Callan
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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Season 2
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1
E1
Red Knight, White Knight
The Section's new Hunter has Callan pulled from the field.
Jan 8, 1969 -
2
E2
The Most Promising Girl of Her Year
Callan must prove that a young biochemist is not giving information to the East.
Jan 15, 1969 -
3
E3
You're Under Starter's Orders
Callan apparently turns renegade. A ruse to trap the head of a ‘pipeline' for smuggling foreign agents and defectors out of the country.
Jan 22, 1969 -
4
E4
Little Bits and Pieces of Love
Callan must use the wife of a rocket scientist as bait to lure the same scientist to Britain.
Jan 29, 1969 -
5
E5
Let's Kill Everybody
A freelance German mercenary organisation who specialise in eliminating foreign security sections have their sights set on the Section.
Feb 5, 1969 -
6
E6
Heir Apparent
After Hunter's death Meres and Calln must fetch the new Hunter from East Germany.
Feb 12, 1969 -
7
E7
Land of Light and Peace
Callan must retrieve a microfilm from a spying medium.
Feb 19, 1969 · 60m -
8
E8
Blackmailers Should Be Discouraged
Calln must find everything out about the past of an influential politician.
Feb 26, 1969 -
9
E9
Death of a Friend
The French O.A.S. carry an internal war into England. Callan and Meres must sort out the mess.
Mar 5, 1969 -
10
E10
Jack-on-Top
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.
Mar 12, 1969 -
11
E11
Once a Big Man, Always a Big Man
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.
Mar 19, 1969 -
12
E12
Running Dog
Callan must stop fashist agitators from killing the Chinese Ambassador.
Mar 26, 1969 -
13
E13
The Worst Soldier I Ever Saw
Security wants a retired brigadier of the British army to be stopped from accepting a job offer from a sultan, deadly force is requested.
Apr 2, 1969 -
14
E14
Nice People Die at Home
Callan brings confusion into a Russian spy network.
Apr 9, 1969 -
15
E15
Death of a Hunter
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.
Apr 16, 1969
