

Callan
David Callan, only good at one thing, well maybe two, killing people and collecting toy soldiers.
Callan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage. Originally produced by ABC Weekend Television and later Thames Television, it was aired on the ITV network over four seasons spread out between 1967 and 1972. The series starred Edward Woodward as David Callan, a reluctant professional killer for a shadowy branch of the British Government's intelligence services known as 'the Section'.
Cast

Edward Woodward
David Callan

Russell Hunter
Lonely

Anthony Valentine
Mears

William Squire
Hunter

Patrick Mower
Cross
Seasons

E1A Magnum for Schneider (pilot)
Feb 6, 1967
Hunter, head of the Section, requires the services of his best operative, David Callan. Callan had been 'retired' from the service due to his growing conscience, disrespect for orders, and concerns about the people he was ordered to eliminate. Callan now working as a bookkeeper, a job he despises, is offered to be reinstated into the Section if he kills Schneider, an international arms dealer.

E2The Good Ones Are All Dead
Jul 8, 1967
Under threat of being placed in a red file, Callan is coerced into helping the Section hand over an ex-SS officer, Strauss, to the Israelis.
E3Goodbye, Nobby Clarke
Jul 15, 1967
Callan must stop an old friend, Clarke, from going back to Africa, where he was training mercenaries, else Hunter will have Clarke killed.
E4Death of Robert E. Lee
Jul 22, 1967
Two CIA agents request the help of Hunter's Section in killing a Chinese agent, who has been trading in nuclear secrets. But his real mission in England is to kill Hunter.
E5Goodness Burns Too Bright
Jul 29, 1967
Callan is lured into going to Berlin, where Hunter wants to use him as a sacrificial lamb to facilitate the planting of a British mole.

E6But's He's a Lord, Mr. Callan
Aug 5, 1967
Hunter wants Callan to stop a blackmailing Lord from selling the negatives used in the blackmail to all and sundry.

E7You Should Have Got Here Sooner
Aug 12, 1967
When somebody beats Lonely up, and Callan finds out who it was he turns the table on Hunter.

E1Red Knight, White Knight
Jan 8, 1969
The Section's new Hunter has Callan pulled from the field.

E2The Most Promising Girl of Her Year
Jan 15, 1969
Callan must prove that a young biochemist is not giving information to the East.
E3You're Under Starter's Orders
Jan 22, 1969
Callan apparently turns renegade. A ruse to trap the head of a ‘pipeline' for smuggling foreign agents and defectors out of the country.

E4Little Bits and Pieces of Love
Jan 29, 1969
Callan must use the wife of a rocket scientist as bait to lure the same scientist to Britain.

E5Let's Kill Everybody
Feb 5, 1969
A freelance German mercenary organisation who specialise in eliminating foreign security sections have their sights set on the Section.

E6Heir Apparent
Feb 12, 1969
After Hunter's death Meres and Calln must fetch the new Hunter from East Germany.
E7Land of Light and Peace
Feb 19, 1969
Callan must retrieve a microfilm from a spying medium.
E8Blackmailers Should Be Discouraged
Feb 26, 1969
Calln must find everything out about the past of an influential politician.

E9Death of a Friend
Mar 5, 1969
The French O.A.S. carry an internal war into England. Callan and Meres must sort out the mess.
E10Jack-on-Top
Mar 12, 1969
Callan and Meres must catch the controller of a ring of spies before he can leave the country with the information the ring has gathered.
E11Once a Big Man, Always a Big Man
Mar 19, 1969
Callan and Meres must secure the safe of a ship that was sunk during World War Two. It contains a list of Third Reich collaborateurs and puppets. A survivor of the ship tries to stop them.
E12Running Dog
Mar 26, 1969
Callan must stop fashist agitators from killing the Chinese Ambassador.

E13The Worst Soldier I Ever Saw
Apr 2, 1969
Security wants a retired brigadier of the British army to be stopped from accepting a job offer from a sultan, deadly force is requested.

E14Nice People Die at Home
Apr 9, 1969
Callan brings confusion into a Russian spy network.

E15Death of a Hunter
Apr 16, 1969
Callan in brainwashed into believing that Hunter is the leak in the Section and that he has also killed Lonely and framed Callan for murder. In his drugged state Callan kills Hunter and is shot down by Meres.

E1Where Else Could I Go?
Apr 8, 1970
The new Hunter cannot decide if Callan is to return to the Section or not.

E2Summoned To Appear
Apr 15, 1970
When Cross kills an innocent bystander it's up to Callan to cover for him, but even he cannot decide if it was an accident or murder.

E3The Same Trick Twice
Apr 22, 1970
An exchange of captured agents with the Soviets goes sour.

E4A Village Called G
Apr 29, 1970
Hunter's secretary, Liz, is out for someone's blood.

E5Suddenly - At Home
May 13, 1970
Callan and Cross are assigned to protect a woman whom Callan becomes involved with.

E6Act of Kindness
May 20, 1970
Callan helps a former agent out of a blackmailing business.

E7God Help Your Friends
May 27, 1970
Callan is assigned to disrupt a romance between a government worker and a suspected spy. Reluctantly he delves into his bag of dirty tricks.

E8Breakout
Jun 3, 1970
Callan and Cross must break a Russian spy out of prison, where he has voluntarily surrendered himself to, and kill him.

E9Amos Green Must Live
Jun 24, 1970
A parlamental candidate recieves a death threat.

E1That'll Be the Day
Mar 1, 1972
Callan is dead. Or so the KGB would have you think.

E2Call Me Sir!
Mar 8, 1972
Lonely is used as bait to retrieve Callan from the KGB.

E3First Refusal
Mar 15, 1972
Callan has become the new Hunter. And his first job is to retrieve a list of British undercover agents.

E4Rules of the Game
Mar 22, 1972
Callan orders Cross to terrorise an innocent Russian family for political reasons.

E5If He Can, So Could I
Mar 29, 1972
Callan looses his position as Hunter when he goes after the assassin who killed Cross.

E6None of Your Business
Apr 5, 1972
The old Hunter returns and Callan tries to get away.

E7Charlie Says It's Goodbye
Apr 12, 1972
Callan tries to quit the Section when a girl he is seeing takes a dislike to his job.

E8I Never Wanted the Job
Apr 19, 1972
Lonely becomes the unlucky witness to a mob hit.

E9The Carrier
Apr 26, 1972
Callan and Lonley break into a courier's house to find out how he's operating.

E10The Contract
May 3, 1972
Callan substitutes himself for an assassin in order to prevent an assassination.

E11Call Me Enemy (Richmond File 1)
May 10, 1972
Callan debriefs a top enemy defector.

E12Do You Recognise the Woman? (Richmond File 2)
May 17, 1972
Richmond, a top enemy defector, reveals his true purpose.

E13A Man Like Me (Richmond File 3)
Apr 24, 1972
Callan tracks down Richmond who is trying to leave Britain.
Storyline
Callan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage. Originally produced by ABC Weekend Television and later Thames Television, it was aired on the ITV network over four seasons spread out between 1967 and 1972. The series starred Edward Woodward as David Callan, a reluctant professional killer for a shadowy branch of the British Government's intelligence services known as 'the Section'.
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