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Monday, 14th November, 1983
King Jason Rules Again
He was a cult figure of the swinging 60s. The guy every young blood tried to look like. And the fella 35,000 Australian women voted the man they would most like to be seduced by. But it is more than a decade since Jason King, the super smoothie with the droopy moustache disappeared from our screens. Now Peter Wyngarde, the actor who played the cultured hero of Department S on the follow up series Jason King, is back.
Peter, now 50, and still rakishly handsome, will be making his comeback in a new Doctor Who saga. At the same time, Channel 4 is preparing to screen reruns of the old series that made Jason King a household name.
But Peter still secretly dreads the character that made him famous. “Suddenly Jason King took me over,” he says. “I was in danger of not being Peter Wyngarde anymore. The pressure of the roll was amazing. I could only take it for three years and then I had to quit. I just wanted to back away from public life. I had had enough. So I took myself off writing”.
In his Jason king heyday, Peter used to design the suits that the fictional hero wore. And he set the style for shirts with turned up cuffs the hallmark of the well-dressed man of the day. But now Peter is more at home in jeans and a combat jacket.
“All I want to do is go back to my roots and try to start again,” he says. “It’s a real challenge”.
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