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- An elite department within Interpol, Department S inherits those cases which the other member groups have failed to solve.
- A playboy novelist, who has had a spell of work with an intelligence agency as a sideline, leaves, but finds himself performing new missions around the world.
- King Saul of Israel is jealous of the fame and adoration of David, who long ago slew Goliath and brought victory to Saul's armies. Now Saul, egged on by his Edomite counselor Doeg, attempts to have David killed. Saul's son, and David's best friend, Jonathan, conspires to help David, who is reluctant to fight back against his own people the Israelites.
- Four men in fancy dress costumes are celebrating committing a robbery in a house near a building site when they are gunned down. When a man's body is recovered, locked in a trunk in a car that was pushed into a lake, the bullets that killed him match those from the gun of one of the murdered quartet. Stewart follows the trail to piece together the connection and to unmask the person who hired the robbers and who is holding Libby, a witness to the robbery, captive.
- Interpol agent Birney arrives in Beirut and soon afterwards his body is found washed up on a beach. Sir Curtis believes he drowned accidentally whilst out swimming but Stewart, a personal friend of his, disagrees. Sir Curtis takes the view that Stewart would be too emotionally involved and sends Jason to carry on Birney's investigation of a drug smuggling racket, but inevitably Stewart goes too.
- Greg Halliday, disgruntled employee at a chemical works, leaves the plant with a phial of deadly nerve gas. He is captured by enemy agents out to obtain his lethal product but saved by the intervention of the Department. However, he absconds to London and threatens to unleash the gas and destroy the city unless world governments listen to his plans for peace.
- An elderly man, wandering on an airport runway in his night wear, is killed by an incoming plane; Jason talks to the man's niece and discovers he worked in industrial financial. Meanwhile, Sir Curtis asks Stewart and Annabelle to track down a scientist working on an advanced form of brain-washing. Jason's investigations lead him to a sinister country club, run by a man called Carter, in reality a front for the brain-washing experiments of Dr. Dreiker. Unless Annabelle and Stewart can get to Jason in time, it will soon be him walking out in front of the flight path.
- Three days after he disappeared on his way to see 'Don Giovanni' at Covent Garden, food critic Robin Skelton is found wandering in the Mexican desert. The Department is called in to investigate, and it becomes apparent that Skelton was mistaken for his double, rocket scientist Peter Sinclair, who is involved in tests for the American space schedule. Once they realize this, they discover that in the meantime Sinclair has also been kidnapped. The only clue Skelton can give the Department is 'Turtle in the Shell', which leads them to the Bahamas, where Sinclair has been taken by villainous Dr. Wolf.
- In the South of France two hitmen study a photograph of a man taken in a festival square. They then go to his house with the intention of killing him but he drops down dead of a heart attack. The body is removed to the local morgue where the killers overpower the mortuary attendant and shoot bullets into the corpse. The dead man is identified as Christopher Lomax, a small-time crook, but he supposedly died three years earlier. The Department is called in to investigate how a man can die twice - assuming that he died in the first place.
- Sir Curtis and a lady friend are at an antiques auction in Bond street, where a mirror sells for an astronomically high sum in view of its appearance. Later Gresford, the man who bought the mirror is murdered and it is discovered that he had at his home another, virtually identical mirror. An intrigued Sir Curtis gets the team to investigate, leading Jason to the antique shops of Paris.
- Stewart is at Colindale golf course in Scotland for a tournament but one of the players, Johnnie Collins, already disqualified for turning up late ,is found dead on a beach. Nothing sinister is suspected until his home is broken into and his golf clubs stolen. Stewart pursues another golfer, Eddie Curtis, who also disappears, the trail leading to a casino in London, which is part of a smuggling ring using the golfing circuit.
- In Rome Johnnie is visited by 'the brothers' and there is a shoot-out, resulting in carnage. Johnnie has given the tipsy Stacey a package to be delivered to Paris and when a curious Stacey opens it, he finds three plastic flowers and a cryptic quotation. Herein lies the key to the whereabouts of five million stolen dollars. Department 'S' is called in to go to Paris and find the loot but there are other interested parties who, needless to say, will kill for possession of the clues.
- An aeroplane carrying a hundred and thirty passengers on a flight from New York asks for landing clearance in London but, having safely landed, it is discovered that there is nobody at all on the plane and the pilot is later found murdered in a warehouse. The mystery deepens when Annabelle finds a photograph of a reclusive industrialist apparently boarding the plane, although his name was not on the passenger list. Is it all part of an elaborate scheme to abduct him?
- Story dealt with an aircraft which arrived at destination six days late, evolving into a spy chase focusing on a brainwashed British diplomat.
- Having thrown away his passport Spencer Bodily shoots and kills himself in Hyde park. At the inquest the coroner declares that his organs are those of a man in his sixties but he only looks about twenty. Not only is his body stolen from the mortuary but his belongings are stolen from his hotel room as well. The trail leads to the surgery of a Dr. Kendall and a sinister take on the secret of eternal youth.
- Arriving at Marling Dale Ministry of Defence building in the countryside the chauffeur driving government official Byrom Blain opens his passenger's door to find only a skeleton. Department 'S' joins with the C.I.A. to unravel a plot to kidnap illustrious men and replace them with skeletons and Sir Curtis is on the list of victims, along with Jason.
- Near Naples a car is stopped by a land-mine, then riddled with bullets by attackers. However, the 'victim' in the back seat turns out to be a dummy, whom Jason nicknames Charlie Crippen. The Department discovers that the intended target of the attack was King Frederick, an exiled king threatened by revolutionists, and his enemies are waiting to try again... necessitating another car ride, this time with a human decoy to flush out the killers.
- An aeroplane carrying MI5 agent Anthony James Harvey explodes over the English Channel and eye witnesses claim that nobody could have survived. However, evidence washed up on the Kent coast leads Sir Curtis to believe that Harvey actually parachuted from the plane before the explosion and staged his own death. He is a double agent who has been working for the Russians and has spent years creating a new identity to escape his masters. As the Department 'S' team go to interview Harvey's mother and associates they are observed and pursued by Russian agents.
- Economist John Burnham is due to become the next head of the International Monetary Fund and he has progressive ideas which certain Communist agents do not want to see put into play so they shoot his wife Mary in front of him. However Burnham keeps repeatedly seeing Mary, though it is assumed that he is going mad, which is what his enemies have set out to achieve in order to discredit him and his work and harm the Western economy. Department 'S' are called in and soon discover that there is an impostor impersonating Mary.
- A tube train arrives at Redbridge station with all its passengers dead and the conductor who found it is also knocked out by nerve gas. Whilst Annabelle is escorting Mrs. Taylor, the widow of one of the dead men, from the morgue, they are held up and Mrs. Taylor is abducted, as later is Jason, whilst investigating at the station. The trail leads to a manufacturing company where Annabelle goes undercover as a secretary though she too is in danger when her employers, criminal speculators out to tap the hotline between the White House and 10 Downing Street, discover who she is.
- An intruder named Gerhard breaks into the heavily guarded grounds of a villa belonging to a man named Kolliatis, who has just gone to sleep after watching a home movie. Rather than steal anything Gerhard glues a clown's mask onto the sleeping man's face. When Kolliatis wakes up and tries to remove it he has a heart attack and dies. As he was a friend of Sir Curtis the Department 'S' team are called in and discover a vendetta and a blackmail racket.
- Safe-cracker James Rankin dies,wearing the space-suit he stole from as aerospace institute in Farnham. Jason finds out from his sister Leila that he was about to take part in the robbery of a safe with a magnetic combination. Posing as Rankin's replacement Jason makes contact with the gang and finds that they are planning to steal two million pounds' worth of diamonds which are being kept in a safe in the sub-zero vacuum of a frozen foods factory.
- An estate agent shows a client a warehouse on a trading estate in which, to their shock, they discover that the entire ground floor of an elegant house has been constructed - furthermore there is a dead woman and an apparently deaf, demented young man, who is taken to a psychiatric hospital but killed before he can say anything more than a woman's name. From a freshly-painted portrait hanging on the wall of the elegant room, Jason deduces that the room is a copy of one in which another murder will soon take place unless Department 'S' can prevent it.
- After the voice of an airline pilot announces to the passengers that they are on their way to Athens, one of the travelers turns around and shoots another one through the back of his seat before exiting by jumping off the plane - onto solid ground. He is then pursued by other 'passengers' but escapes. The whole plane set is a mock-up built in a Paris warehouse, and when local police, alarmed by the shots, find it, the Department 'S' team is called in to investigate. A message scrawled in lipstick on the windshield of Stewart's car leads them to a girl - who is murdered by the assassin from the 'plane' before the team can talk to her. Finally they come to believe that the entire charade was a rehearsal for an assassination.
- At the City of Southwark hospital senior British civil servant Peregrine Haslett-Smith is about to undergo a tricky operation but Mr. Walker, the surgeon responsible, is knocked unconscious and, when he recovers, finds that somebody else has completed the operation. The only surgeon capable of performing such a delicate operation would be Dr. Uri Dutrov, but he is retired and living in Moscow, where Stewart goes to interview him. Jason, however, flies South to Istanbul to uncover the real truth behind the perfect operation.
- Needing to wake early next day to participate in a beauty contest Susan Lewis, staying at her father's pub in the village of Hambledown takes a sleeping pill but wakes in the night to see the entire population of Hambledown being helped into trucks by military men. Next morning she finds herself the only person in the village. When Department 'S' comes to investigate, a patch of scorched earth in a field where a gate post has been freshly painted seems to point to evacuation from an ecological disaster.
- Something strange has happened at the Bellman-Parsons chemical factory. Although locals claim that they saw the work force arriving as normal, the management report that all of the regular employees reported in as sick, except one, and he is later found murdered. A substitute work force has been using the factory for a plot involving the use of its tankers, a gold robbery and the soon-to-be-opened Northover nuclear power generating station, where Annabelle is held captive by the villains.
- In Liverpool four men break into a bonded warehouse and smash through a wall all to steal a crate containing a hundred and forty four cans of Supa De Mariscos fish soup imported from Portugal. Next day the spoils are found round the corner, intact. It becomes apparent from the Department's investigations that these men stole the 'wrong' crate and were after another which contained what they were after. In a trail that leads from a trendy boutique to the Ramos canning factory in Lisbon Jason sets out to find what the burglars were really hoping to find.
- Cal and Thorn, two Americans, go deep sea diving on the Costa Del Sol and, having brought ashore a fish, proceed to double-cross and kill each other. The fish turns out to be plastic and contains a hundred thousand dollars in notes. The Department team arrive and Stewart and Annabelle pose as a married couple interested in diving to discover the drop-off whilst Jason heads for Madrid in pursuit of the engraver who is making the counterfeit notes.
- In rural England a petrol tanker skids and collides with a van, killing its driver. When the van driver investigates, he finds that the tanker is not carrying fuel but its interior is decked out like the cabin of a yacht and there is a young woman in a bikini, apparently injured, inside. However, when the police arrive she has disappeared. Jason King finds a lighter with an insignia which he recognizes as belonging to an old acquaintance and so begins a trail leading to France and to South Africa.
- Spanish police attempt to flag down a white Chevrolet but it crashes and is revealed to have been 'driven' by a dummy and worked by remote control. Jason notes that the dummy is wearing an identical tie-pin to a man in England whose speciality is remote-controlled cars. Back in Spain, despite lack of cooperation from the local authorities, the team foil an attempt to drive a remote-controlled vehicle into a N.A.T.O. convoy.
- On a visit back to England, Jason finds himself with income tax problems. However, it turns out to be a way of blackmailing him into helping the police solve a series of robberies where the police computer seems to be illegally accessed.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jason is in Paris taking publicity photos for his latest novel when a man with a rifle shoots at him. It appears that there is bounty of 100 000 francs on him, but who is putting up the money and why? King has to find out.
- 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.
- 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 Mafiosi 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jason needs to finish his latest book so he decides to go into isolation in the south of France. When he picks up a pretty hitchhiker and a recently released prisoner, it becomes the start of yet another Jason King novel.
- Jason King arrives in Rome just after a night-club dancer is murdered. When he finds out that the events in the book he is currently writing mirror what is happening in real-life, Jason is determined to find out what is going on.
- 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.
- Jason arrives on a Caribbean island and find himself in the middle of a revolution when he inadvertently makes a remark about flamingos as he arrives at the airport.
- Jason's temporary secretary in Germany convinces him to go to a health clinic. However, when several strange events occur he realises that there is much more to the clinic than it appears.
- 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.
- Jason is suffering writer's block so his publisher sends him to Greece to inspire him. However, some Greek criminals use a beautiful woman to seduce Jason using his fame to smuggle drugs into France - but who is seducing who?
- 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.
- 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.