• Air date: 08 Jan '69 15 episodes
      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'.
  • List of Episodes (15)
    • 1. Red Knight, White Knight

      08 Jan '69
      The Section's new Hunter has Callan pulled from the field.
    • 2. The Most Promising Girl of Her Year

      15 Jan '69
      Callan must prove that a young biochemist is not giving information to the East.
    • 3. You're Under Starter's Orders

      22 Jan '69
      Callan apparently turns renegade. A ruse to trap the head of a ‘pipeline' for smuggling foreign agents and defectors out of the country.
    • 4. Little Bits and Pieces of Love

      29 Jan '69
      Callan must use the wife of a rocket scientist as bait to lure the same scientist to Britain.
    • 5. Let's Kill Everybody

      05 Feb '69
      A freelance German mercenary organisation who specialise in eliminating foreign security sections have their sights set on the Section.
    • 6. Heir Apparent

      12 Feb '69
      After Hunter's death Meres and Calln must fetch the new Hunter from East Germany.
    • 7. Land of Light and Peace

      19 Feb '69
      Callan must retrieve a microfilm from a spying medium.
    • 8. Blackmailers Should Be Discouraged

      26 Feb '69
      Calln must find everything out about the past of an influential politician.
    • 9. Death of a Friend

      05 Mar '69
      The French O.A.S. carry an internal war into England. Callan and Meres must sort out the mess.
    • 10. Jack-on-Top

      12 Mar '69
      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.
    • 11. Once a Big Man, Always a Big Man

      19 Mar '69
      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.
    • 12. Running Dog

      26 Mar '69
      Callan must stop fashist agitators from killing the Chinese Ambassador.
    • 13. The Worst Soldier I Ever Saw

      02 Apr '69
      Security wants a retired brigadier of the British army to be stopped from accepting a job offer from a sultan, deadly force is requested.
    • 14. Nice People Die at Home

      09 Apr '69
      Callan brings confusion into a Russian spy network.
    • 15. Death of a Hunter

      16 Apr '69
      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.