Callan

The other reviews will tell you that this is one of the best TV series ever, much under-appreciated, and worth your time. They are mainly right, with a few exceptions.

My review is on the colour series as I've not yet watched the first two b&w series, but the fact that they were so popular they led to a successful public campaign not to end the show after Series 2 as originally planned, and long before the days of social media, means they must be good! I can say the next two series were extremely good, equating to one of the highest quality TV dramas I've ever watched.

If you enjoy watching vintage secret agent dramas that are quite bleak in their overall outlook (and they also contain plenty of assassinations, blackmail and dirty dealings), then, "Callan" (1967-1972) is a TV series that is sure to be of special interest to you.David Callan is a top agent/assassin who works undercover for the Secret Service (British counterintelligence).

I'm young, just entered my 20s and yet I know they don't make spy series like this anymore. Callan was light but has certain depth on each and every episode.

David Callan and the TV series he appeared in were the brainchild of writer James Mitchell. Both character and series became a successful phenomenon of the late sixties and early seventies and made a star of Edward Woodward.

Callan was a series I discovered after being laid up with a heavy cold a couple of years back. Taughtly written, gritty, with an extraordinary air of oppression.

A brilliant show spun off from the armchair theatre pilot magnum for Schneider starring Edward Woodward in a star making role as David callan a former soldier turned thief who is blackmailed by a mysterious part of the British security services known as the section to do there dirty work (frame ups,assassinations etc). callan hated the work but had no other choice but to do it the section would,nt let him go he was the best at it.

CALLAN is a grim and gritty TV spy series with much in common with the likes of THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD rather than any fanciful James Bond adventure. It offers a memorable central performance from Edward Woodward, ice cold but showing touches of emotion here and there; the show's most likeable character is Russell Hunter as the irresistable Lonely.

The swinging light bulb, the haunting music, and the fact it was British, really had an impact on the audience, and Callan will forever stand as one of the best of British TV. Okay, perhaps some may beg to differ and argue that Mrs.