E7
7. You Should Have Got Here Sooner
When somebody beats Lonely up, and Callan finds out who it was he turns the table on Hunter.
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S4 E12 · Do You Recognise the Woman? (Richmond File 2)
Callan is a action & adventure and drama TV series that premiered on ITV1 on February 6, 1967. It has 4 seasons and 44 episodes so far and has ended. The latest episode, Season 4 Episode 12 "Do You Recognise the Woman? (Richmond File 2)", aired on May 17, 1972.
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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44 episodes · 4 seasons
1967 · 7 episodes · Last episode: 59 years ago
E7
When somebody beats Lonely up, and Callan finds out who it was he turns the table on Hunter.
E6
Hunter wants Callan to stop a blackmailing Lord from selling the negatives used in the blackmail to all and sundry.
Callan is lured into going to Berlin, where Hunter wants to use him as a sacrificial lamb to facilitate the planting of a British mole.
Two CIA agents request the help of Hunter's Section in killing a Chinese agent, who has been trading in nuclear secrets. But his real mission in England is to kill Hunter.
Callan must stop an old friend, Clarke, from going back to Africa, where he was training mercenaries, else Hunter will have Clarke killed.
E2
Under threat of being placed in a red file, Callan is coerced into helping the Section hand over an ex-SS officer, Strauss, to the Israelis.
E1
Hunter, head of the Section, requires the services of his best operative, David Callan. Callan had been 'retired' from the service due to his growing conscience, disrespect for orders, and concerns about the people he was ordered to eliminate. Callan now working as a bookkeeper, a job he despises, is offered to be reinstated into the Section if he kills Schneider, an international arms dealer.
1969 · 15 episodes · Last episode: 57 years ago
E15
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.
E14
Callan brings confusion into a Russian spy network.
E13
Security wants a retired brigadier of the British army to be stopped from accepting a job offer from a sultan, deadly force is requested.
Callan must stop fashist agitators from killing the Chinese Ambassador.
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.
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.
E9
The French O.A.S. carry an internal war into England. Callan and Meres must sort out the mess.
Calln must find everything out about the past of an influential politician.
Callan must retrieve a microfilm from a spying medium.
E6
After Hunter's death Meres and Calln must fetch the new Hunter from East Germany.
E5
A freelance German mercenary organisation who specialise in eliminating foreign security sections have their sights set on the Section.
E4
Callan must use the wife of a rocket scientist as bait to lure the same scientist to Britain.
Callan apparently turns renegade. A ruse to trap the head of a ‘pipeline' for smuggling foreign agents and defectors out of the country.
E2
Callan must prove that a young biochemist is not giving information to the East.
E1
The Section's new Hunter has Callan pulled from the field.
1970 · 9 episodes · Last episode: 56 years ago
E9
A parlamental candidate recieves a death threat.
E8
Callan and Cross must break a Russian spy out of prison, where he has voluntarily surrendered himself to, and kill him.
E7
Callan is assigned to disrupt a romance between a government worker and a suspected spy. Reluctantly he delves into his bag of dirty tricks.
E6
Callan helps a former agent out of a blackmailing business.
E5
Callan and Cross are assigned to protect a woman whom Callan becomes involved with.
E4
Hunter's secretary, Liz, is out for someone's blood.
E3
An exchange of captured agents with the Soviets goes sour.
E2
When Cross kills an innocent bystander it's up to Callan to cover for him, but even he cannot decide if it was an accident or murder.
E1
The new Hunter cannot decide if Callan is to return to the Section or not.
1972 · 13 episodes · Last episode: 54 years ago
E13
Callan tracks down Richmond who is trying to leave Britain.
E12
Richmond, a top enemy defector, reveals his true purpose.
E11
Callan debriefs a top enemy defector.
E10
Callan substitutes himself for an assassin in order to prevent an assassination.
E9
Callan and Lonley break into a courier's house to find out how he's operating.
E8
Lonely becomes the unlucky witness to a mob hit.
E7
Callan tries to quit the Section when a girl he is seeing takes a dislike to his job.
E6
The old Hunter returns and Callan tries to get away.
E5
Callan looses his position as Hunter when he goes after the assassin who killed Cross.
E4
Callan orders Cross to terrorise an innocent Russian family for political reasons.
E3
Callan has become the new Hunter. And his first job is to retrieve a list of British undercover agents.
E2
Lonely is used as bait to retrieve Callan from the KGB.
E1
Callan is dead. Or so the KGB would have you think.
Callan has ended, so no new episodes are scheduled. The final episode aired on May 17, 1972.
The most recent episode of Callan, Season 4 Episode 12 "Do You Recognise the Woman? (Richmond File 2)", aired on May 17, 1972.
Callan has 4 seasons with 44 episodes in total.
Callan first aired on ITV1 on February 6, 1967.
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