Doctor Who Vs. James Bond, Part 6

Another Bond film season continued 
on ITV4 last night with Roger Moore's 

fourth stint as the famous MI6 agent. 

The eleventh entry in the franchise, 
was based on the spy novel of 1955, 
itself adapted from Ian Fleming's own
potential film treatment.
Shot primarily  in France, the production was Eon's most expensive to date (the 
budget of $34 million was almost double 
that of The Spy Who Love Me), but 
Moonraker became the highest-grossing 
title until GoldenEye. 

Bernard Lee made his eleventh and final appearance here as M, and Richard Kiel 
returned as Jaws. Shirley Bassey again 
performed the title song, her third after Goldfinger and Diamonds are 
Forever.
Bond's next cinematic assignment was 
released in 1981. The film took its title from Fleming's Bond anthology
 (published in 1960), and contained elements from the short stories For Your 
Eyes Only and Risico. The feature was shot on location in Italy, Spain, Greece, 
the Bahamas and the North Sea, with interiors filmed at Pinewood studios. 
The theme song by Sheena Easton (nominated for an Oscar and a Golden 
Globe) replaced original choice Blondie. Both films featured a total of twenty-two Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

MOONRAKER 

• Peter Bennett (assistant director here and A View to a Kill; unit manager on For Your Eyes Only; location manager on Octopussy) was the first assistant director on fourteen revived series adventures (from Bad Wolf to The End of Time, and Attack of the Graske), the production manager on four other stories, then produced thirteen further instalments (from The Beast Below to The Zygon Inversion) and Torchwood: Children of Earth
• Terry Forrestal (Space Fighter here; stunts on Octopussy, Never Say Never Again, A View to a Kill and Goldeneye) was a Tractor Driver on K9 and Company
• for Derek Meddings, Martin Grace, Dinny Powell, Dorothy Ford and Rick Lester see my other Bond blogs

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

• Julian Glover (Kristatos) playde King Richard in The Crusade, and Scaroth in City of Death
• Graham Crowden (First Sea Lord) was Soldeed in The Horns of Nimon
• Noel Johnson (Vice Admiral) was King Thous in The Underwater Menace, and Charles Grover MP in Invasion of the Dinosaurs
• William Hoyland (McGregor) voiced Premier Jaeger for Big Finish's Live 34 (BF, 2005)
• Paul Brooke (Bunky) voiced Toby for Year of the Pig (BF, 2006)
• John [aka Juan] Moreno (Ferrara) was Dobson in (episode 2 of) The Ambassadors of Death
• Laurie Goode (Skier) was a Mutt in The Mutants (1), Time Lord in The Invasion of Time (3), Bandit in The Creature from the Pit (1), Tigellan in Meglos (2), Sailor in Enlightenment, and UNIT Trooper in Battlefield (1)
• Elizabeth Waller was the costume designer on The Robots of Death too
• Anthony Waye (assistant director here and Octopussy; production manager on A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill, Skyfall; producer on Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace) was assistant director on both Dalek features
• Gareth Milne (stunts here and Skyfall) was George Cranleigh in Black Orchid, a Mortuary Attendant in Vengeance on Varos (2), and doubled for Peter Davison on Warriors of the Deep (1)
• Stuart Fell (stunts here, Octopussy and A View to a Kill) was a stuntman on Terror of the Autons (1) and The Ribos Operation (1), then fight arranger on The Talons of Weng-Chiang and State of Decay, and had roles in thirty-three other episodes (from The Claws of Axos to The Invasion of Time)
• Nick Wilkinson (stunts here, Octopussy, Never Say Never Again and Licence to Kill; Russian Soldier in The Living Daylights) was a stuntman on The Next Doctor too
• for Tim Condren, Jim Dowdall and Bill Weston see my other Bond blogs