Peter Wyngarde Peter Wyngarde Peter Wyngarde (23 August 1927 – 15 January 2018) was a British actor best known for playing the character Jason King, a bestselling novelist turned sleuth, in two television series: "Department S" (1969–70) and "Jason King" (1971–72). His flamboyant dress sense and stylish performances led to popular success, and he was considered a style icon in Britain and elsewhere in the early 1970s; Mike Myers credited Wyngarde with inspiring the character Austin Powers. Peter Wyngarde's date and place of birth, his birth name, and his parents' nationalities and occupations are all disputed. According to his own account, he
1970s in television many of them from Universal TV, achieved at least a measure of popularity during this period. They included "The Six Million Dollar Man", "The Bionic Woman", "Battlestar Galactica", "Wonder Woman", "The Incredible Hulk" and "Fantasy Island". Another popular medium in U.S. television moving into the 1970s was the soap opera, which moved from being a genre watched exclusively by housewives to having a sizable audience of men (who largely watched "The Edge of Night") and college students; the latter audience helped "All My Children" gain a devoted following, as it was on during many universities' traditional "lunch period." In a