Callan — Season 2
David Callan, only good at one thing, well maybe two, killing people and collecting toy soldiers.
About this season
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'.
Episodes (15)
1. Red Knight, White Knight
Aired 8 January 1969 • 50 min
The Section's new Hunter has Callan pulled from the field.
2. The Most Promising Girl of Her Year
Aired 15 January 1969 • 50 min
Callan must prove that a young biochemist is not giving information to the East.
3. You're Under Starter's Orders
Aired 22 January 1969 • 50 min
Callan apparently turns renegade. A ruse to trap the head of a ‘pipeline' for smuggling foreign agents and defectors out of the country.
4. Little Bits and Pieces of Love
Aired 29 January 1969 • 50 min
Callan must use the wife of a rocket scientist as bait to lure the same scientist to Britain.
5. Let's Kill Everybody
Aired 5 February 1969 • 50 min
A freelance German mercenary organisation who specialise in eliminating foreign security sections have their sights set on the Section.
6. Heir Apparent
Aired 12 February 1969 • 50 min
After Hunter's death Meres and Calln must fetch the new Hunter from East Germany.
7. Land of Light and Peace
Aired 19 February 1969 • 50 min
Callan must retrieve a microfilm from a spying medium.
8. Blackmailers Should Be Discouraged
Aired 26 February 1969 • 50 min
Calln must find everything out about the past of an influential politician.
9. Death of a Friend
Aired 5 March 1969 • 50 min
The French O.A.S. carry an internal war into England. Callan and Meres must sort out the mess.
10. Jack-on-Top
Aired 12 March 1969 • 50 min
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.
11. Once a Big Man, Always a Big Man
Aired 19 March 1969 • 50 min
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.
12. Running Dog
Aired 26 March 1969 • 50 min
Callan must stop fashist agitators from killing the Chinese Ambassador.
13. The Worst Soldier I Ever Saw
Aired 2 April 1969 • 50 min
Security wants a retired brigadier of the British army to be stopped from accepting a job offer from a sultan, deadly force is requested.
14. Nice People Die at Home
Aired 9 April 1969 • 50 min
Callan brings confusion into a Russian spy network.
15. Death of a Hunter
Aired 16 April 1969 • 50 min
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.