6.9/10115 votesLoading...#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
6.9/1061 votesLoading...#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
6.9/1066 votesLoading...#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
7.0/1059 votesLoading...#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
7.1/10124 votesLoading...#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
7.1/10118 votesLoading...#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
7.1/10123 votesLoading...#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
7.1/10100 votesLoading...#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
7.1/1083 votesLoading...#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
7.1/1066 votesLoading...#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
7.1/1060 votesLoading...#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
7.2/10170 votesLoading...#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
7.2/10149 votesLoading...#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
7.2/10101 votesLoading...#14 - 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
7.2/1075 votesLoading...#15 - 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
7.2/1060 votesLoading...#16 - 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
7.3/10137 votesLoading...#17 - 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
7.3/1095 votesLoading...#18 - 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
7.3/10101 votesLoading...#19 - 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
7.3/1069 votesLoading...#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
7.3/1061 votesLoading...#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
7.4/10105 votesLoading...#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
7.4/1089 votesLoading...#23 - A Community of Civilized Men
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/22/1986
McCall comes to the aid of a woman who's being squeezed to pay off her late husband's debts.
Director: Alan Metzger
Writer: Scott Shepherd, Daniel Pyne
7.4/1074 votesLoading...#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
7.4/1087 votesLoading...#25 - Solo
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/18/1987
McCall gets involved romantically and professionally with a woman wanted in Pennsylvania for killing a cop.
Director: Alan Metzger
Writer: Carleton Eastlake
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
Worst Episodes Summary
"Reign of Terror" is the worst rated episode of "The Equalizer". It scored 6.9/10 based on 115 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".