Midnight Caller
Midnight Caller
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Midnight Caller

Good night America, wherever you are.

7.6 / 10
1988
3 seasons
62 episodes
Drama

An ex-cop hosts a late-night talk radio program while getting involved with his listeners' problems in his off-time.

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Seasons

  • Conversations with an Assassin

    1.Conversations with an Assassin

    25-10-198860m

    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...

  • Twelve Gauge

    2.Twelve Gauge

    06-12-198860m

    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...

  • After It Happened

    3.After It Happened

    13-12-198860m

    "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...

  • Payback

    4.Payback

    20-12-198860m

    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...

  • Bank Job

    5.Bank Job

    03-01-198960m

    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...

  • The Execution of John Saringo

    6.The Execution of John Saringo

    10-01-198960m

    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.

  • But Not for Me

    7.But Not for Me

    17-01-198960m

    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...

  • Trash Radio

    8.Trash Radio

    31-01-198960m

    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.

  • No Exit

    9.No Exit

    07-02-198960m

    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.

  • Fathers and Sins

    10.Fathers and Sins

    14-02-198960m

    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.

  • Blame It on Midnight

    11.Blame It on Midnight

    21-02-198960m

    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....

  • Promise to a Dead Man

    12.Promise to a Dead Man

    07-03-198960m

    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.

  • The Fall

    13.The Fall

    28-03-198960m

    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.

  • Ethan's Call

    14.Ethan's Call

    04-04-198960m

    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.

  • Baby Chase

    15.Baby Chase

    11-04-198960m

    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...

  • Wait Until Midnight

    16.Wait Until Midnight

    02-05-198960m

    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...

  • Blues for Mr. Charlie

    17.Blues for Mr. Charlie

    09-05-198960m

    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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