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
Jason King (TV series) of a Nervous Breakdown" (1993). Wyngarde, interviewed on BBC TV when this episode was originally transmitted, was flattered by the affectionate parody, but insisted that Jason King would never wear crushed velvet. The character appeared in Episode 1 of Series 10 of "Rab C Nesbitt" in which he surfaces from inside an armoured vehicle outside the house of the show's title character, where he's holding a government minister hostage. On being offered a shirt by Jason King of the type he (Jason) might wear, by way of appeasement, Rab decides it is time to call an end to the siege