The WORST episodes of The Equalizer

#1 - Always a Lady

Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/4/1988

McCall's former protege at the Agency calls in a panic when she is apparently framed for the theft of a large amount of money from her gangster employer, but he arrives too late to save her life.

#2 - Video Games

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/27/1988

A reporter's wife asks McCall to find her husband, who has disappeared while working undercover on a call-girl operation involving blackmail and the death of his daughter.

#3 - 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.

#4 - Regrets Only

Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/30/1988

A young woman trying to start her life over faces continuing harassment from her upscale, professional husband who won't let her go but who is smart enough to conceal his activities.

#5 - Prisoners of Conscience

Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/27/1989

McCall's search for a kidnapped Chilean poet gets very intense when he learns the kidnapper killed his father many years ago.

#6 - Starfire

Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/13/1989

McCall tries to help a girl and her friend, a confused man who claims to an extraterrestrial being hunted by killers.

#7 - Making of a Martyr

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/11/1989

A gun control advocate whose husband was crippled by a stray bullet seeks McCall's help when she receives threatening phone calls.

#8 - The Defector

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1985

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

#9 - The Visitation

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/1/1989

McCall's reunion with a former lover is interrupted when her medical skills are needed to deal with a deadly virus being carried by a pair of thugs responsible for killing an international arms dealer.

#10 - Trial by Ordeal

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/1/1989

McCall becomes the defense counsel when a Company tribunal on charges of treason tries Control.

#11 - 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.

#12 - Splinters

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/14/1988

Mickey Kostmayer is captured when a Company operation fails, and he's turned against McCall using drugs and torture.

#13 - 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.

#14 - Silent Fury

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/8/1989

McCall tries to help a young woman who is one of the victims of a series of robberies directed against the deaf community.

#15 - Target of Choice

Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/6/1988

A man fears for his life and that of his family when the murderer he helped put away is paroled and turns up living in his neighborhood.

#16 - 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.

#17 - 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.

#18 - Eighteen with a Bullet

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/16/1988

McCall and Mickey try to help a young rock singer escape from her greedy, immoral manager.

#19 - The Child Broker

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/20/1988

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

#20 - Riding the Elephant

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/9/1988

McCall helps a Thai boxer and his girl friend extricate themselves from the clutches of a racketeer with old connections to McCall's former employers.

#21 - 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.

#22 - 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.

#23 - 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.

#24 - The Mystery of Manon (2)

Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/24/1988

#25 - Out of the Past

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/15/1986

An ex-con is harassing the man whose testimony put him away-the man now married to McCall's former wife.