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Callan (UK)
TV Series (1967 - 1972)
David Callan is the top agent/assassin(retired) for the S.I.S. (British counter intelligence), but he is an embittered man who performed his duties under duress. Now pressured into returning to duty Callan reluctantly but efficiently performs the tasks given to him. This espionage drama concentrates on the seamy underside of covert operations: assassinations, blackmail and dirty dealing.
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04x13 The Richmond File: A Man Like Me Aired: May. 24, 1972- Richmond is trying to leave Britain. Callan has to track him down. [continue reading]
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Seasons 1 and 2 aired in black/white but we show the colour images of the characters (where availabe).
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- The swinging lightbulb in the opening titles was not merely some attractive credit sequence design: The Section regularly made use of a 500 watt lightbulb swinging in the face of…
[show]The swinging lightbulb in the opening titles was not merely some attractive credit sequence design: The Section regularly made use of a 500 watt lightbulb swinging in the face of interrogation suspects to help disorientate and frighten them.
[hide] - James Mitchell (VI) created the gritty series as a reaction against the increasingly fanciful espionage images seen in The Avengers (UK) (for which he had written in its' earlier, more…
[show]James Mitchell (VI) created the gritty series as a reaction against the increasingly fanciful espionage images seen in The Avengers (UK) (for which he had written in its' earlier, more realistic days), "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." (1964) and the Bond films.
[hide] - The Section used a series of colour-coded files. A Red File was for especially dangerous targets of most urgent priority, marked for death. A Yellow File indicated a subject under occasional…
[show]The Section used a series of colour-coded files. A Red File was for especially dangerous targets of most urgent priority, marked for death. A Yellow File indicated a subject under occasional surveillance. Blue Files were for members of the 'wrong' party. White Files were for people who were to be put out of action by sending them into divorce courts, bankruptcy, prison or mental homes.
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