Callan (TV series) is run by Colonel Hunter. ("Hunter" is a pseudonym for the current Section Chief, like the C of SIS.) The Section removes those who pose a danger to the "innocent" by persuasion, blackmail, extortion or death. David Callan had been the Section's top operator but he had become too curious about his targets and the rationale for their removal. The Section considered him vulnerable, volatile and dangerous and had laid him off to a dead-end book-keeping job for an ungrateful employer. ABC then commissioned a series of six episodes in 1967. In the first episode Callan rejoins the section in
Paul Callan Paul Callan Paul Callan (born 13 March 1939) is a British journalist and editor. Callan reached prominence as editor of the Londoner's Diary in the "Evening Standard" in the 1960s, and then with a "Daily Mail" diary column. He achieved a succession of scoops, and was responsible for training up a generation of young journalists, notably the gossip columnist, Nigel Dempster. Callan later moved to the mass circulation the "Daily Mirror" where he wrote the "Inside World of Paul Callan" column which broke a number of major stories embarrassing to their subjects. Tiring of the gossip columns, Callan moved over