James Bond

James Bond was a fictional British secret agent created on Earth in the mid-20th century. Sean Connery and Roger Moore, who had previously played another fictional secret agent in the television series The Saint, were among the actors who played the role in the film series. (AUDIO: Thin Ice) According to Ianto Jones, Bond was the archetypal male fantasy: the man all women wanted to have, and all men wanted to be. (PROSE: Trace Memory)

Rory Williams was the apparent inspiration for the character, after he and the Eleventh Doctor rescued Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, during the London Blitz. (COMIC: The Doctor and the Nurse)

The 1966 film Voodoo Something To Me was the final Bond film to star Sean Connery. (PROSE: Mad Dogs and Englishmen)

By 2009, there were at least 21 Bond movies. (PROSE: The House That Jack Built) A new series of James Bond films were made during the 24th century. (PROSE: Synthespians™)

At some point, Cal MacNannovich presumably portrayed the character of James Bond. This version of the character was the Tenth Doctor's favourite. (PROSE: The Art of Destruction)

Behind the scenes
Jimmy Bondson, appearing in the crossover The Man from MI.5, was named after James Bond.

Significant connections

 * As long-running British franchises, both James Bond and Doctor Who share many similarities. Both protagonists have been portrayed, on-screen and in audio, by several actors, and both first appeared on screen in the 1960s.
 * Timothy Dalton, who played Rassilon in The End of Time, portrayed Bond in The Living Daylights and Licence To Kill.
 * Michael Jayston played the character in a radio adaptation of You Only Live Twice in 1990, and was at one point considered for the role on film. He had previously played the Valeyard in The Trial of a Time Lord.
 * In the early part of their careers, Christopher Eccleston and current Bond Daniel Craig appeared together in Our Friends in the North.
 * Adam Blackwood provided the voice for James Bond in the video games, , , and.

Other connections

 * The scene in Spearhead from Space where Major General Scobie is confronted with a replica is reminiscent of a scene in the 1965 film where Francois Derval is killed by Angelo.
 * The shot of an exploding helicopter in The Dæmons is unused footage from the 1963 film From Russia With Love.
 * During location filming at Lanzarote for Planet of Fire, Peter Davison posed for publicity photos with a prop gun and tuxedo with a bikini-clad Nicola Bryant by his side, in a classically Bond-like pose, to announce the latter's debut as Peri Brown. Jason Kane also adopts a "Bond pose" on the cover of Deadfall by Gary Russell. Trading Futures by Lance Parkin uses a pastiche Bond movie poster look.
 * Fans of both series have jokingly speculated that Bond may be a Time Lord, as his appearance changes every few years. In the trailer to (though not in the film itself), 's first words as Bond, "You were expecting someone else?", echo the Sixth Doctor's first words after his regeneration in the last few moments of The Caves of Androzani.
 * The Curse of Fatal Death was shot in Pinewood Studios, famous for being the studios used for the James Bond films.
 * was once asked to put himself forward to play James Bond. In the interview in which he revealed this, he also noted that he would like to play the Doctor.
 * The Union Jack parachute the Twelfth Doctor deploys in the television story The Zygon Inversion is similar to the one Bond uses in The Spy Who Loved Me.
 * Paul McGann was also in the running to play James Bond in GoldenEye, but lost the role to.
 * A trait in the Bond film series is at the end credits they have "JAMES BOND WILL RETURN IN", Doctor Who had similar messages at the end of A Good Man Goes to War and Last Christmas.
 * In AUDIO: Jubilee, Plenty O'Toole played Evelyn "Hot Lips" Smythe in the film Daleks: The Ultimate Adventure. O'Toole was named after a character in the 1971 film.
 * Steven Berkoff played General Orlov in the 1983 film . Gary Russell and Marek Anton also both appeared in the scene as teenagers who trick Bond in offering him a lift in East Berlin.
 * The title of the TV episode Spyfall is a play on the 2012 James Bond film . According to one news source, the story also pays homage to, the first novel in the James Bond series, which was centred on gambling and aristocracy. The concept of MI6 members being known by a single letter, namely "C" and "O", is similar to "M" and "Q" from the James Bond franchise, introduced in the original novels by Ian Fleming.

Other matters

 * In the novelisation Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet, Ben Jackson views a James Bond film starring Roger Moore. Although the film is not mentioned by name, the book mentions a battle with kung-fu students, something which appeared in the 1974 film The Man With the Golden Gun.
 * In the original serial The Tenth Planet, Jackson viewed an unidentified western film. When the serial was broadcast in 1966, Moore had not yet been cast as Bond; he had, however, made two appearances by the time the novelisation was published in 1976.
 * Eric Saward noted in 30 Years in the TARDIS that the characterisation of the Third Doctor was reflective of the popularity of James Bond at the time.