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Department S - Vol. 4 - Episodes 7 And 8 - Handicap Dead / Black Out [VHS] [1969] VHS ~ Peter Wyngarde |
![Department S - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1 And 2 - Six Days / The Trojan Tanker [VHS] [1969]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CEDG1S9NL._SL500_SS90_.jpg)
Department S - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1 And 2 - Six Days / The Trojan Tanker [VHS] [1969] VHS ~ Peter Wyngarde |
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The hit of the 1969-1970 season, Department S was an attempt on the part of television company ITC to create a "with-it" follow-up to the The Saint and Man in a Suitcase series which were starting to look staid by then. The department of the title is notionally part of Interpol, a group managed by the first of many black TV top cops (here Denis Albana Peters), and assigned all the bizarre cases The Avengers hadn't handled. Often they would come up against modern variations on the classic "locked-room" or "paradox" mysteries so favoured in crime fiction, mysteries which verge on the sort of phenomena The X Files would later specialise in (except no aliens appear in Department S).
The supposed leads are Action Man-type Stewart Sullivan (Joel Fabiani) and English-rose computer whiz Annabelle Hurst (Rosemary Nichols), but the break-out character is the flamboyant Jason King (Peter Wyngarde), a mystery writer and puzzle-solver notable for his Fu Manchu facial hair and an enormous wardrobe of safari suits, ruffled shirts, flared trousers and velvet jackets. King was the only male character on TV to be as fashion-conscious as the Avengers girls, and his preening peacock attitudes--along with the scripts' above-average mysteries--made this essential viewing for the Age of Aquarius.
Volume Two includes the following episodes: "A Cellar Full of Silence", which features four corpses in fancy-dress, with guest star Edward (Rentaghost) Brayshaw; and "The Pied Piper of Hambledown", in which an entire English village, except the publican's daughter, has disappeared, with guest star Richard (Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy) Vernon. --Kim Newman
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Two episodes taken from the TV series 'Department S'. 'The Man From X' and 'The Pied Piper Of Hambledown'.
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