I'm an American, but i cut my teeth on this period's productions. I esp. Loved Callan as one of the first, and most authentic anti-heroes, a man who does what he's forced to do, but still clutches his own moral/ethical system to his breast. Now 75, i recognize this series as the antecedent to The Equalizer. I miss Edward Woodward so much. Many thank yous for posting this.
@@kussemeinkontMoney, he was an ex soldier with the skills to kill in a professional manner. When he left the army he used his skills as a locksmith to Burgle a shop, he was arrested and blackmailed into working for the section
If you read the books more is explained about the callans life how he met lonely.. The Dr the groper gay looked after callan when he got into fights. In the scrubs
Absolutely wonderful ending to the series - Callan gave Hunter the exact same loyalty he'd been given. It was only Lonely's presence that stopped Callan being dead, but maybe Hunter would have considered that a fair price for Richmond's capture.
Edward Woodward a brilliant English actor in a period when movies and tv relied on dialogue and content not CGI or ridiculous plot line. He will always be remembered as Howie in The Wicker Man but he was so much more than that. Bless his soul to eternal peace.
Edward was totally underrated, this show was underrated, the 60's were underrated, TV back then was underrated, this comment is underrated, your reply is underrated, being underrated is underrated..overrated is totally underrated..
Classic show. My mum absolutely loved Callan. Not least because Russell Hunter played Lonely. You'd never believe he's from Glasgow. That's top acting!
I was a fan of Robert McCall. I am American and not old enough to have seen Çallen. Edward Woodward had a wonderful speaking voice. Yes, this old woman still has a crush on Mr Woodward.
I loved this British series and so many more in the 1960's and 1970's . I was amazed when I first heard an interview with Russel Hunter speaking with his Scottish Accent similar to mine. Edward Woodward was a fine actor.
These three episodes represent the finest episodes in the Callan series. Always very high quality, but these were the top of the class. The movies they made were pretty crap but the weekly series were superb. Thank God the idiots who destroyed so many episodes (to save money ha ha) didn't get these. The intro credits retain their place as the best intro credits ever, the swinging lightbulb extinguished by a bullet were shocking no matter how many times you saw them.
Blah blah blah all these people ever do is talk. Do they ever DO anything? With all the mumbling and incomprehensible accents I can make out every third word but that's better than the closed captioning's able to decipher.I guess it's American, too!
Not American. They never did anything this good. This is called dialogue and it’s spoken by real actors. Listen. No explosions, cgi, monsters. No visual candy. No chases. Also it’s about 60 years old. So imagine that. Audio was not so developed. So listen. It’s English spoken by Britains using their native language. So listen. In those days we were not dumbed down by supercilious and vacuous television programs with talentless, sterile cloned actors and audiences with the attention span of a gnat.
We envied the West back then for them having dozens of tv channels. They all turned out to be rubbish, fodder for the masses. This stupid Callan is just one example.
