Callan

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Yellow Fang

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I was watching a black and white episode of Callan tonight. TBH I'm slightly disappointed with the series. The characters are good, but the plots are a bit ropey and it gets a bit melodramatic. In this episode they were trying to get at a Polish physicist who was developing a new fuel for a 50 megaton nuclear bomb. To me this illustrates that the writer knew nothing of science or technology. 1) a scientist who develops a new fuel is a chemist, not a physicist. 2) You could not possibly hold up the deployment of a new atomic weapon by hindering the development of a new fuel. How many possible fuels are there? If it had been a better guidance system that would have been more credible.

Anyway, I had to stop the DVD and repeat a bit. There was someone cycling a Moulton F frame one way down the street, and someone coming down the other way on a tricycle.
 

Accy cyclist

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Was "Lonely" in the episode?
 
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Yellow Fang

Yellow Fang

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Was "Lonely" in the episode?

Yes, he did the initial burglary with Callan of the scientist's ex-wife's house, then fixed a meeting with a sinister Pole living in London. The Pole was able to open a channel of communication with the scientist through his underground contacts.

Callan threatened the wife that she'd be charged with bigamy if she did not cooperate, because she had re-married. An empty threat if ever I heard one. I suppose writing watertight spy plots is a difficult task.
 

guitarpete247

Just about surviving
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Leicestershire
And that swinging, bare, light bulb that is shot at the end. I loved the series, for all it's minor faults. It was about the characters and was written by an English lecturer that my tutor at Sunderland Poly knew. I also have a DVD of the film. Must get to read the book when I can find a copy "A Red File for Callan".
 
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