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
John Callan He was survived by his wife and his son. His Requiem Mass was celebrated by Liston at St Patrick's Cathedral and as his cortege left the cathedral, it passed through a guard of honour formed by boys from St Peter's College. John Callan John Bartholomew Callan (15 August 1882 – 12 February 1951) was a New Zealand judge. He was a Justice of the Supreme Court (now known as the High Court of New Zealand) (1935–51). Callan was the son of John Bartholomew Callan, a Dunedin lawyer and member of the New Zealand Legislative Council. He was born on 15