Jason King

1971 - 1972 NR 1h 00m 6.9

A playboy novelist, who has had a spell of work with an intelligence agency as a sideline, leaves, but finds himself performing new missions around the world.

After leaving Department S, hedonistic, womanizing dandy Jason King settled down to a full-time career of writing (trashy) Mark Caine novels. He philandered his way around the world, doing research for his stories and tripping over a variety of odd--often verging on surreal--cases, usually involving beautiful women. He was occasionally blackmailed into working for British Intelligence under the threat of being arrested for unpaid back taxes.

Jason King background

Episodes:

Episode 1 Wanna Buy a Television Series?

1. Wanna Buy a Television Series?

Aired: Sep 15, 1971

In order to interest a television mogul in buying his stories for the small s...

Episode 2 A Page Before Dying

2. A Page Before Dying

Aired: Sep 22, 1971

British Intelligence plan to copy the plot of Jason's book, 'A Page Before Dy...

Episode 3 Buried in the Cold Cold Ground

3. Buried in the Cold Cold Ground

Aired: Oct 6, 1971

Jason needs to finish his latest book so he decides to go into isolation in t...

Episode 4 A Deadly Line in Digits

4. A Deadly Line in Digits

Aired: Oct 13, 1971

On a visit back to England, Jason finds himself with income tax problems. How...

Episode 5 Variations on a Theme

5. Variations on a Theme

Aired: Oct 20, 1971

A close friend of Jason King, a double agent called Alan Keeble, was supposed...

Episode 6 As Easy as A.B.C.

6. As Easy as A.B.C.

Aired: Nov 10, 1971

Two English criminals, Charles and Edward, are committing copy-cat robberies ...

Episode 7 To Russia with.... Panache

7. To Russia with.... Panache

Aired: Nov 16, 1971

Jason is abducted in order to help the Moscow police work out how three men o...

Episode 8 A Red Red Rose Forever

8. A Red Red Rose Forever

Aired: Nov 30, 1971

Jason gets off a plane in Switzerland and is mistaken for the hitman taken il...

Episode 9 All That Glisters... (Part One)

9. All That Glisters... (Part One)

Aired: Dec 7, 1971

An antique salt cellar made of gold by Benevenuto Cellini is stolen in Califo...

Episode 10 All That Glisters... (Part Two)

10. All That Glisters... (Part Two)

Aired: Dec 14, 1971

Having killed De Brion,who was out to double cross him, Luca gets on a train ...

Episode 11 Flamingos Only Fly on Tuesdays

11. Flamingos Only Fly on Tuesdays

Aired: Dec 28, 1971

Jason arrives on a Caribbean island and find himself in the middle of a revol...

Episode 12 Toki

Aired: Jan 4, 1972

In France, Jason meets Toki, whose boyfriend Jean Le Grand and another gangst...

Episode 13 The Constance Missal

13. The Constance Missal

Aired: Jan 11, 1972

Jason falls under the hypnotic spell of two glamorous thieves, Claudia and El...

Episode 14 Uneasy Lies the Head

14. Uneasy Lies the Head

Aired: Jan 18, 1972

Having refused to help the British government investigate an international dr...

Episode 15 Nadine

Aired: Feb 1, 1972

Jason is suffering writer's block so his publisher sends him to Greece to ins...

Episode 16 A Kiss for a Beautiful Killer

16. A Kiss for a Beautiful Killer

Aired: Feb 8, 1972

Jason travels to a South American republic to receive an award - in the form ...

Episode 17 If It's Got to Go - It's Got to Go

17. If It's Got to Go - It's Got to Go

Aired: Feb 15, 1972

Jason's temporary secretary in Germany convinces him to go to a health clinic...

Episode 18 A Thin Band of Air

18. A Thin Band of Air

Aired: Mar 2, 1972

Jason is in Paris taking publicity photos for his latest novel when a man wit...

Episode 19 It's Too Bad About Auntie

19. It's Too Bad About Auntie

Aired: Mar 9, 1972

Andrew Bishop is a nasty piece of work, who lives with - and makes life unple...

Episode 20 The Stones of Venice

20. The Stones of Venice

Aired: Mar 16, 1972

Arriving in Venice, Jason is surprised to learn that he is the apparent autho...

Episode 21 A Royal Flush

21. A Royal Flush

Aired: Mar 23, 1972

A mysterious girl calling herself Karen invites Jason to meet her at the Capr...

Episode 22 Every Picture Tells a Story

22. Every Picture Tells a Story

Aired: Mar 30, 1972

Jason makes a stopover in Hong Kong, where his character Mark Caine appears i...

Episode 23 Chapter One: The Company I Keep

23. Chapter One: The Company I Keep

Aired: Apr 6, 1972

Jason King arrives in Rome just after a night-club dancer is murdered. When h...

Episode 24 Zenia

Aired: Apr 13, 1972

Whilst travelling on a plane Jason recognizes a man whom he knew from his Dep...

Episode 25 An Author in Search of Two Characters

25. An Author in Search of Two Characters

Aired: Apr 20, 1972

In London, Jason is paid a great deal of money for a film script only to be r...

Episode 26 That Isn't Me, It's Somebody Else

26. That Isn't Me, It's Somebody Else

Aired: Apr 27, 1972

Jason has an invitation to go to Italy and stay with Bonisalvi,an internation...

Main Cast

Peter Wyngarde Jason King

Ingrid Pitt Nadine

Roger Delgado Capitano Garozzo

Kieron Moore Jean Le Grand

Francesca Tu Lee Bailey

Pamela Salem Alexandra Lanova

Michele Dotrice Felicity

Lee Patterson Frankie Luca

Dudley Foster Ackroyd

Ralph Bates Alan Keeble

Clifford Evans Col. Cordoba

Elaine Taylor Karen Anderson

Geraldine Moffat Claudia

Lance Percival Alfred Trim

Toby Robins Contessa Di Magiore

Sarah Lawson Mary Trevor

George Murcell

George Murcell Bonisalvi

David Bauer Harry Carmel

Hugh McDermott Maurice Pelli

Jennifer Hilary Myra Borgen

Nigel Green Charles

Dennis Price Sir Brian

Ivor Dean

Ivor Dean Chief Inspector Ivor Hughes

Frederick Jaeger Dacre

Clinton Greyn John Mallen

Julian Glover John

Kate O'Mara Delphi

Penelope Horner Princess Vania

Ronald Radd Alfred Thistle

Janet Key

Janet Key Elaine

Juliet Harmer Shelley Blackman

Jack Watling Geoffrey Winters

Patrick Troughton Bennett

Derek Francis Umberto Bellini

Hildegard Neil Lyra Delon

John Le Mesurier Doctor Litz

Donald Houston Kenworthy

Michael Bates Edward

Neil McCallum Sam Finnigin

Ronald Lacey Ryland

Barbara Murray Simone D'Arblay

Michael Goodliffe President Pargos

Alfred Marks Renzo

Anna Gaël Ingrid and Terese Bonival

Felicity Kendal Toki

John Hallam John Hewlett

Gary Raymond Sandro

Anton Rodgers Phillipe de Brion

Eric Pohlmann Kolkov

Alex Scott Rodriguez

Wolfe Morris

Wolfe Morris Vitorio

John Malcolm Colonel Kolkov

Paul Whitsun-Jones Giorgio

Anna Palk Michele Andre

David Healy Drakin

Felix Aylmer Doctor Wilstein

Ayshea Brough Mireille

Carl Duering Lanik

Isla Blair Anne Winters

Donald Burton Oran

Patrick Mower Achille

William Squire Colonel Sardner

Tony Beckley Giorgio

Clive Revill Lord Barnes

T.P. McKenna Rene Chenard

Liz Fraser Claire Brown

Paul Stassino Capitano Rizio

George Innes Gerard

Harold Kasket Colonel Davut

Dinsdale Landen Det. Sgt. Roddick

Philip Bond Jaevert

Simon Oates Broggi

Yootha Joyce Sister Dryker

Yutte Stensgaard Arlene

Harry Landis Lee Vorsch

Alan MacNaughtan Dr. Claudel

Angela Douglas Dana Charles

Joanna Vogel

Joanna Vogel Julia Marsh

Al Mancini Placide

John Ronane Tomasi

David Buck Olivier

Charles Lloyd Pack Charles Howard

Allan Cuthbertson Rutledge

Cyril Shaps Jean Cazette

Lewis Fiander Paul Lanz

Joanna Dunham Martine

Maurice Roëves Riguera

Anthony Higgins Enzio

Jeffry Wickham Porokov

Creators

Dennis Spooner

Dennis Spooner Creator

Monty Berman Creator

Info about Jason King

Current Status: Ended

Network: ITV1

Genres: Adventure, Action