Callan

Disc 1
Episode 1:That’ll Be the Day
With Callan captured, imprisoned, and interrogated by the Soviets, his superiors stage his funeral. But Callan’s pal and sometime employee, Lonely, sees through the charade and makes a nuisance of himself, much to the section’s chagrin.

Episode 2:Call Me Sir!
Upon Callan’s return, dire circumstances force him to accept a new position within the section—one that affords an entirely different perspective on his work, particularly regarding his relationship with Lonely.

Episode 3:First Refusal
When a third-party broker offers to sell the names of British agents in Eastern Europe for £100,000, Callan suspects a leak in London and races to find it before the broker’s proposal expires.

Episode 4:Rules of the Game
After Moscow expels a British cultural attaché, Callan assigns Cross to harass a Russian embassy employee and force the man’s withdrawal. This tit-for-tat arrangement turns complicated, though, when the Russian’s family gets involved.

Disc 2
Episode 5:If He Can, So Could I
Cross’s behavior on his previous assignment calls into question his fitness for service. Nevertheless, Callan assigns his former rival the perilous task of protecting a dissident Russian poet.

Episode 6:None of Your Business
Relieved of his duties, Callan intends to go on holiday. However, his superiors have relieved him of his passport as well—forcing him to acquire a new one by any means necessary.

Episode 7:Charlie Says It’s Goodbye
Assigned to shadow an upper-crust economist expected to defect to Poland, Callan becomes involved with a beautiful widow who has good reason to despise intelligence agents.

Disc 3
Episode 8:I Never Wanted the Job
After witnessing a gangster’s execution, Lonely runs afoul of the killers and the police, jeopardizing both his cover and Callan’s life.

Episode 9:The Carrier
Callan and Lonely burglarize a scientist’s home to photograph top-secret documents. But Lonely’s sticky fingers endanger the entire operation.

Episode 10:The Contract
Callan tries to intercept an assassin hired to murder a visiting dignitary but winds up assuming the killer’s identity. Will he find himself forced to fulfill the contract, too?

Disc 4
Episode 11:The Richmond File: Call Me Enemy
Alone at a remote safe house, Callan debriefs a high-ranking prospective defector—a man known as Richmond, who promises to reveal a traitor within the section.

Episode 12:The Richmond File: Do You Recognise the Woman?
Attempting to stay one step ahead of Richmond, Callan visits an old nemesis in prison: Flo Mayhew, the woman who set a trap for him using Lonely as bait. Now, however, he intends to turn the tables.

Episode 13:The Richmond File: A Man Like Me
Still on the loose, Richmond activates a sleeper agent and seeks refuge in the man’s home. Meanwhile, Hunter has marshaled all of the section’s resources to find the Russian and flush him out.

• Audio commentaries with star Edward Woodward for episodes 5 and 11
• Biography of Edward Woodward

Packaging: Thinpak
Run Time: 663 minutes
Format: Full screen
Number of discs: 4
Language: English
Subtitles: N/A
Color or B&W: Color
CC: No
SDH: No
Region Code: 1
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Rating: N/A

"Compelling drama series"—The Times(U.K.)

"The greatest TV show made"—The Australian

"Intriguing British espionage series."—DVD Talk

"Callan is everything a spy fan could want, with a gritty antihero, deliciously gray morality, and espionage galore."—DVD Verdict

BAFTA TV Award Winner for Best Actor (Edward Woodward, 1970)

BAFTA TV Award Nomination for Best Drama Series (1970)

BAFTA TV Award Nomination for Best Script (1970)

BAFTA TV Award Nomination for Best Drama Production (1971)

Disc 1
Episode 1:Where Else Could I Go?
After five months in the hospital recuperating from near-fatal gunshot wounds, Callan returns to his section to find the upstart Cross after his position. Under the doubting eye of his superior, the agent must prove that he still has the will to kill.

Episode 2:Summoned to Appear
When Callan and Cross’s tail on a Polish operative goes horribly wrong and an innocent bystander dies, Callan must testify at the inquest. His dilemma: perjure himself or implicate his fellow agent and expose the Section.

Episode 3:The Same Trick Twice
Surtees, a British agent recently returned in a prisoner exchange, threatens to publish an explosive tell-all account of his activities, complete with scandalous details. Suspecting that the KGB has turned Surtees, Hunter orders Callan to stop him.

Disc 2
Episode 4:A Village Called ‘G’
The entire section goes on red alert when Liz, Hunter’s ever-punctual secretary, fails to show up for work. Trying to trace her, Callan begins to suspect that Liz’s disappearance involves not an enemy from the present, but a ghost from her past.

Episode 5:Suddenly—At Home
Lady Janet Lewis—the beautiful widow of an ex-foreign secretary—accepts a TV producer’s lucrative offer for an interview about her husband. Suspicious of the producer’s intentions, Hunter assigns Callan to stop her, but the assignment gets personal.

Episode 6:Act of Kindness
When Heathcote Land receives incriminating photos of his company’s sales manager in bed with a mistress, Callan tries to persuade him not to expose the man. But Land knows too well how such games are played.

Disc 3
Episode 7:God Help Your Friends
Callan must break up the engagement between a lovely NATO interpreter with a grade-A security clearance and a man suspected of serving as a KGB informant. Does the woman’s fiancé really love her? Or does he love Moscow more?

Episode 8:Breakout
By surrendering to the police, wily KGB operative Nikolai Lubin seeks safety in a British prison, out of reach of Hunter and the Section’s interrogators. Hunter, however, has other plans—engineering Lubin’s “escape” under the guise of a KGB operation.

Episode 9:Amos Green Must Live
When a visiting black activist turns up dead, a clue at the scene suggests that controversial anti-immigration politician Amos Green will be the assassin’s next target. While Cross covers Green, Callan seeks the killer before he can strike again.

• Callan trivia
• Biography of Edward Woodward

Packaging: Thinpak
Run Time: 455 minutes
Format: Full screen
Number of discs: 3
Language: English
Subtitles: N/A
Color or B&W: Color
CC: No
SDH: No
Region Code: 1
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Rating: N/A

"Compelling drama series"—The Times (U.K.)

"The greatest TV show made"—The Australian

"Intriguing British espionage series."—DVD Talk

"Callan is everything a spy fan could want, with a gritty antihero, deliciously gray morality, and espionage galore."—DVD Verdict

BAFTA TV Award Winner for Best Actor (Edward Woodward, 1970)

BAFTA TV Award Nomination for Best Drama Series (1970)

BAFTA TV Award Nomination for Best Script (1970)

BAFTA TV Award Nomination for Best Drama Production (1971)