Callan (TV series) why. In a strange sort of reprise, Edward Woodward enters the final series as the head of Center "Mr Jones" who turns out to be Nikita's father. Callan (TV series) Callan is a British action/drama television series created by James Mitchell, first airing between 1967 and 1972. It starred Edward Woodward as David Callan, an agent of a state secret service dealing with internal security threats to the United Kingdom. Though portrayed as having responsibilities similar to those of the real-life MI5, Callan's fictional "Section" has "carte blanche" to use the most ruthless of methods. In the storylines interrogation is
Michael Feeney Callan Wells. Callan's first screenplay was the crime series "The Burke Enigma", a six-hour film production for RTÉ, which starred Ray McAnally and Donal McCann, and went forward as RTÉ's drama entry for the 1979 Prix Italia. According to Callan, this work was "influenced by the film noir I loved as a kid, and by Robert Altman's (filming) style." Subsequently, Callan joined BBC television drama in London, where he story-edited the detective series "Shoestring". Simultaneously, at ITV, he wrote for the action series "The Professionals". In the 1980s, Callan collaborated with Frederick Forsyth on Public Broadcasting Service-aired adaptations of Forsyth's stories