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
Michael Feeney Callan in a forthcoming collection, "The Beautiful Corner". Michael Feeney Callan Michael Feeney Callan is an Irish novelist and poet. An award winner for his short fiction, he joined BBC television drama as a story editor, and wrote screenplays for "The Professionals", and for American television. He wrote the template Irish police drama series, "The Burke Enigma", starring Donal McCann, and "Love Is", starring Gabriel Byrne, and went on to write and direct a number of television programmes, among them "The Beach Boys Today", a film that marked the band's 30th anniversary. He has published several novels and has written biographies