EPISODE GUIDE

 

Dr. No
1962


British agent, James Bond, is sent to Jamaica to investigate the murder of a fellow operative. Bond's enquiries soon establish a connection between the death, a spate of recent failures in the US space program, and the mysterious Dr. No.

 

Opening scene: Three "blind" beggars shoot Strangways
Locations: Jamaica, Pinewood Studios.
James Bond: Sean Connery
Score:  Monty Norman
Director: Terence Young

 


From Russia with love
1963


Evil crime cartel SPECTRE seeks revenge for the death of its operative Dr No and sets a trap to lure British agent James Bond to his death. The bait is a Soviet encryption machine called a Lektor, which the British Secret Service are desperate to get hold of.

 

Opening scene: Bond strangled
Locations: Istanbul, Pinewood Studios.
James Bond: Sean Connery
Score: John Barry
Director: Terence Young

 

 

Goldfinger
1964


The Bank of England has discovered that someone is stockpiling vast quantities of gold and suspects international bullion dealer Auric Goldfinger of being involved. The Bank requests that British agent James Bond be sent to investigate. Bond soon uncovers an audacious plan to commit "the crime of the century" and bring economic chaos to the West.

Opening scene: Bond blowing up refinery
Locations: Switzerland, USA, Pinewood Studios.
James Bond: Sean Connery
Score: John Barry
Director: Guy Hamilton

 

 

Thunderball
1965


SPECTRE hatches its most audacious plot to date when its agents hijack a British Vulcan bomber armed with two atomic bombs and hold NATO to ransom for the sum of #100,000,000. The British send all their "00" agents, including James Bond, to recover the warheads before SPECTRE carries out its threat to detonate the devices on the UK and US mainland.

Opening scene: Widow disguise/jetpack
Locations: Paris, Bahamas, Pinewood Studios.
James Bond: Sean Connery
Score: John Barry
Director: Terence Young

 


You only live twice
1967


During a routine US space mission a manned American rocket mysteriously disappears while in orbit. The Americans naturally suspect the Soviets and threaten retaliation. However, the British are more cautious after one of their tracking stations indicates that the space craft may have come down near the Sea of Japan. James Bond is sent to investigate, but when the Soviets lose one of their space craft in similar circumstances, 007 has only a few days to locate the launch site and prevent the outbreak of World War III.

Opening scene: U.S. space capsule captured, Bond killed
Locations: Japan, Pinewood Studios.
James Bond: Sean Connery
Score: John Barry
Director: Lewis Gilbert

 


On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969


Whilst on leave, Bond prevents a young woman, Tracy Draco, from committing suicide. Her father is the head of a powerful crime syndicate who is impressed by Bond and wants him to protect his daughter by marrying her. In exchange he offers Bond information which will lead 007 to his arch enemy Ernst Blofeld. At first Bond agrees to the deal purely to fulfill his objective to kill Blofeld but later he grows to love Tracy. When the British learn that Blofeld plans to destroy mankind with a deadly virus, 007 is torn between his loyalty to his country and his intent to marry Tracy.

Opening scene: Bond rescues Tracy on beach
Locations: Switzerland, Portugal, Pinewood Studios.
James Bond: George Lazenby
Score: John Barry
Director: Peter R. Hunt

 


Diamonds are forever
1971


The British Government become suspicious when large shipments of uncut diamonds begin disappearing reluctant when ordered to investigate believing it to be a simple case of smuggling, but when a lead points to the involvement of 007's arch nemesis Blofeld, Bond becomes desperate to uncover his plans and to avenge the death of his wife Tracy.

Opening scene: Bond searching for Blofeld - mudpack
Locations: USA, Germany, Netherlands, France, Pinewood Studios.
James Bond: Sean Connery
Score: John Barry
Director: Guy Hamilton

 



Live and let die
1973


Several British agents investigating drugs smuggling are killed in mysterious circumstances. Each murder is linked to a Harlem crime boss, Mr. Big, and an international diplomat Kananga. The British send agent James Bond to investigate. When 007 arrives in New York he is nearly killed by one of Mr. Big's hoods, but the attempt gives Bond a lead and he soon discovers a plot to flood the US main land with a billion dollars worth of heroin.

Opening scene: 3 murders: New Orleans funeral, voodoo scene, UN rep. getting fried through headphones
Locations: USA, Jamaica, Pinewood Studios.
James Bond: Roger Moore
Score: George Martin
Director: Guy Hamilton

 


The man with the golden gun
1975


When a golden bullet arrives at the headquarters of British intelligence with "007" engraved on it, the British believe that James Bond is the next target for international assassin Scaramanga. 007 is given the assignment to kill Scaramanga before he kills Bond and collects his $1,000,000 fee.

Opening scene: Carnival Maze
Locations: Hong Kong, Macao, Thailand, Pinewood Studios.
James Bond: Roger Moore
Score: John Barry
Director Guy Hamilton

 

 


The Spy who loved me
1977


The British discover that someone has perfected a way of tracking submerged submarines and is offering the technology to the highest bidder. An international crisis breaks when a Royal Navy Polaris submarine equipped with sixteen nuclear warheads disappears while on patrol. The British send agent James Bond to secure the tracking device and locate the missing vessel before its missiles are launched at the West.

Opening scene: ski/parachute
Locations: Egypt, Sardinia, Bahamas, Canada, Malta, Scotland, Okinawa, Switzerland, Pinewood Stud.
James Bond: Roger Moore
Score: Marvin Hamlisch
Director: Lewis Gilbert

 


Moonraker
1979


A Boeing 747 carrying a US space shuttle on loan to the UK crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. When the British examine the wreckage they can find no trace of the space craft and send agent James Bond to the shuttle's manufacturers, Drax Industries, to investigate.

Opening scene: mid air struggle for parachute
Locations: Italy, Brazil, Guatemala, USA, Boulogne/Eclair/Paris Studios, Pinewood Studios.
James Bond: Roger Moore
Score: John Barry
Director: Lewis Gilbert

 

 


For your eyes only
1981


A British spy trawler is accidentally sunk off the coast of a Warsaw pact county. On board is a hi-tech encryption device called an ATAC which the British use to send launch instructions to their Polaris fleet. The British send agent James Bond to investigate but once the Soviets learn of the loss the race is on to recover the device at any cost.

Opening scene: Blofeld killed in wheelchair with helicopter
Locations: Greece, Italy, Bahamas, England, Pinewood Studios.
James Bond: Roger Moore
Score:  Bill Conti
Director: John Glen

 

 


Octopussy
1983


When a "00" agent is found dead holding a Faberge egg, the British are suspicious and send James Bond to investigate. 007 discovers a connection between the priceless egg, an elaborate smuggling operation and a plot by a renegade Soviet general to instigate World War Three.

Opening scene: Acrostar fly's through hanger
Locations: India, Germany, USA, England, Pinewood Studios.
James Bond: Roger Moore
Score: John Barry
Director: John Glen

 

 


A view to kill
1985


A silicon chip is captured from the Soviets and found to be identical to a prototype British design capable of withstanding the intense electromagnetic radiation of a nuclear blast. The British suspect industrialist Max Zorin of leaking details of the design to the Russians. When Bond is sent to investigate he finds that Zorin is stockpiling silicon chips and, mysteriously, drilling near the San Andreas fault.

Opening scene: snowboard chase
Locations: France, USA, Iceland, Switzerland, England (Amberly Chalk Pits Museum), Pinewood
Studios.
James Bond: Roger Moore
Score: John Barry
Director: John Glen

 


The living daylights
1987


During a training operation, a "00" agent is unexpectedly murdered. When British agent James Bond organizes the defection of a top ranking Soviet general, the Russian divulges a plan by the KGB to kill all its enemy agents. Bond is suspicious of the plot, but never-the-less is ordered to kill the KGB officer
masterminding the operation.

Opening scene: Jeep over cliff
Locations: Morocco, Gibralta, Austria, England, USA, Pinewood Studios.
James Bond: Timothy Dalton
Score: John Barry
Director: John Glen

 


Licence to kill
1989

Shortly after an important drugs bust, CIA agent Felix Leiter is married, but when the drug lord he arrested escapes, kills his wife and mutilates Leiter his old friend British agent James Bond seeks revenge. When "M" orders 007 to drop the matter and start a new assignment, Bond deserts Her Majesty's Secret Service and embarks on a world wide personal vendetta to kill those responsible.

Opening scene: helicopter catches plane
Locations: Florida, Mexico.
James Bond: Timothy Dalton
Score: Michael Kamen
Director: John Glen

 



GoldenEye
1995


The story revolves around two Russian military satellites capable of wreaking havoc from orbit by causing widespread and massive interference with commercial and military communications, computers with the use of nuclear pulse detonation technology. The satellites can render useless any electronic device. The program discs that control the GoldenEye satellites are stolen by a secret Russian mafia-like group known as Janus. Natalya is the only witness to who stole the discs, Bond has been sent to retrieve the discs and find out what Janus is up to.

Opening scene: Bond and 006 penetrating a Russian nerve gas facility
Locations: St. Petersburg, Monte Carlo, the Caribbean, Switzerland, Puerto Rico.
James Bond: Pierce Brosnan
Score: Eric Serra
Director:  Martin Campbell

 



Tomorrow Never Dies
1997


Bond is trying to stop media baron Elliot Carver from starting a war between the British and the Chinese in order to sell more newspapers.

Opening scene: Bond stops a missile from hitting a nuclear torpedo.
Locations: England, Hong Kong, Thailand.
James Bond: Pierce Brosnan
Score: David Arnold
Director: Roger Spottiswoode

 

 

 

 

The world is not enough
1999


Greed, revenge, world domination through the power of oil, high-tech terrorism.. These are only some of the ingredients of the latest 007 adventure which begins outside the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, continues with a spectacular high speed boat chase up London's River Thames, and progresses through the highlands of Scotland before Bond survives an avalanche in the Caucasus Mountains and a potential nuclear explosion in a vast circular oil pipeline in Turkey. As James Bond tries to protect Elektra, the beautiful daughter of assassinated oil magnate, Sir Robert King, from a notorious international terrorist and with nuclear weapons expert Dr. Christmas Jones at his side, he travels to the Caspian sea and Istanbul where a former enemy becomes a formidable ally before the final dramatic confrontation in the claustrophobic confines of a nuclear submarine beneath the surface of the Bosphorus...

Opening scene: Bond persues an assain down The Thames in the Q boat.
Locations: England, Spain,
James Bond: Pierce Brosnan
Score: David Arnold
Director: Michael Apted

 

 

Die another day
2002

TBA

Opening scene: TBA
Locations: TBA
James Bond: Pierce Brosnan
Score: David Arnold
Director: Lee Tamahori

 

 

 

Casino_Royale (1967) Staring Peter Sellers and Never_Say_Never_Again (1983) Staring Sean Connery were not official UA Bond films and therefore are not listed in the official section of this page. Casino Royale was a comedy spoof of Bond and Never Say Never Again was just a remake of Thunderball. Also in 1954 a one of US tv show of Casino Royal was made. (It was not good)



Ian Fleming's Book's (In publishing order) :

Casino Royale

Live & Let Die

Moonraker

Diamonds Are Forever

From Russia With Love

Doctor No

Goldfinger

From a View to a Kill

For Your Eyes Only

Quantum of Solace

Risico

The Hilderand Rarity

Thunderball

The Spy Who Loved Me

The Living Daylights

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

The Property of a Lady

You Only Live Twice

The Man With The Golden Gun

Octopussy

 

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