"cancelled. Keen to retain the services of Kennedy, Crawford's decided that new police series ""Division 4"" was a better vehicle for his talents. They convinced the Nine Network to cancel ""Hunter"" and proceed with ""Division 4"", which indeed emerged as a popular success. Mullinar subsequently took the lead role in another Crawford's drama series, ""Ryan"" (1973). Hunter (1967 TV series) Hunter was an Australian espionage adventure television series screened by the Nine Network from Tuesday 4 July 1967 to 1969. The series was created by Ian Jones and produced by Crawford Productions. The title character, John Hunter, was an agent"
"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"
"why. In a strange sort of reprise, Edward Woodward enters the final series as the head of Center ""Mr Jones"" who turns out to be Nikita's father. 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"
"was attributed to Thames Television (the result of the merger). Overall, the series was popular with audiences, running between 1967 and 1972. The closing episode of the 1969 series saw a severely under-pressure Callan get shot, with a clever publicity campaign following to ensure that viewers cared whether the character survived or not (of course, he did). The last two series were in colour and proved as popular as ever. A cinema film simply entitled ""Callan"" followed in 1974, directed by Don Sharp. Callan was last seen in the 1981 feature-length television story made by ATV, entitled ""Wet Job"". Though"
"has ever presented a Western government agency in so sinister a light as ""Callan"". Despite being an assassin who stays in the socially isolating job because it is the only thing he is good at, Callan is a sympathetic character by comparison to his sadistic upper-class colleagues and implacable superior. The downbeat cover for the Section's headquarters was the scrap metal business of ""Charlie Hunter"" (a reference to the Richardson Gang). Produced by ABC Weekend Television and Thames Television, the programme proved extremely popular; as well as four series between 1967 and 1972, there was a film in 1974 and"
"Wells. Callan's first screenplay was the crime series ""The Burke Enigma"", a six-hour film production for RTÉ, which starred Ray McAnally and Donal McCann, and went forward as RTÉ's drama entry for the 1979 Prix Italia. According to Callan, this work was ""influenced by the film noir I loved as a kid, and by Robert Altman's (filming) style."" Subsequently, Callan joined BBC television drama in London, where he story-edited the detective series ""Shoestring"". Simultaneously, at ITV, he wrote for the action series ""The Professionals"". In the 1980s, Callan collaborated with Frederick Forsyth on Public Broadcasting Service-aired adaptations of Forsyth's stories"
"Oliver Callan Oliver Callan (born 27 December 1980) is an Irish vocal and performance satirist and impressionist known as the creator of ""Callan's Kicks"", ""Nob Nation"" and for frequent appearances on ""The Saturday Night Show"". He rose to fame during the 2000s when his daily ""Nob Nation"" slots aired on RTÉ Radio. His ""Callan's Kicks"" creation on RTÉ Radio 1 has been described by ""The Sunday Independent"" as ""the best comedy show the national broadcaster has ever produced"". ""Nob Nation"" and ""Callan's Kicks"" parody political, social and cultural personalities, with Callan performing as the characters featured on the show. His"
"Spy Race"" (1968), ""The Bang Bang Birds"" (1968) and ""Think, Inc."" (1971); James Mitchell's 'David Callan' series, written in his own name, beginning with ""Red File for Callan"" (1969); William Garner's John Morpurgo in ""Think Big, Think Dirty"" (1983), ""Rats' Alley"" (1984), and ""Zones of Silence"" (1986); and Joseph Hone's 'Peter Marlow' series, beginning with ""The Private Sector"" (1971), set during Israel's Six-Day War (1967) against Egypt, Jordan and Syria. In all of these series the writing is literary and the tradecraft believable. Noteworthy examples of the journalistic style and successful integration of fictional characters with historical events were the"
"Meres' younger, brasher, edgier and unpredictable replacement, James Cross (played by Patrick Mower), Hunter concocts a scenario whereby Callan's energies are incited into real emotion that can be turned against the enemy. The remaining eight episodes see the revitalised yet ever-more world-weary assassin cover more ground, including one episode where love comes unexpectedly into his life, and which has the (expected) unexpected ending. The final set of thirteen episodes was broadcast in 1972. This saw Callan develop further than before. An unsuccessful mission meant Callan is being interrogated in a Russian prison, but is exchanged with the Russians for one"
"a tv movie in 1981. The series pilot episode aired in February 1967, in a play entitled ""A Magnum for Schneider"" by James Mitchell. Mitchell was later responsible for creating the equally popular ""When the Boat Comes In"" (1976–81). The haunted character of Callan caught the public's imagination to such an extent that a six-episode series was commissioned and broadcast, later in the same year. A further series of 16 followed, though with both ABC and Associated Rediffusion (broadcasters in the London region) going through the process of merging, by the time the second series was broadcast in 1969 it"
"films, plays and novels employing this style are set frequently in poorer industrial areas in the North of England, and use the rough-hewn speaking accents and slang heard in those regions. The film ""It Always Rains on Sunday"" (1947) is a precursor of the genre, and the John Osborne play ""Look Back in Anger"" (1956) is thought of as the first of the genre. The gritty love-triangle of ""Look Back in Anger"", for example, takes place in a cramped, one-room flat in the English Midlands. The conventions of the genre have continued into the 2000s, finding expression in such television"
"they explore an underworld of smoky nightclubs, jazz bars, and intriguing characters to gather information and seek answers. Detective Superintendent Alan McGregor keeps an eye on Mirabelle's activities as a fledgling romance blooms between the two. London Calling explores the jazz scene of 1952 London, a period of great social change amidst post-war austerity. Recurring characters from the series (Mirabelle Bevan, Vesta Churchill and Superintendent Alan McGregor) are joined by Vesta's childhood friend and jazz musician Lindon Claremont, her new beau Charlie Baker, and a host of wealthy young society figures. London Calling (Sheridan novel) London Calling is a novel"
"previous generation's so-called ""well-made plays"". The films, plays and novels employing this style are often set in poorer industrial areas in the North of England, and use the accents and slang heard in those regions. The film ""It Always Rains on Sunday"" (1947) is a precursor of the genre, and the John Osborne play ""Look Back in Anger"" (1956) is thought of as the first of the genre. The gritty love-triangle of ""Look Back in Anger"", for example, takes place in a cramped, one-room flat in the English Midlands. Shelagh Delaney's 1958 play ""A Taste of Honey"" (which was made"
"an unofficial capacity. The series was characterised by Callan's stand-off, barely-respectful relationship between him and his boss. Hunter schemed to retain Callan on his side and would play him off in little divide-and-rule scenarios with or against his fellow agents to keep control. It was not always apparent that it worked. Callan's contact Lonely (Russell Hunter) developed into an unofficial sidekick, whose shadowing qualities outshone his sense of personal hygiene, something Meres in particular took joy in pointing out. Lonely remained ignorant of Callan's real work and believed him to be something of a gangland villain. By 1969, ABC Weekend"
"Theatre"" play ""A Magnum for Schneider"", which later became the spy series ""Callan"", one of his early television roles and one in which he demonstrated his ability to express controlled rage. His iconic performance assured the series success from 1967 to 1972, with a film appearing in 1974. He also appeared opposite Laurence Olivier in a 1978 adaptation of ""Saturday, Sunday, Monday"" in the ""Laurence Olivier Presents"" anthology series. The success of ""Callan"" typecast him somewhat, but the enduring success of the genre allowed him to gain leading roles in similar productions, though none would prove as iconic as ""Callan""."
"until the end of November of the same year.The director was Andrew Flynn,and the cast included Michael Ford Fitzgerald (leap year),Lalor Roddy (Hunger), Peter Gowan (love/hate), Anthony brophy (The tudors), Diarmuid de Faoite(corp agus anam) and David Martin (eamon). Carolan studied History in Trinity College Dublin. He is also well known as the creator of the cult TV series ""Love/Hate"", a crime drama series broadcast on RTÉ Television that premiered in 2010 on RTÉ One. depicting fictional characters in Dublin's criminal underworld. He also wrote many of the series' episodes. In 2012, Carolan won the IFTA Award for ""Best Writer:"
"of ""Fawlty Towers"". Curran has often been blamed for an unenthusiastic and somewhat censorious attitude towards ""Monty Python's Flying Circus"", but the Python team still won many of their battles with BBC officialdom. The ""Play for Today"" series continued to take risks throughout Curran's eight years as Director-General. The ""Morecambe and Wise Show"" became one of the best-loved British TV institutions ever between 1969 and 1977, and the Curran era also saw the development of Michael Parkinson's hugely popular Saturday-night chat show. Curran was made a Knight Bachelor in 1974. Following a period of ill health, Sir Charles Curran died"
"Welshman Denzyl Ellis, who used to be the fireman on the Royal Scot. (It was remade in colour for the BBC in 1976 and 1977.) This was followed by Noggin the Nog for the BBC, which established Smallfilms as a reliable source to produce children's entertainment, when there were only two television channels in the UK. Postgate later described the ""gentlemanly and rather innocent"" business thus: Postgate had strict views on story-line development, which perhaps resultantly restricted the length of each particular series development. When asked if the ""Clangers"" adventures were quite surreal sometimes, Postgate replied: In the 1970s and"
"Dundee and the Culhane Dundee and the Culhane is an American Western drama series starring John Mills and Sean Garrison that aired on CBS from September 7 to December 13, 1967. ""Dundee and the Culhane"" follows the exploits of two frontier lawyers who provided legal defense to their accused clients. Dundee, played by Mills, was an older English lawyer who travelled to the American Old West and partners with a young Irish-American lawyer, nicknamed the Culhane. The title of each episode ended with the word ""brief"", as in a legal brief. The show attempted to combine the Western and legal"
"the mid-1970s on the rival BBC channel. As seen through Denholm Elliott's character, ""The Sweeney"" was not afraid to face the fact that there are such things as bent officers. The character was based on a real life former head of the Flying Squad, who had been convicted at the Old Bailey on corruption charges in 1977. The stars, Regan and Carter, are depicted as hard-drinking, womanising, no-nonsense characters from a working class background, who resent the fact that middle class officers get promoted ahead of them. Regan is forthright, blunt, not frightened to speak his mind. He is, in"
"seven series, totalling 57 episodes, would eventually be made between 1962 and 1974. In his post as Head of Light Entertainment, Sloan provided viewers with a tougher and socially more critical view of comedy than was available before. The polite, middle-class humour which had previously limited the BBC's vision of what television amusement should offer, was supplemented with the social realism of comedies such as ""Steptoe and Son"" and ""Till Death Us Do Part"". Sloan once said, ""Comedy ought to reflect life. It is at its best when it does this. I've no intention of giving viewers a marzipan view"
"(1956–1960, 1971–1972), with Jimmy Edwards, or those featuring Hancock, had been built. A gentle mockery of Britain's 'finest hour' occurred with the home guard comedy ""Dad's Army"" (1968–1977) and the church with ""All Gas and Gaiters"" (1966–1971). Women generally had very secondary roles at this time, though various series with Wendy Craig in the leading role and those developed by scriptwriter Carla Lane, the first successful female writer in the form, were challenges to this situation. Lane's career initially began in collaboration with other writers on ""The Liver Birds"" (1969–1979, 1996). The 1970s is often regarded as the golden era"
"In the end, Thames decided to bring the programme back for the 1970 series, this time in full colour and consisting of nine episodes. The third series of nine episodes, the first in colour, saw Callan still recovering from having been shot and struggling to come to terms with his situation. Interviews with Snell (the Section's doctor) and poor shooting range results portray Callan as a barely-functioning human being, whose future with the Section looks to be in serious doubt. If Callan is to be of any use to Hunter, something has to spark him into life. In league with"
"Cracker (UK TV series) Cracker is a British crime drama series produced by Granada Television for ITV, created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern. Set in Manchester, the series follows a criminal psychologist (or ""cracker""), Dr Edward ""Fitz"" Fitzgerald, played by Robbie Coltrane, who works with the Greater Manchester Police to help them solve crimes. The show consists of three series which were originally aired from 1993 to 1995. A 100-minute special set in Hong Kong followed in 1996 and another two-hour story in 2006. In 2000, the series was ranked 39 on the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes compiled"
"File for Callan"", also by James Mitchell. However, the film's credits give only the novel as source (no mention is made of the pilot teleplay or the TV series), and identify the novel as ""A Red File for Callan"", the mild variant title under which it had been published in the United States (in 1969) by Simon & Schuster. (In 1974 Dell would reissue the book under that title in paperback, but despite coinciding with the film's release year, the edition gives no hint of being a tie-in.) Callan's boss ""Charlie"" Hunter was played by Eric Porter and Meres was"
"Michael Feeney Callan Michael Feeney Callan is an Irish novelist and poet. An award winner for his short fiction, he joined BBC television drama as a story editor, and wrote screenplays for ""The Professionals"", and for American television. He wrote the template Irish police drama series, ""The Burke Enigma"", starring Donal McCann, and ""Love Is"", starring Gabriel Byrne, and went on to write and direct a number of television programmes, among them ""The Beach Boys Today"", a film that marked the band's 30th anniversary. He has published several novels and has written biographies of Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins and Richard"
"In 1963 and 1964 he directed two episodes of Teletale and in 1965 an episode of ""Z-Cars."" MacNaughton continued to act in numerous small roles for television and film, including ""Dr. Finlay's Casebook"" in 1964 and ""The Avengers"" in 1965. In 1966 and 1967 he directed all 52 episodes of a BBC series called ""This Man Craig"", which was set in a large comprehensive school in the fictional Scottish village of Strathaird. The series revolved around the daily life of schoolmaster Ian Craig, who as one of six housemasters had to keep an eye on the problems of over 300"
"did not continue past its initial order of thirteen episodes. The series begins as Paul Callan (Skeet Ulrich), an investigator of modern miracles for the Catholic Church at the Archdiocese of Boston, is feeling frustrated with disappointing groups of believers each time he investigates and disproves the authenticity of a supposed ""miracle"". Upon the advice of his mentor, Father ""Poppi"" Calero (Héctor Elizondo), Paul takes a sabbatical. Months later while doing humanitarian work in Arizona, Paul receives a phone call from Poppi asking him to investigate the case of a young boy with supposed healing powers in the nearby town"
"the late 1970s to early 1980s. These were known as ""comedy-dramas"". A notable early (1969-1974) example of this genre was the award-winning ""Room 222"", one of the first fully racially integrated television series. The episodes blended comedy with weighty subjects such as race relations, integrity, student smoking and mortality as well as topical issues such as the Vietnam War and the plight of returning war veterans. The sitcom formula pioneered by Norman Lear in the 1970s in which a half-hour multi-camera situation comedy addressed serious issues in a dramatic format on videotape before a live studio audience is considered another"
"The BBC series ""Dr. Finlay's Casebook"" (1962–1971) is an early example of another common variant of the genre in which a medical practice is used as a focus for stories detailing the life of a (usually small) community. The long running Australian series ""A Country Practice"" (1981–1993) is a later example of this subgenre. From 1969 to 1976, the series ""Marcus Welby, M.D."" and ""Medical Center"" were extremely popular for their both orthodox and unorthodox way of presenting medical cases. In 1972, the long-running series, ""Emergency!"", starring Robert Fuller and Julie London, was the first medical drama ever to combine"
"Chalk (TV series) Chalk is a British television sitcom set in a comprehensive school named Galfast High. Two series, both written by Steven Moffat, were broadcast on BBC1 in 1997. Like Moffat's earlier sitcom ""Joking Apart"", ""Chalk"" was produced by Andre Ptaszynski for Pola Jones. The series focuses upon deputy headteacher Eric Slatt (David Bamber), permanently stressed over the chaos he creates both by himself and some of his eccentric staff. His wife Janet (Geraldine Fitzgerald) and new English teacher Suzy Travis (Nicola Walker) attempt to help him solve the problems. Because of the very good reaction of the studio"
"But Callan refuses to act until he knows exactly why Schneider has been marked for death... The only actors to reprise their television roles in the film were Woodward, Russell Hunter who played Lonely and Clifford Rose who played Snell. Apart from the three, all the other recurring characters were played by different actors and actresses. The script by James Mitchell is based on his original TV pilot ""A Magnum for Schneider"" and the novelization thereof, ""Red File for Callan"", although only the novel is listed in the film's credits (as ""A Red File for Callan""). ""Callan"" was the first"
"90 minute film, rather than a 50 minute drama, such was the amount of characterisation and plot that Gallagher managed to cram in."" However, Howe criticised the relationship between the widowed aristocrat Oliver Halkin (Nigel Havers) and Fransesca ""Fanny"" Monsanto (Sophie Ward), under the grounds that Ward was young to be Havers's daughter and argued that it was implausible that the young people who attended the seance did not age over the course of the five years afterwards. Chiller (TV series) Chiller is a five-part British horror fantasy anthology television series, produced by Yorkshire Television, that first broadcast on ITV"