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An airplane from Karachi arrives at its final destination, London, no less than six days late, and neither the crew nor any of the passengers have any explanation as to what has happened in these six days - passengers including Interpol special brand Department S head Sir Curtis (Dennis Alaba Peters). There's one passenger though, industrialist Walsham (Peter Bromilow), who complains about stolen papers, so at first it looks like industrial espionage - but then the top team of Department S, Stewart (Joel Fabiani), Annabelle (Rosemary Nicols) and crime novelist Jason King (Peter Wyngarde) investigate and soon find that Walsham's a spy for the gouvernment, and after him only two more people got tickets for the plane, Borowitsch (Peter Bowles) and Durres (Al Mancini). They're brought in for questioning but don't shed any light on the affair. And when Walsham turns up again to tell our heroes that his papers weren't stolen after all, that should be it ... but only makes him more suspicious. Now Borowitsch was the only person on board apart from the pilots who had a license to fly jet planes, and Stewart tries to test his nerves to see whether he'd take over airplane controls in an emergency - but he proves to have nerves of steel ... and is soon shot dead for exactly that. Now the suspicion falls squarely on Walsham, and both Annabelle and King visit his place in his absence to find clues and/or get his girlfriend Janet (Geraldine Moffat), incidently the stewardess on the flight, to talk - with the success that Walsham tries to kill both Janet and King by gassing them in his apartment before fleeing to the airport. Now Janet is finally ready to talk, and she tells our heroes of a scheme to brainwash a member of parlament also on the flight, Hallet (Tony Steedman) - and in the finale, Department S manage to intercept Walsham, Hallet and Durres just when they try to leave the country with a fair share of national secrets ...

Ok, storywise this first episode of Department S is rather far-fetched and even a bit hard to swallow, but a rather light-footed approach to things with even some comedy - mostly from Peter Wyngarde - thrown in makes this an unexpectedly smooth ride, also because the leads show some great chemistry that would only improve in later episodes. And the late-1960s flair of both this entry and the series as a whole is of course hard to resist for its own sake.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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