Bill Osgerby is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of North London. He is the author of Youth in Britain Since 1945 (1998) and Playboys in Paradise: Masculinity, Youth and the Rise of American Leisure-Style., Anna Gough-Yates lectures in the Sociology of Culture and Communication at Brunel University. She is the author of Understanding Women's Magazines (Routledge 2001).

• Introduction, Bill Osgerby, Anna Gough-Yates; Part I Situating the Action TV Series; Chapter 1 The Business of Action, Bill Osgerby, Anna Gough-Yates, Merianne Wells; Chapter 2 ‘So You’re the Famous Simon Templar’, Bill Osgerby; Chapter 3 ‘Who Loves Ya, Baby?’, Paul Cobley; Chapter 4 ‘A Lone Crusader in the Dangerous World’, Nickianne Moody; Part II Representation and Cultural Politics in the Action TV Series; Chapter 5 Angels in Chains?, Anna Gough-Yates; Chapter 6 ‘Who’s the Cat that Won’t Cop Out?’, Elaine Pennicott; Chapter 7 Kung Fu, Yvonne Tasker; Chapter 8 ‘Drop Everything … Including your Pants!’, Leon Hunt; Part III Audiences Reading and Re-Reading the Action TV Series; Chapter 9 The Games we Play(ed), Martin Pumphrey; Chapter 10 The Persuaders!, Joke Hermes; Chapter 11 King and Queen, Andy Medhurst; Part IV The Cultural Circulation of the Action TV Series; Chapter 12 TV Gets Jazzed, Elizabeth Withey; Chapter 13 The Comics Connection, Roger Sabin; Chapter 14 Of Leather Suits and Kinky Boots, Marc O’Day; Chapter 15 The Sixties in the Nineties, John Storey;

Bill Osgerby is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of North London. He is the author of Youth in Britain Since 1945 (1998) and Playboys in Paradise: Masculinity, Youth and the Rise of American Leisure-Style., Anna Gough-Yates lectures in the Sociology of Culture and Communication at Brunel University. She is the author of Understanding Women's Magazines (Routledge 2001).

• Introduction, Bill Osgerby, Anna Gough-Yates; Part I Situating the Action TV Series; Chapter 1 The Business of Action, Bill Osgerby, Anna Gough-Yates, Merianne Wells; Chapter 2 ‘So You’re the Famous Simon Templar’, Bill Osgerby; Chapter 3 ‘Who Loves Ya, Baby?’, Paul Cobley; Chapter 4 ‘A Lone Crusader in the Dangerous World’, Nickianne Moody; Part II Representation and Cultural Politics in the Action TV Series; Chapter 5 Angels in Chains?, Anna Gough-Yates; Chapter 6 ‘Who’s the Cat that Won’t Cop Out?’, Elaine Pennicott; Chapter 7 Kung Fu, Yvonne Tasker; Chapter 8 ‘Drop Everything … Including your Pants!’, Leon Hunt; Part III Audiences Reading and Re-Reading the Action TV Series; Chapter 9 The Games we Play(ed), Martin Pumphrey; Chapter 10 The Persuaders!, Joke Hermes; Chapter 11 King and Queen, Andy Medhurst; Part IV The Cultural Circulation of the Action TV Series; Chapter 12 TV Gets Jazzed, Elizabeth Withey; Chapter 13 The Comics Connection, Roger Sabin; Chapter 14 Of Leather Suits and Kinky Boots, Marc O’Day; Chapter 15 The Sixties in the Nineties, John Storey;