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Callan :: You Should Have Got Here Sooner (01x07)

Episode Information

Title:

You Should Have Got Here Sooner

Episode #:

01x07

Original Airdate:

Saturday August 12th, 1967

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Episode Crew
Director:	Piers Haggard
Writer:	James Mitchell (2)

Episode Summary

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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.

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Guest Stars

Guest Stars
•Ronald Radd	played	Hunter No. 1	Recurring (second appearance)
•Anne Blake	played	Mrs. Lyall
•Bernard Stone	played	Flat Porter
•Derek Newark	played	Loder
•Jon Laurimore	played	Pollock
•Philip Ryan	played	Police Sergeant No. 1
•Pinkie Johnstone	played	Sue Lyall
•Stanley Stewart	played	Police Sergeant No. 2

Episode Quotes

Callan: Where's the stuff?
Lonely: It - it's at me auntie's.
Callan: She still fencing for you?
Lonely: A bit - on the side - she's semi-retired since Uncle died.

Meres: I drink scotch.
Pollock: I might have guessed. I'm surprised they didn't teach you English with a Scots accent. I'll bet you're crazy about Robert Burns, as well.
Meres: (pompously) He belongs to the people, just as I do.

Lonely: (bashed up by Meres) It's no good, Mr. Callan. I can't tell you nuffink. You should have got here sooner!