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
Paul Callan Paul Callan Paul Callan (born 13 March 1939) is a British journalist and editor. Callan reached prominence as editor of the Londoner's Diary in the "Evening Standard" in the 1960s, and then with a "Daily Mail" diary column. He achieved a succession of scoops, and was responsible for training up a generation of young journalists, notably the gossip columnist, Nigel Dempster. Callan later moved to the mass circulation the "Daily Mirror" where he wrote the "Inside World of Paul Callan" column which broke a number of major stories embarrassing to their subjects. Tiring of the gossip columns, Callan moved over