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'.
David Callan
Lonely
Mears
Hunter
Cross
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2 episodes
Ten years on, David Callan hasn't changed much. Retirement has brought a new identity, a new mistress, and a new business in the form of a militaria shop. But once a secret-service operative, always a secret-services operative, as he discovers when a call summons him to headquarters and a meeting with the fourth 'Hunter' of his career. Callan thought the past was dead and buried - reactivating it is no pleasure, but it has to be done.
Runtime: 80 minNo overview available.
7 episodes
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.
Runtime: 50 minUnder 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.
Runtime: 50 minCallan must stop an old friend, Clarke, from going back to Africa, where he was training mercenaries, else Hunter will have Clarke killed.
Runtime: 50 minTwo 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.
Runtime: 50 minCallan is lured into going to Berlin, where Hunter wants to use him as a sacrificial lamb to facilitate the planting of a British mole.
Runtime: 50 minHunter wants Callan to stop a blackmailing Lord from selling the negatives used in the blackmail to all and sundry.
Runtime: 50 minWhen somebody beats Lonely up, and Callan finds out who it was he turns the table on Hunter.
Runtime: 50 minNo overview available.
15 episodes
The Section's new Hunter has Callan pulled from the field.
Runtime: 50 minCallan must prove that a young biochemist is not giving information to the East.
Runtime: 50 minCallan apparently turns renegade. A ruse to trap the head of a ‘pipeline' for smuggling foreign agents and defectors out of the country.
Runtime: 50 minCallan must use the wife of a rocket scientist as bait to lure the same scientist to Britain.
Runtime: 50 minA freelance German mercenary organisation who specialise in eliminating foreign security sections have their sights set on the Section.
Runtime: 50 minAfter Hunter's death Meres and Calln must fetch the new Hunter from East Germany.
Runtime: 50 minCallan must retrieve a microfilm from a spying medium.
Runtime: 50 minCalln must find everything out about the past of an influential politician.
Runtime: 50 minThe French O.A.S. carry an internal war into England. Callan and Meres must sort out the mess.
Runtime: 50 minCallan and Meres must catch the controller of a ring of spies before he can leave the country with the information the ring has gathered.
Runtime: 50 minCallan 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.
Runtime: 50 minCallan must stop fashist agitators from killing the Chinese Ambassador.
Runtime: 50 minSecurity wants a retired brigadier of the British army to be stopped from accepting a job offer from a sultan, deadly force is requested.
Runtime: 50 minCallan brings confusion into a Russian spy network.
Runtime: 50 minCallan 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.
Runtime: 50 minNo overview available.
9 episodes
The new Hunter cannot decide if Callan is to return to the Section or not.
Runtime: 50 minWhen 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.
Runtime: 50 minAn exchange of captured agents with the Soviets goes sour.
Runtime: 50 minHunter's secretary, Liz, is out for someone's blood.
Runtime: 50 minCallan and Cross are assigned to protect a woman whom Callan becomes involved with.
Runtime: 50 minCallan helps a former agent out of a blackmailing business.
Runtime: 50 minCallan is assigned to disrupt a romance between a government worker and a suspected spy. Reluctantly he delves into his bag of dirty tricks.
Runtime: 50 minCallan and Cross must break a Russian spy out of prison, where he has voluntarily surrendered himself to, and kill him.
Runtime: 50 minA parlamental candidate recieves a death threat.
Runtime: 50 minNo overview available.
13 episodes
Callan is dead. Or so the KGB would have you think.
Runtime: 50 minLonely is used as bait to retrieve Callan from the KGB.
Runtime: 50 minCallan has become the new Hunter. And his first job is to retrieve a list of British undercover agents.
Runtime: 50 minCallan orders Cross to terrorise an innocent Russian family for political reasons.
Runtime: 50 minCallan looses his position as Hunter when he goes after the assassin who killed Cross.
Runtime: 50 minThe old Hunter returns and Callan tries to get away.
Runtime: 50 minCallan tries to quit the Section when a girl he is seeing takes a dislike to his job.
Runtime: 50 minLonely becomes the unlucky witness to a mob hit.
Runtime: 50 minCallan and Lonley break into a courier's house to find out how he's operating.
Runtime: 50 minCallan substitutes himself for an assassin in order to prevent an assassination.
Runtime: 50 minCallan debriefs a top enemy defector.
Runtime: 50 minRichmond, a top enemy defector, reveals his true purpose.
Runtime: 50 minCallan tracks down Richmond who is trying to leave Britain.
Runtime: 50 min