"So, do you watch Callan ?" Topic

Seeing as this is one of the first times for a long time (if ever !) that all the still available Callan is…err…available…The Monochrome years box set, the Colour Years Box set, the one off special Wet Job and of course the Film. So, have you been watching Callan ?

Select up to 4 responses

1 Yes – Callan the monochrome years
2 Yes – Callan the colour years
3 Yes – Callan – Wet Job
4 Yes – Callan the movie (aka Red File For Callan – in which Callan punches Darth Vader hard "and he didn't get up again, so you'd better be bloody scared of me Lonely me old mate")
5 Yes – saw them originally but haven't picked up the DVD releases – so I've seen more episodes than you, ha !
6 No – never liked Callan
7. Who's this Callan then ? (that's Mr Callan to you squire)

I'm – 1,2,4, and 3 is on order.

7. Huh!?

5. Fully intend to get the DVDs,
Rassilon, shame on you! link

Never have, although I have heard they are a treat to watch

Great show, I've only seen seasons 1 & 2. I didn't know there was anymore.

7

Did it even air in the United States? Sounds too dark for American 60's television…

8. Heard about, never saw it.

1-4.

glad to hear the erly B&W are out again my "collection" was missing a few episodes

1,2,3,4

7

Watched all the TV shows when they first aired. Haven't seen them on DVD….yet.

1-5

1, 2, 3, & 4

Watched my favourite episode – Act of Kindness (the one that actually involves several wargames imdb.com/title/tt0535554 ) – on my iPad only last week!

I saw them all when originally aired..

No, but I've reserved them on Lovefilm.

Remember it from when it was first broadcast.

I fondly remember when they were originally aired but have not seen the DVDs or even known they were available.

x42

The DVDs started a staggered release last yead (IIRC), monochrome years, colour years, wet job – and then all boxed together into 1 mega box.

The good news is that they are now pretty cheap – the set I paid £30.00 GBP for is now available for ~£15. Wet Job is ~£5 now.

The film has been available on and off for years and is a snip at a couple of quid. Has my favourite "Callan gives the tail the slip" sequence – filmed the back o' Charing Cross Station.

I was but a rosy-cheeked nipper during '2'… too young to follow the plots, but loved the intro and the atmos.

The movie rocked. Came out at a time when literally anything on Brit tv was considered fair game for a low-budget, three-episodes-cobbled-together movie version.
"Callan" was about the only worthwhile thing to come out of that genre.

I hadn't heard of 'Wet Job'… going to hunt that out.

wet job.
fnarr

Picture of him reading Military Modelling here:

link

I saw them on TV and the film at the pictures but haven't got any DVDs. is that a 5?

5

Phil

wet job.

It's the section's term for killing someone.

section.
fnarr

Hmm.

And to save save time.

Hmm
fnarr

7

I think that should be

� |(but not in that glass !!)

A superb series, I was too young when it was originally aired, but caught it later on Gold TV.
I think that it's 2 & 4 for me (guessing series 3 & 4 have now been rebadged as "The Colour Years").
I'll pick up 1 & 3 when I finally move into larger premises (hopefully later this year).

No.

Again what the OFM said.
And I still don't own a TV.

Quick fix: if you fancy seeing what the fuss is about, the movie-length episode – an extended version of "A Magnum for Schneider" – is on Youtube:

YouTube link

Cool !

Got me watching – and I own the damn film on DVD. One of those addictive ones.