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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)

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Ben Jackson once viewed a James Bond film starring Roger Moore, featuring, among other things, a battle with kung-fu students, (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet) though another account holds that he instead watched a western at that point. (TV: The Tenth Planet)

Prior to being recruited into UNIT, Liz Shaw derisively dismissed the work of Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart's men as a "silly James Bond outfit". (PROSE: We deal with the odd — the unexplained...)

Fitz Kreiner imitated the character on numerous occasions. (PROSE: Demontage) Dr No was a James Bond film starring Sean Connery. When Fitz was reunited with the Eighth Doctor after a brief separation in 1944 Belgium, he told the Doctor that there was no need to worry in his best Dr No Sean Connery impression. (PROSE: Autumn Mist)

The students of Coal Hill School called Barbara Wright "Rosa Klebb" after the character from the James Bond film From Russia with Love. (PROSE: Nothing at the End of the Lane)

Jo Grant, who supposedly worked for UNIT as a secret agent, complained that contrary to the beliefs of her family and friends, her real life involved much more drudgery than the glamorous life of James Bond. (TV: Frontier in Space)

In the 1970s, Margery Phipps believed that Sgt. John Benton resembled James Bond, "not the new one, the one before him but without the Australian accent." (AUDIO: Council of War)

After they were captured by the National Institute for Advanced Scientific Research, Sarah Jane Smith jokingly referred to Harry Sullivan as "James Bond." (TV: Robot)

An issue of TV Century 21 made reference to a "Bond" on its cover. (TV: The Man from MI.5 [+]Alan Fennell, Thunderbirds crossover stories series 1 (ITV, 1966).)

Peri Brown enjoyed watching the films with her late father Paul Brown while she was growing up. She compared the Casino Majestique in Monte Carlo in 1966, to the sort of venue frequently featured in the films. (AUDIO: The Veiled Leopard)

In Monte Carlo in 1966, Ace mockingly referred to Hex as "007" when he was hiding under a bed after stealing the Veiled Leopard. Hex later complained that their escape route down the back stairs wasn't very "James Bond." (AUDIO: The Veiled Leopard)

On a visit to the Soviet Union in November 1967, Ace anachronistically referred to Roger Moore as the current James Bond during a conversation with her fellow Briton Markus Creevy. Creevy told her that Moore starred in The Saint while Sean Connery played Bond. (AUDIO: Thin Ice)

Ace later told Gilgamesh that all good spies wore disguises, citing James Bond as an example, though he thought she said "Shamash Bond". (PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys)

When the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones went to attend Richard Lazarus' unveiling of his experiment, Martha commented that the Doctor looked like James Bond due to his black-tie tuxedo. (TV: The Lazarus Experiment)

In Pompeii in August 79, the Tenth Doctor wielded a water pistol that had a distinct resemblance to the extended barrel pistol that Sean Connery posed with for publicity photos. (TV: The Fires of Pompeii)

In an alternative timeline on 9 November 1989, Albert Marsden told Hex that Vladimir Kryuchkov, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, reminded him of a James Bond villain. (AUDIO: Protect and Survive)

Ianto Jones was a big Bond fan, occasionally having "Bondathons" of all his favourite James Bond movies. (PROSE: Trace Memory) He took Lisa Hallett to watch a James Bond film on a date, but she was not a fan. (AUDIO: New Girl)

Rhys Williams bought a James Bond DVD boxset from a Cardiff shopping arcade in 2009. It contained the first twenty-one Bond movies in two-disc, digitally remastered editions. As a bonus, it came with poker chips and playing cards. (PROSE: The House That Jack Built)

The Eleventh Doctor once used the alias of "Commander Bond". (COMIC: Sub-species)

Amy Pond compared Professor Saurian's base to one in a James Bond film. (COMIC: Extinction Event)

Rani Chandra described shutting down a nuclear reactor to Clyde Langer as "James Bond meets Mario." (TV: Sky)

In 1963, the Doctor mentioned Sean Connery as James Bond in the list of cool things about that year. (GAME: City of the Daleks)

In 1605, Rory Williams jokingly remarked that it was "a bit early for James Bond" upon learning about spies working against King James I. Confusing Black Rod, who asked if James Bond was another spy, Rory reassured him Bond was on their side. (GAME: The Gunpowder Plot)

In the alternate timeline created by the alteration of the fixed point at Lake Silencio, Amy introduced herself as "Pond. Amelia Pond." She followed a grenade into the room, and she was wearing all black with an eye patch and a gun, which she used to shoot the Doctor. (TV: The Wedding of River Song)

Dave Oswald's favourite James Bond film was Live and Let Die. (COMIC: A Wing and a Prayer)

Ace said that Goldfinger was the third film in the franchise. (AUDIO: 1963: The Assassination Games)

In 1999, Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart compared the work of Department M to James Bond. (PROSE: The Danger Men)

On 22 September 2006, Tegan Jovanka sarcastically asked the Fifth Doctor whether he expected her to be the new James Bond. (AUDIO: The Gathering)

The walls of Rick Pirelli's room were covered in movie posters, including one of James Bond. (PROSE: Forever Autumn)

In 2008, Ianto Jones told Zeynep that he was not a spy like James Bond. (AUDIO: Fall to Earth)

Sam Jones expected Helen Percival to look and act like a James Bond villain. She had always hated the James Bond movies, considering him a "crypto-capitalist male chauvinist pig", but thought that Timothy Dalton hadn't been bad. (PROSE: The Face-Eater)

Gita Chandra once told Haresh Chandra that he was "more of a Jamie Oliver than a James Bond", likening her husband more to the celebrity chef than to the fictional spy. (TV: Prisoner of the Judoon)

When they fought Fenric, Bill Potts compared Fenric to a "Bond villain", to which the Twelfth Doctor stated that "Bofeld'd be easy pickings" in comparison. (COMIC: The Wolves of Winter [+]Richard Dinnick, Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor (Titan Comics, 2017).)

According to one account, GoldenEye 007 was a game played by Ryan Sinclair, (TV: O Monumento Fantasma) although according to another account, Call of Duty was the video game he'd been playing. (TV: The Ghost Monument)

James Seddon wanted his first car to be an Aston Martin, "like James Bond [had]". (PROSE: Wishing Well)

During Christmas, Lucie Miller's father and uncle would often argue about who was the best James Bond. (AUDIO: Death in Blackpool)

Behind the scenes[]

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

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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.

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