Doctor Who Vs. James Bond, Part 6: On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Eon Production's sixth entry in the Bond 

franchise premiered in December 1969, and 

was based on Ian Fleming's novel of 1963. 

Following Sean Connery's decision to

relinquish the role in 1967, Albert Broccoli

cast unknown Australian actor and model

George Robert Lazenby (born 1939) as 007.

However, during production Lazenby resolved

to play the spy only once, and critical reaction

to his portrayal remains divided. Connery then agreed to return to the part in 1971 for Eon's

next title, Diamonds Are Forever, then finally

for Warner Bros' unofficial release, Never Say

Never Again in 1983.

ITV4's latest Bond season continued last night

with Lazenby's solo outing - it featured Telly

Savalas, and sixteen Doctor Who cast alumni:

• [Enid] Diana [Elizabeth] Rigg (Tracy) was Winifred Gillyflower in The Crimson Horror
• Bernard [Arthur Gordon] Horsfall (Campbell) was Lemuel Gulliver in The Mind Robber, First Time Lord in (episode 10 of) The War Games, Taron in Planet of the Daleks, Chancellor Goth in The Deadly Assassin, and voiced Arnold Baynes for Big Finish's Davros (2003)
• [William] Geoffrey Cheshire (Toussaint) was Viking Leader in The Time Meddler, Garge in The Daleks' Master Plan (3), Corporal Jack Tracy in The Invasion, and Roboman in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD
• James [Rutherford Worsfold] Bree [born Thomson] (Gumbold) was the Security Chief in The War Games, Nefred in Full Circle, and Keeper of the Matrix in The Ultimate Foe
• Ron [Leonard] Gregory (Patron here, Diamonds are Forever & The Man With the Golden Gun; Delegate in Live and Let Die; Clerk in Never Say Never Again; Technician in The Living Daylights) was a Guardian in The Ark
• Catherine Schell [born Katherina Freiin Schell von Bauschlott] (Nancy) was the Countess Scarlioni in City of Death
• Joanna [Lamond] Lumley (English Girl here; Irma for BBC radio version) was the Doctor in The Curse of Fatal Death
• [Rafael] David de Keyser (voice of Draco here; Doctor in Diamonds Are Forever) provided the Atraxi voice in The Eleventh Hour
• Brian [Mc]Grellis (Aide) was Sheprah in Revenge of the Cybermen, Safran in The Invisible Enemy, and Megaphone Man in Snakedance (4)
• [Gilbert] Dudley Jones (Porter) and [Phokion Stavros] Steve Plytas (Tycoon) both starred in The Tenth Planet, as Dyson and Wigner
• Andrew Andreas (Waiter) was an Egyptian Warrior in The Daleks' Master Plan (10), Guard in The Enemy of the World, and German Soldier in The War Games (3)
• for Robert Rietty see Dr. No
• for George Baker see You Only Live Twice
• for Lewis Alexander and Aileen Lewis see Casino Royale and From Russia With Love