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"The Equalizer"
gs:
Patricia Kalember [ Unknown ], Steven Williams [ Lt. Jefferson Burnett ], Scott Burkholder [ Unknown ]
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.
b: 18 Sep 85 pc: _________ w: Michael Sloan d: Rod Holcomb
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"China Rain"
gs:
Steven Williams [ Lt. Jefferson Burnett ], Lauren Tom [ Unknown ], Roger Chang [ Unknown ], Pippa Pearthree [ Unknown ]
Kidnappers grab a housekeeper's son by mistake.
b: 25 Sep 85 pc: _________ w: Joel Surnow and Maurice Hurley and Victor Hsu d: Richard Compton
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"The Defector"
gs:
Joe Silver [ Felix ], Melissa Leo [ Irina ], Robert Joy [ Jacob Stock ], J.D. Roth [ Larry Kelly ], Tom Brennan [ Vince Kelly ], Jorge Noa [ Indio ]
McCall helps a double agent defect and a young boy stand up to bullies.
b: 2 Oct 85 pc: _________ w: Heywood Gould d: Rod Holcomb
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"The Lock Box"
gs:
Maureen Amderman [ Maureen Griffith ], J.T. Walsh [ Sam Griffith ], Sara Botsford [ Edie Griffith ], Adam Ant [ Francis De Graumont ], David Alan Grier [ Desk Sergeant ], Cliff Collings [ CIA Escort ], Lori Petty [ Hooker (Brandi) ], Luis Guzman [ Gypsy Cabbie ], Bob Maroff [ Union Cabbie ], Richard Portnow [ Police Lieutenant ], Paige Lyn Price [ Anjelica ], Jaime Tirelli [ Ramon Scarvosa ]
McCall helps a man whose daughter has been abducted by a pimp who services covert government operations.
b: 9 Oct 85 pc: _________ w: Frank Military and Joel Surnow and Maurice Hurley d: Russ Mayberry
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"Lady Cop"
gs:
Steven Williams [ Lt. Jefferson Burnett ], Karen Young [ Officer Sandra Stahl ], Will Patton [ Officer Nick Braxton ], Esai Morales [ Officer Miguel Canterra ], Bruce MacVittie [ Officer Frank Sergei ], Michael Higgins [ Marvin Stahl ], Miguel Pinero [ Apartment Super ], Marylin Rockafellow [ Divorcee ], Raynor Scheine [ Bum ], Maurice Shrog [ Pawnbroker ]
A crooked cop is willing to murder to ensure that his new partner won't blow the whistle on his operations.
b: 16 Oct 85 pc: _________ w: Joel Surnow and Maurice Hurley d: Russ Mayberry
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"The Confirmation Day"
gs:
Burt Young [ Louie ], Ilan Mitchell-Smith [ Anthony ], Anne Jackson [ Henrietta Fields ], John Capodice [ Father Antonelli ], Lois Smith [ Marie ], Joseph Wiseman [ Eddie Vanessi ], Tom Signorelli [ Frankie Corso ], Dick Boccelli [ Salzo ], Kent Broadhurst [ Noble ], Frank Gio [ Big Ray ], Jerry Mayer [ The Choirmaster ]
McCall helps a former showgirl convinced someone is stalking her and a boy whose father helped steal antiques now wanted by two separate parties.
b: 23 Oct 85 pc: _________ w: Edward Adler and Heywood Gould d: Richard Colla
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"The Children's Song"
gs:
Dana Barron [ Melinda ], Perry Lang [ Bobby ], Bradley Whiford [ Dillart ], William Youmans [ Ray ], Tom Isbell [ Unknown ], Edward O'Neill [ Doctor ], Angela Pietropinto [ Waitress ], Ken Jenkins [ Sheriff ]
rc:
Scott
Father and son protect a girl from would-be rapists intent on killing the only witness to a murder.
b: 30 Oct 85 pc: 61203 w: Howard Chesley and Joel Surnow and Maurice Hurley s: Howard Chesley d: Richard Compton
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"The Distant Fire"
gs:
Alberta Watson [ Carla Holden ], John DeVries [ Unknown ], George Morfogen [ Vezay Holden ], Saul Rubinek [ Jason Mazer ], Bill Cobbs [ Harry, the Bartender ]
A hit man wants help to prevent another killer from murdering a woman both McCall and the hitman once loved.
b: 6 Nov 85 pc: _________ w: Robert Sabaroff and Joel Surnow and Maurice Hurley d: Alan Metzger
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"Mama's Boy"
gs:
Mark Soper [ Unknown ], Jim Dale [ Unknown ], Adam Horowitz [ Unknown ], Christine Baranski [ Victoria Baines ], Billy Wirth [ Drug Dealer ]
A career woman wants McCall's aid in ending her son's fascination with a charismatic drug dealer.
b: 13 Nov 85 pc: _________ w: Heywood Gould d: James Sheldon
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"Bump and Run"
gs:
Laura Ashton [ Sydney Blake ], Brian Bedford [ Sgt. Oliver Gant ], Charles Dutton [ Abmennet ], Nathan George [ Tesser ], Mark Linn-Baker [ Ronnie ], Meat Loaf [ Sugar Fly Simon ]
Muggers seek revenge on a student who injured one of them while escaping, and a vigilante killer pins McCall's ad to his victims.
b: 20 Nov 85 pc: _________ w: Joel Surnow and Maurice Hurley d: Richard Compton
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"Desperately"
gs:
Blanche Baker [ Allison Webster ], Ray Sharkey [ Geoffery Dryden ], Tovah Feldshuh [ Samantha Page ], Luke Reilly [ Ross Webster ], Jack Gilpin [ Harvey ], Roma Maffia [ Sindee ], Richard Portnow [ Police Lieutenant ]
A lonely housewife gets more than she wanted when she considers a fling and ends up witnessing a murder.
b: 4 Dec 85 pc: _________ w: Charles Grant Craig d: Donald Petrie
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"Reign of Terror"
gs:
Lonette McKee [ Dr. Elly Watson ], Joe Maruzzo [ Head ], Fred Williamson [ Lt. Mason Warren ], Lester Rawlins [ Doctor Timms ], Tomas Milian [ Immanuel Pena ], Pedro Sanchez [ Unknown ], Paul Calderon [ Unknown ], Rosemary DeAngelis [ Unknown ], Stephen Chen [ Unknown ], Begona Plaza [ Unknown ]
The new doctor at a local clinic refuses to give gang members drugs as `rent' for using their turf.
b: 11 Dec 85 pc: _________ w: Steve Bello and Coleman Luck d: Richard Compton
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"Back Home"
gs:
Marisa Berenson [ Andrea Browne ], Frank Converse [ Guthrie Browne ], Jordan Marder [ Eric Browne ], Robert X. Modica [ Dawson ], Jean DeBaer [ Eileen Arden ], Allen Swift [ Unknown ], Jude Ciccolella [ Joe ], Helen Hanft [ Mrs. Washburn ], Richard Russell Ramos [ Mr. Washburn ], Robert Blumenfeld [ Wilhite ], Paul Herman [ Ben ], Richmond Hoxie [ First Aide ], Robert Dorfman [ Second Aide ], Margaret Thompson [ Bank Teller ], Jennifer Karr [ Angie ], Frank Adonis [ Limo Driver ], Charles Hallahan [ George Cook ], Fred Williamson [ Lt. Mason Warren ]
A banker is harassing tenants of a potentially valuable property and planning to murder his wife.
b: 18 Dec 85 pc: _________ w: Joel Surnow and Maurice Hurley d: Alan Metzger
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"Out of the Past"
gs:
Sandy Dennis [ Kay (McCall's ex-wife) ], Barry Primus [ Walt ], Stephen McHattie [ Eddie Washburn ], Brad Dourif [ Fenn ], James Gammon [ Cub ], Leonie Norten [ Gretchen ], Gloria I. Miguel [ Bag Lady ]
An ex-con is harassing the man whose testimony put him away-the man now married to McCall's former wife.
b: 15 Jan 86 pc: _________ w: Cyrus Nowrasteh d: Richard Compton
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"Dead Drop"
gs:
Robin Curtis [ Ginger Brock ], James Murtaugh [ Barry Konig ], Richard Portnow [ Police Lieutenant ], Reginald VelJohnson [ Harmon Hunter ], David Leisure [ Man in Restaurant ], David Leary [ Lawseth ], Roma Maffia [ Sindee ], Saul Rubinek [ Jason Mazer ]
McCall assembles some old friends to protect a man marked for murder for no apparent reason.
b: 22 Jan 86 pc: _________ w: Joel Surnow and Maurice Hurley d: Donald Petrie
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"Wash Up"
gs:
Bill Cwikowski [ Unknown ], Brian Tarantina [ Unknown ], Robert Davi [ Unknown ], Ron O'Neal [ Unknown ]
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.
b: 29 Jan 86 pc: _________ w: Mark Frost d: Richard Compton
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"Torn"
gs:
Caitlin Clarke [ Jessie Moore ], Robert Burke [ Unknown ], Melissa (Joan) Hart [ Laura Moore ], Patricia Richardson [ Saleswoman ], Zohra Lampert [ Veronica Whitney ], Saul Rubinek [ Jason Mazer ]
McCall tries to divide his time between defending a woman from her abusive husband and settling with an old enemy.
b: 5 Feb 86 pc: _________ w: Carlton Eastlake d: Russ Mayberry
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"Unnatural Causes"
gs:
Gwen Verdon [ Kelly Sterling ], Kim Delaney [ Sally Ann Carter ], Bobby Di Cicco [ Anza Serrato ], Kevin Geer [ Unknown ]
McCall's on the trail of a serial killer, leaving him little time for an actress fallen into the wrong crowd.
b: 12 Feb 86 pc: _________ w: Susan Woollen and Coleman Luck and Scott Shepherd d: Alan Metzger
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"Breakpoint"
gs:
Patricia Clarkson [ Deborah Wade ], Tony Shalhoub [ DuBois, the Terrorist ], Phyllis Newman [ Gwen Hunter ], Richard Hamilton [ Otis Hendricks ], Aharon Ipale [ Gustav Herant ], Earl Hindman [ Lieutenant Elmer ], Sam Schacht [ Unknown ], Ron Frazier [ Unknown ], Ned Eisenberg [ Unknown ], Tony Spiridakis [ Unknown ]
McCall is among those taken hostage by terrorists seeking a Middle Eastern philanthropist.
b: 19 Feb 86 pc: _________ w: Scott Shepherd and Don Carlos Dunaway d: Russ Mayberry
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"No Conscience"
gs:
Linda Thorson [ Unknown ], Laurie Metcalf [ Unknown ], D.W. Moffett [ Unknown ], Kelly Curtis [ Unknown ]
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.
b: 5 Mar 86 pc: _________ w: Mark Frost d: Richard Compton
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"Unpunished Crimes"
gs:
Dan Hedaya [ Frank Donahue ], John Cullum [ Stuart Cane ], Regina Baff [ Unknown ], Cameron Johann [ Unknown ]
McCall is hired by an inventor whose designs were stolen by a huge corporation headed by a ruthless executive.
b: 1 Apr 86 pc: _________ w: John Burke and Grenville Case d: Alan Metzger
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"Pretenders"
gs:
Ron O'Neal [ Unknown ], Tony Musante [ John Parker ], Kathleen Lloyd [ Unknown ], Tom Atkins [ Unknown ]
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.
b: 8 Apr 86 pc: _________ w: Scott Shepherd d: Richard Compton
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"Prelude"
gs:
Martin Shakar [ Frank Morrow ], Lori Loughlin [ Jenny Morrow ], Tim deZarn [ Unknown ], Robert Joy [ Jacob Stock ], Jaime Sanchez [ Unknown ]
Men working for a dictator McCall helped put into power kidnap an American journalist.
b: 8 Oct 86 pc: _________ w: Carlton Eastlake d: Richard Compton
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"Nocturne"
gs:
Jessica Harper [ Unknown ], Michael Parks [ Unknown ], Ron Frazier [ Unknown ], Brad Sullivan [ Unknown ]
A blind music critic asks for help when she hears the voice of the man who raped her years before.
b: 15 Oct 86 pc: _________ w: Carlton Eastlake d: Richard Compton
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"A Community of Civilized Men"
gs:
Tammy Grimes [ Julia Jacobs ], Jennifer Grey [ Valerie Jacobs ], Lewis Van Beren [ Zahn ], Lewis J. Stadlen [ Unknown ]
McCall comes to the aid of a woman who's being squeezed to pay off her late husband's debts.
b: 22 Oct 86 pc: _________ w: Darrell Pyne & Scott Shepherd d: Alan Metzger
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"Joyride"
gs:
Christian Slater [ Michael Wislow ], M.A. Nickles [ Unknown ], Kristen Vigard [ Rachel ], Cleavant Derricks [ Sonny Raines ]
Two boys drive off in a hearse; not knowing it contains a coffin full of crack.
b: 29 Oct 86 pc: _________ w: Jim Trombetta and Charles Grant Craig d: Russ Mayberry
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"Shades of Darkness"
gs:
Olympia Dukakis played [ Judge Paula G. Walsh ], Lenny von Dohlen [ Dan Turner ], Caroline Kava [ ?? Polinski ], Bill Sadler [ Rick Dillon, a.k.a., Kevin Moore ], Edward Binns [ Father Martin O'Donohugh ], Emily Heebner [ Lorraine Turner ], J.J. Johnston [ Mr. Polinski ]
McCall helps a National Guardsman who faces a murder charge and threats from the real killer.
b: 5 Nov 86 pc: _________ w: Jack V. Fogarty d: Donald Petrie
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"Nightscape"
gs:
Frances Fisher [ Unknown ], Thomas G. Waites [ Unknown ], Madeline Potter [ Unknown ], Matthew Cowles [ Unknown ]
A rape victim asks McCall to stop her husband from tracking down her attackers.
b: 12 Nov 86 pc: _________ w: Carlton Eastlake d: Aaron Lipstadt
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"Counterfire"
gs:
William Hickey [ Tom Clark ], Lisa Pelikan [ Anne Fitzgerald, a.k.a., Diane Snyder ], Vincent Phillip D'Onofrio [ Thomas Marley ], Jihmi Kennedy [ Clarence Marshall ], Leonardo Cimino [ Unknown ], Charles Cioffi [ Lieutenant Kramer ], Mickey Friedman [ Comedian ]
The odds are against McCall when he's framed for the murder of a blind man.
b: 19 Nov 86 pc: _________ w: Scott Shepherd and Coleman Luck d: Alan Metzger
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"The Line"
gs:
Novella Nelson [ Unknown ], Todd Rolle [ Unknown ], David Leary [ Unknown ], Norman Parker [ Unknown ], James Andronica [ Unknown ]
The mother of a youth killed while being harassed by an overzealous citizen's patrol appeals to McCall for help.
b: 26 Nov 86 pc: _________ w: Steve Volpe d: Russ Mayberry
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"Tip On a Sure Thing"
gs:
Roberts Blossom [ Oscar Peabody ], Paul Gleason [ Greenleaf ], Ted Ross [ Pike ], Daniel Faraldo [ Luis Rivera ], Carlos Ocasio [ Roberto Rivera ], Denise Dummont [ Maria Rivera ], Robert O'Reilly [ Unknown ], Cleavant Derricks [ Sonny Raines ], Warner Wolf [ Himself ], Jack Gilpin [ Harvey ]
A bookie that doesn't like the odds on a race kidnaps the son of the jockey and demands the father throw the race.
b: 3 Dec 86 pc: _________ w: Scott Shepherd d: Donald Petrie
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"The Cup"
gs:
Dennis Christopher [ Father Nicholas Kostmayer ], Earl Hindman [ Lieutenant Elmer ], Caris Corfman [ Monica ], Jaroslav Stremien [ Stanislaw ], Colin R. Fox [ Unknown ]
Father Kostmayer hears the confession of a Polish agitator moments before he's gunned down.
b: 10 Dec 86 pc: _________ w: David Jackson & Carlton Eastlake s: Andrew Sipes & Carlton Eastlake d: Mario DiLeo
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"Heartstrings"
gs:
Michelle Dotrice [ Unknown ], Michael Margotta [ Unknown ], Jana Schneider [ Unknown ], Aharon Ipale [ Hector Kouroz ]
A woman asks McCall for help recovering her kidnapped newborn son.
b: 17 Dec 86 pc: _________ w: Loraine Depres d: Russ Mayberry
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"High Performance"
gs:
Patricia Charbonneau [ Sally Stevens ], James Remar [ Tremayne ], Michael Wincott [ Jordan ], Doris Belack [ Dorian ], Charles Cioffi [ Lieutenant Kramer ]
A construction worker becomes both witness and target when she sees a murder and is spotted by the killer.
b: 7 Jan 87 pc: _________ w: Jack V. Fogarty d: Russ Mayberry
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"Beyond Control"
gs:
Liane Curtis [ Unknown ], Brian Bedford [ Unknown ], Philip Kraus [ Unknown ]
Control becomes McCall's client when a KGB agent who infiltrated a think tank is murdered.
b: 14 Jan 87 pc: _________ w: Coleman Luck d: Alan Metzger
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"Carnal Persuasion"
gs:
Maria Holvoe [ Lisa Hughes ], John Cullum [ Dishonorable Judge Howard Tainey ], John Laughlin [ Jake Hughes ], Cynthia Harris [ Judge Paula G. Walsh ], Ray Serra [ Antonio ]
A wife appeals to the judge sentencing her husband and is offered her husband's freedom for sexual favors.
b: 21 Jan 87 pc: _________ w: Dennis Manuel d: Leon Ichaso
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"Memories of Manon (1)"
gs:
Melissa Sue Anderson [ Yvette Marcel ], Jon Polito [ Carmack ], David Shuman [ Unknown ], George DiCenzo [ Dorgan ], Maurice Hines [ Bump ], Anthony Zerbe [ Phillip Marcel ], John Corey [ Blanchard ], Joseph Malanga [ Unknown ], Kate Denzia [ Unknown ]
Control's goddaughter is threatened with the death of her father, a Canadian agent, unless she can reveal his informant.
Then with little time left, McCall tells Kostmayer of his personal reasons for wanting to save Yvette and her father.
b: 4 Feb 87 pc: _________ w: Coleman Luck d: Tony Wharmby
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"Memories of Manon (2)"
gs:
Melissa Sue Anderson [ Yvette Marcel ], Jon Polito [ Carmack ], David Shuman [ Unknown ], George DiCenzo [ Dorgan ], Maurice Hines [ Bump ], Anthony Zerbe [ Phillip Marcel ], John Corey [ Blanchard ], Joseph Malanga [ Unknown ], Kate Denzia [ Unknown ]
Control's goddaughter is threatened with the death of her father, a Canadian agent, unless she can reveal his informant.
Then with little time left, McCall tells Kostmayer of his personal reasons for wanting to save Yvette and her father.
b: 11 Feb 87 pc: _________ w: Coleman Luck d: Tony Wharmby
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"Solo"
gs:
Lindsay Crouse [ Unknown ], Kenneth Ryan [ Unknown ], Tom Quinn [ Unknown ], Kevin Spacey [ Unknown ]
McCall gets involved romantically and professionally with a woman wanted in Pennsylvania for killing a cop.
b: 18 Feb 87 pc: _________ w: Carlton Eastlake d: Alan Metzger
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"A Place To Stay"
gs:
Alyson Kirk [ Lynn Rowan ], Ed Lauter [ Walter Rowan ], Ann McDonough [ Melanie Rowan ], Margaret Welsh [ Unknown ], Bethel Leslie [ Unknown ], Trey Wilson [ Peter Marstand ], Chad Redding [ Sergeant Alice Sheppard ], Kario Salem [ Unknown ]
A young girl runs away from her quarreling parents and into the hands of a child pornographer.
b: 25 Feb 87 pc: _________ w: Marc Rubin and Carlton Eastlake & Coleman Luck s: Marc Rubin d: Alan Metzger
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"Coal Black Soul"
gs:
Patricia Kalember [ Dr. Stephanie Davis ], Earl Hindman [ Lieutenant Elmer ], Gale Garnett [ Unknown ], Chris Elliott [ Rags Maloney ], Lois Smith [ Dorothy Hermes ], Jihmi Kennedy [ Clarence Marshall ], Mitchell Lichtenstein [ Alex Hayes ]
McCall is torn between a lovely psychiatrist and a man who calls and says he can't stop himself from murdering women.
b: 6 May 87 pc: _________ w: Scott Shepherd d: Richard Compton
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"First Light"
gs:
Mike Nussbaum [ Harry Dawson ], Robert X. Modica [ Terrance Booth ], Lori Loughlin [ Jenny Morrow ], Quentin Crisp [ Ernie Frick ], Kaiulani Lee [ Lorraine Watson ]
While McCall is testifying in Washington, Scott tries his hand and looks for thugs harassing a local merchant.
b: 13 May 87 pc: _________ w: Jack V. Fogarty d: Richard Compton
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"Hand and Glove"
gs:
Barbara Garrick [ Deborah Whitten ],William H. Macy [ Dr. Spalding ], Charles Keating [ Kenneth Whitten ], Mark Soper [ Ken Whitten Jr. ], Nancy Fish [ Rachel ], Leah Ivey [ Shirley Gossett ]
Nightmares become a reality for an invalid woman when a threatening figures from her dreams appears in her room.
b: 20 May 87 pc: _________ w: Coleman Luck d: Alan Metzger
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"Re-Entry"
gs:
John Goodman [ Harold Winter ], Joe Morton [ Slate ], Cameron Johann [ Unknown ], David Johansen [ Garnet ], Stewart Copeland [ Pickpocket ], Graham Beckel [ Hershey ], Kitty Crooks [ Joan Hawkins ], Steve Buscemi [ Archie ]
McCall helps a young boy whose father was tricked into committing a crime.
b: 27 May 87 pc: _________ w: Dennis Manuel d: Aaron Lipstadt
NOTE: Stewart Copeland did the music for the series.
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"Blood & Wine (1)"
gs:
Telly Savalas [ Brother Joseph Heiden ], William Atherton [ Martin "Alpha" Loeber ], Linda Harris [ Unknown ], Christopher Murney [ Rudy Bagler ], Tom Atkins [ Detective Frank Standish ], Trish Hawkins [ Mrs. Standish ]
McCall and a former terrorist, now a monk, are both searching for the monk's former partner, a terrorist who uses plastic surgery after each assignment to keep ahead of his enemies.
b: 23 Sep 87 pc: _________ w: Coleman Luck d: Alan Metzger
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"Blood & Wine (2)"
gs:
Telly Savalas [ Brother Joseph Heiden ], William Atherton [ Martin "Alpha" Loeber ], Linda Harris [ Unknown ], Christopher Murney [ Rudy Bagler ], Tom Atkins [ Detective Frank Standish ], Lynne Thigpen [ Cleaning Woman ]
McCall and a former terrorist, now a monk, are both searching for the monk's former partner, a terrorist who uses plastic surgery after each assignment to keep ahead of his enemies.
b: 23 Sep 87 pc: _________ w: Coleman Luck d: Alan Metzger
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"Suspicion of Innocence"
gs:
Vincent Phillip D'Onofrio [ Davy Baylor ], Ann Wedgeworth [ Irene Baylor ], William Converse-Roberts [ Will Rattigan ], Mary Kane [ Cheryl Jensen ], John Randolph [ Jack Rattigan ], Lee Danski [ Keliner Walsh ], Charles Cioffi [ Lieutenant Kramer ]
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.
b: 30 Sep 87 pc: _________ w: Robert Eisele d: Russ Mayberry
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"In the Money"
gs:
John Heard [ Ron Parrish ], Ashley Crow [ Unknown ], Dennis Boutsikaris [ C.R. Heaton ], Patricia Richardson [ Sandy ]
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.
b: 7 Oct 87 pc: _________ w: Ed Waters and Scott Shepherd d: Aaron Lipstadt
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"Encounter in a Closed Room"
gs:
Chad Redding [ Sergeant Alice Sheppard ], Michael Moriarty [ Peter Kapik ], Maureen Mueller [ Unknown ]
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.
b: 14 Oct 87 pc: _________ w: Ann Hamilton and Scott Shepherd d: Jim Johnston
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"Mission: McCall (1)"
gs:
Robert Mitchum [ Richard Dyson ], Frances Fisher [ Francesca ], Richard Jordan [ Harley Gage ], Daniel Chapman [ Borda ], Chad Redding [ Sergeant Alice Sheppard ], George Cambas [ Major Kamarov ], Ludmilla Bokievsky [ Unknown ], William Doyle [ Auctioneer ], Frankie Faison [ Zudo ], Ludmilla Bokievsky [ Dr. Zara Klemik ], Frederick Neumann [ Colonel Vlasov ]
Scott discovers that his father has been kidnapped by someone, and following his father's instructions, contacts an old Company colleague, Richard Dyson, who sets things in motion to find out who has McCall and to get him back.
b: 28 Oct 87 pc: _________ w: Ed Waters and Scott Shepherd d: Alan Metzger
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"Mission: McCall (2)"
gs:
Robert Mitchum [ Richard Dyson ], Frances Fisher [ Francesca ], Richard Jordan [ Harley Gage ], Daniel Chapman [ Borda ], Chad Redding [ Sergeant Alice Sheppard ], George Cambas [ Major Kamarov ], Ludmilla Bokievsky [ Unknown ], Frankie Faison [ Zudo ], Ludmilla Bokievsky [ Dr. Zara Klemik ], Frederick Neumann [ Colonel Vlasov ]
Scott discovers that his father has been kidnapped by someone, and following his father's instructions, contacts an old Company colleague, Richard Dyson, who sets things in motion to find out who has McCall and to get him back.
b: 4 Nov 87 pc: _________ w: Ed Waters and Scott Shepherd d: Alan Metzger
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"Shadow Play"
gs:
J.T. Walsh [ Andrew Banks ], Tomas Milian [ Unknown ], Christopher Murney [ Rudy Bagler ], Paul Calderon [ Unknown ], Richard Jordan [ Harley Gage ]
McCall helps a fellow Intelligence officer stay alive despite someone's efforts to keep him from talking to a Congressional committee.
b: 11 Nov 87 pc: _________ w: Robert Eisele d: Russ Mayberry
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"Inner View"
gs:
Katherine Cortez [ Unknown ], Terrence Mann [ Unknown ], Toni Kalem [ Unknown ], Starletta DuPois [ Unknown ], Richard Jordan [ Harley Gage ]
A psychic can't convince the police that she has `seen' the next attack of a serial killer, so she turns to McCall for help in preventing it.
b: 18 Nov 87 pc: _________ w: Jim Tombetta d: Marc Laub
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"The Rehearsal"
gs:
Chris Cooper [ Unknown ], George Morfogen [ Austin ], Jennifer Van Dyck [ Unknown ], Ned Eisenberg [ Unknown ], Richard Jordan [ Harley Gage ]
McCall and Kostmayer are caught with an acting company rehearsing a new work when a psychopath boobytraps the theater exits with bombs.
b: 2 Dec 87 pc: _________ w: Robert Eisele d: Russ Mayberry
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"Christmas Presence"
gs:
Jacqueline Brookes [ Phyllis Robertson ], Corey Carrier [ Mickey Robertson ], Martin Shakar [ Kelly Stigman ],Don R. McManus [ Doctor Feinberg ], Robert Dorfman [ Bishop ], Ken Solarino [ Jeremy ], Matthew Kimbrough [ Spicer ], Joseph Hindy [ Mickey's Father ], Dean Norris [ Martin ], Donald Berman [ Florist ], Dalton Leong [ Investigator ], Ari Roussimoff [ Deliveryman ], Richard Jordan [ Harley Gage ]
McCall asks Harley to help him handle a request for help from a six-year-old AIDS victim who is living with his grandmother and facing increasingly violent harassment from the frightened and angry neighbors.
b: 16 Dec 87 pc: _________ w: Coleman Luck d: Michael O'Herlihy
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"A Dance on the Dark Side"
gs:
Amanda Plummer [ Jill O'Connor ], David Andrews [ Detective Del Larkin ], William Carden [ Detective Charlie Kelly ], Chad Redding [ Sergeant Alice Sheppard ], George DiCenzo [ Bruno Domonic ], Madeleine Potter [ Simone Peters, a.k.a., Susan Petersborough ], John Seitz [ Captain Maldisi ], Marylin McIntire [ Unknown ], Richard Jordan [ Harley Gage ]
A police station switchboard operator overhears a detective discussing the murder of his former partner and goes to McCall for help when she receives threats to keep her quiet.
b: 13 Jan 88 pc: _________ w: David Lightstone d: Jonathan Perry
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"The Child Broker"
gs:
Christopher Collet [ Unknown ], Thomas G. Waites [ Unknown ], Frances Ruffelle [ Unknown ], Lycia Naff [ Unknown ], Mary-Joan Negro [ Unknown ], Richard Jordan [ Harley Gage ]
A young woman asks McCall to help her boyfriend break away from the control of a junior Fagin.
b: 20 Jan 88 pc: _________ w: Mick Curran d: Mark Sobel
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"Video Games"
gs:
Daniel Davis [ Eddie Mason ], Andreas Katsulas [ Warren Briggs ], Maryann Urbano [ Angela Mason ], Vanessa Angel [ Christine Hayes ], Annabelle Gurwitch [ Suzanne ], John Bedford Lloyd [ D.A. Francis Scanlon ], Richard Jordan [ Harley Gage ]
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.
b: 27 Jan 88 pc: _________ w: Peter McCabe d: James Contner
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"Something Green"
gs:
Lisa Eichhorn [ Unknown ], Jon de Vries [ Unknown ], Ronald Hunter [ Unknown ], Macauley Culkin [ Paul Gephardt ], Debra Stricklin [ Unknown ], Richard Jordan [ Harley Gage ]
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.
b: 10 Feb 88 pc: _________ w: Kevin Droney d: Luis Soto
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"The Mystery of Manon (1)"
gs:
Anthony Zerbe [ Phillip Marcel ], Melissa Sue Anderson [ Yvette Marcel ], Anne Heywood [ Manon Brevard Marcel ], Irving Metzmann [ Sterno ], Mark Margolis [ Jimmy ], Roger Grimsby [ Himself ]
Yvette Marcel asks her godfather Control and McCall for help dealing with her irrational father, who is intent on locating Manon, the mother she believed had been killed years before.
b: 17 Feb 88 pc: _________ w: Coleman Luck d: Bradford May
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"The Mystery of Manon (2)"
gs:
Anthony Zerbe [ Phillip Marcel ], Melissa Sue Anderson [ Yvette Marcel ], Anne Heywood [ Manon Brevard Marcel ], Irving Metzmann [ Sterno ], Mark Margolis [ Jimmy ], Lawrence Dane [ Arthur Trent ]
Yvette Marcel asks her godfather Control and McCall for help dealing with her irrational father, who is intent on locating Manon, the mother she believed had been killed years before.
b: 24 Feb 88 pc: _________ w: Coleman Luck d: Bradford May
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"No Place Like Home"
gs:
Michael Rooker [ Unknown ], Kelly Curtis [ Unknown ], Matthew Stamm [ Unknown ], Michael Lerner [ Unknown ], Leo Burmeister [ Unknown ], Richard Bright [ Unknown ], Ed Lauter [ Unknown ]
McCall comes to the aid of a recently dispossessed man and his family who has been moved in a welfare hotel and is facing pressure from the landlord to take part in his welfare scams.
b: 16 Mar 88 pc: _________ w: Robert Eisele d: Tobe Hooper
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"Last Call"
gs:
Kathleen Doyle [ Unknown ], David Schramm [ Unknown ], Colleen Ann Fitzpatrick [ Unknown ], Ron Lee Savin [ Unknown ], Peter Sellars [ Unknown ], Charles Keating [ Unknown ]
A rapist being hunted by a mob assassin takes hostage Kostmayer, Pete and several customers.
b: 23 Mar 88 pc: _________ w: Robert Crais d: Michael O'Herlihy
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"Regrets Only"
gs:
J. Cameron-Smith [ Unknown ], Jean DeBaer [ Unknown ], Philip Kraus [ Unknown ], Tony Long [ Unknown ], Polly Holliday [ Unknown ], Mark Folger [ Unknown ], Kristin McCracken [ Unknown ]
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.
b: 30 Mar 88 pc: _________ w: Robert Crais d: James A. Contner
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"Target of Choice"
gs:
Michael Parks [ Unknown ], Verna Bloom [ Unknown ], Kevin Geer [ Unknown ], John Bedford Lloyd [ D.A. Francis Scanlon ], Lenny Venito [ Unknown ]
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.
b: 6 Apr 88 pc: _________ w: Kevin Droney d: Mark Sobel
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"Always a Lady"
gs:
Anne Twomey [ Unknown ], Joseph Mascolo [ Unknown ], Lewis Van Bergen [ Unknown ], Chad Redding [ Sergeant Alice Sheppard ], Ron Frazier [ Unknown ], Barry Snider [ Unknown ]
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.
b: 4 May 88 pc: _________ w: Peter McCabe d: Marc Laub
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"The Last Campaign"
gs:
Stanley Tucci [ Assemblyman Phillip Wingate ], E.G. Marshall [ Senator Virgil Thomas Blake ], Laila Robins [ Cindy Claussen ], Irving Metzman [ Sterno ], Jay Patterson [ J. Trescott ], Isabell Monk [ Nurse Dubow ], Gale Mayron [ Unknown ], Wendell Pierce [ Unknown ], John Hickey [ Unknown ], Larry Keith [ Unknown ], Yvonne Bryceland [ Unknown ]
The aide to an ambitious candidate for state senator discovers that her boss is blackmailing the incumbent into endorsing his candidacy.
b: 26 Oct 88 pc: _________ w: Lee Batchler & Janet Scott Batchler d: Richard Compton
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"Sea of Fire"
gs:
Seret Scott [ Unknown ], Tito Nunez [ Unknown ], Keith David [ Unknown ], David Strathairn [ Unknown ], Lucy Vargas [ Unknown ]
A desperate high school principal calls on McCall for help in combating the gang responsible for the rape of a girl in the school gymnasium.
b: 2 Nov 88 pc: _________ w: Peter McCabe & Coleman Luck d: Alan Metzger
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"Riding the Elephant"
gs:
James Hong [ Unknown ], Russell Wong [ Unknown ], Elizabeth Sung [ Unknown ], Michael G. Chin [ Unknown ], Mako [ Unknown ], Everett Mendes III [ Flack ]
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.
b: 9 Nov 88 pc: _________ w: M.K. Lorens d: Donald Petrie
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"Eighteen With a Bullet"
gs:
Colleen Ann Fitzpatrick [ Unknown ], Bruce Payne [ Unknown ], Amy Morton [ Unknown ], Terrence Mann [ Unknown ], Caroline Langerfelt [ Unknown ], Ken Ober [ Unknown ]
McCall and Mickey try to help a young rock singer escape from her greedy, immoral manager.
b: 16 Nov 88 pc: _________ w: Bruce Taylor and Wayne Powers & Donna Dottley Powers d: Richard Compton
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"The Day of the Covenant"
gs:
Kasi Lemmons [ Unknown ], David Leary [ Unknown ], Theodore Bikel [ Unknown ], Jihmi Kennedy [ Ulysses ], Michael Genet [ Unknown ]
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.
b: 7 Dec 88 pc: _________ w: Robert Eisele d: James Contner
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"Splinters"
gs:
Kevin Conway [ Unknown ], Tom Klunis [ Unknown ]
Mickey Kostmayer is captured when a Company operation fails, and he's turned against McCall using drugs and torture.
b: 14 Dec 88 pc: _________ w: Coleman Luck d: Paul Krasny
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"The Making of a Martyr"
gs:
Barbara Williams [ Unknown ], Chad Redding [ Sergeant Alice Sheppard ], Tom Noonan [ Unknown ], William Converse-Roberts [ Unknown ], Stephen James [ Unknown ], Sally Jessy Raphael [ Herself ]
A gun control advocate whose husband was crippled by a stray bullet seeks McCall's help when she receives threatening phone calls.
b: 11 Jan 89 pc: _________ w: Wayne & Donna Dottley Powers d: Bradford May
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"The Sins of the Father"
gs:
Al Shannon [ Unknown ], J. Smith-Cameron [ Unknown ], Randy Danson [ Unknown ], Tom Signorelli [ Unknown ], Yvonne Wilder [ Lettie ], Austin Pendleton [ Unknown ]
McCall reluctantly agrees to help the wife of a mobster find her kidnapped son, who's a pawn in a game of revenge against his father.
b: 18 Jan 89 pc: _________ w: Tom Towler d: Paul Krasny
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"The Visitation"
gs:
Jenny Agutter [ Unknown ], James Tolkan [ Unknown ], Leonard Cimino [ Unknown ], Martin Shakar [ Unknown ]
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.
b: 1 Feb 89 pc: _________ w: Robert Eisele d: Bradford May
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"Past Imperfect"
gs:
Jose Edwin Soto [ Unknown ], Hector Elizondo [ Unknown ], Katherine Cortez [ Unknown ], Eddie Jones [ Unknown ], Brad Sullivan [ Unknown ], Rudolph Willrich [ Unknown ], Kenneth J. MacGregor [ Unknown ], Anthony Powers [ Unknown ]
An international crime cartel tries to use a man's estranged son against him when the man refuses to honor their wishes.
b: 15 Feb 89 pc: _________ w: Morgan Hickman d: Russ Mayberry
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"Trial By Ordeal"
gs:
Roy Dotrice [ Unknown ], Sylvia Sydney [ Unknown ]
McCall becomes the defense counsel when a Company tribunal on charges of treason tries Control.
b: 1 Mar 89 pc: _________ w: Coleman Luck d: Marc Laub
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"Silent Fury"
gs:
Howie Seago [ Ron ], Cynthia Nixon [ Jackie ], Jon Polito [ Unknown ], Paul McCrane [ Unknown ], Eddie Jones [ Unknown ], Mark Boone Junior [ Unknown ]
McCall tries to help a young woman who is one of the victims of a series of robberies directed against the deaf community.
b: 8 Mar 89 pc: _________ w: Wayne Powers & Donna Dottley Powers d: Russ Mayberry
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"Lullaby of Darkness"
gs:
Vivian Nathan [ Unknown ], Ellen Hamilton Latzen [ Unknown ], Mary-Joan Negro [ Unknown ], Stephen Lang [ Unknown ], Jacqueline Brookes [ Unknown ], Robert X. Modica [ Voice of the Sorcerer ]
McCall tries to help a woman and her daughter escape from her abusive husband.
b: 30 Mar 89 pc: _________ w: Coleman Luck d: David Jackson
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"17 Zebra"
gs:
William Atherton [ Unknown ], Cordelia Gonzalez [ Unknown ], Joe Seneca [ Unknown ], Robert Joy [ Jacob Stock ]
McCall investigates when a mission worker tells him about several winos who have died from heart attacks enroute to the hospital in paramedic ambulances.
b: 6 Apr 89 pc: _________ w: Jacqueline Zambrano d: Alan Metzger
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"Starfire"
gs:
Michael Moriarty [ Wayne 'SETI' Virgil ], Angela Goethals [ Amber Sweeny ], George Plimpton [ Dr. Clinton Brandauer ], Deborah Hedwall [ Claire Sweeny ], Wendell Pierce [ Unknown ], Bryan Michael [ Unknown ], Alan Brooks [ Unknown ]
McCall tries to help a girl and her friend, a confused man who claims to an extraterrestrial being hunted by killers.
b: 13 Apr 89 pc: _________ w: Robert Eisele d: Bradford May
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"Time Present, Time Past"
gs:
Brian Bedford [ Unknown ], Shirley Knight [ Kay, (McCall's ex-wife) ], Dennis Boutsikaris [ Yorgi Kostov ], Joe Morton [ Carter Brock ], Tom Mardirosian [ Unknown ], George McGrath [ Unknown ]
Scott is kidnapped along with a former Bulgarian agent McCall helped to defect ten years earlier, and later undergoes his baptism into his father's world when he accompanies a team trying to rescue the man.
b: 20 Apr 89 pc: _________ w: Tom Towler d: Gordon Hessler
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"Prisoners of Conscience"
gs:
Tony Plana [ Unknown ], Pat Hingle [ Unknown ], Dan O'Herlihy [ Unknown ], Jaime Tirelli [ Unknown ], Kenneth Solarino [ Unknown ], Tim Woodward [ Unknown ]
McCall's search for a kidnapped Chilean poet gets very intense when he learns the kidnapper killed his father many years ago.
b: 27 Apr 89 pc: _________ w: Robert Eisele d: Marc Laub
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"The Caper"
gs:
Laura San Giacomo [ Trudy Collins ], Maureen Stapleton [ Emmy Rutherford ], Chad Redding [ Sergeant Alice Sheppard ], Richard Hamilton [ Unknown ], Alberta Watson [ Unknown ], Michael Wincott [ Unknown ]
A cleaning woman works at cross-purposes to McCall as she tries to solve a murder she witnessed.
b: 4 May 89 pc: _________ w: Tom Towler d: Alan Metzger
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"Heart of Justice"
gs:
John Sheperd [ Michael Gianelli ], Paul Guilfoyle [ Max Gorman ], Vincent Gallo [ Tony Santiago ], Joseph Hindy [ Victor Koslo ], Philip Bosco [ Oscar ], Roberta Maxwell [ Judge Lindsey Smith ], Margaret Klenck [ Laura ], Judith Malina [ Old Woman ], Robert MacLeod Smith [ Priest ], Patty Mullen [ Teresa ], Mike Jankowitz [ Prosecutor Solarez ], Eddie Jones [ Unknown ], Robert Joy [ Jacob Stock ]
A bitter man tries to get revenge on the men who brutalized his wife but he calls McCall when someone else gets them first.
b: 11 May 89 pc: _________ w: Gail Morgan Hickman d: Bradford May
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"Race Traitors"
gs:
David Andrews [ Dale Stevens ], Larry Fishburne [ Casey Taylor ], Aleta Mitchell [ Martha Taylor ], Michael Cerveris [ Nick Kaminsky ], Verna Bloom [ Ellen ], Spartan McClure [ Alex ], Morgan H. Margolis [ Chuck ], Sheila Stainback [ Newscaster ], John Cale [ Aryan Leader ], Philip Levy [ First Customer ], Peter Morse [ Third Customer ], Robert Joy [ Jacob Stock ], Caroline Kava [ Unknown ], Bruce Hubbard [ Unknown ]
McCall answers a call for help from Kostmayer's old neighborhood, where a racist group is harassing a black family.
b: 11 Jun 89 pc: _________ w: Wayne Powers & Donna Dottley Powers and Gail Morgan Hickman d: ______________
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"Endgame"
gs:
Elizabeth Berridge [ Susan Wilhite ], Amy Morton [ Linda Wilhite ], Lewis Van Bergen [ Stuart Dodd ], Josef Sommer [ Ernest Rasher ], Martin Shakar [ Detective ], Philip Kraus [ Arnold ], Nick Bakay [ Yellow Team Member ], Al Sheppard [ Detective Kelly ], Chad Redding [ Sergeant Alice Sheppard ]
McCall helps two sisters whom are the victims of a revenge that has been plotted by a master strategy game player.
b: 10 Aug 89 pc: _________ w: Coleman Luck d: Alan Metzger
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"Suicide Squad"
gs:
Ving Rhames [ Luther "Million" Paxton ], Adam Coleman Howard [ Willie Halsey ], David Harris [ Hammer ], Robert Swan [ Joe Halsey ], Regina Baff [ Kitty Halsey ], Dan Moran [ Pete (the Sports Doctor) ], Leo Burmeister [ Unknown ], Alyson Kirk [ Mary Lou Halsey ]
McCall comes to the aid of a college student who's lost his athletic scholarship and fears disappointing his parents, and turns to drug dealing as a way to make the big money they expect.
b: 24 Aug 89 pc: _________ w: Jacqueline Zambrano d: Marc Laub
Editor's Note (3/98):
I am saddened to report that Donna died unexpectedly last month.
I will try to answer any questions regarding this series, but since I've only seen a limited number of episodes, I probably will not have an answer for you.
Many thanks to Daniel Dey for help with the filling in of the missing character names.
