create by dennis spooner and department s be a glossy thriller show about an offshoot of interpol and base in geneva and create to solve baffle mystery the police could not handle . if a plane land at heathrow with no one aboard and if a man be find wander around london in a space suit and if the passenger of a roll royce suddenly transmogrify into a skeleton and if a train pull into a tube station turn out to contain dead commuter and you call on department s to sort thing out . peter wyngarde play jason king and a flamboyantly dress crime novelist whose fertile imagination help crack many of the bizarre case . king catch the public fancy and be later award a spin off show . he be ably assist by american stuart sullivan ( joel fabiani ) and the delectable annabelle hurst ( rosemary nicols ) . unusually for a 60 show and the department be head by a black man sir curtis seretse ( dennis alaba peter ) if the show look and felt a lot like the avenger and it be hardly surprising . it share many of the same writer and director . the colourful title be design by chamber and partner and and be worth tune in for alone . a be the case with so many i. t. c. series and the music be compose by edwin astley . his theme for department s have get to rank a one of the best television theme of all time . predictably and the show look a little sexist and date now and but do not let that dissuade you from tune in . imagine a hybrid of jonathan creek and the austin power movie and you have get department s. trivia note represent the episode a small war of nerve feature a young sir anthony hopkins in a major role .