Autistic / Retro / Doctor Who fan / Carry On fan / Elisabeth Sladen fan / Morecambe & Wise fan / Frankie Howerd fan / Olivia Newton-John fan / TV and film buff
Jaz Wiseman: "The perfect match of Edwin Astley's driving theme with colourful graphics make the Department S opening titles amongst the most memorable from 1960s British television." Jaz explores the design & visual style of ITC in his wonderful book ITC Entertained the World.
Peter Bowles, a regular guest in Avengerland and ITC action-adventure series in the 1960s. Probably the Number 1 rent-a-baddy, often playing urbane foreign agents. Confident, charming, cultured, stylish...and utterly villainous.
Peter Wyngarde taking a break while filming a Department S episode in which Jason King went undercover. Wyngarde/King would fly solo in a later series, but arguably it worked better when Jason had two co-leads to water him down.
A publicity shoot at Elstree for Rosemary Nicols who was playing computer expert Annabelle Hurst in Department S. These two images remind me that the series crossed over between ITV broadcasting in b/w and colour in 1969. This was a show which definitely needed the latter.
Porridge - Just Desserts (24th October 1975). When Fletch's tin of pineapple chunks disappears, he realises there must be a thief somewhere inside Slade Prison. And no-one is above suspicion ...