The Equalizer
Suicide Squad
TV Flash files “Suicide Squad” as a desk essential hour — The Equalizer (1985–1989) on CBS, season 4, episode 22, aired 1989-08-24, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E22: listed hour 88 of 88 in the The Equalizer guide, last listed hour of season 4. It aired 1989-08-24 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Endgame” (S04E21). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “Suicide Squad”. Suicide Squad is the closer's squad title: four seasons of McCall, signed off. Woodward owned the soul the films later rented.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
When a boy is cut from the football team, a cunning drug dealer attempts to lure him into the business. The boy's sister contacts McCall for help.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Suicide Squad sit in the The Equalizer guide?
S04E22 is listed hour 88 of 88 — last listed hour of season 4, season 4 episode 22.
When did The Equalizer S04E22 air?
Suicide Squad aired 1989-08-24 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Are the movies the same show?
They share the title and the concept — a protector for people failed by the system — but they are later film adaptations, not Woodward's continuity. His McCall is the gold standard for many viewers.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Woodward's performance is the franchise — weary competence and controlled fury. Retired intel man Robert McCall takes newspaper-ad justice into his own hands: darker, quieter action drama than the truck-jumping competition. Got a problem? Odds against you? Later films borrowed the title; Woodward owned the soul.
Got a problem? Odds against you? A retired intelligence operative takes newspaper-ad justice into his own hands, and CBS puts gravel in prime time. *The Equalizer* (1985–1989) made Edward Woodward's authority into urban vigilante cool with more moral weight than many 1980s action toys. Keith Szarabajka and Robert Lansing aided missions the system wouldn't touch. Michael Sloan and Richard Lindheim: adult revenge fantasy with a British center of gravity. **Woodward owned the soul later films only rented.** Max's…
Filed against
- Edward Woodward as Robert McCall
Edward Woodward's Robert McCall is The Equalizer — weary competence, controlled fury, and newspaper-ad justice darker and quieter than the truck-jumping competition. Got a problem? Odds against you? The performance is the franchise. TV…
- Robert Lansing as Control
Robert Lansing's Control shadowed The Equalizer as intel-world weather — Edward Woodward's weary McCall taking newspaper-ad justice into his own hands, darker and quieter than the truck-jumping competition. TV Flash files Lansing as 1980s…
- Keith Szarabajka as Mickey Kostmayer
Keith Szarabajka's Mickey Kostmayer worked The Equalizer from the wetwork side — 1980s newspaper-ad justice, darker and quieter than the truck-jumping competition, weary competence as a franchise. TV Flash files him as action-drama craft:…