Callan: Existing episodes.
All the remaining episodes of the spy series, "Callan." A ground-breaking TV show that displayed more realism.
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- CreatorJames MitchellStarsEdward WoodwardRussell HunterLisa LangdonDavid Callan is the top agent/assassin for the Security Service (British counterintelligence), but he is an embittered man who performs his duties "for Queen and country" under duress. This bleak, "Spy who Came in from the Cold"-style espionage drama concentrates on the seamy underside of covert operations: assassinations, blackmail and dirty dealing.
- DirectorBill BainStarsEdward WoodwardJoseph FürstRonald RaddThe first adventure of David Callan, top agent for the S.I.S. Forcibly "retired" several years earlier because he had lost his nerve, Callan is called back into service to handle the assassination of Schneider, a German businessman who may be more than he seems. This could be Callan's last chance to prove he's still a worthy agent.
- DirectorToby RobertsonStarsEdward WoodwardRonald RaddAnthony ValentineBoth a retread of the Armchair Theatre play 'A Magnum for Schneider' and a direct follow-on, the very first episode of the series proper replays Callan's recall from forced retirement, but this time to keep an eye on former SS officer Strauss (Powys Thomas), who is posing as a Greek Cypriot businessman named Stavros. Having secured a position as his bookkeeper, Callan is ordered to keep Strauss alive until he is handed over to the Israelis, and find conclusive evidence of the man's true identity.
- DirectorPiers HaggardStarsEdward WoodwardRonald RaddAnthony ValentineWhen Lonely is beaten up after robbing a supposedly empty flat, Callan investigates on his behalf and discovers a link to a man named Pollock (Jon Laurimore), an enemy operative with whom he has had past dealings and who is currently under the Section's protection. After spotting Toby Meres leaving a safe house in which Pollock's girlfriend is holed up, Callan bluffs his way in and gets the operation details from her, then drops in to Section HQ to warn Hunter to keep his boys away from Lonely. Unfortunately for just about everyone, Meres has already paid him a visit.
- DirectorPeter DuguidStarsEdward WoodwardMichael GoodliffeAnthony ValentineCallan is brought officially back into the Section by a new Hunter, who accompanies him and Meres to the airport collect Russian defector Bunin when he arrives on British soil. Callan doesn't believe a man like Bunin would ever defect and suspects he has actually been dispatched to investigate and even kill the new Hunter. Once under Section protection, Bunin claims he is actually here to pave the way for the defection of top government official Ivan Mereski, a potential prize catch who will only defect to the Section's top man in Russia.
- DirectorPeter DuguidStarsEdward WoodwardMichael GoodliffeAnthony ValentineCallan is ordered to investigate Joan Mather, a government laboratory scientist who has expressed concerns that her work might be used for biological warfare.
- DirectorPeter SasdyStarsEdward WoodwardMichael GoodliffeAnthony ValentineCallan is manipulated by Hunter #2 into shadowing and befriending Polish émigré Sophia Rule in order to lure her former husband Brezhevski, previously thought dead and now a figure of some influence in the East, over to their side.
- DirectorRobert TronsonStarsEdward WoodwardMichael GoodliffeAnthony ValentineThe Section is put on high alert when it is discovered that it has been targeted by an unknown party and that everyone from Hunter down is at risk of assassination.
- DirectorPeter DuguidStarsEdward WoodwardDerek BondAnthony ValentineCallan and Meres are dispatched to collect the section's new Hunter East Germany, where he has been working undercover.
- DirectorPeter DuguidStarsEdward WoodwardDerek BondAnthony ValentineWhen a French counter-intelligence agent Jean Coquet, a man with whom Callan was once close friends, dies in an engineered road accident, Callan is ordered to look after his widow Francine, who is kidnapped while under his protection.
- DirectorRobert TronsonStarsEdward WoodwardDerek BondAnthony ValentineCallan secures work with his former commanding officer in order to investigate his involvement with a rich but politically unstable region of the Middle East.
- DirectorPeter DuguidStarsEdward WoodwardRonald RaddRussell HunterActor Ronald Radd returns as the first Hunter of the Section, blood-thirsty Col. Leslie. Callan is then sent to nail two minor Russian agents working from a pet shop.
- DirectorReginald CollinStarsEdward WoodwardDerek BondAnthony ValentineCaptured by the KGB, Callan is drugged, brainwashed and released - with instructions to kill Hunter. He obeys - but who actually dies? Hunter? Meres? Or Callan? Who get shot in the process?
- DirectorJim GoddardStarsEdward WoodwardWilliam SquirePatrick MowerRecovering after months in hospital, Callan finds he may well get sacked unless he can pass several tests. Lonely is arrested and faces a long prison term unless Callan can hire a highly successful, and expensive lawyer for him.
- DirectorVoytekStarsEdward WoodwardWilliam SquirePatrick MowerWhen Callan and Cross's tail on a Polish operative goes horribly wrong and an innocent bystander dies, Callan must testify at the inquest. His dilemma: perjure himself or implicate his fellow agent and expose the section.
- DirectorPeter DuguidStarsEdward WoodwardWilliam SquirePatrick MowerSurtees, a British agent recently returned in a prisoner exchange, threatens to publish an explosive tell-all account of his activities, complete with scandalous details. Suspecting that the KGB has turned Surtees, Hunter orders Callan to stop him.
- DirectorMike VardyStarsEdward WoodwardWilliam SquirePatrick MowerThe entire section goes on red alert when Liz, Hunter's ever-punctual secretary, fails to show up for work. Trying to trace her, Callan begins to suspect that Liz's disappearance involves not an enemy from the present, but a ghost from her past.
- DirectorPiers HaggardStarsEdward WoodwardWilliam SquirePatrick MowerLady Janet Lewis--the beautiful widow of an ex-foreign secretary--accepts a TV producer's lucrative offer for an interview about her husband. Suspicious of the producer's intentions, Hunter assigns Callan to stop her, but the assignment gets personal.
- DirectorMike VardyStarsEdward WoodwardWilliam SquirePatrick MowerWhen Heathcote Land receives incriminating photos of his company's sales manager in bed with a mistress, Callan tries to persuade him not to expose the man. But Land knows too well how such games are played.
- DirectorPeter DuguidStarsEdward WoodwardWilliam SquirePatrick MowerCallan must break up the engagement between a lovely NATO interpreter with a grade-A security clearance and a man suspected of serving as a KGB informant. Does the woman's fiance really love her? Or does he love Moscow more?
- DirectorReginald CollinStarsEdward WoodwardWilliam SquirePatrick MowerBy surrendering to the police, wily KGB operative Nikolai Lubin seeks safety in a British prison, out of reach of Hunter and the section's interrogators. Hunter, however, has other plans--engineering Lubin's "escape" under the guise of a KGB operation.
- DirectorJim GoddardStarsEdward WoodwardWilliam SquirePatrick MowerAmos Green is a politician with the combustible view that "coloured immigration is dangerous to Britain and must stop".
- DirectorMike VardyStarsEdward WoodwardRussell HunterPatrick MowerWith Callan captured, imprisoned, and interrogated by the Soviets, his superiors stage his funeral. But Callan's pal and sometime employee, Lonely, sees through the charade and makes a nuisance of himself, much to the section's chagrin.
- DirectorMike VardyStarsEdward WoodwardRussell HunterPatrick MowerUpon Callan's return, dire circumstances force him to accept a new position within the section--one that affords an entirely different perspective on his work, particularly regarding his relationship with Lonely.
- DirectorJim GoddardStarsEdward WoodwardRussell HunterPatrick MowerWhen a third-party broker offers to sell the names of British agents in Eastern Europe for £100,000, Callan suspects a leak in London and races to find it before the broker's proposal expires.
- DirectorVoytekStarsEdward WoodwardRussell HunterPatrick MowerAfter Moscow expels a British cultural attache, Callan assigns Cross to harass a Russian embassy employee and force the man's withdrawal. This tit-for-tat arrangement turns complicated, though, when the Russian's family gets involved.
- DirectorPeter DuguidStarsEdward WoodwardPatrick MowerAnthony ValentineCross's behavior on his previous assignment calls into question his fitness for service. Nevertheless, Callan assigns his former rival the perilous task of protecting a dissident Russian poet.
- DirectorVoytekStarsEdward WoodwardRussell HunterAnthony ValentineRelieved of his duties, Callan intends to go on holiday. However, his superiors have relieved him of his passport as well--forcing him to acquire a new one by any means necessary.
- DirectorPeter DuguidStarsEdward WoodwardRussell HunterWilliam SquireAssigned to shadow an upper-crust economist expected to defect to Poland, Callan becomes involved with a beautiful widow who has good reason to despise intelligence agents.
- DirectorJim GoddardStarsEdward WoodwardRussell HunterWilliam SquireAfter witnessing a gangster's execution, Lonely runs afoul of the killers and the police, jeopardizing both his cover and Callan's life.
- DirectorJonathan AlwynStarsEdward WoodwardRussell HunterWilliam SquireCallan and Lonely burgle a scientist's home to photograph top-secret documents. But Lonely's sticky fingers endanger the entire operation.
- DirectorReginald CollinStarsEdward WoodwardRussell HunterAnthony ValentineCallan tries to intercept an assassin hired to murder a visiting dignitary but winds up assuming the killer's identity. Will he find himself forced to fulfill the contract, too?
- DirectorBill BainStarsEdward WoodwardT.P. McKennaRussell HunterAlone at a remote safe house, Callan debriefs a high-ranking prospective defector--a man known as Richmond, who promises to reveal a traitor within the section.
- 1967–197250m8.2 (38)TV EpisodeDirectorPeter DuguidStarsEdward WoodwardT.P. McKennaSarah LawsonAttempting to stay one step ahead of Richmond, Callan visits an old nemesis in prison: Flo Mayhew, the woman who set a trap for him using Lonely as bait. Now, however, he intends to turn the tables.
- DirectorReginald CollinStarsEdward WoodwardT.P. McKennaRussell HunterStill on the loose, Richmond activates a sleeper agent and seeks refuge in the man's home. Meanwhile, Hunter has marshaled all of the section's resources to find the Russian and flush him out.