Jason King Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

Wanna Buy a Television Series?

In order to interest a television mogul in buying his stories for the small screen,novelist and adventurer Jason King describes to the man a typical plot involving his hero Mark Caine. Caine meets a girl who has been given plastic surgery to resemble the deceased Michele who died in a fire. She is taken by two crooks to meet Bellini, a fence of Michele's acquaintance,supposedly suffering from amnesia,to find out where he has hidden his private stash of valuables. Caine is aware that the girl will be killed once she has served her purpose and steps in to rescue her.

Episode 2

A Page Before Dying

British Intelligence plan to copy the plot of Jason's book, 'A Page Before Dying', to smuggle Gorini, a man who has information for them, out of East Berlin hidden in a safe. The first part of the scheme involves Jason being smuggled into the East in the safe but when he reaches the meeting place he finds that he has been duped and used as a decoy whilst Gorini has already been taken to safety through other means.

Episode 3

Buried in the Cold Cold Ground

Jason gives a lift to Lanz, a very nervous man just out of prison, who gives him a box to look after for safe keeping. Shortly after Lanz is killed. Jason opens the box and finds a bible with a coded message, which leads him to a small French village and a stone cave used as a hostel for tramps, underneath which is the object of Lanz's killers' interest.

Episode 4

A Deadly Line in Digits

Jason is summoned back from holiday to investigate a series of highly organized robberies by a syndicate called Crime-Con, who seem to be getting information from a police computer. Jason feeds it bogus information to report that a famous Bulgarian criminal - portrayed by himself - is arriving in town. He soon is introduced to the members of Crime-Con and discovers the mole within the police force assisting in the robberies.

Episode 5

Variations on a Theme

Jason goes to Vienna to help an old friend,British agent Alan Keeble,who is supposedly dead but is being pursued by East and West alike for an important black book of names in his possession. Jason's phone is tapped by the Russians as he makes his rendezvous with Alan's deeply suspicious girlfriend Greta who,rightly,trusts nobody. Jason negotiates with the chief British intelligence officer John,to grant Alan a safe passage in exchange for the book - but can he be trusted?

Episode 6

As Easy as A.B.C.

Two English criminals, Charles and Edward, are committing copy-cat robberies stolen from the plots of Jason's books, which causes the police to take an interest in the author after a security guard is killed. Jason and his girlfriend Arlene have an encounter with the two villains and escape but, as they can now recognize the pair, they are in danger as they head for Venice, where a trap has been set for them.

Episode 7

To Russia with.... Panache

Jason is abducted in order to help the Moscow police work out how three men on a workers' delegation,got into a lift and then,when the doors opened again,there was nothing left of them but three piles of ashes. He discovers that they made their exit from the lift by means of a trap door but comes to appreciate that they are part of a larger plan to tunnel into the Kremlin to steal art treasures.

Episode 8

A Red Red Rose Forever

Jason gets off a plane in Switzerland and is mistaken for the hitman taken ill on the plane as he has picked up the bunch of red roses which will allow the killer's employers to identify him. He plays along out of curiosity though his cover is blown when the real assassin leaves hospital turns up. As a test Jason is told to shoot dead his mark but uses an elaborate little stunt as seen in his books to create the illusion of killing whilst identifying the villains.

Episode 9

All That Glisters... (Part One)

An antique salt cellar made of gold by Benevenuto Cellini is stolen in California from collector Dreshfield by thief Frankie Luca, who brings it to Paris to sell to Philippe De Brion. De Brion was cheated out of its ownership some years earlier by Dreshfield, who told him it was worthless. However free-lancer Mallen has been hired by Dreshfield to pursue Luca to Paris, where he meets up with Jason, and asks him to introduce him to De Brion. After Mallen has been shot at he and Jason track down the salt cellar, only to find that it is a fake and Luca has escaped with the real one.

Episode 10

All That Glisters... (Part Two)

Having killed De Brion, who was out to double-cross him, Luca gets on a train to Rome with the Cellini salt cellar, pursued by Jason and Mallen. In Italy a former Mafioso called Angelo Andrea joins the chase, intending to steal the Cellini from Luca. Ultimately all the interested parties end up at Andrea's house where they discover that all that glisters is not gold.

Episode 11

Flamingos Only Fly on Tuesdays

Arriving at a Caribbean island airport Jason makes a throwaway comment about flamingos,unaware that this is the code word that will identify the gun runner who has come to the island to sell arms to rebels out to overthrow the government and who have abducted law officer Lyra Delon. Mistaken for the arms supplier he is thrown into jail and interrogated.

Episode 12

Toki

In France, Jason meets Toki, whose boyfriend Jean Le Grand and another gangster, Olivier, plan to steal a cache of emeralds - after which Le Grand plans to kill Olivier. Given that she knows all the plans, Jason believes that she is a young girl who has got out of her depth and is in danger. He resolves to help her, but they are pursued by LeGrand and his mobsters.

Episode 13

The Constance Missal

Jason falls under the hypnotic spell of two glamorous thieves, Claudia and Elaine. Claudia steals from him the only copy of his recently completed film script, and she and Elaine demand that, for its return, he pose as an expert in ancient manuscripts in order to steal the Constance Missal, a valuable document recently acquired by the British Museum. He is to authenticate it for one Lord Barnes, but his lordship is also planning to obtain the Constance Missal for himself.

Episode 14

Uneasy Lies the Head

50 mins

Having refused to help the British government investigate an international drugs ring Jason is surprised to learn that a man in Istanbul is impersonating him. This turns out to be Trim,a government operative,who has been studying him in order to make contact with the gang leaders and persuade then that he is Jason King. However Trim is captured and Jason has to go to Istanbul after all to save the day.

Episode 15

Nadine

Whilst Jason is on holiday in Greece a girl called Nadine makes sure that he notices her,has a drink with him and then 'borrows' his car whilst he ,intrigued, pretends to have passed out. She claims to be on the rebound and suggests that they drive to Italy and then on to France in his car as a romantic,therapeutic holiday. However she is a member of a drug smuggling gang using Jason as a cover and soon he will meet the ring- leader.

Episode 16

A Kiss for a Beautiful Killer

Jason travels to a South American republic to receive an award - in the form of a medallion - for one of his books. In fact both the corrupt President Cordoba, who has bugged the medallion, and the opposing rebel forces, led by glamorous government minister Delphi, believe that the book is so close to the truth about events in their country that he has an actual source of information, and neither will believe that it is all a fiction.

Episode 17

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

On the recommendation of his secretary Myra Jason books into a health clinic run by elderly Dr. Wilstein and the seemingly benign Dr. Litz. However it becomes clear that the clinic is a front for something very sinister. Captive secret agents are sent there to be brain-washed by Dr. Litz and when Jason witnesses the murder of one he is drugged and put in a very perilous situation with only Myra likely to save him.

Episode 18

A Thin Band of Air

Jason is in Paris along with Lee Bailey,a female photographer who is assisting him with the publicity for his latest Mark Caine novel. Whilst they are at a fun-fair they are shot at by John Hewlett, a man who has recently been released from a prison sentence for kidnapping some ten years previously and is looking for two things - the ransom money hidden all those years earlier - and revenge.

Episode 19

It's Too Bad About Auntie

Andrew Bishop is a nasty piece of work, who lives with - and makes life unpleasant for - his elderly, housebound Aunt Claire. One day, in the process of robbing a house, he commits a murder, for which Pamela, an innocent woman, is charged. He also steals a vacuum cleaner which, somewhat bizarrely, is Jason's chief clue in leading him to the real culprit.

Episode 20

The Stones of Venice

49 mins

Arriving in Venice, Jason is surprised to learn that he is the apparent author of a book entitled 'The Stones of Venice', which he assuredly is not. However, after he is attacked by two would-be assassins a jewel robbery takes place, and Theresa Bonival, employee of a firm specializing in antique jewellery, is abducted - incidents closely related to events in the book, and therefore sufficient for the police to ask for his help in their inquiries.

Episode 21

A Royal Flush

A mysterious girl calling herself Karen invites Jason to meet her at the Capri hotel but when he gets there he finds a note requesting he catches up with her at a night-club. He meets up with her but an apparent drunk drops a lighter into his pocket. Then Karen takes him to meet a lady who may or may not be a princess and who has a proposition for him.

Episode 22

Every Picture Tells a Story

Jason makes a stopover in Hong Kong, where his character Mark Caine appears in a Chinese comic strip but with deliberate alterations to Jason's original story in the translation. He teams up with Lucy Cameron, nurse to wealthy businessman Arthur Tsung, to confront Irish-American Sam Finnigin, the editor of the paper publishing the strip and a man whom he has met before, for an explanation.

Episode 23

Chapter One: The Company I Keep

A glamorous escort and night-club dancer is murdered in a villa on a Mediterranean island. She has a book which names her illustrious clients and which could have caused her murder. Jason arrives on the island on holiday, and, realising that the case echoes the plot of one of his stories, even to the location of the villa, helps the police with their investigations.

Episode 24

Zenia

Whilst travelling on a plane Jason recognizes a man whom he knew from his Department 'S' days to be a professional assassin, and so he is intrigued and on his guard when he arrives at his destination - not without due cause, as he will soon find himself caught up in a plot to foil a group of revolutionaries out to kidnap the daughter of the country's president.

Episode 25

An Author in Search of Two Characters

In London, Jason is paid a great deal of money for a film script only to be relieved of it by two robbers. Later, whilst taking a moonlight stroll he sees an astronaut shooting somebody, and then he is attacked and knocked unconscious by a bear. When he wakes up next morning with a headache it all seems very real, but the police obviously believe that he dreamed it.

Episode 26

That Isn't Me, It's Somebody Else

Jason has an invitation to go to Italy and stay with Bonisalvi,an international criminal who lives in the most secure seclusion. A rival gangsters' syndicate uses the opportunity to send Bennett, a hit-man posing as Jason to kill Bonisalvi whilst Jason himself has problems fleeing the beautiful but deadly Martine,who seems to have more than marriage on her mind.