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Dipartimento S

Titolo originale: Department S
  • Serie TV
  • 1969–1970
  • 1h
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Peter Wyngarde in Dipartimento S (1969)
Department S
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaAn elite department within Interpol, Department S inherits those cases which the other member groups have failed to solve.An elite department within Interpol, Department S inherits those cases which the other member groups have failed to solve.An elite department within Interpol, Department S inherits those cases which the other member groups have failed to solve.

  • Creazione
    • Monty Berman
    • Dennis Spooner
  • Star
    • Peter Wyngarde
    • Joel Fabiani
    • Rosemary Nicols
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
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    • Creazione
      • Monty Berman
      • Dennis Spooner
    • Star
      • Peter Wyngarde
      • Joel Fabiani
      • Rosemary Nicols
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    • 13Recensioni della critica
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    Peter Wyngarde
    Peter Wyngarde
    • Jason King
    • 1969
    Joel Fabiani
    Joel Fabiani
    • Stewart Sullivan
    • 1969
    Rosemary Nicols
    • Annabelle Hurst
    • 1969
    Dennis Alaba Peters
    • Sir Curtis Seretse
    • 1969
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    Basil Dignam
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    • 1969
    Larry Taylor
    Larry Taylor
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    • 1969
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    George Pastell
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    • 1969
    Paul Whitsun-Jones
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    • 1969
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    Peter Arne
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    • 1969
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    • 1969
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    Edina Ronay
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    • 1969
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    Juliet Harmer
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    • 1969
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    • 1969
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    • 1969
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    • 1969
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    • 1969
    Roger Avon
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    • 1969
    • Creazione
      • Monty Berman
      • Dennis Spooner
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    7Installation_At_Orsk

    Fancy!

    I had never seen Department S until fairly recently when Top Gear did its spoof Sixties show "The Interceptors", which used the Department S theme music. Because I have a liking for the spy-fi shows of that era, I tracked down the DVDs of the series out of curiosity.

    And I'm glad I did, because while it's no classic and falls some way short of the likes of The Avengers and The Prisoner, it's still lively and entertaining thanks to the interplay of its three leads. Joel Fabiani's Stewart Sullivan is largely the straight man and muscle, but still maintains a deadpan humour - with a righteous anger whenever politics interferes with justice. Rosemary Nichols' Annabelle Hurst has a flirty relationship with Stewart, and while something of a computer nerd is still more than capable of taking care of herself in the field.

    Then... there's Jason King. Jason is the character known even by people who've never seen the show, simply because he's so outrageous. A chain-smoking dandy and fop who drives a Bentley even when trying to be inconspicuous and more often has a glass in his hand than not (he starts drinking when most people would be having their morning coffee and must surely be pleasantly buzzed, if not outright drunk, for 90% of his screen time), he's also arrogant, egotistical, rude, self-centred, lazy, hedonistic, snobbish, bitchy (poor Annabelle takes most of his cutting put-downs), a smarmy lech and is constantly outclassed in fights to the point where Annabelle chastises him for getting "knocked out AGAIN!" in quite an early episode. Yet despite all that, he's still utterly charming and magnetic because of Peter Wyngarde's effortlessly suave and confident performance. Played by anyone else Jason would seem like a buffoon - he was, after all, one of the inspirations for Austin Powers - but Wyngarde gives him class even at his most ridiculously pompous.

    The actual stories are mixed; some of the mysteries Department S are called upon to investigate are genuinely clever, while others (mostly those written by Philip Broadley) are bog-standard ITC crime plots involving bank robbers, smuggling rings or the Mafia with a 'bizarre' opening slapped on them to fit the format of "crimes too weird for the normal police to solve". Watching on DVD, ITC's penny-pinching also becomes evident - the same locations and sets appear again and again with only slight changes (watch for the corridor with a distinctive illuminated ceiling, which appears in almost every episode), and if you ever see anyone driving a white Jaguar, you know it's going to go over a cliff! ("Toonces, look ouuuuuut!") But overall it's a fun, lightly tongue-in-cheek adventure show that gets by on pure charisma.
    8The_StarWolf

    They don't make them like that any more

    Like NIGHT STALKER and then X-FILES, the show set up a fantastic situation and the main characters had to sort it out. Unlike these, the hero(es) weren't left holding an empty bag at the end. They had usually tangible results. It was also made clear that the 'good guys' were in a dirty profession where they occasionally had to pull some nasty things. Imagination, wit, acting which didn't always take itself too seriously ... I miss it. One reason being, I'm hard pressed to think of too many shows - BANACEK aside - which did as good a job of taking the viewer and grabbing their attention right off the bat. The writers excelled at setting up hugely improbable, if not downright impossible situations which the characters then had to find an explanation to. explanations which often took 90 degree turns into the clearly unexpected yet, for all that, still made sense. Too, I agree with another reviewer that the Anabelle character was somewhat underused, but when she was on screen, it wasn't just for eye candy. She was quite competent in her own right and stood up to the two male leads when she felt the point she was making warranted it. A rarity in those days. Sullivan? If he wasn't in the Department, he'd be working for the KGB or CIA. He's that sort of coldly efficient, ruthless type. He knows how the world works and realizes what it can take to get the job done. King? It's clearly a game to him. One he excels at and which he parleys into ideas for the detective/spy novels he writes as his ostensible 'real' job. He's probably the most fun to watch of the three, although they all have their moments and often, too. I do agree that the eventual spin-off series featuring only his character lacked the interest of the original, however.
    10samsmith81

    Late 1960s SpyFi at its Best

    One in a series of many ITC shows during the 1960s and 70s, "Department S" was one of the highlights. Entrusted with especially baffling cases that other agencies had failed to solve, this elite department of Interpol had to find solutions to the seemingly unsolvable.

    Interestingly enough, and somewhat ahead of its time, the official head of he Department was black. Sir Curtis Seretse (Dennis Alaba Peters) was a high-ranking diplomat from some (never named) African country (to whom early script versions simply referred to as "the African diplomat"). A little like M in the Bond movies, he would brief Stewart Sullivan on the case at hand and then leave it to the Department to solve it. Occasionally, he would later reappear and sort of supervise.

    The American Stewart Sullivan (Joel Fabiani) was the field team leader. A former FBI agent, practical, pragmatic and professional, with a no-nonsense attitude, who solved cases with a stubborn insistence that there MUST be a logical explanation. He was also ready to use his fists when he had to, and to put his life on the line when it was called for. He would give chase while dodging bullets and cars bearing down on him, knock out a couple of bad guys single-handedly, and then emerge calm and cool and looking neat as ever in his three-piece-suit. For 'inspirational' input he always turned to the writer King.

    A bestselling novelist, Jason King (Peter Wyngarde) had a galloping imagination. He solved cases by trying to imagine what Mark Caine, the hero of his novels, would do. On the other hand, he also used the Department's cases as inspiration for his books (much to the dismay of his colleague Annabelle Hurst), so it worked both ways. Eccentric to the core, sometimes Jason's input proved very helpful, or, as Stewart remarked, "he has a nasty habit of scoring near misses". At other times, his 'theories' strayed far away from the bull's eye, or, in the words of Annabelle, "he has a nasty habit of making wild generalizations that cover just about anything!"

    The computer expert Annabelle Hurst (Rosemary Nicols) was the exact opposite: analytical and only interested in data, data, data, which she would then feed into her computer, "Auntie". While at times she appeared interested in little else than her work, at other times it was clear that there was some kind of romantic relationship between her and Stewart. The fact that this was never directly shown or openly stated, yet often subtly hinted at, was one of the many strong points of the show.

    The chemnistry between the principals was definitely there, and the teamwork was a major factor in the success of "Department S". The acting was excellent, as was most of the writing. The cases were intriguing, and the stories usually very interesting: an airliner that vanished in midair, a passenger plane that landed completely empty, a man in a spacesuit dropping dead in the midst of London, or an entire village seemingly abducted over night. Some episodes were better than others, but most of them were very good. All in all, a real highlight of an era of television that will never come back.

    Although, like many of the ITC shows, the series only ran for a year, it was syndicated worldwide, ran very successfully internationally, and has long since achieved its well deserved cult status. It's available worldwide on DVD in various versions (US, UK, Australian...), including special editions. The 40th Anniversary Special Edition (UK) is great, with lots of vintage bonus material. You can take your pick. This show is definitely well worth (re)watching. 10 out of 10
    9ubercommando

    Introducing the amazing Jason King

    With all due respect to Joel Fabiani and Rosemary Nicolls and their characters, Department S will be forever associated with Peter Wyngarde's Jason King.

    Most people remember him as this camp, flamboyant and debonair womaniser cum detective in the mould of Austin Powers but that will do a disservice to the character: He's far more nuanced than that.

    Jason King is lazy (he often lets Stewart fight all the bad guys and only chips in at the end), he is egotistical (his appreciation of people is based on whether they've read his novels or not), a lot of his detective work is speculation without facts to back them up and he sulks whenever Annabelle is right...and she often is. He's clearly a man having a mid-life crisis and drink drives but.......Jason King is brilliant. If Wyngarde had played him purely as a dashing hero, it wouldn't have worked but he shows King often as a paper tiger, led by his libido, love of finery and prone to grandstanding (and it gets in the way of his detective work at times) but he has some of the best lines and put downs in TV history. And by not playing him as whiter-than-white, the chemistry and interactions between the three lead characters is all the better for it.

    Watching it again on DVD recently, you get to see just how much depth Wyngarde put into Jason King.
    9vailsy

    stylish and slickly produced (slightly james bond spoofy) show from the late 60's

    I first saw Department S perhaps twenty years ago while doing work experience at a studio in London dealing with dvd restorations.. instead of watching what the audio guy was doing I spent more time enjoying this great show

    I liked it even more once i realized Peter Wyngarde (Klytus from Flash Gordon) was Jason King and so purchased a really great restoration of Department S by network just recently, and what a treat it is.. it has cleaned up really well and is just a perfect snapshot of the late 60's

    I'm a big fan of shows like The Avengers too but I actually prefer the lesser known Department S a little more now since the storylines are a tad more serious and more James Bond / Ipcress File styled

    The 3 main characters are all great, the head of Department S who appears sometimes is also excellent

    The production values of the show are high class.. good sound and dialogue, lovely late 60's interior designs. Attention to detail was even paid to things like making the views outside moving cars look reasonable and consistent given what else was going on at the time

    Department S also has good humour and is of course lusciously retro

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      Kate O'Mara successfully screentested for the role of Annabelle Hurst, and was then offered it by producer Monty Berman. According to her memoirs, however, the American backers refused to cast her after describing her as too "exotic". She did, at least, guest as Pietra in Who Plays the Dummy? (1969).
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      There was an instance where a Jaguar automobile had crashed. The burning wreck was a Corvair.
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    • Data di uscita
      • 9 marzo 1969 (Regno Unito)
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      • Inglese
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      • Associated British Elstree Studios, Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, Inghilterra, Regno Unito(Studio)
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