The original: 

James Bond- The Roger Moore Years (1973 – 1985)

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Directors:

Guy Hamilton, Lewis Gilbert and John Glen

 

Every Bond actor has his angle, appearance and style. 

From Craig’s Tank, to Brosnan’s Porsche, Dalton’s direct take and Lazenby’s one-shot, all start with the basic form of Fleming’s character and with the Producers and Director, fashion an interpretation all their own. 

 

Connery’s has been described as a large, swaggering black panther. With that in mind, Moore’s laid-back ease would surely colour his panther Pink. 

 

Covering seven films over two most distinctive of decades, Moore’s Bond moved between tones, styles and even performances. 

 

Sometimes gloriously silly, others gritty and intense, these films spanned the world and changed the game, reinventing the character and genre perfectly. 

 

Moore’s films also touched on themes unique to the franchise and introduced characters and scenarios, burned into the culture forever- 

 

Voodoo! 

Midgets! 

Steel-Toothed Giants! 

Sharks, Elephants, Tigers, Crocodiles, Spiders and Snakes. 

 

Greek monasteries and Jamaican islands.  Underwater bases and floating cities in space. Submarine cars and crocodile boats.  Magnet-watches and Wrist-shooting darts. 

 

Icons, all. 

 

The scope of Moore’s adventures also varied- from stopping heroin flooding the streets of Harlem, to going head-to-head with the world’s greatest assassin, to retrieving a stolen computer, to literally saving the entire human population of Earth, Moore’s Bond did it all. 

 

He didn’t invent the one-liner or pun, but my God did he perfect it.  Smooth, assured, and yet vicious and deadly serious when called-on to be, Moore played the part to the hilt. 

 

Today on Shoulders of Giants, celebrating our 50th episode, we stand on shoulders most broad, and dare dream of other adventures this most heroic of heroes, this not so secret of agents could tackle. 

 

Because you can never have enough of a good thing. 

And nobody did it better than Roger Moore. 

 

 

“My God, what’s Bond doing?” 

“I think he’s attempting re-entry, sir.” 

 

 

“It’s not really all in the wrist, you know.” 

 

 

“Take care of Mister Bond. See that some harm comes to him.” 

 

 

“Hang on, James!” 

“The thought had occurred to me!” 

 

 

“Mr Bond is indeed a very rare breed. Soon to be made extinct.” 

 

 

“Come, come, Mister Bond. You take as much pleasure from killing as I do, so why not admit it?” 

“I admit killing you would be a pleasure.” 

 

 

“You missed, Mister Bond!” 

“…Did I..?” 

 

 

“…Him?! He thinks I’m still a virgin!” 

“Yes, well… You put your clothes on, and I’ll buy you an ice-cream.”