Callan (TV series) 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 by means of torture, while extrajudicial killings are so routine they have a colour-coded filing system. With the possible exception of "La Femme Nikita", no TV series
Michael Feeney Callan collection, "Fifty Fingers" (which includes his first poem, "Barbara"), was published in 2003. His second volume of poetry, "An Argument for Sin", was published in 2013. Callan describes the work as "a memoir in poetry, much influenced by Yeats' "A Vision" and Poe's ""." The book comprises poems written between 2003 and 2013. Callan won the Hennessy Literary Award for his short story, "Baccy", and was anthologised in "Best Irish Short Stories" (Elek, London, 1978). Thereafter he diversified widely, publishing fiction and non-fiction. Callan wrote a series of British television adaptation novels of differing genres, including "Capital City" (ITV), "Target: