![]() While McCall is almost always dressed in a suit, Mickey is usually seen in jeans and wearing a watch cap and army overcoat. His brother is a priest, also in the city, and needs the help of McCall and Mickey in one episode. Always laconic, very little of his personal life is given away although he is seen to enjoy fishing in his free time. Often seen surveilling suspects or protecting witnesses. Keith Szarabajka as Mickey Kostmayer (Also starring, 56 episodes): A former Navy SEAL, who was in the brig for a crime he didn’t commit until McCall cleared him and recommended he join The Company.Woodward was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Actor in a Drama series four years in a row for his performance, but never won. His mother was American, a working class entertainer and his father was disinherited by his family and shunned by his regiment for seen to be marrying beneath himself. His father, William, was a British Army officer he was killed in Egypt in 1952 when McCall was 19 and also an army officer. He enjoys classical music (playing the piano himself), fine wine and dining and is occasionally seen dating and trying to live a “normal” life, only for work or his past to get in the way. McCall appears to be independently wealthy, as although he almost never takes payment for his work, he owns a high-end apartment, is always well dressed and drives a Jaguar XJ6 car (registered 5809-AUG). McCall also lost a woman he was in love with, a fellow operative named Manon Brevard, and discovers that she had secretly given birth to his daughter Yvette. Scott comes back into his life as a young adult who is at first bitterly critical of his father’s world, but then becomes drawn into that world to the dismay of both of his parents. McCall himself is divorced, a “lost dad” long estranged from his son, Scott ( William Zabka). He quits and takes out a newspaper advert offering his services to those who need it as The Equalizer. Edward Woodward as Robert McCall: A veteran operative of The Company who becomes disillusioned with sacrificing ordinary people for the perceived greater good.McCall’s car, weapons, and other gadgetry at times featured significantly as elements in the plot. Many episodes focused on McCall interacting with “Control” (played by Robert Lansing), the unnamed head of the Manhattan office of the secret organization which McCall used to work for. As a general rule, however, the people answering the newspaper ad were unremarkable, average, and unknown. His contacts were also prone to human foibles, that ranged from egoism to domestic problems. “Please do not do anything you will never live to regret,” he chides to a villain. People in need found him through a newspaper classified ad: “Got a problem? Odds against you? Call the Equalizer: 2.” When he began this business in the pilot episode, it was revealed the nickname “Equalizer” was bestowed on him by an operative named “Brahms”, played by Jerry Stiller.Īided by a group of sometimes-mysterious contacts, some of whom dated back to his spying days, McCall traversed the streets of New York City, delivered justice upon bullies, corrupt police and politicians, hoodlums, mobsters, rapists, racists, murderers, kidnappers, drug dealers, and other “truly deserving” people. The series featured British actor Edward Woodward as Robert McCall, a former covert operations officer of an unnamed US government intelligence organization, which was often referred to simply as “The Agency” or “The Company”, who tried to atone for his past by offering, usually free of charge, his services as a troubleshooter, a protector, and an investigator. The series combined elements of the spy, private investigator/ police procedural, and vigilante genres. It starred Edward Woodward as a retired intelligence agent with a mysterious past, who uses the skills from his former career to exact justice on behalf of innocent people who are trapped in dangerous circumstances. The Equalizer is an American crime drama television series, originally airing on CBS from fall 1985 until late spring 1989.
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