Midnight Caller

  • Premiered: Oct 1988
  • Episodes: 61
  • Followers: 8
  • Ended
  • NBC
  • Unknown
  • Drama

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Season 1
1x1
Conversations with an Assassin
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 25, 1988
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 .. show full overview
1x2
Twelve Gauge
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 06, 1988
Jack spends most of his radio show talking with a homicidal/suicidal 'spurned lover' - the man is waiting to kill his girlfriend and then himself. It's a race against time for the police to track down the location of the woman's home.
1x3
After It Happened
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 13, 1988
Jack's old girlfriend, Tina, arrives in town. She informs him she has contracted AIDS and will die. Unable to handle the hopelessness of the situation, Jack sets out to find the man .. show full overview
1x4
Payback
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 20, 1988
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. .. show full overview
1x5
Bank Job
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 03, 1989
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 interest in Jack's well-being.
1x6
The Execution of John Saringo
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 10, 1989
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.
1x7
But Not for Me
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 17, 1989
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 .. show full overview
1x8
Trash Radio
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 24, 1989
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.
1x9
No Exit
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 07, 1989
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.
1x10
Fathers and Sins
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 14, 1989
Jack and Devon are both struggling to come to terms with their fathers. Jack's father returns after an absence of 25 years; Devon's father suffers a heart attack and the two must mend their fences in the face of the illness.
1x11
The Fall
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 21, 1989
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.
1x12
Promise to a Dead Man
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 07, 1989
On the fortieth anniversary of one of San Francisco's most celebrated unsolved murders, Jack is drawn into a case that hits closer to home than anyone could imagine.
1x13
Blame It on Midnight
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 28, 1989
An abused wife calls Jack's show fearing for her life. Their paths cross and they become romantically involved. The reappearance of the abusive husband throws Jack into the middle of a murder investigation - as the prime suspect.
1x14
Ethan's Call
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 04, 1989
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.
1x15
Baby Chase
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 11, 1989
Assisting an injured woman 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. .. show full overview
1x16
Wait Until Midnight
Episode overview
Air date
May 02, 1989
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 no evidence that a crime has been committed.
1x17 Season finale
Blues for Mr. Charlie
Episode overview
Air date
May 09, 1989
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 killing a man and places partial blame on Jack for the idea.

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