Woodward was a class act. No reboot will ever come close to what he did in this series- he managed to portray an older professional trying to do good and also a man who had to control rage and violence. Those are hard things to fold into one character, and he carried it across every episode. A commanding performance.
@@stigtuneback1966 haha - just imagine the law suits, as the new teacher uses martial arts to swoop a teenager from under their legs so that they crack their skull on the floor! (even though they definitely deserved it)
Yes, I do agree with you and also my late mother`s and Aunty Stella`s favourite actor and singer of all-time and his acting so brilliantly and also great music composed and performed by Stewart Copeland and I`ve still got the original music from The Equalizer on CD in 1987 called-The Equalizer And Other Cliff Hangers. Absolutely Brilliant!
Edward Woodward was a top flight actor and singer. This was my favourite show as a young lad and I'd love to binge watch every episode now. Woodward had your attention ALL the time.
Damn right. Plus the original theme music is still best...Composed by Stewart Copeland from the Police. Copeland's father was an officer in the OSS during WW2, the forerunner of the CIA.
@@caeserromero3013 Washington's version a lot more violent compared to Woodward's. Woodward's version never would've taken the hammer from the store without paying for it to beat up a low life mugger scum. Wrote and directed by people have very different ideas.
Edward epitomised the premise of beware the quiet guy, A good American replacement, for style, might have been Chick Norris, quiet, unassuming and dangerous.
Denzel is a fine actor but his Equalizer is just another American action film superhero. McCall's power came from his speech, bearing and personality, not from excessive violence.
A man after my own heart, Thats the best way to deal with someone get in there head screw them up from the inside out give someone a kicking it heals and they forget get in there head that never heals and they don't forget
I love this show I grew up watching it Edward Woodward is the number 1 equaliser the new movies are good but you can't beat the original rip Edward the equaliser Woodward
Love both Edward was good for his time he was one of mine british he was one of our finest actors from my country uk but now it’s denzels turn Edward back in the day but now it’s denzels turn he’s Robert McCall now they are both good Edward was McCall back in the day brilliant agreed but today now it’s denzel
He was Callan in a series in the 60s a right hard bastard. Catch him in Breaker Morant about soldiers shafted by the military Establishment for political expediency in the Boer War a fantastic performance by all the cast a must watch.
See him as a devout, committed Christian police officer that gets burned alive on a remote Scottish island by Christopher Lee and his pagan islanders in "The Wicker Man" [brilliant movie - don't fall for the terrible Nicholas Cage remake!]
The Equalizer used to live in my village, Adderbury, the Rookery. Apparently. He used to go the school my girlfriend works at. Hinchley Wood School. I used to love watching the Equalizer whilst growing up.
Not much have changed in that regard... This young generation is even dumber and their constant whinnying... Not able to cope with what life throws at them. They will never leave their parents basement
If the studio had allowed Denzel's script writers to, Denzel has the range of voice, mannerism, charisma and force of intent to do a good homagé to Edward,.. but Rumble in the Bronx, Saws, John Wicks and etc etc,.. meant the films became as they are - plus without the longer character progression, investment of the series relative to the films....
Woodward was at his most icy coldness in Callan. I was a kid when I watched it, and the bleak storylines with frequent unhappy or unresolved endings gripped me. The inhospitable back streets of a Britain still recovering from WW2, Lonely's sad existence, Callan's frigid demeanour.... all made top TV.
What do you call a man with a tree on his head? Edward. What do you call a man with 3 trees on his head? Edward Woodward. What do you call a man with 4 trees on his head? I don't know, but Edward Woodward would
🇬🇧🙋🏾♀️I loved this as a child 👌🏾 Never did I envisage that Denzel would accomplish what he did with this character😍 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾I think Edward would have loved it too 😁
I have got the movie DVD of Denzel Washington plays Robert McCall in The Equalizer and The Equalizer 2 but this is the TV series of Edward Woodward who plays Robert McCall in The Equalizer as I am dedicating these movie DVDS to my old school friends who are both sisters as I hope to see them again very soon to Chris and Hester from Billyxxxxx
Poignant. I wish politicians would take the Equalizer`s lead. I`ve been arguing for years that drunk/drugged drivers who kill innocent victims, be taken to the morgue and shown the devastation their handiwork has caused.
He was good as McCall back in the day,good for his time, but today it’s DENZEL WASHINGTON you have to move on time doesn’t stand still no matter how much we want it to
It seems fairly certain he was supposed to be Callan after retirement, and presumably a surprising influx of funds. But he carried off the role beautifully.
I was just thinking of this clip last week. Since I have not seen it in a long time. Guess it came up because I have been watching Equalizer 3 clips. 😂
Here's a triva people forget at time, The Original 80's T.V version of the Equalizer, Denzel Washington was doing medical T.V drama called St. ELSEWHERE. Before Denzel Washington became a big-screen star. He never thought years latter, he would be a big-screen version of the Equalizer.
The original actor of any character is always the best, this is no exception, Edward Woodward is a legend
Loved Woodwards performance in this series.
Glad it was aired when I was a teenager back in the 80s.
Never missed an episode.
You'd have loved seeing him take down Darth vader with a single punch ;)
He was a brilliant actor. Full of class and proper grammar
Woodward was a class act. No reboot will ever come close to what he did in this series- he managed to portray an older professional trying to do good and also a man who had to control rage and violence. Those are hard things to fold into one character, and he carried it across every episode. A commanding performance.
three words: tommy lee jones
Denzel Washington.
Nah, no where near mate @@ghosterdude
Just copies of the original mate @@MauroSanna
Also, his name sounds like a fart in the bath: Edward Woodward.
RIP Edward Woodward. Played this character so brilliantly.
Oh yes! He was really good as Callan, too!
more of him in schools , its hugely needed in this day and age , to put students in place .
He played all his roles brilliantly
@@stigtuneback1966 haha - just imagine the law suits, as the new teacher uses martial arts to swoop a teenager from under their legs so that they crack their skull on the floor!
(even though they definitely deserved it)
Yes, I do agree with you and also my late mother`s and Aunty Stella`s favourite actor and singer of all-time and his acting so brilliantly and also great music composed and performed by Stewart Copeland and I`ve still got the original music from The Equalizer on CD in 1987 called-The Equalizer And Other Cliff Hangers. Absolutely Brilliant!
One of the BEST programs to come out of America
Edward Woodward was a top flight actor and singer. This was my favourite show as a young lad and I'd love to binge watch every episode now. Woodward had your attention ALL the time.
Where are you watching them?
@@karpetcabin I'm not, I said I'd love to binge watch them. Unfortunately I can't find them streamed anywhere. Brilliant series, one of the best ever.
@@Betty_Feltersnatch Yeah I've been looking online for them. They were on a channel in the UK last year but no rerun's
I do enjoy watching Washington's Equalizer movies, but personally Woodward will always be the true Equalizer.
Damn right. Plus the original theme music is still best...Composed by Stewart Copeland from the Police. Copeland's father was an officer in the OSS during WW2, the forerunner of the CIA.
@@caeserromero3013 Washington's version a lot more violent compared to Woodward's. Woodward's version never would've taken the hammer from the store without paying for it to beat up a low life mugger scum. Wrote and directed by people have very different ideas.
Edward epitomised the premise of beware the quiet guy, A good American replacement, for style, might have been Chick Norris, quiet, unassuming and dangerous.
Denzel is a fine actor but his Equalizer is just another American action film superhero. McCall's power came from his speech, bearing and personality, not from excessive violence.
Abso-bally-lutely...
Like Sean Connery is to James Bond,
Edward Woodward is to Robert McCall, the original and still the best
The new series with Queen Latifa is utter wank! It’s complete woke bullshit!
@@Someoldguy69 totally agree
@@peterfranks6243
If they were going to do a TV show, I’ve no idea why they didn’t just get Denzel. TV budgets are ridiculous now.
@@Someoldguy69 remakes never really work.
@@Someoldguy69 100% agree
“I wouldn’t do that, if I were you”! A true legend series with a legend actor! Rest in Peace Edward.
Man, even though Denzel Washington kills it in the films. Edward Woodward’s performance as the title character was legendary.
At last, the REAL equaliser, impossible to duplicate 😁😃
RIP Ed 3-Wood. Man I recorded the original Equalizer opening music to tape and listened to it on my way to school every morning. Loved that show.
No-one ever conveyed quiet menace the same way as Edward Woodward did, in many of his guises....
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I used to stay up to watch this as a child in the 80s, the intro was intense.
McCall is enough of a badass that he can look at this lot and think, "This isn't a gang: it's a 'Thriller' era Michael Jackson lookalike contest. 😁
I actually had a teacher called Mr Macall.
He was hard but extremely fair. He actually cared for his students.
He was more than a teacher!
Always beware the old guy in a profession where many die young.
He was a tremendous actor/singer and apparently a decent human being. I miss him.
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He also learned to play the Double-Bass, for a role as a jazz musician, in the early 80's!
Loved Edward Woodward. Saw him on stage in Sydney, Australia must've been 50 years ago. Brilliant!
---and before this he captivated British audiences as Callan, an equally cool and unstoppable character.
That little face slap though... 😂😂 2:37
Edward Woodward was born for this role. A favourite of mine back in the heyday of the 1980s. 👍
Fantastic episode. I always enjoyed the way McCall messed with the minds of the enemies, far better than just kicking seven bells out of them
Mental 'damage' lasts longer than a lot of physical damage...
@@georgebuller1914 exactly
Exactly, broken bones can heal but if you can mess with their minds you can control them without violence.
- Sun Tzu.
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A man after my own heart, Thats the best way to deal with someone get in there head screw them up from the inside out give someone a kicking it heals and they forget get in there head that never heals and they don't forget
The original British series , again with Edward Woodward , was even better.
What was it called?
@@rztrzt Callan..was the show The Equaliser was a continuation of
@@gaztintin3537 Thanks mate, will see if I can find it online for downloading. Love the Brit tv.
@@gaztintin3537 I loved lonely
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He made Robert McCall his own. Brilliant performance!
Yes he did, but now it’s denzels turn
@ Duh… obviously. 🙄🤣
Watching this episode right now.
McCall's little grin just says "F### around and find out"
The true equalizer
The 80s was the best Era, RIP Edward Woodward ❤☘
One of my favorite.edward woodward the original equalizer.
I love this show I grew up watching it Edward Woodward is the number 1 equaliser the new movies are good but you can't beat the original rip Edward the equaliser Woodward
Love both Edward was good for his time he was one of mine british he was one of our finest actors from my country uk but now it’s denzels turn Edward back in the day but now it’s denzels turn he’s Robert McCall now they are both good Edward was McCall back in the day brilliant agreed but today now it’s denzel
He was Callan in a series in the 60s a right hard bastard.
Catch him in Breaker Morant about soldiers shafted by the military Establishment for political expediency in the Boer War a fantastic performance by all the cast a must watch.
"Mr Callan Mr Callan", "bloody 'ell lonely take a bath", i'm an ol' fart and i remember that series well.
"We caught them and we shot them, under rule .303"
See him as a devout, committed Christian police officer that gets burned alive on a remote Scottish island by Christopher Lee and his pagan islanders in "The Wicker Man"
[brilliant movie - don't fall for the terrible Nicholas Cage remake!]
@@jazzx251a great film.
He in 1990 from the BBC
The man was brilliant in
Breaker Morant
Amazing scene, Edward Woodward really was the Boss
Edward Woodward was brilliant
The Equalizer used to live in my village, Adderbury, the Rookery. Apparently. He used to go the school my girlfriend works at. Hinchley Wood School. I used to love watching the Equalizer whilst growing up.
Legend sadly missed 😢
The utter arrogance, stupidity, immaturity and dumbness is well acted by the kids in this episode. Well done.
I'd act out too if i was still in highschool when i'm 40 :D :D
Not much have changed in that regard... This young generation is even dumber and their constant whinnying... Not able to cope with what life throws at them. They will never leave their parents basement
These guys are all over 30
“Move your foot”. Great little addition.
When nobody would, Edward Woodward would!
Great show. 👌
Edward Woodward’ version like a blend of James Bond and Alfred Pennyworth
BREAKER MORANT: Edward Woodward's towering role!! R.I.P.!!
As an Australian I completely agree with this statement.....
Indeed.
"Shoot straight yer bastards!!!"
But, no. It's The Wicker Man, even though he gets killed.
Fantastic series,Edward still the best though!!
Queen Latifah has nothing on Edward Woodward's Equalizer for real authority and presence! R.I.P E.W
Queen what!
Our mr Callen in his Equaliser days
Wait what!!!
Woodward was excellent in this - absolutely fantastic
That was just the BEST cop show on TV..., nothing EVER came close and Edward Woodward played the character perfectly.
Good old Ewar Woowar, I loved the Equalizer series.
It was a really good series and much better than any of the new movie versions. No one could portray it better than Edward Woodward.
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If the studio had allowed Denzel's script writers to, Denzel has the range of voice, mannerism, charisma and force of intent to do a good homagé to Edward,.. but Rumble in the Bronx, Saws, John Wicks and etc etc,.. meant the films became as they are - plus without the longer character progression, investment of the series relative to the films....
So No way Home? What episode?
The movies are still a hell of a lot better than the more recent remake tv show.
I remember watching this show when I was a kid. Loved it. They don't make them like this anymore
He was brilliant in the Equalizer series, and Denzel Washington. Did awsom job of bringing movie for new generations,
Woodward was at his most icy coldness in Callan. I was a kid when I watched it, and the bleak storylines with frequent unhappy or unresolved endings gripped me. The inhospitable back streets of a Britain still recovering from WW2, Lonely's sad existence, Callan's frigid demeanour.... all made top TV.
Fact: If the letter 'D' had been made obsolete, Edward Woodward would have been called Ewar Woowar
QI
What do you call a man with a tree on his head?
Edward.
What do you call a man with 3 trees on his head?
Edward Woodward.
What do you call a man with 4 trees on his head?
I don't know, but Edward Woodward would
Without the d for dangerous. His name makes the same sound as a Cornish ambulance.
he sure woul....
We nicknamed our new school manager The Equalizer after he took over the school and made changes to the discipline structure.
He quite liked it.
There's only ONE Equalizer & it isn't Denzil Washington or Queen Latifa. Neither of them come close to Edward Woodward & the 1, true version.
The great series.
Don’t forget, he was schooled in wet work as ‘Callan’
Good lesson and you gotta hand it to Woodward. I used to watch this without a miss in my teens.
Nothing like a good old classic 80's sound track!!!! Used to watch this in France many years ago.
🇬🇧🙋🏾♀️I loved this as a child 👌🏾 Never did I envisage that Denzel would accomplish what he did with this character😍 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾I think Edward would have loved it too 😁
I have got the movie DVD of Denzel Washington plays Robert McCall in The Equalizer and The Equalizer 2 but this is the TV series of Edward Woodward who plays Robert McCall in The Equalizer as I am dedicating these movie DVDS to my old school friends who are both sisters as I hope to see them again very soon to Chris and Hester from Billyxxxxx
The theme tune was amazing.
True Callan character.
1:59 "Take... your seat!" McCall's such a badass.
All TV thugs in the ’80s looked like backup dancers in a Michael Jackson video.
Edward Woodward was great as Callan in the 1970s tv series Callan.
Callan was a class act
And Lonely! Great characters.
@@tornagawn Also Hunter, Toby Meres, Dr Snell, James Cross.
60s
Poignant. I wish politicians would take the Equalizer`s lead. I`ve been arguing for years that drunk/drugged drivers who kill innocent victims, be taken to the morgue and shown the devastation their handiwork has caused.
It's the white collar criminals that the politicians have to work out how to stop, unlike now which is supporting them for the kickback.
Mr woodward we love you man
I know him from the uk series "Callan" 👏 brilliant actor RIP
Edward Woodward the original and best Equalizer RiP ✨💯🇬🇧🥂
He was back in the day the 80,s but now today it’s DENZEL, denzel is McCall now
He was good as McCall back in the day,good for his time, but today it’s DENZEL WASHINGTON you have to move on time doesn’t stand still no matter how much we want it to
The one, the only.
It seems fairly certain he was supposed to be Callan after retirement, and presumably a surprising influx of funds. But he carried off the role beautifully.
The true equaliser. Edward Woodward was epic.
Powerful episode. You don't get stories like this nowadays.
"I ain't taking no class"
Explains a lot, even today. 🙊🙉🙈
this show really kicked ass.
Alternative title - McCall schools a class of Micheal Jackson impersonators.
It was nice to see Callan at work again after a long absence. Nobody ever did stand up to his quality.
I was just thinking of this clip last week. Since I have not seen it in a long time. Guess it came up because I have been watching Equalizer 3 clips. 😂
Probably my favourite show in the 80s i was about 7 when I first started watching it
Mr Woodward said himself in a TV interview that his full name sounds like a fart in a bath tub...legend and true gent.
That was Noel Coward.
Now that is a Master class, even the toughest gangster will sure learn! 😁
When he's in Wolf of Wall Street, original Equaliser is playing on the TV
A slight touch of the movie "The Substitute" about it in a good way
And the music was made by Stewart Copeland drummer,he played and performed the rock band: The Police.
Now he is the real equaliser
such a great show of the 1980's
I remember that episode very well.
Yes he was the equaliser the best
All the repeats on TV but not this classic bring it back xx
Great series and a follow on from Callan.
Is he Callan? Or is he not?.......nobody knows! For me he was. Good 'retirement' for the bloke in my opinion. Loved 'em both.
the real equalizer, edward woodward.
The True Equalizer!
This is the original and best. Not like it’s box ticking sequel.
Here's a triva people forget at time, The Original 80's T.V version of the Equalizer, Denzel Washington was doing medical T.V drama called St. ELSEWHERE. Before Denzel Washington became a big-screen star. He never thought years latter, he would be a big-screen version of the Equalizer.
i love the equalkizer
Brilliant i remember watching this whe i was little lying on the floor whilst being attacked by terrs.
The only true equaliser.
There is an outstanding teacher
This McCall was so much better than Queen Latifah's version
I do agree with you and also I`d like to dedicate this to my late mother and my late Aunty, who loves the series as well as me.😊😂❤💯
Edward Woodward was even better in the English tv program CALLAN