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 Savalas had a showy role in "The Dirty Dozen" (1967), playing a role that Jack Palance turned down, Archer Maggott, the worst of the dozen. It was a huge commercial success. He guest-starred on the TV series "Garrison's Gorillas" and "Cimarron Strip," then focused on features. He did an action film directed by Brian Hutton, "Sol Madrid" (1968), then did a Western with Lancaster and Pollack, "The Scalphunters" (1968). Savalas was in two comedies, "Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell" (1968), one of his favorite roles, and "The Assassination Bureau" (1969) and did an all-star action film for Thompson, "Mackenna's Gold" (1969).