The WORST episodes of Midnight Caller
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Follows Jack Killian, a San Francisco cop who accidentally killed his partner. After leaving the police force, he ended up the host of a late-night radio talk show--with a penchant for getting involved with the problems of his listeners.
#1 - Mercy Me
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/1989
In an effort to help his friend whose son is being kept alive by life support, Jack showcases the issue of euthanasia on his show.
#2 - Watching Me, Watching You
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/31/1989
Devon is stalked by a man who targets her during a traffic jam. She and Jack are forced into a situation that causes them to contemplate moving their relationship from platonic to something more.
#3 - Someone to Love
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/1989
Jack receives a call from a hospice. Tina Cassidy's battle with AIDS is near the end. As Jack goes to her, he reflects on their time together.
#4 - End of Innocence
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/28/1989
A woman chooses imprisonment versus revealing the location of her daughter to her ex-husband. The young child is supposedly a victim of sexual abuse while her legal eagle parents sort through their own personality flaws. Jack becomes a link in the chain of lies and law-bending for the sake of the child.
#5 - Blood Red
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/5/1989
Deacon's girlfriend, Susan, seeks Jack's assistance in dealing with her gambling debts. As Jack investigates outside of the official channels, he uncovers an art forgery ring that has Susan in the middle of it.
#6 - Do You Believe in Miracles?
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/19/1989
A blessed statue of the baby Jesus is stolen from St. Michael's Cathedral. Jack uses his show to find out clues to its whereabouts and to prevent the mob family who donated the statue from exacting their own form of penance on the perpetrator.
#7 - Planes
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/30/1990
An abandoned young boy seeks refuge within a modern day band of street thieves with similarities to the Charles Dickens classic, Oliver Twist.
#8 - Kid Salinas
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/6/1990
The exploitation of illegal immigrants in the work force and the sporting world is the premise for this episode. Jack introduces Devon to the world of boxing. Unfortunately, this leads to the more unpleasant side of things...
#9 - A Snitch in Time (2)
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/27/1990
Things are looking tense for Jack, when he and Deacon sit down to figure out the tangled web of lies and deceit to which he has fallen victim.
#10 - Wrong Side of the Wall
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/27/1990
A long time prisoner of the correctional system is paroled, and he finds the real world too difficult to manage. Jack tries to dissuade him from breaking his parole just to get back into the system he knows so well.
#11 - Three for the Money
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/3/1990
We don't see much of Jack in the episode, as his brother and his father hook up for the first time in years to help a damsel in distress retrieve a valuable artifact. (This was the premise for a spinoff show that didn't make it off the ground.)
#12 - Protection
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/1/1990
One of Jack's informants from his police force days seeks his assistance when his witness protection status is jeopardized. Jack is drawn into a government conspiracy that reaches to high office and global proportion.
#13 - The Class of 1980
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1990
A very pregnant Devon hosts a fundraiser with Jack as the object of the bachelor auction. Her college classmates attend; however, one by one, they fall victim to a murderer. Jack, Zymak and Deacon all work the angles of this case, with the evidence pointing firmly at Jack's new girlfriend.
#14 - The Language Barrier
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/1990
Our man Billy Po is featured in this episode of racial tensions that are spawned in Little Italy. Billy is attacked after a date with his girlfriend, which leads Jack into an investigation of the death of a young Chinese immigrant.
#15 - Old Friends
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/1990
The sudden death of Jack's surrogate father leads Jack and Deacon to investigate the policies of the nursing home in which he was residing. It turns out that once people move in, their stay is usually quite short.
#16 - Ain't Too Proud to Beg (1)
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1990
Jack is offered a new job, which he considers as Devon prepares to sell KJCM and move to Tahiti with the father of her child. We are introduced to Nikki Malloy in this episode and the prospective new owners of KJCM. Jack and Devon deal with their imminent separation by arguing with each other every chance they can get.
#17 - Sale Away (2)
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1990
Devon struggles with the sale of KJCM, wanting to ensure that her employees are well taken care of. She and Jack continue to lock horns, until push comes to shove in the delivery room! Jack has to decide whether to stay on at KJCM or move on to greener pastures.
#18 - Life Without Possibility (2)
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1990
The convicts demand Jack broadcast their side of the story via KJCM, Deacon gets an interview with the prisoner on the outside, and Jack meets up with the prisoner with a bone to pick.
#19 - Ryder on the Storm
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1990
Jack tries to help out his radio hero from his youth by trying to convince Nikki to give him a job. Jack seems blind to the man's obvious faults and self-destructive actions.
#20 - With Malice Towards One
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/14/1990
Jack tells Nikki about a situation he and Devon were trapped in a year ago, in which a vengeful ex-con and his gang kidnapped Devon in order to lure Jack to a payback situation.
#21 - That's Amore
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/4/1991
Jack's associate in the underworld seeks his assistance in locating his restaurant's kidnapped chef. The story turns out to be of a personal nature between the kidnapper and his hostage.
#22 - Her Dirty Little Secret
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/25/1991
Jack recognizes a woman who has been missing for years and in his pursuit of her he uncovers that she intentionally disappeared to avoid beatings from cop husband.
#23 - Play Blotto... and Die
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/8/1991
A former snitch seeks Jack's help in collecting his lotto winnings. He's in the witness protection program, and he's not a very popular citizen in San Francisco! When Jack isn't successful, the would-be millionaire approaches various familiar faces to attempt to retrieve the prize.
#24 - Can't Say N-N-No
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/15/1991
Jack and Nikki's tenuous friendship is tested when he questions her involvement with an ex-boyfriend, who has a substance abuse problem.
#25 - Blood Ties
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/1/1991
Jack struggles with his opinion of deadbeat dads and with giving his ""Little Brother"" a positive start with his father who is making an effort to reform himself.