On Her Majesty's Secret Service (novel) 1964–1965. In 1969 the novel was adapted as the sixth film in the Eon Productions James Bond film series and was the only film to star George Lazenby as Bond. In 2014 "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" was adapted as a play on BBC Radio, starring Toby Stephens. For more than a year, James Bond, British Secret Service operative 007, has been involved in "Operation Bedlam": trailing the private criminal organisation SPECTRE and its leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. The organisation had hijacked two nuclear devices and subsequently blackmailed the western world, as described in "Thunderball". Convinced SPECTRE no longer exists,
Telly Savalas Cop" (1980). Savalas returned to Alcatraz in "" (1980) and starred in a pilot for a TV series "Hellinger's Law" (1981). He did "My Pallikar" for "American Playhouse" (1982), "Fake-Out" (1982) with Pia Zadora, "Cannonball Run II" (1984), "The Cartier Affair" (1984), and an episode of "The Love Boat." Savalas reprised his role of Kojak in a TV movie, "" (1985). Savalas was one of many names in "Alice in Wonderland" (1985), then did "Kojak: The Price of Justice" (1987). He did a "Dirty Dozen" sequel, "" (1987), playing an entirely new character. Savalas guest-starred in "The Equalizer" and "J.J.