Parody
The Two Ronnies performed a sketch entitled "Jason King" with Ronnie Corbett putting on all the airs and graces of King and Ronnie Barker playing a suspect in a murder investigation from their third series in 1973.
Jason King was also the basis for Jason Bentley, played by Peter Richardson in the 1993 Comic Strip Presents episode Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown. Wyngarde, interviewed on BBC TV when this episode was originally transmitted, was flattered by the affectionate parody, but insisted that Jason King would never have been seen dead in 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 character of the show 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 and says "When Jason King says 'Jump!', well, you say 'How high?'"
In the 1972 Malaysian comedy film Laksamana Do Re Mi, the characters remark on the villain Menteri Fasola's resemblance to Jason King. Most younger Malaysians have no idea who Jason King is and do not get the 1970s cultural reference.
Harry Enfield's Television Programme in 1992 also featured a sketch called 'The Playboys' which was heavily influenced by Jason King. In the spoof titles the actor portraying playboy 'Sam Moritz' was named as 'Jason Queen' (actually played by Harry Enfield).
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