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1 :01x01 - A Magnum for Schneider
Writer: James Mitchell
Director: Bill Bain
Guest star: Helen Ford (Miss Brewis), John Scarborough (Jones), Joseph Fürst (Rudolph Schneider), Martin Wyldeck (Inspector Pollock), Peter Bowles (Toby Meres), Ivor Dean (Waterman), Judy Champ (Hunter's Secretary), Francisca Tu (Jenny)
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.
2 :01x02 - The Good Ones are All Dead
Writer: James Mitchell
Director: Toby Robertson
Guest star: Anthony Valentine (Toby Meres), Linda Marlowe (Jeannie Roache), Tom Kempinski (Avram), Powys Thomas (Stavros/Strauss), David Lander (Berg), Lisa Langdon (Liz, Hunter's Secretary), Ronald Radd (Hunter No. 1)
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.
3 :01x03 - Goodbye, Nobby Clarke
Writer: Robert Banks Stewart
Director: Peter Duguid
Guest star: Dennis Alaba Peters (Kanaro), Michael Robbins (Nobby Clarke), Bruce Purchase (-), Alfred Hoffman (Sheppick), Fionnula Flanagan (Rena Clarke)
This episode is missing, believed wiped.
4 :01x04 - The Death of Robert E. Lee
Writer: James Mitchell
Director: Robert Tronson
Guest star: Francesca Tu (Jenny), Burt Kwouk (Robert E. Lee), George Roubicek (Curtis Dale), Thick Wilson (Joe Limburg)
This episode is missing, believed wiped.
5 :01x05 - Goodness Burns Too Bright
Writer: James Mitchell
Director: Bill Bain
Guest star: Robert Lang (Bauer), Les White (Franz), Rosemary Frankau (Eva Faber), Gladys Cooper (Dr. Schultz), Jeremy Lloyd (Maitland)
This episode is missing, believed wiped.
6 :01x06 - But He's a Lord, Mr. Callan
Writer: James Mitchell
Director: Guy Verney
Guest star: Donald Hewlett (Lord Lindale), Gerald Flood (Miller), Ann Bell (Caroline Fielding)
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.
7 :01x07 - You Should Have Got Here Sooner
Writer: James Mitchell
Director: Piers Haggard
Guest star: Jon Laurimore (Pollock), Anne Blake (Mrs. Lyall), Ronald Radd (Hunter No. 1), Pinkie Johnstone (Sue Lyall), Derek Newark (Loder), Philip Ryan (Police Sergeant No. 1), Bernard Stone (Flat Porter), Stanley Stewart (Police Sergeant No. 2)
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.
8 :02x01 - Red Knight, White Knight
Writer: James Mitchell
Director: Peter Duguid
Guest star: Douglas Fielding (Truman), Michael Goodliffe (Hunter No. 2), Duncan Lamont (Bunin), George Ghent (Goncharov), Jon Croft (Customs Officer.), John Savident (Hanson)
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.
9 :02x02 - The Most Promising Girl of Her Year
Writer: James Mitchell
Director: Peter Duguid
Guest star: Joan Crane (Sonia Prescott), Elizabeth Bell (Joan Mather), Michael Goodliffe (Hunter No. 2), Peter Blythe ( Horst), Raymond Young (Dr. Bradford), David Hargreaves (Karl Donner), Clifford Rose (Snell)
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.
10 :02x03 - You're Under Starter's Orders
Writer: Robert Banks Stewart
Director: Mike Vardy
Guest star: Kathleen Byron (Hannah Strickland), Warren Stanhope (William Mannix), Michael Hall (Filing Clerk), Harold Innocent (Millett), Michael Goodliffe (Hunter No. 2), Mark Kingston (Watt), Morris Perry (Nixon)
This episode is missing, believed wiped.
11 :02x04 - Little Bits and Pieces of Love
Writer: James Mitchell
Director: Peter Sasdy
Guest star: David Garfield (KGB Man), Fabia Drake (Agnes Gregory), Michael Goodliffe (Hunter No.2), Laurence Hardy (Dr. Rule), Joseph O'Connell (KGB Man No. 2), Vladek Sheybal (Polak Dicer), Vivien Sherrard (Waitress), Pauline Jameson (Sophia Rule), David Rose (Meres' Assistant), Andy Devine (Brezhevski)
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)
12 :02x05 - Let's Kill Everybody
Writer: Ray Jenkins
Director: Robert Tronson
Guest star: Michael Goodliffe (Hunter No. 2), Heather Canning (Dr. Paula Goodman), Henry Knowles (Gould), Hilary Heath (Jenny Lauther), Stanley McGeagh (Ferguson), Peter Welch (Bremer), Kenneth Gilbert (Dr. Walker)
Callan is on sick leave after being injured. He has acquired a new girlfriend, Jenny, a nurse whom he met at the hospital where he was treated.
When it looks as though somebody is trying to kill every agent in the Section, even Jenny comes under suspicion until she too is murdered. Eventually there is a showdown and Hunter is killed. Callan and Meres also nearly get killed in this enthralling episode of Callan.
13 :02x06 - Heir Apparent
Writer: Hugh D'allenger
Director: Peter Duguid
Guest star: Mario Zoppollini (Italian Guard), Peter Cellier (Captain Jenkins), Frans Van Norde (Guard Number Two), Derek Bond (Hunter No. 3), Martin Lyder (Guard Number One), Barbara Grimes (Harvey's Secretary), John Wentworth (Sir Michael Harvey)
The new Hunter is located in East Germany.
Callan and Meres are assigned to go and fetch him. The only place where he can cross the border is an area which is heavily mined, and Callan must find a safe way across.
14 :02x07 - Land of Light and Peace
This episode is missing, believed wiped.
15 :02x08 - Blackmailers Should Be Discouraged
This episode is missing, believed wiped.
16 :02x09 - Death of a Friend
Writer: Ray Jenkins
Director: Peter Duguid
Guest star: Geoffrey Cheshire (Jean Coquet), David Leland (Marcel Latout), Barry Stanton (Lambert), Ann Lynn (Francine Coquet), Rex Robinson (Mason), John Devaut (Messmer), Jerome Willis (Fromard), Lawrence Trimble (Watson), Maryann Turner (Hospital Sister)
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.
17 :02x10 - Jack-On-Top
This episode is missing, believed wiped.
18 :02x11 - Once a Big Man, Always a Big Man
This episode is missing, believed wiped.
19 :02x12 - The Running Dog
Writer: William Emms
Director: James Goddard
Guest star: Derek Bond (Hunter No. 3), Burt Kwouk ( Tao Tsing), Terence Rigby (Holder), Renny Lister (Felice Neff), Nicholas Courtney (David Forbes), Jonathan Newth (Henry Thackery)
This episode is missing, believed wiped.
20 :02x13 - The Worst Soldier I Ever Saw
Writer: James Mitchell
Director: Robert Tronson
Guest star: Julia McCarthy (Mrs. Carr), Ronald Radd (Colonel Leslie), Derek Bond (Hunter No. 3), Larry Cross (General Joe Klinger), Tessa Wyatt (Sarah Pringle), Allan Cuthbertson (Brigadier Pringle), John Wentworth (Sir Michael Harvey), Saeed Jaffrey (Dr. Megali)
Callan is employed below stairs to a Brigadier who is considering the idea of going over to the enemy.
21 :02x14 - Nice People Die at Home
Writer: Robert Banks Stewart
Director: Peter Duguid
Guest star: Roger Bizley (Ross), Harry Towb (Marshall), Ronald Radd (Hunter No. 1), Frederick Jaeger (Belukov), Jonathan Burn (Chelenko), Angela Morant (Nadia Marshall), Kenneth Benda (Doctor)
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.
22 :02x15 - Death of a Hunter
Writer: Michael Winder
Director: Reginald Collin
Guest star: Terry Scully (Kenny), Norman Wooland (Koralin), John Wentworth (Sir John Harvey), John Flanagan (Striker), Derek Bond (Hunter No. 3), Barbara Leigh-Hunt (Susanne), Derek Waring (Haynes), Michael Meacham (Andrews)
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.
23 :03x01 - Where Else Could I Go?
Writer: James Mitchell
Director: James Goddard
Guest star: Dennis Thorne (Dodds), Frederick Schrecker (Blind Man), Queenie Watts (Lonely's Auntie Ivy), Gary Watson (Henshaw), Patrick Mower (James Cross), Harry Towb (Judd), John Baldwin (Prison Officer), Mona Hammond (Nurse), Alan Cullen (Merry), William Squire (Hunter No. 4), Richard McNeff (Detective Sergeant Wheeler), David Prowse (Wellington)
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.
All episodes were now made in colour.
24 :03x02 - Summoned to Appear
Writer: Trevor Preston
Director: Voytek
Guest star: Edward Caddick (Mr. Lorrimer), Charles Pemberton (Police Constable), Donegal (1st Porter), Rhoda Lewis (Mrs. Kent), Hana Maria Pravda (Mrs. Karas), Sylvia Burrows (Mrs. Arlen), Edward Burnham (Mr. Leach), Michael Martin (Sergeant), Warren Clarke (Porter No. 2), Henry Manning (Mr. Arlen), Lesley Daine (No. 2 Girl on Bus), Norman Henry (Inspector Kyle), George Pravda (Mr. Karas), Cheryl Hall (Girl on Bus), Sylvester Morand (Palanka)
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.
25 :03x03 - The Same Trick Twice Over
Writer: Bill Craig
Director: Peter Duguid
Guest star: Richard Hurndall (Surtees), Trisha Noble (Jean Price), Andrew Sachs (German Captain), Patrick O'Connell (Mallory), William Squire (Hunter No. 4), Harold Innocent (Freddy), Geoffrey Chater (Bishop)
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.
26 :03x04 - A Village Called `G'
Writer: James Mitchell
Director: Mike Vardy
Guest star: Harry Towb (Judd), Graham Crowden (The Groper), Lewis Wilson (Hotel Clerk), Michael Hall (Archivist), Joseph Fürst (Sabovski), George Innes (Arnold), Billie Hammerberg (Replacement Secretary), Marne Maitland (Barman), William Squire (Hunter No. 4)
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)
27 :03x05 - Suddenly - at Home
Writer: James Mitchell
Director: Piers Haggard
Guest star: Zena Walker (Lady Janet Lewis), William Squire (Hunter No. 4), Frances Tomelty (Second Woman), Douglas Milvain (Host at Party), Anthony Hall (Police Sergeant), Stephanie Marrian (Cross' Girl), Tony Beckley (Rene Joinville), Harry Shacklock (Porter), Dorothy Alison (Housekeeper)
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)
28 :03x06 - Act of Kindness
Writer: Michael Winder
Director: Mike Vardy
Guest star: Jacqueline Maude (Janice Land), William Squire (Hunter No. 4), Anthony Nicholls (Heathcote Land), Nicolette McKenzie (Mrs. Briggs), Ray Smith (Donovan Prescott), Mark Jay (Master Briggs), Peter Beton (Shop Assistant)
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.
29 :03x07 - God Help Your Friends
Writer: William Emms
Director: Peter Duguid
Guest star: Rachel Herbert (Jeanette Valden), John Quarmby (D.I.5 Man), Clyde Pollitt (Messenger), Stephanie Beacham (Beth Lampton), Edward Harvey (Mr. Robinson), William Squire (Hunter No. 4), Oliver Cotton (Senor Andarez), Michael Jayston (Mark Tedder)
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.)
30 :03x08 - Breakout
Writer: James Mitchell
Director: Reginald Collin
Guest star: Ernest Hare (Judge), John Corvin (Hughes), Frank Mann (Policeman), William Squire (Hunter No. 4), Billy Cornelius (Mellor), Robert Cartland (Bonnington), Garfield Morgan (Lubin), Eric McCaine (Warder No. 1), Derek Cox (Warder No. 2), Patrick Mower (James Cross), William Fox (Chaplain)
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)
31 :03x09 - Amos Green Must Live
Writer: Ray Jenkins
Director: James Goddard
Guest star: Stefan Kalipha (Casey), Nina Baden-Semper (Anna), Corin Redgrave (Amos Green), Elaine Garreau (Shop Assistant), Frank Coda (Taxi Driver), Al Garcia (Rutter), Lee Donald (Philip Rowland), Michael Quinto (Gray), Annette Crosbie (May Coswood)
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)
32 :04x01 - That'll Be the Day
Writer: James Mitchell
Director: Mike Vardy
Guest star: Queenie Watts (Lonely's Auntie Ivy)
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).
33 :04x02 - Call Me Sir!
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).
34 :04x03 - First Refusal
Writer: Bill Craig
Director: James Goddard
Guest star: Coral Atkins (Myra Kessler), Martin Wyldeck (Kitzlinger), Carl Bohun (Vopo Officer), Christopher Owen (Bristac)
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)
35 :04x04 - Rules of the Game
Writer: Ray Jenkins
Director: Voytek
Guest star: Philip Brack (Vasyayev), Shelagh Wilcocks (Matron), Verna Harvey (Danera), Joan Ogden (Hard Faced Woman), Timothy Carlton (Kane), James Cossins (Neville Dennis), Geoffrey Chater (Bishop), Mike Pratt (Medov), Virginia Stride (Alevtina)
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).
36 :04x05 - If He Can, So Could I
Writer: Ray Jenkins
Director: Peter Duguid
Guest star: Peter Blythe (Trofimchuk), Andrew Burt (Foster), John Abineri (Cuthbertson), Geoffrey Chater (Bishop), Morris Perry (Vadim/Burov), Clifford Rose (Dr. Snell)
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).
37 :04x06 - None of Your Business
Writer: Trevor Preston
Director: Voytek
Guest star: William Squire (Hunter No. 4), Brian Murphy (Reeves), Tony Selby (Lucas), Wendy Hamilton (Stella), Peter Eyre (Paul West), David Whitman (Black), James Walker (Mealing), Paul Williamson (Stafford), Donald Webster (Dorman)
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).
38 :04x07 - Charlie Says It's Goodbye
Writer: James Mitchell
Director: Peter Duguid
Guest star: William Squire (Hunter No. 4), Alison Hughes (Shop Assistant), John G. Heller (Komorowski), Dennis Price (James Palliser), Richard Morant (Trent), Beth Harris (Susan Morris)
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.
39 :04x08 - I Never Wanted the Job
Writer: John Kershaw
Director: James Goddard
Guest star: John Levene (Harold), Valentino Musetti (Dollar), Robert Grange (Fred), Cleo Sylvestre (Tina), Frank Jarvis (Detective Constable), Paul Angelis (Steve), Peter Hutchins (Driver), Michael Deacon (Sunshine), Ron Pember (Albert), Frank Coda (Detective Sergeant), William Marlowe (Abbott)
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.
40 :04x09 - The Carrier
Writer: Peter Hill
Director: Jonathan Alwyn
Guest star: Terry Wright (Police Constable Ballantine), Roy Herrick (Allan), Peter Copley (Professor Peter Rose), Ralph Nossek (Colonel Tamaresh), Jean Rogers (Mary), Marc Boyle (Chauffeur), Jeffrey Segal (Sir Charles Braden), Jay Neill (Police Radio Officer), Brian Vaughan (Immigration Officer), Michael Turner (Detective Inspector Vanstone), Windsor Davies (Chief Superintendent Brown)
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.
41 :04x10 - The Contract
Writer: Bill Craig
Director: Reginald Collin
Guest star: Bernadette Milnes (Vera), Hugh Morton (Stephan), Robert Urquhart (Major Harcourt), Jane Lapotaire (Kristina), Michael Pennington (Lafarge)
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.
42 :04x11 - The Richmond File: Call Me Enemy
Writer: George Markstein
Director: Bill Bain
Guest star: Charles Rea (Engineer), Geoffrey Chater (Bishop), T. P. McKenna (Richmond), William Squire (Hunter No. 4), Paul Williamson (Stafford), Peter Beton (Radio Announcer), Brian Croucher (Jarrow)
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.
43 :04x12 - The Richmond File: Do You Recognise the Woman?
Writer: Bill Craig
Director: Peter Duguid
Guest star: Bella Emberg (Warder), Cheryl Hall (Gladys), Sarah Lawson (Flo)
Richmond is still on the loose. SIS have information that the KGB are interested in one of their agents, a woman called Flo who is presently serving 14 years in Wormwood Scrubs.
Callan removes Flo to a safe house, but she escapes and finds Richmond. Callan and Toby Meres track her down, but when they arrive they find that events have taken a tragic turn.
44 :04x13 - The Richmond File: A Man Like Me
Writer: James Mitchell
Director: Reginald Collin
Guest star: Peter Sallis (Peter), T. P. McKenna (Richmond)
The KGB Agent Richmond is on the run. He manages to find a safe house with a sleeper, and stays there for some days. Callan and Meres track him down to this address, but find that he has already fled.
Eventually Callan and Richmond have a confrontation in a warehouse, and Lonely gets involved.
Callan Feature Film (106 mins)
Writer: James Mitchell
Director: Don Sharp
Guest star: Peter Symonds (Smart Security Man), Eric Porter (Hunter), Edward Woodward (David Callan), Catherine Schell (Jenny), Clifford Rose (Dr. Snell), Don Henderson (George), Peter Egan (Toby Meres), Yuri Borienko (Security Porter), Joe Dunlop (Policeman), Kenneth Griffith (Waterman), Veronica Lang (Hunter's Secretary, Liz.), Raymond Bowers (Shabby Security Man), Michael da Costa (The Greek), Mollie Maureen (Old Lady in Street), Carl Möhner (Schneider), David Graham (Wireless Operator), David Prowse (Arthur), Nadim Sawalha (Padilla), Russell Hunter (Lonely), Jack Silk (Police Frogman), Tom Laughlin (unknown)
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.
Wet Job (90 mins)
Writer: James Mitchell
Director: Shaun O'Riordan
Guest star: Jeremy Gittings (Robin Miller), Donald Hoath (Radlett), Mark Draper (Young Man), Milos Kirek (Dobrowsky), Philip Bird (Jebb), Hugh Walters (Hunter Number Five), Anthony Smee (Thorne), Felicity Harrison (Liz No. 2), George Sewell (Haggerty), Josie Kidd (Mrs. Radlett), Phillip Manikum (Tim), Helen Bourne (Lucy), Angela Browne (Margaret)
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.