Season 1

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  7.6/10227 votes

  Pilot: The Equalizer

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1985

  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.

  Director: Rod Holcomb

  Writer: Michael Sloan

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  7.2/10173 votes

  China Rain

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1985

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

  Director: Richard Compton

  Writer: Joel Surnow, Victor Hsu

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  7.2/10152 votes

  The Defector

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1985

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

  Director: Rod Holcomb

  Writer: Heywood Gould

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  7.6/10158 votes

  The Lock Box

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1985

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

  Director: Russ Mayberry

  Writer: Joel Surnow, Frank Military

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  7.5/10149 votes

  Lady Cop

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1985

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

  Director: Russ Mayberry

  Writer: Joel Surnow

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  7.1/10124 votes

  The Confirmation Day

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 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.

  Director: Richard A. Colla

  Writer: N/A

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  7.3/10137 votes

  The Children's Song

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1985

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

  Director: Richard Compton

  Writer: Joel Surnow

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  7.1/10118 votes

  The Distant Fire

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1985

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

  Director: Alan Metzger

  Writer: Joel Surnow

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  7.2/10125 votes

  Mama's Boy

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1985

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

  Director: James Sheldon

  Writer: Heywood Gould

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  7.5/10129 votes

  Bump and Run

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 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.

  Director: Richard Compton

  Writer: Joel Surnow

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  7.6/10110 votes

  Desperately

  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/4/1985

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

  Director: Donald Petrie

  Writer: Charles Grant Craig

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  6.9/10117 votes

  Reign of Terror

  Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/11/1985

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

  Director: Richard Compton

  Writer: Steve Bello

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  7.8/10108 votes

  Back Home

  Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/18/1985

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

  Director: Alan Metzger

  Writer: Joel Surnow

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  7.8/10114 votes

  Out of the Past

  Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/15/1986

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

  Director: Richard Compton

  Writer: Cyrus Nowrasteh

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  7.6/10119 votes

  Dead Drop

  Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/22/1986

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

  Director: Donald Petrie

  Writer: Maurice Hurley, Joel Surnow

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  7.2/10102 votes

  Wash Up

  Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 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.

  Director: Richard Compton

  Writer: Mark Frost

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  7.7/10111 votes

  Torn

  Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/5/1986

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

  Director: Russ Mayberry

  Writer: Carleton Eastlake

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  7.4/10106 votes

  Unnatural Causes

  Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/12/1986

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

  Director: Alan Metzger

  Writer: Scott Shepherd, Susan Woollen

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  8.0/10128 votes

  Breakpoint

  Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/19/1986

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

  Director: Russ Mayberry

  Writer: Don Carlos Dunaway, Scott Shepherd

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  7.2/1097 votes

  No Conscience

  Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 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.

  Director: Richard Compton

  Writer: Mark Frost

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  7.6/1097 votes

  Unpunished Crimes

  Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/1/1986

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

  Director: Alan Metzger

  Writer: Grenville Case, John Burke

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  7.4/10102 votes

  Pretenders

  Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 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.

  Director: Richard Compton

  Writer: Scott Shepherd