Doctor Who Vs. James Bond, Part 17: Goldeneye

ITV4's latest Bond film season continued

tonight with Pierce Brosnan's debut as 007.

The seventeenth instalment in Eon's franchise,

was the first not to include elements from the

works of Ian Fleming - the title was taken from

the name of the author's Jamaican estate.

The film was released in late 1995 after a six

-year hiatus caused by legal disputes, during

which Timothy Dalton resigned from the lead

role (after just two assignments) and was

replaced by Irish-born Brosnan.

Series veteran Desmond Llewellyn returned as

Q, but M and Moneypenny were also recast - Judi Dench (now the first female head of MI6)

and Samantha Bond replaced Robert Brown and Caroline Bliss respectively.

The production's location filming was undertaken

in Switzerland, Monte Carlo, St. Petersburg and Puerto Rico, with interiors

now filmed at a purpose-built studio at Leavesden (Pinewood's Bond stage

was unavailable). Tina Turner provided the opening theme song, written

by U2. The film featured Sean Bean, Femke Janssen, Robbie Coltrane,

Joe Don Baker, Michael Kitchen, and these twenty-nine Doctor Who cast

and crew connections:

• Bond (Moneypenny, from here to Die Another Day) was Miss Wormwood in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane and Enemy of the Bane - a role reprised for Big Finish's The Revenge of Wormwood (2023) - she also voiced Mother Baroque for The Scapegoat (2009)
• Alan Cumming (Boris) was MacNamara in BBV Productions' The Airzone Solution, then King James I in The Witchfinders, and voiced Mr. Ring-a-Ding for Lux
• David Forman (Chang here; stunts in Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Skyfall) was stunt co-ordinator on five stories (from Tooth and Claw to The Runaway Bride)
• Ian Durrant (Scientist) was Tetrap/Genii in (part 4 of) Time and the Rani
• Terrance Denville [born Faulkner] (Russian) was Cyberman in The Invasion (6), Soldier in The War Games (4), Technician in The Silurians (6), Prison Guard in Frontier in Space, Exxilon in Death to the Daleks, and Ice Warrior in The Monster of Peladon (5)
• [Cathal] Max [Parnell Macaulay Lloyd] Faulkner (Guard) was UNIT Soldier in The Ambassadors of Death, Exxilon in Death to the Daleks (1), Miner in The Monster of Peladon (6), Guard Captain in Planet of the Spiders (4), Thal Guard in Genesis of the Daleks (3), Crewman in Planet of Evil (1), Corporal Adams in The Android Invasion, and Nesbin in The Invasion of Time
• Bhasker Patel (Dealer) was Jival Chowdry in Turn Left
• Jamie Edgell (stuntman here, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough, Spectre) also worked on four stories (from The End of the World to Twice Upon a Time)
• stunt driver Steve Griffin and stunt performer Sarah Franzl both worked on The Idiot's Lantern too
• stuntmen Richard Hammatt, Paul Herbert and Seon Rogers also worked on The Runaway Bride, The End of Time and Father's Day respectively
• Lucy Allen was stunt performer on The Zygon Inversion too
• Stuart [John] Clark was also stuntman on Dalek, Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways
• Derek Lea (stunts here, Tomorrow Never Dies; Henchman in The World is Not Enough; Guard in Die Another Day; Bodyguard in Quantum of Solace) was stuntman on five episodes (from Dalek to Partners in Crime), then stunt co-ordinator on The Return of Doctor Mysterio and The Doctor Falls
• Alf Tramontin was Steadicam operator on Attack of the Graske too
• SFX technician Nigel Brackley began his career as FX operator on State of Decay (3)
• Tony Bell was the boom operator on The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot too
• for Dinny Powell see Dr. No
• for Roy Scammell see From Russia With Love
• for Jim Dowdall, Nick Hobbs and Nick Gillard see The Spy Who Loved Me
• for Tracey Eddon see Never Say Never Again
• for Terry Forrestal see Moonraker
• for Paul Heasman and Trevor Steedman see A View to a Kill
• for Eddie Kidd see The Living Daylights