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Series 1 |
| 1 :01x01 - A Magnum for Schneider (Feb/04/1967) | Callan is contacted by Hunter, for whom he had once worked in British Intelligence as a hired killer until he lost his nerve. His first job is to eliminate a gunrunner by the name of Schneider, who has been smuggling Magnum pistols and other armaments for terrorists.
Callan decides that it would be poetic justice to use a Magnum pistol to murder Schneider, and requests Lonely to get one for him.
He suspects, but is not absolutely sure whether he can trust Hunter not to betray him after he has carried out the killing. | | Guest Stars: Judy Champ as Hunter's Secretary, Helen Ford as Miss Brewis, Martin Wyldeck as Inspector Pollock, John Scarborough as Jones, Joseph Fürst as Rudolph Schneider, Ivor Dean as Waterman, Peter Bowles as Toby Meres, Francisca Tu (1) as Jenny | Director: Bill Bain
Writer: James Mitchell (2) | | | |
| 2 :01x02 - The Good Ones are All Dead (Jul/08/1967) | Callan is badgered by Hunter into kidnapping a suspected Nazi War Criminal who is wanted by the Israelis. If taken alive, Strauss, who is known as Stavros, will be tried under Israeli law and British Intelligence will be given some good information on the Egyptians by the Israelis. Hunter tells Callan that he (Callan) is in a red file, and that he will be killed if he refuses to work for the Section.
Callan gets a job as a book keeper with Stavros, and soon finds enough evidence to convince himself that Stavros is indeed Strauss, even though he has already been identified by a Jew who was a victim of the holocaust. | | Guest Stars: Lisa Langdon as Liz, Hunter's Secretary, Anthony Valentine as Toby Meres, Ronald Radd as Hunter No. 1, Powys Thomas as Stavros/Strauss, Linda Marlowe as Jeannie Roache, David Lander (2) as Berg, Tom Kempinski as Avram | Director: Toby Robertson
Writer: James Mitchell (2) | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 6 :01x06 - But He's a Lord, Mr. Callan (Aug/05/1967) | This episode is missing, believed wiped.
Hunter arranges things so that Callan is publicly insulted by Lord Borrowdale. A former colleague of Callan's, Beverly, approaches Callan with a proposal to cheat during a card game with Lord Borrowdale, and Callan, still smarting from the insult, agrees.
Lord Borrowdale loses heavily and invites both Callan and Beverly to his country home so that he can have another chance at winning back his losses.
Callan, as ever, is suspicious and after breaking into Beverly's house discovers that Lord Borrowdale is a corrupt man who would sell his country down the drain given the right circumstances. Hunter is aware of this, and also knows that Lord Borrowdale has some information which could seriously damage Anglo/American relations, and is preparing to use this information by selling it to the Russians.
Lord Borrowdale loses heavily at cards yet again and ends up owing Callan a lot of money. Eventually there is a show down between Callan and Lord Borrowdale and the peer is killed. Callan makes sure that Beverly is the police's number one suspect. | | Guest Stars: Donald Hewlett as Lord Lindale, Gerald Flood as Miller, Ann Bell as Caroline Fielding | Director: Guy Verney
Writer: James Mitchell (2) | | | |
| 7 :01x07 - You Should Have Got Here Sooner (Aug/12/1967) | Dan Pollock is a traitor whom Callan had put in prison several years earlier on charges of providing secret information to the Russians.
The KGB have helped him to escape from prison, and he is after the secret formula for a poisonous nerve gas which he had stolen prior to his arrest. He has left it with his girlfriend and her mother, who are innocent parties to the affair.
Lonely gets involved in the affair and Meres beats him up, so that he ends up in hospital. Callan gets his own back on Meres by informing Pollock that Meres is not the Russian agent he purports to be, but a British one in disguise. Pollock bashes Meres, then Callan moves in and arrests him. | | Guest Stars: Stanley Stewart as Police Sergeant No. 2, Philip Ryan as Police Sergeant No. 1, Bernard Stone as Flat Porter, Ronald Radd as Hunter No. 1, Pinkie Johnstone as Sue Lyall, Derek Newark as Loder, Jon Laurimore as Pollock, Anne Blake as Mrs. Lyall | Director: Piers Haggard
Writer: James Mitchell (2) | | | |
Series 2 |
| 8 :02x01 - Red Knight, White Knight (Jan/08/1969) |
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The Section has a new Hunter, a rather naive ex Army man. Callan hasn't been working at the Section for a while, but has been dropping in at the firing range for pistol practice every now and then. The new Hunter decides that he wants to see Callan, and orders Meres to go and collect him.
After telling Callan that he is wanted full time back at the Section and threatening him into the bargain, Hunter tells Callan that a KGB agent called Bunin is defecting . Callan knows Bunin extremely well and is immediately suspicious.
Callan interviews Bunin at his hotel room. Bunin says that they are all pawns, and likens their business to a game of chess. Eventually Callan discovers that Bunin's real target is one of their top men, Truman, who is found executed by Bunin who has since gone into hiding. Hunter is to be the next target.
Hunter rather naively sets himself up as a target in order to lure Bunin into the open, and Callan and Meres spend the night protecting Hunter. It is not until the following morning that Bunin comes out into the open, and he is nearly successful in executing both Hunter and Meres. It is only Callan's heightened sense of danger which saves them all. | | Guest Stars: Jon Croft (1) as Customs Officer., Michael Goodliffe as Hunter No. 2, George Ghent as Goncharov, John Savident as Hanson, Duncan Lamont as Bunin, Douglas Fielding as Truman | Director: Peter Duguid
Writer: James Mitchell (2) | | | |
| 9 :02x02 - The Most Promising Girl of Her Year (Jan/15/1969) | Joan Mather is a young biochemist who works at a Biological Research Centre where experiments are being done to create new types of bacteria for germ warfare. When Joan announces her intention of leaving, her boss becomes alarmed as Joan has a photographic memory and could be a threat to security.
Callan is assigned to Joan's case, and Meres befriends her best friend Sonia Prescott. Callan discovers that Joan's boyfriend is an East German agent called Karl Donner who has been using the girl who had innocently thought that he was a biochemist like herself who had intended to marry her. Donner has sent a friend, Horst, to fetch Joan. Horst is captured and is brainwashed by Dr. Snell who destroys his mind.
Karl Donner follows Horst when he doesn't hear from him, with tragic consequences. | | Guest Stars: Michael Goodliffe as Hunter No. 2, Joan Crane as Sonia Prescott, Raymond Young (1) as Dr. Bradford, Clifford Rose as Snell, David Hargreaves as Karl Donner, Peter Blythe as Horst, Elizabeth Bell (1) as Joan Mather | Director: Peter Duguid
Writer: James Mitchell (2) | | | | | | |
| 11 :02x04 - Little Bits and Pieces of Love (Jan/29/1969) | The Section are after Andre Brezhevski who is working for the Russians as a scientist. He is developing a fuel for a rocket powered nuclear warhead and British Intelligence want it.
Callan is instructed to contact Mrs. Sophie Rule who was once married to Brezhevski, but is now married bigamously to Dr. Charles Rule. Mrs. Rule, who is a survivor of Dachau Concentration Camp is in a delicate state of health. Callan tells her that unless she does what she is told she will be charged with bigamy. She is instructed to write a letter to Brezhevski, who still loves her, telling him to come to her. Brezhevski does so, but dies in the attempt.
(Clifford Rose pictured at right) | | Guest Stars: Joseph O'Connell as KGB Man No. 2, Andy Devine (2) as Brezhevski, Vivien Sherrard as Waitress, David Garfield (1) as KGB Man, Fabia Drake as Agnes Gregory, Michael Goodliffe as Hunter No.2, Laurence Hardy as Dr. Rule, Vladek Sheybal as Polak Dicer, David Rose (2) as Meres' Assistant, Pauline Jameson as Sophia Rule | Director: Peter Sasdy
Writer: James Mitchell (2) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 16 :02x09 - Death of a Friend (Mar/05/1969) | Callan's friend, a French Intelligence Agent by the name of Jean Coquet is killed in a car crash. The post mortem reveals that he was doped, so it is being treated as murder.
Callan interviews Coquet's wife, Francine, but she tells Callan that they have been living apart for the past two years.
Coquet's friend, Marcel Latout, reveals who the murderer is after both he and Toby Meres are injured by a bomb. | | Guest Stars: John Devaut as Messmer, Lawrence Trimble as Watson, Geoffrey Cheshire as Jean Coquet, Maryann Turner as Hospital Sister, Barry Stanton as Lambert, Rex Robinson as Mason, David Leland (1) as Marcel Latout, Jerome Willis as Fromard, Ann Lynn as Francine Coquet | Director: Peter Duguid
Writer: Ray Jenkins | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 21 :02x14 - Nice People Die at Home (Apr/09/1969) | A father and daughter by the name of Marshall are Soviet agents whose cover is a pet shop in Shepherds Bush, London. They are petty agents, very small fry indeed, and the father is very ill with only a couple of months to live. The daughter wants to take him back to Austria before he dies.
Callan is sent to them impersonating a Soviet agent named Ross who has just arrived in London, an agent who specialises in microdots. Callan is hoping that the Marshalls will be able to lead him to top Soviet agent Belukov.
Hunter wants Belukov and the Marshalls eliminated, but Callan feels that the Marshalls are innocents who need a break. During a fight Belukov is wounded by Nadia Marshall. Callan takes Belukov to a hideout and contacts Hunter. He tells Hunter that unless the Marshalls are allowed onto a plane to Austria he will release Belukov to the Russian Embassy. | | Guest Stars: Kenneth Benda as Doctor, Roger Bizley as Ross, Jonathan Burn (1) as Chelenko, Frederick Jaeger as Belukov, Harry Towb as Marshall, Ronald Radd as Hunter No. 1, Angela Morant as Nadia Marshall | Director: Peter Duguid
Writer: Robert Banks Stewart (7) | | | |
| 22 :02x15 - Death of a Hunter (Apr/16/1969) | Hunter believes that there is a traitor in the Department, and the only operative whom he trusts is Callan. Callan is therefore commissioned to watch an opposition agent known as Striker to see whom he contacts. Callan gets Lonely to break into Striker's flat to look for a cipher pad, and Lonely finds Striker's dead body in the flat.
In the meantime, Meres receives a phone call purporting to be from Hunter. Meres is tricked by the opposition who take him to Striker's flat where he arrests Callan on charges of Espionage.
Callan is spirited away by the enemy agents and is brainwashed into believing that the enemy agent in the Department is Hunter himself. He is brainwashed for a week, then released. He immediately heads for the Department and shoots and kills Hunter who is working at his desk. Callan is then shot and wounded by Meres and only then does Callan realise that he has been tricked.
| | Guest Stars: Derek Bond as Hunter No. 3, Michael Meacham as Andrews, John Flanagan (1) as Striker, Terry Scully as Kenny, Norman Wooland as Koralin, John Wentworth as Sir John Harvey, Derek Waring as Haynes, Barbara Leigh-Hunt as Susanne | Director: Reginald Collin (1)
Writer: Michael Winder | | | |
Series 3 |
| 23 :03x01 - Where Else Could I Go? (Apr/08/1970) | Callan has almost entirely recovered physically from the bullet wound to the lung which Meres gave him, but psychologically he has been damaged. Dr. Rose tells Hunter that Callan's aggression has lessened, that Callan is worryingly mild-mannered, but Hunter wants him back the way he was.
During the five months that he has been in hospital Callan's flat has gone, and Lonely has been sent to prison for stealing. One of the first things which Callan does is to visit Lonely in Brixton where he has been remanded in custody. Callan tells Lonely that he will get him out.
The agent Cross makes his first appearance in this episode, replacing Meres who has been sent to America. | | Guest Stars: Richard McNeff as Detective Sergeant Wheeler, Harry Towb as Judd, Dennis Thorne as Dodds, Queenie Watts as Lonely's Auntie Ivy, William Squire (2) as Hunter No. 4, Alan Cullen as Merry, John Baldwin (1) as Prison Officer, Gary Watson (1) as Henshaw, Frederick Schrecker as Blind Man, David Prowse as Wellington, Patrick Mower as James Cross, Mona Hammond as Nurse | Director: James Goddard (1)
Writer: James Mitchell (2) | | | |
| 24 :03x02 - Summoned to Appear (Apr/15/1970) | Agent Cross makes a mess of an attempted assassination of the KGB agent Palanka, and an innocent man dies in Palanka's place. Unfortunately Callan was an observer to the man's death and is summonsed to appear in the Coroner's Court.
The Section decide that they will use a man previously injured by Palanka, a Czech national by the name of Karas, as bait to lure Palanka out of hiding.
Callan gives his evidence to the Coroner, and the verdict satisfies all those concerned. | | Guest Stars: Warren Clarke as Porter No. 2, Michael Martin (1) as Sergeant, Henry Manning as Mr. Arlen, Sylvia Burrows as Mrs. Arlen, Donegal as 1st Porter, Norman Henry (2) as Inspector Kyle, Lesley Daine as No. 2 Girl on Bus, Sylvester Morand as Palanka, Cheryl Hall as Girl on Bus, Hana Maria Pravda as Mrs. Karas, George Pravda as Mr. Karas, Edward Burnham (1) as Mr. Leach, Rhoda Lewis as Mrs. Kent, Edward Caddick as Mr. Lorrimer, Charles Pemberton as Police Constable | Director: Voytek
Writer: Trevor Preston | | | |
| 25 :03x03 - The Same Trick Twice Over (Apr/22/1970) | Callan and Bishop are at the German border to exchange a KGB agent for two British agents. The exchange takes place, and the two British agents, Mallory and Surtees are to be debriefed.
However, Surtees proves to be a very difficult man who will not co-operate as he says he was blackmailed by British Intelligence to spy for them in the first place. He intends to write his memoirs and have them published. Hunter is extremely worried about the effect that this will have on the Section, and orders Callan to do something about it.
Callan doesn't want to harm Surtees and makes a few enquiries before committing himself. He enlists the aid of Lonely, who is working at Harry's Strip Bar as a lavatory attendant. | | Guest Stars: Andrew Sachs as German Captain, Harold Innocent as Freddy, Trisha Noble as Jean Price, Geoffrey Chater as Bishop, Patrick O'Connell (2) as Mallory, Richard Hurndall as Surtees, William Squire (2) as Hunter No. 4 | Director: Peter Duguid
Writer: Bill Craig (1) | | | |
| 26 :03x04 - A Village Called `G' (May/13/1970) |
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Liz is late for work and Hunter is so anxious that he puts The Section on Red Alert. Liz is in a red file as she probably knows more about the Section and its workings than anybody else.
Hunter tells Callan a bit about Liz. She is of Polish origin, having escaped the Nazis but being the only person in her village to do so, both her parents dying at the hands of the Nazis. Brought to England, she was adopted by a couple called March. They were killed in a road accident by a drunken driver five years earlier. Liz has no family at all, and her life is rather a solitary one.
Callan soon finds that Liz has been taking shooting lessons, and also that a revolver is missing from The Section. Coinciding with this is the arrival in London of Sabovski, a man who is a wanted war criminal, and who was responsible for the deaths of Liz's parents and their entire village in Poland. Callan discovers that Liz has been dating Cross, which is against the Section's policy.
It is a race against time for Callan and Cross to find Liz before she kills somebody or gets killed herself.
(Lisa Langdon and Joseph Furst pictured at right) | | Guest Stars: Lewis Wilson as Hotel Clerk, Billie Hammerberg as Replacement Secretary, Michael Hall (1) as Archivist, George Innes (1) as Arnold, Graham Crowden as The Groper, Marne Maitland as Barman, Joseph Fürst as Sabovski, Harry Towb as Judd, William Squire (2) as Hunter No. 4 | Director: Mike Vardy
Writer: James Mitchell (2) | | | |
| 27 :03x05 - Suddenly - at Home (May/20/1970) | Lady Janet Lewis is the widow of Sir Colin Lewis, a very prominent public servant. She is approached by Joinville, a Frenchman who claims to be a TV producer. Joinville wants to do a documentary on the late Sir Colin's life, and Lady Lewis agrees to this as he is offering ten thousand pounds and she has two small sons and needs the money.
Hunter tells Callan that this must be stopped as Lady Lewis may unwittingly be indiscreet. Callan visits Lady Lewis and persuades her to change her mind. Lady Lewis is attracted to Callan and he to her, and a romance begins between the two.
Tragedy is never far off when Callan is involved, and things soon take a turn for the worse. Cross finds himself in danger from a KGB hitman and Callan must act decisively.
(Edward Woodward and Zena Walker pictured at right) | | Guest Stars: Stephanie Marrian (1) as Cross' Girl, Anthony Hall (1) as Police Sergeant, Douglas Milvain as Host at Party, Harry Shacklock as Porter, Frances Tomelty as Second Woman, Dorothy Alison as Housekeeper, Tony Beckley as Rene Joinville, Zena Walker as Lady Janet Lewis, William Squire (2) as Hunter No. 4 | Director: Piers Haggard
Writer: James Mitchell (2) | | | |
| 28 :03x06 - Act of Kindness (May/27/1970) | Donovan Prescott works for the largest export company in England, but he does a bit of spying on the side for a thrill. When the KGB send some photographs of him with a prostitute to his employer, Heathcote Land, he is in danger of losing both jobs.
Heathcote Land is a model soldier enthusiast like Callan, so Callan is the obvious person to send to a model soldier convention where he sets out to meet Land. The two strike up a friendship, and it soon becomes apparent that Land is aware of Callan's identity. Playing at model soldiers is similar to spying - both involve foresight and planning, and Land and Callan continually out manoevre one another in their war games with model soldiers in this interesting episode of Callan.
| | Guest Stars: Mark Jay as Master Briggs, Peter Beton as Shop Assistant, Jacqueline Maude as Janice Land, Nicolette McKenzie as Mrs. Briggs, Ray Smith as Donovan Prescott, Anthony Nicholls as Heathcote Land, William Squire (2) as Hunter No. 4 | Director: Mike Vardy
Writer: Michael Winder | | | |
| 29 :03x07 - God Help Your Friends (Jun/03/1970) | Mark Tedder is suspected of being a KGB agent, but nobody is really sure. When he becomes engaged to Beth Lampton, a NATO Translator, the Section gets edgy, worrying about the secrets which Beth could tell her husband.
Hunter orders Callan and Cross to do something to break up this engagement, and in the end they are successful but the results of their interference are tragic.
(Patrick Mower and Stephanie Beacham pictured at right.) | | Guest Stars: Edward Harvey (2) as Mr. Robinson, Clyde Pollitt as Messenger, John Quarmby as D.I.5 Man, Oliver Cotton as Senor Andarez, Rachel Herbert as Jeanette Valden, Michael Jayston as Mark Tedder, Stephanie Beacham as Beth Lampton, William Squire (2) as Hunter No. 4 | Director: Peter Duguid
Writer: William Emms | | | |
| 30 :03x08 - Breakout (Jun/10/1970) | KGB agent Lubin gives himself up to the police knowing that he is safe from Hunter's Section in a British prison cell. He has a list of names of British agents working in Europe, all of whom are marked for death, and Callan's name is among them.
Callan arranges for Lonely to be transferred to the same prison as Lubin and he and Cross disguise themselves as KGB Officers and arrange to break Lubin out of prison. They intend to kill him as quickly as possible, but unfortunately Lonely gives the game away and Lubin escapes.
(Patrick Mower and Edward Woodward pictured at right) | | Guest Stars: Derek Cox (1) as Warder No. 2, Eric McCaine as Warder No. 1, Frank Mann as Policeman, John Corvin as Hughes, Ernest Hare as Judge, Billy Cornelius as Mellor, Robert Cartland as Bonnington, William Fox (2) as Chaplain, Patrick Mower as James Cross, Garfield Morgan as Lubin, William Squire (2) as Hunter No. 4 | Director: Reginald Collin (1)
Writer: James Mitchell (2) | | | |
| 31 :03x09 - Amos Green Must Live (Jun/24/1970) | A murdered man is found in the river. In his pocket he is carrying a card bearing the ace of spades motif.
Amos Green, an extreme right wing politician who believes that all coloured people in Britain should be returned to their home of origin receives a similar ace of spades death card. The Section are called in to act as body guards, and to find out who is responsible for the hit.
(Patrick Mower pictured at right) | | Guest Stars: Al Garcia as Rutter, Lee Donald as Philip Rowland, Elaine Garreau as Shop Assistant, Michael Quinto as Gray, Frank Coda as Taxi Driver, Nina Baden-Semper as Anna, Stefan Kalipha as Casey, Annette Crosbie as May Coswood, Corin Redgrave as Amos Green | Director: James Goddard (1)
Writer: Ray Jenkins | | | |
Series 4 |
| 32 :04x01 - That'll Be the Day (Mar/01/1972) | While on assignment in East Germany Callan is captured and sent to Russia by the KGB where he is ruthlessly interrogated.
In the meantime, the Department have put it around that Callan has died and they stage a funeral and arrange a burial with a coffin and a real body in it. The only people who know that Callan is still alive are Bishop and Hunter.
Lonely refuses to believe that Callan has died and starts making a nuisance of himself, but this is soon handled by the ruthless agent Cross. Cross and Stafford are told by Bishop to go and collect the KGB agent Richmond. It is Bishop who really values Callan and arranges for an exchange between Richmond and Callan. Hunter tells Callan that he did not want to lose Richmond, in effect telling Callan that he considers him expendible.
(Pictured at right is Russell Hunter as Lonely). | | Guest Stars: Queenie Watts as Lonely's Auntie Ivy | Director: Mike Vardy
Writer: James Mitchell (2) | | | |
| 33 :04x02 - Call Me Sir! (Mar/08/1972) | Hunter No. Four is leaving the Department, and he and Bishop decide that Callan would be a good replacement. Very much against his will, Callan takes up his position as the new Hunter only to find that a red file exists with Lonely's name on it. There is also a hit out on Callan himself.
Callan hasn't seen Lonely since his time as a prisoner of the KGB. He tracks Lonely down and tries to arrange for him to leave the country with false papers, but the plan goes wrong. Fairly soon it becomes apparent that whoever is trying to kill Callan is using Lonely as bait.
(Pictured at right is Edward Woodward as David Callan). | Director: Mike Vardy
Writer: Bill Craig (1) | | | |
| 34 :04x03 - First Refusal (Mar/15/1972) | Callan, as the new Hunter, tells Bishop that he wants a Mobile Communications Facility, which is his way of describing Lonely behind the wheel of a taxi cab in communication with Headquarters. By this means Callan also manages to put Lonely onto the payroll of the Department.
A man called Kitzlinger contacts Bishop and Callan and tells them that he wants one hundred thousand pounds in return for a list of all the SIS Agents working behind the iron curtain. Callan agrees, as one of the agents' names has been released already, and this man, Bristac, was shot and wounded as he left East Germany.
Toby Meres is back from Washington. He poses as a KGB agent offering a similar amount to Kitzlinger on behalf of the Russians to establish whether Kitzlinger is genuine or not. In the end he and Callan discover that a woman named Myra Kessler is behind the whole scheme, but things are a bit more complicated than this.
(Pictured at right are Edward Woodward as Callan and Anthony Valentine as Meres) | | Guest Stars: Carl Bohun as Vopo Officer, Christopher Owen (1) as Bristac, Coral Atkins as Myra Kessler, Martin Wyldeck as Kitzlinger | Director: James Goddard (1)
Writer: Bill Craig (1) | | | |
| 35 :04x04 - Rules of the Game (Mar/22/1972) | Bishop tells Callan that a British official working in Moscow has been expelled as a spy, despite the fact that he isn't one. In return, Bishop says that they must expell a Russian embassy employee and they must harass one of them until he wants to go back.
The job of harassment is handed to Cross. The man is named Medov and he is the cultural attachee to Moscow with a wife and young daughter. In the end Medov cracks under the strain, and approaches Cross asking for asylum. He says that once you start being harassed you become suspect. While all this is happening, Medov's young daughter attacks Cross who accidentally strikes her over the head with his gun butt.
The girl ends up in a critical condition in hospital with brain damage.
(Pictured at right is Patrick Mower as Cross). | | Guest Stars: Joan Ogden as Hard Faced Woman, Shelagh Wilcocks as Matron, Timothy Carlton as Kane, Philip Brack (1) as Vasyayev, Verna Harvey as Danera, James Cossins as Neville Dennis, Mike Pratt as Medov, Virginia Stride as Alevtina, Geoffrey Chater as Bishop | Director: Voytek
Writer: Ray Jenkins | | | |
| 36 :04x05 - If He Can, So Could I (Mar/29/1972) | SIS Agent Cross injures a fourteen year old Russian girl by accidentally hitting her on the head. She has sustained brain damage and lies paralysed in hospital.
Dr. Snell is certain that Cross is cracking up, and feels that Cross shouldn't go on any more jobs for the present. Callan, who controls the section, disagrees and sends Cross on a mission to guard a Soviet poet while Meres is employed following the Russian KGB assassin Borov. During the mission Borov attempts to kill the poet, and Cross is shot and killed.
When he hears that Cross has been killed, Callan breaks all the rules by going out on the job himself. He locates Borov and shoots him. Borov's last words are: 'He let me kill him'.
Callan is suspended from the job of Hunter by Bishop, and Dr. Snell tells him that Cross was really seeking a way out, and had committed suicide.
(Pictured at right is Edward Woodward as Callan with Russell Hunter as Lonely). | | Guest Stars: Morris Perry as Vadim/Burov, Clifford Rose as Dr. Snell, John Abineri as Cuthbertson, Andrew Burt as Foster, Peter Blythe as Trofimchuk, Geoffrey Chater as Bishop | Director: Peter Duguid
Writer: Ray Jenkins | | | |
| 37 :04x06 - None of Your Business (Apr/05/1972) | After the Cross affair, Callan finds himself persona non grata around the department, being rejected first by Meres, then by Lonely and Liz, and he is suspended from all duties and fired from the position of Hunter by Bishop.
Deciding that he might as well take a holiday he asks for his passport but when this is denied him he gets in touch with Lonely, who has contacts who might be able to provide him with another. Callan finds himself involved in a forged passport affair in the course of which a young University student, Paul West, is murdered. British Intelligence is also involved in this matter.
Ultimately, a new Hunter arrives on the scene and things return to normal, with Callan back in the field with Meres.
(Pictured at right is Edward Woodward as Callan with Anthony Valentine as Meres and William Squire as Hunter). | | Guest Stars: David Whitman as Black, Donald Webster as Dorman, Wendy Hamilton as Stella, James Walker (1) as Mealing, Paul Williamson (2) as Stafford, Peter Eyre (1) as Paul West, Tony Selby as Lucas, Brian Murphy (1) as Reeves, William Squire (2) as Hunter No. 4 | Director: Voytek
Writer: Trevor Preston | | | |
| 38 :04x07 - Charlie Says It's Goodbye (Apr/12/1972) | James Palliser is a very rich man who wants to go and join his homosexual lover in Poland. Hunter tells Callan that it is not on, and that he is to stop this happening at all costs.
Komorowski commissions a young hitman by the name of Trent to look after Palliser. Secretly Komorowski wishes to defect, and this is why he has employed a relatively inexperienced youngster to look after such an important man and not a KGB officer.
Callan meets and falls in love with Susan Morris whose husband had committed suicide after coming under investigation by one of the security services. When Trent follows Callan to Susan's shop one day, Callan is for once unarmed, but kills Trent with a harpoon gun, to Susan's utter horror. | | Guest Stars: Alison Hughes as Shop Assistant, John G. Heller (1) as Komorowski, William Squire (2) as Hunter No. 4, Dennis Price as James Palliser, Richard Morant as Trent, Beth Harris as Susan Morris | Director: Peter Duguid
Writer: James Mitchell (2) | | | |
| 39 :04x08 - I Never Wanted the Job (Apr/19/1972) | One evening while Lonely is moonlighting with the Department's taxi he picks up a fare and is horrified when one of the passengers, a well known gangster, is gunned down after being dropped off at his destination. Lonely becomes a hunted man, wanted by both the police and the underworld as the only witness to the incident.
In fear he turns to Callan who is furious that Lonely has used the taxi, or MCF (mobile communications facility), for commercial gain. However, it is Callan who must get Lonely off the hook and with the help of Meres the gangsters involved in the killing get a lot more than they had bargained for. | | Guest Stars: Peter Hutchins as Driver, Michael Deacon as Sunshine, Robert Grange as Fred, Frank Jarvis as Detective Constable, Cleo Sylvestre as Tina, Ron Pember as Albert, Valentino Musetti as Dollar, William Marlowe as Abbott, Frank Coda as Detective Sergeant, Paul Angelis as Steve, John Levene as Harold | Director: James Goddard (1)
Writer: John Kershaw | | | |
| 40 :04x09 - The Carrier (Apr/26/1972) |
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Professor Peter Rose is an idealist, dreaming of a world where all scientists share their secrets regardless of Government. He proposes to sell British secrets to Russia via a man whom he met in Amsterdam. Professor Rose thinks that he is a harmless book-seller, but in fact he is a cold-blooded KGB executioner called Colonel Tamarish.
Callan and Lonely break into Professor Rose's cottage to photograph some of his documents, and everything goes well until Lonely pilfers a shiny silver ornament. Professor Rose notices it is missing and calls in the police. Embarrassingly for Callan, he and Lonely are arrested and Hunter must pull a few strings to have them released.
Colonel Tamaresh arrives in the UK and very quickly realises that the Police are following him. He lures two inexperienced young Officers into Epping Forest and murders both of them, before joining Professor Rose at his cottage.
Callan is sent to kill Tamaresh with as little fuss as possible. He carries out his job leaving a very shaken Professor Rose who will spend the rest of his life looking over his shoulder.
| | Guest Stars: Terry Wright as Police Constable Ballantine, Brian Vaughan (2) as Immigration Officer, Jay Neill as Police Radio Officer, Marc Boyle (1) as Chauffeur, Jeffrey Segal as Sir Charles Braden, Jean Rogers as Mary, Roy Herrick as Allan, Windsor Davies as Chief Superintendent Brown, Michael Turner as Detective Inspector Vanstone, Ralph Nossek as Colonel Tamaresh, Peter Copley as Professor Peter Rose | Director: Jonathan Alwyn (2)
Writer: Peter Hill (1) | | | |
| 41 :04x10 - The Contract (May/03/1972) | Callan, Meres and Lonely are using the taxi to observe the comings and goings of a man called Harcourt, a professional killer who has been hired to kill a Field Marshall.
Meres follows Harcourt but gets caught. Callan rescues him just in time, and it is then decided that Callan will impersonate Harcourt and find out as much as possible about the plan to kill the Field Marshall.
Callan sucessfully makes contact with the contractors, a girl called Kristina and a young hired assassin called Lafarge.
| | Guest Stars: Bernadette Milnes as Vera, Hugh Morton as Stephan, Michael Pennington as Lafarge, Robert Urquhart (2) as Major Harcourt, Jane Lapotaire as Kristina | Director: Reginald Collin (1)
Writer: Bill Craig (1) | | | |
| 42 :04x11 - The Richmond File: Call Me Enemy (May/10/1972) | Soviet Agent Richmond has defected to the United Kingdom, and a debriefing session is set up at a large house just outside London. The debriefing is conducted by Callan, and it is secretly filmed by Hunter and agent Jarrow.
Richmond insists that he is not a traitor in the sense that he has not gone over to the British - he just wants to get out of the business and wants sanctuary. He offers the same sanctuary to Callan by suggesting that he should do the same by going to the Soviet Union. He says that in the spy business the people who kill you are always your friends.
Richmond makes a bit of trouble by suggesting that Meres is a corrupt double agent, and in the end Meres turns up at the house. | | Guest Stars: Peter Beton as Radio Announcer, Charles Rea as Engineer, Brian Croucher as Jarrow, Paul Williamson (2) as Stafford, Geoffrey Chater as Bishop, T. P. McKenna (1) as Richmond, William Squire (2) as Hunter No. 4 | Director: Bill Bain
Writer: George Markstein | | | | | | | | | |
| Callan Feature Film (106 mins) (1974) | This film is a remake of the very first episode of 'Callan' - entitled 'A Magnum for Schneider' -
Callan is contacted by Hunter, for whom he had once worked in British Intelligence as a hired killer until he lost his nerve. His first job is to eliminate a gunrunner by the name of Schneider, who has been smuggling Magnum pistols and other armaments for terrorists.
Callan decides that it would be poetic justice to use a Magnum pistol to murder Schneider, and requests Lonely to get one for him.
He suspects, but is not absolutely sure whether he can trust Hunter not to betray him after he has carried out the killing. | | Guest Stars: Yuri Borienko (1) as Security Porter, Peter Symonds as Smart Security Man, Raymond Bowers as Shabby Security Man, Joe Dunlop as Policeman, Jack Silk as Police frogman (uncredited), Carl Möhner as Schneider, Michael da Costa as The Greek, Mollie Maureen as Old Lady in Street, Tom Laughlin (3) as uncredited, David Graham as Wireless Operator, Nadim Sawalha as Padilla, Don Henderson (2) as George, Edward Woodward as David Callan, Russell Hunter as Lonely, Eric Porter as Hunter, Catherine Schell as Jenny, Peter Egan as Toby Meres, Kenneth Griffith as Waterman, Veronica Lang as Hunter's Secretary, Liz., Clifford Rose as Dr. Snell, David Prowse as Arthur | Director: Don Sharp
Writer: James Mitchell (2) | | | |
| Wet Job (90 mins) (1981) | Callan has retired from the Department, runs his own military memorabilia shop called 'The Old Brigade' and is living with a woman called Margaret. Lonely has also moved on. He has a successful plumbing business and is engaged to be married.
But you are never retired when you work for The Department, and when Callan hears from the new Hunter that his services are required he discovers that a man named Hagggerty is writing a tell-all book which names Callan as a professional killer. Hunter tells Callan that it is a non-Departmental matter, and that it is between Callan and Haggarty. Callan enlists Lonely's aid, gets his magnum pistol out of storage at the bank and prepares to kill once again.
| | Guest Stars: Donald Hoath as Radlett, Jeremy Gittings as Robin Miller, Josie Kidd as Mrs. Radlett, Phillip Manikum as Tim, Felicity Harrison as Liz No. 2, Philip Bird as Jebb, Milos Kirek as Dobrowsky, Anthony Smee as Thorne, Hugh Walters as Hunter Number Five, Helen Bourne as Lucy, Angela Browne as Margaret, George Sewell as Haggerty, Mark Draper as Young Man | Director: Shaun O'Riordan
Writer: James Mitchell (2) | | | |
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