Jason King (TV series) the X-Men comics, the character of Jason Wyngarde (aka Mastermind) was partially inspired by Jason King and Peter Wyngarde. Mastermind had first appeared in the 1960s, but took on the appearance and identity of Jason Wyngarde in the build-up to the X-Men's first confrontation with the Hellfire Club in the late 1970s. Wyngarde had played the leader of another Hellfire club in "A Touch of Brimstone", an episode of the popular TV series "The Avengers", in which Diana Rigg appeared in a leather costume that Jean Grey adopted as the Hellfire Club's Black Queen. He is also one of the
1970s in television a black woman as her housekeeper. Maude's housekeeper, Florida Evans (played by Esther Rolle), became popular in her own right and was given her own television series in 1974, "Good Times", which proved to be another hit for Lear's production company. Lear developed two shows in 1975: "The Jeffersons", a spin-off of "All in the Family" in which Archie Bunker's black next-door neighbors moved to a luxury apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and "One Day at a Time", about a single mother raising her two teenage daughters in Indianapolis. With the rise in socially responsible programming, the