Sat, Mar 15, 1969
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.
Sat, Mar 22, 1969
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.
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Sat, Mar 29, 1969
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.
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Sat, Apr 5, 1969
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?
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Sat, Apr 12, 1969
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.
Sat, Apr 19, 1969
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.
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Sat, Apr 26, 1969
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.
Tue, Sep 30, 1969
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.
Tue, Oct 7, 1969
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.
Tue, Oct 14, 1969
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.
Tue, Oct 21, 1969
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.
Tue, Oct 28, 1969
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.
Tue, Nov 4, 1969
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.
Tue, Nov 11, 1969
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.
Tue, Nov 25, 1969
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.
Tue, Dec 2, 1969
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.
Thu, Dec 11, 1969
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.
Tue, Dec 16, 1969
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.