Tuesday 20 August 2024

Doctor Who Vs. James Bond, Part 19: The World is Not Enough

ITV4's latest Bond season continued last night
with the nineteenth instalment in Eon's fran-
chise. Released in 1999, the film took its title
from the motto of the Bond family crest in Ian
Fleming's 1963 novel, On Her Majesty's Secret
Service.
Desmond Llewellyn made his final appearance
as MI6's long-serving Quartermaster here opposite John Cleese, who debuted as Q's
successor. Llewellyn died, aged 85, just a
month after the film's premiere.
The production's location filming was under-
taken in Spain, France, Azerbaijan, Turkey,
 and the UK, with interiors filmed at Pinewood's
Bond stage. The film (the first distributed by
MGM) featured Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle,
Denise Richards, Robbie Coltrane, and a total of
forty-four Doctor Who cast/crew connections:

  • Patrick Romer (Pilot) voiced Dr. Andrew Szabó for Big Finish's Thicker Than Water (2005)
  • Cleese (R) had a cameo role [Art Lover] in (part 4 of) City of Death
  • John Albasiny (Pilot) voiced Guy Dean for BBV Productions' Homeland (1999), Lev Tolstoy/Preston for The Angel of Scutari (2009), Major Maxim Felnikov for Thin Ice and Crime of the Century (both 2011), Chris Fleming for Phantoms of the Deep (2013), Jesper for Equilibrium (2015), and Makerenkov for Last of the Romanovs (2020)
  • Carl McCrystal (Trukhin) was McGrath in The Curse of the Black Spot
  • Daisy [Roma] Beaumont (Nina) was Maisie Pitt in Mummy on the Orient Express
  • David J Bremner (Bull) was the grip on Into the Dalek, Listen and Time Heist
  • Christine Adams (Patron) was Cathica Santini Khadeni in The Long Game
  • Kiran Shah (stunts) was the Figure in Listen, and Emojibot in Smile
  • Lee Sheward (Crewman) was stunt co-ordinator on eleven stories (from The End of the World to The End of Time) and Torchwood: Miracle Day
  • Paul Kulik was a stuntman on Rose too
  • Jo McLaren (stunt performer here & Spectre) was stunt co-ordinator on eight episodes (from Day of the Moon to The Return of Doctor Mysterio)
  • Tony Van Silva was stuntman on Tooth and Claw too
  • Gordon Seed (stunts) was stuntman/co-ordinator on thirty-six stories (from The Idiot's Lantern to Kill the Moon)
  • Shelly Benison was stunt performer on The Age of Steel too
  • George Cottle was also a stuntman on Boom TownThe Runaway Bride and Smith and Jones
  • Kevin Welch was stunt rigger on 42 too
  • Tina Maskell was also stunt performer on Boom Town and The Runaway Bride
  • Amanda Foster was stunt performer on The Doctor's Daughter too
  • for Colin Salmon, Tom Lucy, Jamie Edgell, Neil Finnighan, Guy List, Tony Lucken, Richard Hammatt and Abbi Collins see Tomorrow Never Dies
  • for Samantha Bond, Derek Lea, Ray De Haan, David Forman, Sarah Franzl, Paul Herbert, Seon Rogers, Steve Griffin and Lucy Allen see Goldeneye
  • for Bill Weston (stunts) see The Living Daylight
  • for Paul Heasman see A View to a Kill
  • for Terry Forrestal see Moonraker
  • for Tracey Eddon see Never Say Never Again
  • for Jim Dowdall and Greg Powell see The Spy Who Loved Me
  • for Vincent Wong see Goldfinger
  • for Steve Emerson and Rocky Taylor see Dr. No

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