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#1 - 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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#2 - Encounter in a Closed Room
Season 3 Episode 5
Aired 10/14/1987
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.
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: Scott Shepherd, Ann Lewis Hamilton
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#3 - The Rehearsal
Season 3 Episode 10
Aired 12/2/1987
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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#4 - The Day of the Covenant
Season 4 Episode 5
Aired 12/7/1988
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.
Director: James A. Contner
Writer: Robert Eisele
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#5 - 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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#6 - 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: Maurice Hurley, Joel Surnow
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#7 - 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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#8 - Joyride
Season 2 Episode 4
Aired 10/29/1986
Two boys drive off in a hearse; not knowing it contains a coffin full of crack.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Charles Grant Craig
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#9 - Tip On a Sure Thing
Season 2 Episode 9
Aired 12/3/1986
A bookie that doesn't like the odds on a race kidnaps the son of the jockey and demands the father throw the race.
Director: Donald Petrie
Writer: Scott Shepherd
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#10 - Shadow Play
Season 3 Episode 8
Aired 11/11/1987
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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#11 - Race Traitors
Season 4 Episode 20
Aired 6/11/1989
McCall answers a call for help from Kostmayer's old neighborhood, where a racist group is harassing a black family.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#12 - 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: Maurice Hurley, Joel Surnow, Victor Hsu
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#13 - 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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#14 - In the Money
Season 3 Episode 4
Aired 10/7/1987
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.
Director: Aaron Lipstadt
Writer: Scott Shepherd, Ed Waters
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#15 - Something Green
Season 3 Episode 15
Aired 2/10/1988
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.
Director: Luis Soto
Writer: Kevin Droney
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#16 - 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: Maurice Hurley, Joel Surnow
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#17 - 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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#18 - 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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#19 - 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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#20 - First Light
Season 2 Episode 20
Aired 5/13/1987
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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#21 - Last Call
Season 3 Episode 19
Aired 3/23/1988
A rapist being hunted by a mob assassin takes hostage Kostmayer, Pete and several customers.
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Writer: Robert Crais
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#22 - 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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#23 - 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
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#24 - Heartstrings
Season 2 Episode 11
Aired 12/17/1986
A woman asks McCall for help recovering her kidnapped newborn son.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Loraine Despres
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#25 - Suspicion of Innocence
Season 3 Episode 3
Aired 9/30/1987
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.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Robert Eisele
The Worst Episodes of The Equalizer
Every episode of The Equalizer ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of The Equalizer!
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...
Genres:Action & AdventureCrimeDrama
Network:CBS
Episodes
88
Avg. Rating
7.6
S1
S2
S3
S4
E1
E2
E3
7.6
7.7
8.0
7.9
7.2
7.9
8.0
7.5
7.2
7.5
7.4
7.5
Worst Episodes Summary
"Reign of Terror" is the worst rated episode of "The Equalizer". It scored 6.9/10 based on 116 votes. Directed by Richard Compton and written by Steve Bello, it aired on 12/11/1985. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Encounter in a Closed Room".