James Bond

James Bond was a fictional secret agent.

References in non-canon media
In the novelisation Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet, Ben Jackson is viewing an unnamed James Bond film starring Roger Moore. In the original serial The Tenth Planet, he viewed an unidentified western film.

Significant connections

 * Doctor Who as a television series and the James Bond film franchises (which had begun originally as a book series) share common ground in terms of longevity, with both being revived successfully after lengthy hiatuses.
 * Timothy Dalton, who played Rassilon in The End of Time played Bond. To date no other actor to have played Bond has appeared on both Doctor Who or its spin-offs and as Bond.

Other connections

 * Who,_Doctor_Who.jpgg location filming at Lanzarote for Planet of Fire, Peter Davison posed for publicity photos for Planet of Fire 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 he changes his appearance every few years. In the trailer to GoldenEye (though not in the film itself), Pierce Brosnan'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.
 * Martin Shaw 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.

Actors shared by the Doctor Who and James Bond franchises
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Crew shared by the Doctor Who and James Bond franchises
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