Jason King (1971 - 1972)

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 1971 - 1972
Number of Seasons: 1
Total Number of Episodes: 26
Average Episode Running Times: 50 mins
Format: colour     16mm
Sound:

Crime writer Jason King resigns from the special Interpol division Department S to pursue his writing career. But he finds it difficult to give up his crime-fighting ways.

Jason King's solo flights were disappointing by comparison to the free-wheeling weirdness of the best of its parent show, Department S (1969 - 1970), favouring camp over thrills and noticeably cheaper than it predecessor. Wyngarde misses fellow regulars to play against and struggles to maintain much interest when left to his own resources and the writers seem at a loss as to what to do with him most of the time. Certainly watchable, but lacking the spark that made Department S so impressive.

EPISODES

Wanna Buy a Television Series? (15 September 1971)
A Page Before Dying (22 September 1971)
Buried in the Cold Cold Ground (6 October 1971)
A Deadly Line in Digits (13 October 1971)
Variations on a Theme (20 October 1971)
As Easy As A.B.C. (11 November 1971)
To Russia With Panache (17 November 1971)
A Red Red Rose Forever (1 December 1971)
All That Glisters (Part 1) (8 December 1971)
All That Glisters (Part 2) (15 December 1971)
Flamingos Only Fly on Tuesdays (29 December 1971)
Toki (5 January 1972)
The Constance Missal (12 January 1972)
Uneasy Lies the Head (19 January 1972)
Nadine (2 February 1972)
A Kiss for a Beautiful Killer (9 February 1972)
If It's Got To Go, It's Got To Go (16 February 1972)
A Thin Band of Air (3 March 1972)
It's Too Bad About Auntie (10 March 1972)
The Stones of Venice (17 March 1972)
A Royal Flush (24 March 1972)
Every Picture Tells A Story (31 March 1972)
Chapter One: The Company I Keep (7 April 1972)
Zenia (14 April 1972)
An Author In Search of Two Characters (21 April 1972)
That Isn't Me, It's Somebody Else (28 April 1972)

Argentina
Television Distributor: Uniseries

Australia
Television Distributor: Nick At Nite

UK
Television Distributor: ITV

SEQUEL TO
Department S (1969)

FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
A-Z of ATV (1994)
The 100 Greatest TV Characters (2001)

BOOKS

The ITV Encyclopedia of Adventure by Dave Rogers pp.284 - 288 (London: Boxtree Books (1988))
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Last Updated: 1 January, 2009