The Equalizer (1985 - 1989)

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.

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

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

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

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

McCall helps a former showgirl convinced someone is stalking her and a boy whose father helped steal antiques now wanted by two separate parties.

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

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

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

Muggers seek revenge on a student who injured one of them while escaping, and a vigilante killer pins McCall's ad to his victims.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.