the same man. Finding a connection between these incidents and a trial involving the man’s father, McCall is in a race against time to thwart the stalker and clear his name.

McCall is called upon to help a woman whose son was killed by a citizen's patrol group.

A bookie kidnaps a jockey's son in an attempt to fix the outcome of a horse race. Warner Wolf makes a cameo appearance as himself.

Mickey Kostmayer's brother, a priest, hears a criminal confession moments before the man is murdered.

A woman's baby son has been kidnapped, and McCall is called on to retrieve him. This episode features Michele Dotrice whom Woodward married the following year.

McCall protects a construction worker who is both a witness to a killing and the murderer's next target.

McCall must protect his former boss Control from a KGB hitman.

A judge offers to release a convicted man... if his wife will perform sexual favors for him.

A joint American/Canadian task force, led by Phillip Marcel, is destroying mob operations along the Eastern seaboard with the assistance of an informant codenamed Chrysalis. Mob boss Frank Dorgan kidnaps Phillip's daughter, Yvette (Melissa Sue Anderson), and threatens to kill Phillip if she doesn't provide the identity of Chrysalis. Yvette turns to her godfather, Control, who enlists McCall to protect the Marcels. Control reveals that Yvette is the daughter of McCall's beloved former operative, Manon...but doesn't reveal her other secret...

Dorgan kidnaps Yvette again to raise the stakes in his pursuit of Chrysalis. McCall must now play Dorgan against Chrysalis to thwart Chrysalis' plans and save the Marcels – while coming to terms with his own link to Yvette.

A woman is wanted in Pennsylvania for a policeman's murder...and McCall is the woman's new lover. This episode includes the first television appearance of Kevin Spacey.

McCall takes the case of a runaway child who has been taken in by a child porn artist. Ed Lauter plays the runaway's father, and musicican Tim Cappello appears as a shopkeeper.

McCall deals with someone who claims he can't stop killing women and also has his eyes on a female psychiatrist.

Scott takes on his father's role as "The Equalizer" while his father is away, and his case involves a merchant seemingly harassed by local thugs...but Robert's true nemesis holds a grudge from World War II. Lori Loughlin reprises her role as Jenny Morrow, and Quentin Crisp plays a theater set designer.

An invalid woman has nightmares, and one of them comes true when one of the figures from them appears in her room. William H. Macy plays the woman's psychiatrist.

McCall is called on to help a man who was tricked into committing a crime. This episode includes guest stars John Goodman, David Johansen (aka Buster Poindexter), Steve Buscemi, Joe Morton, and a cameo by Stewart Copeland.

McCall and a monk (Telly Savalas), who was a terrorist before his conversion, must track down the monk's former partner.

A mentally retarded man (played by Vincent D'Onofrio) witnesses the murder of one of his coworkers in an alley, is charged with the crime and enlists McCall to help prove his innocence.

A woman crosses some corrupt stock traders.

A Soviet defector's parents have been kidnapped by the KGB and will only release them if she convinces another defector to return to their home country. Guest star Michael Moriarty.

McCall is kidnapped by the KGB and Scott enlists help of a former Agency colleague Richard Dyson (played by Robert Mitchum) to free him. Frances Fisher plays Francesca, Harley Gage's KGB case officer.

Part 2: Dyson enlists former deep cover operative Harley Gage to assist him in rescuing McCall from his KGB captors.

McCall must help colleague Harley Gage protect a government witness from assassins who are looking to keep him from testifying before a Congressional Oversight Committee.

McCall is enlisted by a psychic who claims to have seen a serial killer's next murder.

McCall and Gage are trapped in a theater with an acting company after someone plants bombs at all the theater's exits and cuts the phone lines. Chris Cooper appears.

McCall and Gage are called on to protect a six-year-old boy with AIDS, whose grandmother is dealing with increasingly violent harassment from their scared neighbors.

McCall must protect a police switchboard operator who overheard a policeman talk about his former partner's murder and is now being threatened into silence.

McCall helps a young woman whose boyfriend is being used as a pseudo-slave.

An investigative reporter tracking information on a call-girl operation and his daughter's death goes missing.

A diplomat has kidnapped his son (Macaulay Culkin) from his ex-wife and has $10 million in mob money in tow. McCall is called on to stop them from leaving the country.

Control's goddaughter Yvette Marcel returns, asking Control and McCall for help with her father Phillip, who has received information that his wife Manon - long believed to be dead - may still be alive.

With Phillip now dead, McCall and Control must discover the true identity of the woman who believes herself to be Manon - and expose the shadow party controlling her.

A man on welfare is in need of help from McCall to protect him from his abusive landlord.

Kostmayer and several others are taking hostage by a rapist on the run from a Mafia assassin.

A woman is stalked by her ex-husband.

A murderer is paroled, and the man who helped put him away finds out he is living in his neighborhood.

McCall is called on to try to save a former colleague, who is apparently framed for money theft.

A state senate candidate (Stanley Tucci) is blackmailing the incumbent (E.G. Marshall) to endorse him for election.

McCall is called on to help a high school principal deal with a gang who raped a female student in the school gym. David Strathairn appears in one memorable scene as a man who describes a near death experience.

Two Thai nationals are being hassled by a racketeer with connections to McCall's past employers. Features James Hong and Mako.

McCall and Kostmayer help a young singer escape the clutches of her manager, who is up to no good.

Scott's girlfriend is targeted for assassination by an Afrikaner fanatic as revenge for the killing of his wife.

Kidnappers take Kostmayer hostage and torture him in an attempt to turn him on McCall. Christopher Meloni appears.

A gun control advocate receives threatening phone calls. Sally Jessy Raphael appears as herself.

A mobster's son is kidnapped as part of a revenge plot against his father.

An ex-lover of McCall's is forced to help victims of a virus carried by two men who have killed an international arms dealer.

A cartel uses a man's estranged son to try to make the man do what they want him to.

McCall defends Control against treason charges filed against him by The Company.

McCall helps a deaf robbery victim. Cynthia Nixon appears.

McCall is called on to help a mother and daughter escape their abusive home life.

McCall investigates the death of several homeless people who have died from heart attacks while in ambulances.

McCall helps a man (Michael Moriarty) who is convinced he is an alien being hunted by killers. George Plimpton appears.

Scott and a Bulgarian defector (who was aided by his father) are kidnapped, and Scott enters his father's line of work when he tries to rescue the man.

McCall tries to free a Chilean poet from the grasp of a man who killed his father years ago.Edward Woodward's son Tim Woodward plays Captain McCall.

A cleaning woman (Maureen Stapleton) witnesses a murder and tries to solve it.

A man hellbent on getting revenge on the men who attacked his wife enlists McCall's help when he finds out someone else has gotten to them first.

McCall comes to the aid of a black family being harassed by racists. Guest star Laurence Fishburne.

A man who is a master of strategy games uses his knowledge to plot revenge against two sisters.

McCall aids a young student who has turned to drug dealing after he loses his athletic scholarship at college. Ving Rhames appears.