with all due respect to joel fabiani and rosemary nicolls and their character and department s will be forever associate with peter wyngarde jason king . most people remember him a this camp and flamboyant and debonair womaniser cum detective in the mould of austin power but that will do a disservice to the character represent he far more nuanced than that . jason king be lazy ( he often let stewart fight all the bad guy and only chip in at the end ) and he be egotistical ( his appreciation of people be base on whether they have read his novel or not ) and a lot of his detective work be speculation without fact to back them up and he sulk whenever annabelle be right . and she often be . he clearly a man have a mid life crisis and drink drive but . jason king be brilliant . if wyngarde have play him purely a a dashing hero and it wouldn not have work but he show king often a a paper tiger and lead by his libido and love of finery and prone to grandstanding ( and it get in the way of his detective work at time ) but he have some of the best line and put down in tv history . and by not play him a whiter than white and the chemistry and interaction between the three lead character be all the good for it . watch it again on dvd recently and you get to see just how much depth wyngarde put into jason king .