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Department S - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1 And 2 - Six Days / The Trojan Tanker [DVD] [1969]
 
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Department S - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1 And 2 - Six Days / The Trojan Tanker [DVD] [1969]

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  • Actors: Peter Wyngarde, Joel Fabiani, Rosemary Nicols, Dennis Alaba Peters, Basil Dignam
  • Writers: Dennis Spooner, Monty Berman
  • Format: Full Screen, PAL
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: ITV DVD
  • DVD Release Date: 10 Jul 2000
  • Run Time: 100 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B00004TIZ5
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 96,440 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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 One includes the following episodes: "Six Days", in which a missing airliner turns up but the passengers have no idea that they've lost six days, with Peter Bowles; and "The Trojan Tanker", in which a mystery woman is found in a luxury suite concealed inside an oil tanker, with Simon (Doomwatch) Oates. --Kim Newman



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4:3 Full Frame
DVD 5
English
English
Region 2
Mono English
Mono
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4.0 out of 5 stars ACTION DEPARTMENT, 10 Oct 2001
Department S is classic Brittish Tv, at its best. Humour, Action, Espeanage. A hip cool show that takles all the cases, however unusual in its own carismatic way. This Special Department is a branch of the famous Interpol that makes for a show that, one look and your hooked.
Department S makes you realise how we are sadely missing out with TV these days.....Switch on to 'Department S'
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