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- The entire section goes on red alert when Liz, Hunter's ever-punctual secretary, fails to show up for work. Trying to trace her, Callan begins to suspect that Liz's disappearance involves not an enemy from the present, but a ghost from her past.
- When Heathcote Land receives incriminating photos of his company's sales manager in bed with a mistress, Callan tries to persuade him not to expose the man. But Land knows too well how such games are played.
- Amos Green is a politician with the combustible view that "coloured immigration is dangerous to Britain and must stop".
- Callan looks into the past of a Canadian Atomic Corporation official when a letter comes in stating is background should be checked.
- By surrendering to the police, wily KGB operative Nikolai Lubin seeks safety in a British prison, out of reach of Hunter and the section's interrogators. Hunter, however, has other plans--engineering Lubin's "escape" under the guise of a KGB operation.
- Ordered to dispose of a member of the aristocracy, Callan, working outside the protection of the agency ('should anything go wrong, we don't know you') finds his mission hampered by Lonely's reluctance to help him.
- Upon Callan's return, dire circumstances force him to accept a new position within the section--one that affords an entirely different perspective on his work, particularly regarding his relationship with Lonely.
- Assigned to shadow an upper-crust economist expected to defect to Poland, Callan becomes involved with a beautiful widow who has good reason to despise intelligence agents.
- When a French counter-intelligence agent Jean Coquet, a man with whom Callan was once close friends, dies in an engineered road accident, Callan is ordered to look after his widow Francine, who is kidnapped while under his protection.
- Captured by the KGB, Callan is drugged, brainwashed and released - with instructions to kill Hunter. He obeys - but who actually dies? Hunter? Meres? Or Callan? Who get shot in the process?
- When a third-party broker offers to sell the names of British agents in Eastern Europe for £100,000, Callan suspects a leak in London and races to find it before the broker's proposal expires.
- Callan must break up the engagement between a lovely NATO interpreter with a grade-A security clearance and a man suspected of serving as a KGB informant. Does the woman's fiance really love her? Or does he love Moscow more?
- Callan finds himself up against him former mentor. Nobby Clarke, now turned vicious mercenary. 'You shouldn't have come hear, Callan. I was always too good for you. I taught you, remember'
- Injured when out in the field, Callan must undergo a complete medical check-up. Bur what happens if someone wants you 'out of the way' for a few days - and is prepared to go to any lengths to achieve that aim?
- Callan and Meres are dispatched to collect the section's new Hunter East Germany, where he has been working undercover.
- After witnessing a gangster's execution, Lonely runs afoul of the killers and the police, jeopardizing both his cover and Callan's life.
- Cross's behavior on his previous assignment calls into question his fitness for service. Nevertheless, Callan assigns his former rival the perilous task of protecting a dissident Russian poet.
- When the KGB - Russian Secret Service - network in London is detected, the authorities move in for the kill. The head Russian slips through the net, and Callan is ordered to capture him.
- Callan must dabble in the occult to find the truth behind a seemingly innocent spiritualist organisation 'The League of Light'. Is it a bona fide society, or do its unearthly manifestations hide more sinister activities.
- The Section is put on high alert when it is discovered that it has been targeted by an unknown party and that everyone from Hunter down is at risk of assassination.
- Callan is manipulated by Hunter #2 into shadowing and befriending Polish émigré Sophia Rule in order to lure her former husband Brezhevski, previously thought dead and now a figure of some influence in the East, over to their side.
- Actor Ronald Radd returns as the first Hunter of the Section, blood-thirsty Col. Leslie. Callan is then sent to nail two minor Russian agents working from a pet shop.
- Relieved of his duties, Callan intends to go on holiday. However, his superiors have relieved him of his passport as well--forcing him to acquire a new one by any means necessary.
- Hunter sends Callan to retrieve a vital document which has been found in a safe of a ship during the war. But other people are interested in the discovery - people who are prepared to kill to obtain its secrets.
- Callan is brought officially back into the Section by a new Hunter, who accompanies him and Meres to the airport collect Russian defector Bunin when he arrives on British soil. Callan doesn't believe a man like Bunin would ever defect and suspects he has actually been dispatched to investigate and even kill the new Hunter. Once under Section protection, Bunin claims he is actually here to pave the way for the defection of top government official Ivan Mereski, a potential prize catch who will only defect to the Section's top man in Russia.
- After Moscow expels a British cultural attache, Callan assigns Cross to harass a Russian embassy employee and force the man's withdrawal. This tit-for-tat arrangement turns complicated, though, when the Russian's family gets involved.
- Lady Janet Lewis--the beautiful widow of an ex-foreign secretary--accepts a TV producer's lucrative offer for an interview about her husband. Suspicious of the producer's intentions, Hunter assigns Callan to stop her, but the assignment gets personal.
- When Callan and Cross's tail on a Polish operative goes horribly wrong and an innocent bystander dies, Callan must testify at the inquest. His dilemma: perjure himself or implicate his fellow agent and expose the section.
- With Callan captured, imprisoned, and interrogated by the Soviets, his superiors stage his funeral. But Callan's pal and sometime employee, Lonely, sees through the charade and makes a nuisance of himself, much to the section's chagrin.
- Callan and Lonely burgle a scientist's home to photograph top-secret documents. But Lonely's sticky fingers endanger the entire operation.
- Callan tries to intercept an assassin hired to murder a visiting dignitary but winds up assuming the killer's identity. Will he find himself forced to fulfill the contract, too?
- Facing up to Hunter is one thing - Callan's used to that. But facing up to Hunter and oriental Robert E. Lee, is too much for one agent to handle. Or is it?
- Both a retread of the Armchair Theatre play 'A Magnum for Schneider' and a direct follow-on, the very first episode of the series proper replays Callan's recall from forced retirement, but this time to keep an eye on former SS officer Strauss (Powys Thomas), who is posing as a Greek Cypriot businessman named Stavros. Having secured a position as his bookkeeper, Callan is ordered to keep Strauss alive until he is handed over to the Israelis, and find conclusive evidence of the man's true identity.
- Callan is ordered to investigate Joan Mather, a government laboratory scientist who has expressed concerns that her work might be used for biological warfare.
- Still on the loose, Richmond activates a sleeper agent and seeks refuge in the man's home. Meanwhile, Hunter has marshaled all of the section's resources to find the Russian and flush him out.
- Alone at a remote safe house, Callan debriefs a high-ranking prospective defector--a man known as Richmond, who promises to reveal a traitor within the section.
- 1967–197250m8.2 (38)TV EpisodeAttempting to stay one step ahead of Richmond, Callan visits an old nemesis in prison: Flo Mayhew, the woman who set a trap for him using Lonely as bait. Now, however, he intends to turn the tables.
- Surtees, a British agent recently returned in a prisoner exchange, threatens to publish an explosive tell-all account of his activities, complete with scandalous details. Suspecting that the KGB has turned Surtees, Hunter orders Callan to stop him.
- Callan secures work with his former commanding officer in order to investigate his involvement with a rich but politically unstable region of the Middle East.
- Recovering after months in hospital, Callan finds he may well get sacked unless he can pass several tests. Lonely is arrested and faces a long prison term unless Callan can hire a highly successful, and expensive lawyer for him.
- When Lonely is beaten up after robbing a supposedly empty flat, Callan investigates on his behalf and discovers a link to a man named Pollock (Jon Laurimore), an enemy operative with whom he has had past dealings and who is currently under the Section's protection. After spotting Toby Meres leaving a safe house in which Pollock's girlfriend is holed up, Callan bluffs his way in and gets the operation details from her, then drops in to Section HQ to warn Hunter to keep his boys away from Lonely. Unfortunately for just about everyone, Meres has already paid him a visit.
- When Callan is accused of taking files from Head Office and planning to flee the country. Hunter suspects that his number one agent has 'gone over'. Callan, however, is playing a very dangerous game - one that could cost him his life.