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-Bang-Bang two months after his death. "Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang" was first published in the UK in three hard-backed volumes by Jonathan Cape, each costing 10s. 6d. The first volume was launched on Thursday, 22 October 1964, the second on 26 November 1964 and the third on 14 January 1965. In July 1968, the three volumes were released in one single volume by Pan Books. Alexander Muir, in the "Daily Mirror", considered that the first two volumes of "Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang", "would make wonderful Christmas presents for everybody's young ones", declaring that they were "thrilling cliff-hanger adventures". Writing in "The Guardian", John Rowe Townsend was damning