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 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