

David Callan, only good at one thing, well maybe two, killing people and collecting toy soldiers.
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'.

Jan 8, 1969 - 50m
The Section's new Hunter has Callan pulled from the field.

Jan 15, 1969 - 50m
Callan must prove that a young biochemist is not giving information to the East.

Jan 22, 1969 - 50m
Callan apparently turns renegade. A ruse to trap the head of a ‘pipeline' for smuggling foreign agents and defectors out of the country.

Jan 29, 1969 - 50m
Callan must use the wife of a rocket scientist as bait to lure the same scientist to Britain.

Feb 5, 1969 - 50m
A freelance German mercenary organisation who specialise in eliminating foreign security sections have their sights set on the Section.

Feb 12, 1969 - 50m
After Hunter's death Meres and Calln must fetch the new Hunter from East Germany.

Feb 19, 1969 - 50m
Callan must retrieve a microfilm from a spying medium.

Feb 26, 1969 - 50m
Calln must find everything out about the past of an influential politician.

Mar 5, 1969 - 50m
The French O.A.S. carry an internal war into England. Callan and Meres must sort out the mess.

Mar 12, 1969 - 50m
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.

Mar 19, 1969 - 50m
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.

Mar 26, 1969 - 50m
Callan must stop fashist agitators from killing the Chinese Ambassador.

Apr 2, 1969 - 50m
Security wants a retired brigadier of the British army to be stopped from accepting a job offer from a sultan, deadly force is requested.

Apr 9, 1969 - 50m
Callan brings confusion into a Russian spy network.

Apr 16, 1969 - 50m
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.