Partial sets available!  Seasons 1 and 2 available in NTSC and PAL!

Almost twenty years before Edward Woodward starred as the Equalizer, he was David Callan, an unhappy executioner for the British Secret Service in the classic UK series Callan.  Callan was created by James Mitchell who wrote many of the episodes, as well as the film adaptation, and a number of novels starring the character when the tv show ended.  Callan also starred Russell Hunter as Lonely, Anthony Valentine as Toby Meres (seasons 1, 2, and 4), Patrick Mower as James Cross (seasons 3 and 4), and William Squire (seasons 3 and 4) as the last of many Hunters.

This set contains every existing episode of Callan on 20 region-free dvds.  This means everything from the original Armchair Theatre introduction to the character in A Magnum for Schneider (1967), to the completest possible set of the television series (1967-1972), to the big-screen movie adaptation Callan (1974), to the final television movie Wet Job (1981). 

If you only want a partial set, please feel free to indicate which ones you are interested in.  If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.  If you are interested in other Edward Woodward rarities, I also have his 1977/1978 BBC series 1990 listed and the 4-part 1988 spy series Codename: Kyril.  If you are interested in James Mitchell, I have the 2-part 1989 series Confessional starring Robert Lindsay and Keith Carradine.  If you just like spy dramas, I have the adaptation of Len Deighton's Game, Set, and Matc h and the so-rare-no-one-has-ever-heard-of-it Mr. Palfrey of Westminster.  

This set of dvds is:

* completely uncut
* no commercials
* correct chapter breaks
* simple menus
* all credits
* TDK  dvd-r , plain sleeves
* PAL /region 0

NEW! April 2009 -- Seasons 1 and 2, plus Wet Job and A Magnum for Schneider are available in  both PAL/region 0 and NTSC/region 0.  Seasons 3 and 4 and the Callan film are only available in PAL/region 0.

Unfortunately, a number of episodes from the first and second seasons were destroyed by the studio in the 1960s, so there is no 100% complete set of the show anywhere.  In other words, only 33 of the 43 tv episodes of the show still exist.  All episodes exist for seasons 3 and 4 and these two seasons are also in color, whereas seasons one and two were black and white.   

A word on quality.  Most of the black and white episodes are of fairly low visual quality.  I've watched all episodes a number of times and I think they are ok if you understand that they are at least two, and I think in a few cases three, generations removed from the original studio tapes.  For the most part the audio quality is much higher than the video quality: I can think of a couple of scenes where footage shot outdoors is a bit muffled and one episode has a brief (20 second) audio drop-out.  Otherwise, I have no trouble understanding dialogue and almost no trouble following what was happening on the screen.  Frankly, I think the slight blurriness helps the show because it hides how cheap the show would have looked because the interiors were shot on tape and not film.

Seasons 3 and 4 are both taken from the official region 4 dvds, but have been re-authored  with only two episodes per disc to eliminate the need for recompression of episodes.  The video quality is exactly the same as the original dvds.  All extras are included!

International shipping is calculated based on weight and destination. 

01. Season 1 1967 [All other episodes lost]
101 The Good Ones Are All Dead
106 You Should Have Got Here Sooner

Season 1 only had six episodes so four are lost.  

02. Season 2 1969
201 Red Knight, White Knight
202 The Most Promising Girl of Her Year

03. Season 2 1969 [episode 203 is lost]
204 The Little Bits and Pieces of Love
205 Let's Kill Everybody

04. Season 2 1969 [episodes 207 and 208 are lost]
206 Heir Apparent
209 Death of a Friend

05. Season 2 1969 [episodes 210, 211, and 212 are lost]
213 The Worst Soldier I Ever Saw

This is from the original raw studio cut of the episode with about twenty minutes of extra footage including multiple takes of scenes, actors blowing lines, people shouting behind the scenes, etc.

06. Season 2 1969
214 Nice People Die at Home
215 Death of a Hunter

Season 2 had fifteen episodes so 215 is the last one of the season.

07. Season 3 1970
301 Where Else Could I Go
302 Summoned to Appear

08. Season 3 1970
303 The Same Trick Twice
304 A Village Called 'G'

09. Season 3 1970
305 Suddenly at Home
306 Act of Kindness

10. Season 3 1970
307 God Help Your Friends
308 Breakout

11. Season 3 1970
309 Amos Green Must Live
EXTRA Edward Woodward Interview from 2000

12. Season 4 1972
401 That'll Be The Day
402 Call Me Sir

13. Season 4 1972
403 First Refusal
404 Rules of the Game

14. Season 4 1972
405 If He Can, So Can I (with audio commentary by Edward Woodward)
406 None of Your Business

15. Season 4 1972
407 Charlie Says It's Goodbye
408 I Never Wanted the Job

16. Season 4 1972
409 The Carrier
410 The Contract

17. Season 4 1972
411 The Richmond Files: Call Me Enemy (with audio commentary by Edward Woodward)
412 The Richmond Files: Do You Recognise the Woman?

18. Season 4 1972
413 The Richmond Files: A Man Like Me
EXTRA 1967 Armchair Theatre - A Magnum for Schneider

19. TV Movie 1981
Wet Job

The quality on this is not great, but it is watchable.  It is color and by 1981, Edward Woodward was looking a lot more like Robert McCall than he did during the earlier Callan years.  

20. Film 1974
Callan (also called This is Callan)