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Season guide

Midnight Caller: Season 1

17 episodes Premiered Oct 25, 1988
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Season 1 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (13): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S1·E1 Mytharc

Conversations with an Assassin

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

S1·E2 Core

Twelve Gauge

Dec 6, 1988

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

S1·E3 Core

After It Happened

Dec 13, 1988

"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

S1·E4 Core

Payback

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 partner

S1·E5 Core

Bank Job

Jan 3, 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 per

S1·E6 Core

The Execution of John Saringo

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.

S1·E7 Core

But Not for Me

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 J

S1·E8 Core

Trash Radio

Jan 31, 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.

S1·E9 Core

No Exit

Feb 7, 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.

S1·E10 Core

Fathers and Sins

Feb 14, 1989

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.

S1·E11 Core

Blame It on Midnight

Feb 21, 1989

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.

S1·E12 Core

Promise to a Dead Man

Mar 7, 1989

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.

S1·E13 Mytharc

The Fall

Mar 28, 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.

S1·E14 Core

Ethan's Call

Apr 4, 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.

S1·E15 Core

Baby Chase

Apr 11, 1989

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. J

S1·E16 Mytharc

Wait Until Midnight

May 2, 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 th

S1·E17 Mytharc

Blues for Mr. Charlie

May 9, 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, e

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