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Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    The Equalizer Season 3 Episode 11 - Christmas Presence
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #1 - Christmas Presence

    S3:E11

    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.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Coleman Luck

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  2. The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 16 - Time Present, Time Past
    0.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Time Present, Time Past

    S4:E16

    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.

    Director:Gordon Hessler
    Writer:Tom Towler

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  3. The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 18 - The Caper
    0.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - The Caper

    S4:E18

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

    Director:Alan Metzger
    Writer:Tom Towler

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  4. The Equalizer Season 1 Episode 15 - Dead Drop
    3.3/10(3 votes)

    #4 - Dead Drop

    S1:E15

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

    Director:Donald Petrie
    Writers:Maurice Hurley, Joel Surnow

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  5. The Equalizer Season 2 Episode 18 - A Place To Stay
    3.3/10(3 votes)

    #5 - A Place To Stay

    S2:E18

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

    Director:Alan Metzger
    Writers:Carleton Eastlake, Marc Rubin

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  6. The Equalizer Season 3 Episode 12 - A Dance on the Dark Side
    3.3/10(3 votes)

    #6 - A Dance on the Dark Side

    S3:E12

    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.

    Director:Jonathan Perry
    Writer:David Lightstone

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  7. The Equalizer Season 3 Episode 4 - In the Money
    3.8/10(4 votes)

    #7 - In the Money

    S3:E4

    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.

    Director:Aaron Lipstadt
    Writers:Scott Shepherd, Ed Waters

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  8. The Equalizer Season 1 Episode 18 - Unnatural Causes
    4.0/10(4 votes)

    #8 - Unnatural Causes

    S1:E18

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

    Director:Alan Metzger
    Writers:Scott Shepherd, Susan Woollen

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  9. The Equalizer Season 1 Episode 12 - Reign of Terror
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Reign of Terror

    S1:E12

    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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  10. The Equalizer Season 1 Episode 16 - Wash Up
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Wash Up

    S1:E16

    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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  11. The Equalizer Season 1 Episode 21 - Unpunished Crimes
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Unpunished Crimes

    S1:E21

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

    Director:Alan Metzger
    Writers:Grenville Case, John Burke

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  12. The Equalizer Season 2 Episode 1 - Prelude
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Prelude

    S2:E1

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

    Director:Richard Compton
    Writer:Carleton Eastlake

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  13. The Equalizer Season 2 Episode 3 - A Community of Civilized Men
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - A Community of Civilized Men

    S2:E3

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

    Director:Alan Metzger
    Writers:Scott Shepherd, Daniel Pyne

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  14. The Equalizer Season 2 Episode 8 - The Line
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - The Line

    S2:E8

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

    Director:Russ Mayberry
    Writer:Steve Volpe

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  15. The Equalizer Season 2 Episode 9 - Tip On a Sure Thing
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Tip On a Sure Thing

    S2:E9

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

    Director:Donald Petrie
    Writer:Scott Shepherd

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  16. The Equalizer Season 2 Episode 20 - First Light
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - First Light

    S2:E20

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

    Director:Richard Compton
    Writer:Jack V. Fogarty

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  17. The Equalizer Season 2 Episode 21 - Hand and Glove
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Hand and Glove

    S2:E21

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

    Director:Alan Metzger
    Writer:Coleman Luck

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  18. The Equalizer Season 2 Episode 22 - Re-Entry
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Re-Entry

    S2:E22

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

    Director:Aaron Lipstadt
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Equalizer Season 3 Episode 2 - Blood & Wine (2)
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #19 - Blood & Wine (2)

    S3:E2

    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.

    Director:Alan Metzger
    Writer:Coleman Luck

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  20. The Equalizer Season 3 Episode 5 - Encounter in a Closed Room
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Encounter in a Closed Room

    S3:E5

    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.

    Director:Jim Johnston
    Writers:Ann Lewis Hamilton, Scott Shepherd

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  21. The Equalizer Season 3 Episode 8 - Shadow Play
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Shadow Play

    S3:E8

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

    Director:Russ Mayberry
    Writer:Robert Eisele

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  22. The Equalizer Season 3 Episode 9 - Inner View
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Inner View

    S3:E9

    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.

    Director:Marc Laub
    Writer:Jim Trombetta

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  23. The Equalizer Season 3 Episode 10 - The Rehearsal
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #23 - The Rehearsal

    S3:E10

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

    Director:Alan Metzger
    Writer:Robert Eisele

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  24. The Equalizer Season 3 Episode 13 - The Child Broker
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - The Child Broker

    S3:E13

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

    Director:Mark Sobel
    Writer:Mick Curran

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  25. The Equalizer Season 3 Episode 15 - Something Green
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Something Green

    S3:E15

    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.

    Director:Luis Soto
    Writer:Kevin Droney

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Christmas Presence" is the worst rated episode of "The Equalizer". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Michael O'Herlihy and written by Coleman Luck, it aired on 12/16/1987. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Time Present, Time Past".