Richard Maibaum episode "The Medal" for "Combat!" (1963) then wrote "From Russia with Love" (1963), sharing credit with Harwood. Maibaum worked on "Goldfinger" (1964), on which Paul Dehn also did work. He was one of several writers on "Thunderball" (1965). "You Only Live Twice" (1967) was the first Bond film on which Maibaum was not credited as a writer, the producers using Roald Dahl. Albert Broccoli wanted to produce a non-Bond movie, "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (1968) and Maibaum did some work on the script. Maibum received sole script credit for "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969), starring George Lazenby. He did
Roald Dahl bibliography several of his stories. His first children's novel, "James and the Giant Peach", was published in 1961, which was followed, along with others, by "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (1964), "Fantastic Mr Fox" (1970), "Danny, the Champion of the World" (1975), "The BFG" (1982) and "Matilda" in 1988. Dahl's first script was for a stage work, "The Honeys", which appeared on Broadway in 1955. He followed this with a television script, "Lamb to the Slaughter", for the "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" series. He also co-wrote screenplays for film, including for "You Only Live Twice" (1967) and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (1968).