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)

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)

References in non-DWU media

 * In the novelisation Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet, Ben Jackson is viewing 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.
 * 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.

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 1971, and was at one point considered for the role on film. He would later play 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.

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.
 * 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.