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 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 of Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins and Richard