Episode guide
Midnight Caller: Season 1
17 episodes · premiered Oct 25, 1988
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- Episode 1: Conversations with an Assassin Oct 25, 1988 · 1h Jack Killian retires from the San Francisco Police Department after accidentally shooting his partner, Rusty, in a crossfire situation. He's drawn back to the world of the living by an…
- Episode 2: Twelve Gauge Dec 6, 1988 · 1h Jack receives a phone call from a kidnapper who informs Jack that he has taken a suspected murderer into his personal custody so he won't hurt any more women. He continues to use Jack's…
- Episode 3: After It Happened Dec 13, 1988 · 1h "After It Happened" is a 1988 episode of the NBC television series Midnight Caller. The controversial episode tells the story of a bisexual man who is deliberately infecting people…
- Episode 4: Payback Dec 20, 1988 · 1h A female friend of Jack's from the police force is wounded in the line of duty and her partner killed. They seek comfort in each other's arms to grieve the deaths of their partners. Jack…
- Episode 5: Bank Job Jan 3, 1989 · 1h As Jack's luck would have it, he goes into a bank to cash a cheque and finds himself a hostage in a bank robbery. The media and the police wait out the negotiations, all with a personal…
- Episode 6: The Execution of John Saringo Jan 10, 1989 · 1h Jack, Devon and Billy are forced to examine their belief in capital punishment when they are invited to broadcast the final hours of a death row inmate's life.
- Episode 7: But Not for Me Jan 17, 1989 · 1h Jack receives a phone call from a kidnapper who informs Jack that he has taken a suspected murderer into his personal custody so he won't hurt any more women. He continues to use Jack's…
- Episode 8: Trash Radio Jan 31, 1989 · 1h Jack finds himself being raked over the coals by a jealous competitor who has insider information on an Internal Affairs investigation, which found Jack not guilty of the charges.
- Episode 9: No Exit Feb 7, 1989 · 1h A young runaway, forced into prostitution, turns to Jack via his radio show for assistance in breaking away from her pimp who is involved in the white slavery market.
- Episode 10: Fathers and Sins Feb 14, 1989 · 1h A man claiming to be Jack's father shows up and Jack is not exactly warming up to him. And Devon finally has it out with her father which doesn't end well.
- Episode 11: Blame It on Midnight Feb 21, 1989 · 1h Jack meets a night club singer, dates her and falls hard for her. She warns him of her ex-husband who's not willing to let her go. The man even attacks Jack with a knife in a bar. Later…
- Episode 12: Promise to a Dead Man Mar 7, 1989 · 1h Jack gets involved with a retired cop's search for the man who killed his partner years ago. And it seems that Devon's father was a person of interest.
- Episode 13: The Fall Mar 28, 1989 · 1h Jack is drawn back to the neighborhood he worked in as a patrolman in response to a mother's plea to help her drug-addicted son.
- Episode 14: Ethan's Call Apr 4, 1989 · 1h Jack continues to be haunted by the night of Rusty's death. This time he has to help out Rusty's son, Ethan, who has run away from home and calls Jack to tell him so.
- Episode 15: Baby Chase Apr 11, 1989 · 1h Assisting an ill man on the street, a young doctor is faced with every mother's nightmare when her infant daughter is abducted by a young woman whose grasp on reality is failing. Jack uses…
- Episode 16: Wait Until Midnight May 2, 1989 · 1h One of Jack's regular callers ""witnesses"" a murder in her apartment building while talking to Jack on the phone. She isn't believed by the authorities because she is blind and there is…
- Episode 17: Blues for Mr. Charlie May 9, 1989 · 1h The season finale deals with the issue of gun control, and a citizen's right to bear arms. A neighborhood convenience store owner misinterprets Jack's caution to protect himself, ends up…