You Only Live Twice (film) Northern soul scene (Chandler was well known for her high-quality soul output on RCA) and can be found on several RCA soul compilations. To promote the film, Eon Productions produced a one-hour colour television programme titled "Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond" first aired on 2 June 1967 in the United States on NBC. Bond regulars Lois Maxwell and Desmond Llewelyn appeared playing respectively "Miss Moneypenny" and "Q". Kate O'Mara appears as Miss Moneypenny's assistant. The programme shows clips from "You Only Live Twice" and the then four existing Bond films, and contained a storyline of Moneypenny trying to establish the
You Only Live Twice (novel) Bond film series, starring Sean Connery as Bond. The novel has also been adapted as a radio play and broadcast on the BBC. After the wedding-day murder of his wife, Tracy (see "On Her Majesty's Secret Service)", Bond begins to let his life slide, drinking and gambling heavily, making mistakes and turning up late for work. His superior in the Secret Service, M, had been planning to dismiss Bond, but decides to give him a last-chance opportunity to redeem himself by assigning him to the diplomatic branch of the organisation. Bond is subsequently re-numbered 7777 and handed an "impossible" mission: