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A crime drama starring Edward Woodward as Robert McCall, a for hire ex-Company agent that has gone independent. Kind of like a one-man A-Team. He only takes cases from people who have exhausted conventional resources, those who "fall through the cracks," whose plights are ignored and are at the end of their rope.1 He had a newspaper ad that was comprised of the above message.
The show aired on CBS from September 18, 1985 to August 24, 1989. The show was an hour long and also starred Robert Lansing as Control, William Zabka as Scott McCall, and Keith Szarabajka as Mickey Kostmayer.
I remember learning about this show after it had been airing for a while. I thought it was pretty damn cool and wish I would have caught it from the beginning. Any fan of the A-Team, Knight Rider, MacGyver, etc. would probably also like this show. It was along much the same lines, an action/crime drama where a very talented person uses his skills to help the less fortunate.
1from http://www.conubic.com/eqew/eq-ew/eq.html