This was a follow-on series for Peter Wyngarde, the Australian actor who played the hunky, spunky Jason King. King was a thriller writer who solved crimes as if he was writing the plot of one of his books. As usual, the scripts took the character all over the world, but when the action moved to swinging London, King would be seen swishing around in his Bentley Continental. With his flamboyant clothes and trendy moustache, Wyngarde was quite a heartthrob, but cut such a slender, effete figure that the fight scenes always seemed rather unlikely. 'Jason King' wasn't the success 'Department S' had been and, in any case, Wyngarde's career was cut short by an incident in a gentlemen's lavatory. The character was parodied by 'The Comic Strip' in the late '80s as 'Jason Bentley'.