Callan: Wet Job DVD, 1981

Made-for-TV movie follow-up to the 1960s espionage series, 'Callan', starring Edward Woodward. David Callan (Woodward) is a retired assassin who used to work for a shadowy government agency. The former hitman now owns a small war memorabilia shop, but is jolted out of his sleepy retirement when he is asked to return in order to carry out one last job.

This single play, originally aired in 1981 and scripted by series creator/writer James Mitchell, saw the reluctant killer pressed into service one last time. Reuniting Callan and his malodorous sidekick, Lonely (Russell Hunter), the play also stars George Sewell, Hugh Walters, Anthony Smee and Helen Bourne.

Ten years on, David Callan hasn’t changed much. Retirement has brought a new identity, a new mistress, and a new business in the form of a militaria shop. But once a secret-service operative, always a secret-service operative, as he discovers when a call summons him to headquarters and a meeting with the fourth ‘Hunter’ of his career. Callan thought the past was dead and buried – reactivating it is no pleasure, but it has to be done.