YMMV / Callan

• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Peter Bowles (known for Rumpole of the Bailey, To the Manor Born, and The Irish R.M.) plays Toby Meres in the pilot "A Magnum for Schneider".
  • Burt Kwouk (of The Pink Panther, Tenko and Last of the Summer Wine fame) plays the title character in Season 1's "The Death of Robert E. Lee".
  • Donald Hewlett (Colonel Reynolds in It Ain't Half Hot, Mum) plays Lord Lindale in Season 1's "But He's a Lord, Mr Callan". Gerald Flood (the voice of Kamelion in Doctor Who) plays Miller in the same episode.
  • John Savident (Fred Elliott in Coronation Street) as Hanson in Season 2's premiere "Red Knight, White Knight".
  • Vladek Sheybal (Kronsteen in From Russia with Love, Dr. Jackson in UFO and Otto Leipzig in Smiley's People) as Dicer in Season 2's "The Little Bits and Pieces of Love".
  • Peter Cellier (Sir Frank Gordon in Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister) as Captain Jenkins in Season 2's "Heir Apparent".
  • Jerome Willis (Matthew Peele in The Sandbaggers and Captain Rexton Podly in Space Precinct) plays Flomard in "Death of a Friend".
  • Jacqueline Pearce (Servalan from Blake's 7) appeared as Eva Watt in the Season 2 episode "Once a Big Man, Always a Big Man".
  • Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart from Doctor Who) played David Forbes in Season 2's "The Running Dog".
  • Saeed Jaffrey (Billy Fish in The Man Who Would be King, The Nawab of Mirat in The Jewel in the Crown, and Nasser Ali in My Beautiful Laundrette) plays Dr. Megali in Season 2's "The Worst Soldier I Ever Saw".
  • David Prowse (Darth Vader himself) plays Wellington in the Season 3 premiere "Where Else Could I Go?".
  • Richard Hurndall (The First Doctor in Doctor Who: The Five Doctors) as Surtees in Season 3's "The Same Trick Twice". The same episode features Andrew Sachs (Manuel of Fawlty Towers fame) as a German Captain.
  • Ray Smith (Chief Superintendent Spikings in Dempsey and Makepeace) as Donovan Prescott in Season 3's "Act of Kindness".
  • Annette Crosbie (Margaret Meldrew in One Foot in the Grave) as May Coswood in Season 3's "Amos Green Must Live".
  • Michael Jayston (Tsar Nicholas II in Nicholas and Alexandra and the Valeyard in Doctor Who) as Mark Tedder in Season 3's "God Help Your Friends".
  • Graham Crowden in (Tom Ballard in Waiting for God) as the Groper in Season 3's "A Village Called 'G'".
  • Julian Glover appears as Karsky in "That'll Be the Day" in Season 4.
  • Peter Sallis (Norman Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine, and the original voice of Wallace in Wallace & Gromit) played Routledge in the final episode "A Man Like Me".
  • Brian Murphy (George Roper in Man About the House and George & Mildred) as Reeves in Series 4's "None of Your Business".
  • Michael Robbins (Arthur Rudge in On the Buses) as Nobby Clarke in Series 1's "Goodbye, Nobby Clarke".
  • Nina Baden-Semper (Barbie Reynolds in Love Thy Neighbour) as Anna in Series 3's "Amos Green Must Live".
  • Patrick Mower (Rodney Blackstock in Emmerdale) as James Cross.
  • Windsor Davies (Sergeant Major Williams in It Ain't Half Hot, Mum) as Chief Superintendant Brown in Series 4's "The Carrier".

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