The Equalizer

Oct 29, 2012

The Story of The Equalizer featuring interviews with William Zabka (Scott McCall), Keith Szarabajka (Mickey Kostmayer) and producers Coleman Luck and Robert Eisele.

Sep 18, 1985

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.

Sep 25, 1985

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

Oct 02, 1985

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

Oct 09, 1985

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

Oct 16, 1985

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

Oct 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.

Oct 30, 1985

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

Nov 06, 1985

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

Nov 13, 1985

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

Nov 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.

Dec 04, 1985

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

Dec 11, 1985

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

Dec 18, 1985

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

Jan 15, 1986

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

Jan 22, 1986

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

Jan 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.

Feb 05, 1986

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

Feb 12, 1986

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

Feb 19, 1986

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

Mar 05, 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.

Apr 01, 1986

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

Apr 08, 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.

Oct 08, 1986

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

Oct 15, 1986

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

Oct 22, 1986

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

Oct 29, 1986

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

Nov 05, 1986

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

Nov 12, 1986

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

Nov 19, 1986

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

Nov 26, 1986

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

Dec 03, 1986

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

Dec 10, 1986

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

Dec 17, 1986

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

Jan 07, 1987

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

Jan 14, 1987

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

Jan 21, 1987

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

Feb 04, 1987

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.

Feb 11, 1987

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.

Feb 18, 1987

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

Feb 25, 1987

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

May 06, 1987

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

May 13, 1987

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

May 20, 1987

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

May 27, 1987

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

Sep 23, 1987

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.

Sep 23, 1987

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.

Sep 30, 1987

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.

Oct 07, 1987

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.

Oct 14, 1987

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.

Oct 28, 1987

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.

Nov 04, 1987

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.

Nov 11, 1987

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

Nov 18, 1987

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.

Dec 02, 1987

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

Dec 16, 1987

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.

Jan 13, 1988

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.

Jan 20, 1988

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

Jan 27, 1988

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.

Feb 10, 1988

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.

Feb 17, 1988

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.

Feb 24, 1988

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.

Mar 16, 1988

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.

Mar 23, 1988

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

Mar 30, 1988

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.

Apr 06, 1988

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.

May 04, 1988

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.

Oct 26, 1988

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

Nov 02, 1988

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.

Nov 09, 1988

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.

Nov 16, 1988

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

Dec 07, 1988

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.

Dec 14, 1988

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

Jan 11, 1989

A gun control advocate whose husband was crippled by a stray bullet seeks McCall's help when she receives threatening phone calls.

Jan 18, 1989

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.

Feb 01, 1989

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.

Feb 15, 1989

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

Mar 01, 1989

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

Mar 08, 1989

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

Mar 30, 1989

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

Apr 06, 1989

McCall investigates when a mission worker tells him about several winos who have died from heart attacks enroute to the hospital in paramedic ambulances.

Apr 13, 1989

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

Apr 20, 1989

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.

Apr 27, 1989

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

May 04, 1989

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

May 11, 1989

A bitter man tries to get revenge on the men who brutalized his wife but he calls McCall when someone else gets them first.

Jun 11, 1989

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

Aug 10, 1989

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

Aug 24, 1989

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.