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
Chitty Chitty Death Bang that the people at Cheesie Charlie's are Nazi devils who kidnapped him and that he only manages to escape because he was able to turn into the Incredible Hulk," as well as Stewie's role in the episode, calling it "extremely clever." Haque concluded his review by rating the episode an 8.4/10. David Williams from the DVD Movie Guide said that this and other episodes of the first season did a marvelous job of introducing the characters of the series to the viewers. In his review of "Chitty Chitty Death Bang" the TV Critic called the writing in the episode wittier