There are a few James Bond knock-offs that I remember watching on TV in the late 70s (& 1980) that I have never heard anyone else mention. One of these was
Billion Dollar Threat, a 1979 TV movie that starred
Dale Robinette as secret agent Robert Sands, who must foil the nefarious plan of mad scientist Horatio Black - played by none other than John Steed himself,
Patrick Macnee - to destroy the ozone layer with a nuclear missile.
I actually taped this one off of TV, so I watched it a number of times. It was a pretty fair - if cheap - little Bondian adventure, written by Hammer Studios vet
Jimmy Sangster (
Deadlier Than The Male), who seemed to have a
penchant for this type of stuff....
Because Sangster also wrote the 1980 ABC telefilm,
Once Upon A Spy, which starred a pre-
Cheers Ted Danson as a computer expert/reluctant spy who is drafted into a mission to stop another mad scientist - this time portrayed by
The Man With The Golden Gun, Scaramanga, in the guise of
Sir Christopher Lee - who has a laser cannon (another one?). I remember it as being a bit more deliberately campy than
Billion Dollar Threat, in a
Man From U.N.C.L.E. sort of way.
Sangster didn't write (I wonder how he missed out on this one), but legitimate 007 veteran
Richard Maibaum (
Goldfinger, Thunderball, et al)
did, the same year's
S*H*E - Security Hazards Expert, which starred
Cornelia Sharpe as Lavinia Keane, a sort of female Bond in a globetrotting adventure that I remember watching but am unable to recall a single detail of. Omar Sharif played her adversary, an International blackmailer.
None of these are available on DVD, although
S*H*E did get a VHS release.I would really like to see all of these again one day....
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