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[George White]

Bar the 'Sit!' cry to the tiger in Octopussy in imitation of Barbara Woodhouse and The Not The 9'O'Clock News-era silly-ass Rowan Atkinson in Never Say Never Again...

[Guy Haines]

I've mentioned this on another thread, but, in NSNA there's the scene when Bond is being medically examined at Shrublands and is asked by a nurse holding a bottle to provide a sample. He's at one end of the room, she's at the other, and Bond's reply is "What, from here?"

 

There was a similar scene in the BBC TV comedy series "Porridge" when Ronnie Barker's character Fletcher is also asked to provide a urine sample from someone holding a bottle well out of range.

 

NSNA's script was polished up by the writers of Porridge, Dick Clement and Ian Le Frenais, and I can only guess that, given the Shrublands scene, they thought it an ideal opportunity to recycle an old gag. 

[Vauxhall]

Nice. Didn't know that.

In TOMORROW NEVER DIES, the bickering between Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer is presumably a reference to their similar relationship in AS TIME GOES BY.

[George White]

Guy Hamilton says the balloon drop idea in Diamonds came from a British sketch show skit. dOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT COMEDIAN OR SHOW?

[wakeup37]

From memory that must be the first episode of Porridge (not the "Seven of One" pilot episode where Fletcher is being driven to the prison, but the first full episode actually in the prison). Fletcher and Godber are both going through their first-day-in-this-jail medical screening.

[George White]

any other suggestions?

[Dan Gale]

Unintentionally (some may argue otherwise), John Barry musically quotes the opening fanfare to the theme from The Avengers (as used from season 4 onward from 1965-1969) in Octopussy just as 009 gets knifed.
Why he would do this isn't clear so it's almost certainly a coincidence.

[George White]

oh blugger yes, it does.I thought that it was intentional, as it  chimed with the Avengerland eccentricity of that scene, the idea of two twin knife-throwers attacking a spy dressed as a clown in a forest, but the incidental soundtrack has elements of that tune in it. 

[George White]

The opening of FYEO has a definite Euston Films feel. 

[Grard Bond]

What do you mean? Please can you explain that a little further?

I looked up what Euston Films is all about and here in The Netherlands were aired The Sweenie (that one was to be precise on Belgian Television) and Reilly, ace of spies,

but I can't realy see the comparision with the opening (the helicopter scene?) of Eyes Only.

[George White]

well, it's that grime, that kind of world of gas boards and chimney towers and industrial London, Thames-side grittiness, see also the Professionals and so on. 

[George White]

The traffic warden who gets drenched by Bond's speedboat in World Is Not Enough (? - definitely a Brosnan) was a real warden, a temporary hit on a docusoap at the time, BBC 1's Clampers, famous for being mean, and enjoying giving out fines.

any more

[George White]

 

Guy Hamilton says the balloon drop idea in Diamonds came from a British sketch show skit. dOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT COMEDIAN OR SHOW?

 

A friend has informed me it might be a Michael Bentine sketch. 

[George White]

Any more?

[Dan Gale]

Fantasy Island certainly references The Man with the Golden Gun from its cast, costume and location. But thats the opposite of the original poster's question...

[Guy Haines]

I remember reading an item about Moonraker which compared the scene when Corrine is running through the woods with those old "Girl With The Sun In Her Hair" TV advertisements for Sunsilk shampoo that were on the go when I was a kid. (John Barry did the music for those.)

 

Of course the comparison isn't exact. Sunsilk didn't have their models pursued by a couple of vicious man eating Dobermans!

[hilly]

The World is Not Enough and Skyfall feature then-current BBC news-readers (Martin Lewis and Huw Edwards)

 

Candid Camera had the slogan "Look out. You're on candid camera".. TSWLM has Roger Moore saying a variation on this  ("Don't look up, you're on candid camera") to Anya, whilst on board the Liparus

[MajorB]

In one version of the Thunderball script, when Moneypenny tells Bond about the conference with "every 00 man in Europe," Bond says, "It's the Daleks!" This became "Somebody's probably lost a dog" in the final film.

[Call Billy Bob]

In one version of the Thunderball script, when Moneypenny tells Bond about the conference with "every 00 man in Europe," Bond says, "It's the Daleks!" This became "Somebody's probably lost a dog" in the final film.

"Exterminate Bond! Now!"

[MajorB]

"Now pay attention, 007. This is a device provided by one of our scientific advisors. It's called a sonic screwdriver."

[Call Billy Bob]

"Q, is my new Aston bigger on the inside?"

[George White]

 

In one version of the Thunderball script, when Moneypenny tells Bond about the conference with "every 00 man in Europe," Bond says, "It's the Daleks!" This became "Somebody's probably lost a dog" in the final film.

"Exterminate Bond! Now!"

 

Exactly the sort of thing I wanted. Hoo-ray! 

[George White]

any more?/??

[Guy Haines]

I rather wish they'd left the line about the Daleks in. Then again, would the gag have meant much at that time outside of the UK? I don't think Dr Who was quite the world wide hit then that it is now.

 

I also read somewhere that the line up of other agents in the conference room in TB was originally going to include some familiar faces - fellow agents and crime fighters from film and TV in brief cameos. My guess is that, had that occurred, some British TV characters might have been used. (In 1965 the most likely British characters would have been John Drake and John Steed, although somehow I doubt if Patrick McGoohan would have appeared.)

 

Another reference in TB, though not a TV one - as Bond leaves Shrublands he says to Pat Fearing "Another time, another place" - the title of a movie Sean Connery appeared in with, I think, Lana Turner.

[George White]

any more?

[DamnCoffee]

In one version of the Thunderball script, when Moneypenny tells Bond about the conference with "every 00 man in Europe," Bond says, "It's the Daleks!" This became "Somebody's probably lost a dog" in the final film.

 

 

Nice! Didn't know this one.

[thecasinoroyale]

If this promo image from 'The Man With The Golden Gun' doesn't give a sly wink to Roger's role in popular UK TV show 'The Saint', I'll eat my halo...

 

 

 

[Matt Monro]

In one version of the Thunderball script, when Moneypenny tells Bond about the conference with "every 00 man in Europe," Bond says, "It's the Daleks!" This became "Somebody's probably lost a dog" in the final film.

This would have been a bad idea in 1965.  Doctor Who didn't make it across the pond really until 1979 or so. 

[DavidJones]

 

In one version of the Thunderball script, when Moneypenny tells Bond about the conference with "every 00 man in Europe," Bond says, "It's the Daleks!" This became "Somebody's probably lost a dog" in the final film.

This would have been a bad idea in 1965.  Doctor Who didn't make it across the pond really until 1979 or so. 

 

 

Nevertheless, it's a funny line which the audicence in the film's country would get. The Daleks were insanely fashionable in 1965 - on a par with Bond himself, I'd say.

[George White]

any other ones?