“Got a problem? Odds against you? Call the Equalizer.”

The Equalizer was one of my favorite shows from the 80s.  From its grim-grittiness tone, to Stewart Copeland’s driving soundtrack (both incidental and the main theme), to Edward Woodward’s bitterly idealistic spy-in-from-the-cold Robert McCall, it was just too much fun. 

One of the HD channels on my cable was showing old Equalizer reruns a while back — a package of about the same ten eps, for some odd reason — and I was reminded of how much I liked it.  Yes, it was a show of the 80s, so there’s some goofiness about it, some corny dialog here and there and some plotl ines wrapped up far too neatly.  But it was about as noir as things got on TV that decade (think Knight Rider and Scarecrow & Mrs King and TJ Hooker), and its cynicism toward the government and power, and its recurring characters and plot elements, made it a step above the ordinary TV detective show of the era.

And now it’s coming to DVD next February … glee!