Callan (1967)
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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Episode 1 - Red Knight, White Knight
Release Date: 1969-01-08The Section's new Hunter has Callan pulled from the field.
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Episode 2 - The Most Promising Girl of Her Year
Release Date: 1969-01-15Callan must prove that a young biochemist is not giving information to the East.
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Episode 3 - You're Under Starter's Orders
Release Date: 1969-01-22Callan apparently turns renegade. A ruse to trap the head of a ‘pipeline' for smuggling foreign agents and defectors out of the country.
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Episode 4 - Little Bits and Pieces of Love
Release Date: 1969-01-29Callan must use the wife of a rocket scientist as bait to lure the same scientist to Britain.
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Episode 5 - Let's Kill Everybody
Release Date: 1969-02-05A freelance German mercenary organisation who specialise in eliminating foreign security sections have their sights set on the Section.
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Episode 6 - Heir Apparent
Release Date: 1969-02-12After Hunter's death Meres and Calln must fetch the new Hunter from East Germany.
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Episode 7 - Land of Light and Peace
Release Date: 1969-02-19Callan must retrieve a microfilm from a spying medium.
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Episode 8 - Blackmailers Should Be Discouraged
Release Date: 1969-02-26Calln must find everything out about the past of an influential politician.
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Episode 9 - Death of a Friend
Release Date: 1969-03-05The French O.A.S. carry an internal war into England. Callan and Meres must sort out the mess.
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Episode 10 - Jack-on-Top
Release Date: 1969-03-12Callan and Meres must catch the controller of a ring of spies before he can leave the country with the information the ring has gathered.
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Episode 11 - Once a Big Man, Always a Big Man
Release Date: 1969-03-19Callan 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.
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Episode 12 - Running Dog
Release Date: 1969-03-26Callan must stop fashist agitators from killing the Chinese Ambassador.
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Episode 13 - The Worst Soldier I Ever Saw
Release Date: 1969-04-02Security wants a retired brigadier of the British army to be stopped from accepting a job offer from a sultan, deadly force is requested.
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Episode 14 - Nice People Die at Home
Release Date: 1969-04-09Callan brings confusion into a Russian spy network.
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Episode 15 - Death of a Hunter
Release Date: 1969-04-16Callan 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.