Doctor Who Vs. Casino Royale (1967)

The first Bond film not conceived by Eon

Productions was released by Columbia

Pictures in 1967, just two months before

the fifth, official title, You Only Live Twice.

Producer Charles Feldman had acquired the

cinema rights to Casino Royale in 1960 with

the intention of adapting Ian Fleming's book

with Eon and, but negotiations with Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman failed. The studio would not produce an official version until

2006. Sir James Bond was portrayed here by

David Niven (1910-1983).

Shown on ITV last night, the comedy featured

Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles,

Woody Allen, Bernard Cribbins, and twenty-eight Doctor Who cast connections:

• [Albert] Geoffrey Bayldon (Q) was Organon in The Creature from the Pit, then voiced the Doctor for Big Finish's Auld Mortality (2003) and A Storm of Angels (2005)
• Colin [Fraser] Gordon (Director) was the Commandant in The Faceless Ones
• Erik Chitty (Butler) was Charles Preslin in (episode 1 of) The Massacre, and Co-ordinator Engin in The Deadly Assassin
• Valentine Dyall (Assistant) was the Black Guardian in The Armageddon Factor, Mawdryn Undead, Terminus and Enlightenment, then voiced Slarn for Slipback
• John [born Bertie Wyn] Hollis (Fred here; Blofeld in For Your Eyes Only) was Sondergaard in The Mutants
• Caroline [Jane] Munro (Guard here; Naomi in The Spy Who Loved Me) voiced Sentia for Omega (2003)
• Burt [born Herbert Tsangtse] Kwouk (General here; Ling in Goldfinger; Spectre 3 in You Only Live Twice) was Lin Futu in Four to Doomsday, and voiced Dr. Hayashi for Loups-Garoux (2001)
• David [Charles] Prowse (Creature) was the Minotaur in The Time Monster
• Mike Reid (Stunt Driver) was Greek Soldier in The Myth Makers (3), Guard in The Massacre (4), and Soldier in The War Machines
• Lewis Alexander [born Herbert Alexander Lewis] (Passenger here; UN Delegate in Live and Let Die; Man in Octopussy; Patron in Never Say Never Again) was Army Officer in The War Machines (3)
• Walter Henry [born Israel Nagelkop] (Patron here; Aide in Octopussy; Man in Never Say Never Again) was Extra in The Myth Makers (2) and The Silurians (6), Primord in Inferno, and Brother in The Masque of Mandragora
• [Cathal] Max [Parnell Macaulay Lloyd] Faulkner (Chinese Man) was Corporal Adams in The Android Invasion, Nesbin in The Invasion of Time, and had uncredited roles in eight other stories
• Rocky [born Laurie] Taylor (Patron here; stuntman on Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice, Live and Let Die, The Man With the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me, Octopussy, Never Say Never Again, Skyfall; Thug in Tomorrow Never Dies; Man in The World is Not Enough, Die Another Day) was Warrior in The Daleks' Master Plan (9), Guard in The Curse of Peladon (4), then stuntman on The Idiot's Lantern
• Peter Brace (Cowboy here; stuntman in Dr. No) was Guard in The Curse of Peladon (4), and Soldier in The Android Invasion (2)
• for Robert Rietty (Dubbing voice) see Dr. No
• Del Watson (Indian) was an uncredited Alien Guard/Crimean Soldier in The War Games
• Alf [Charles Richard] Joint (Patron here; Capungo/stunt double in Goldfinger) was Heavy in The Ambassadors of Death, and stunt arranger on Battlefield
• Robert Rowland (Agent) was an Extra in The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1)
• Alec Paterson (Cop) and Juba Kennerley (Man) were both Men in The Massacre
• Paddy Ryan (Patron) was a Kaled Scientist in Genesis of the Daleks (6)
• Peter Brayham (Indian here; Rhoda in From Russia With Love; stuntman on Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice, Live and Let Die) was stunt co-ordinator on The Christmas Invasion, New Earth and School Reunion
• Fred Haggerty (Patron) was a stuntmen on The Time Meddler (2)
• Rita Tobin Weske (Woman) was the Theatre Cleaner in The Talons of Weng-Chiang (3)
• Eddie Powell (Patron here; stuntman in You Only Live Twice, Diamonds are Forever, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me, Octopussy, Never Say Never Again, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights), Maxwell Craig (Guard) and Alf Mangan (Man here; Gypsy in From Russia With Love) were Thompson, Fighter and Escapee in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD