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,
Ernst Stavro Blofeld the next novel, "The Man with the Golden Gun", published in 1965. In the film series, Blofeld first appears in "From Russia with Love" (credited as "Blofeld", though the name is never heard), then in "Thunderball" (uncredited). In these two appearances, his name is never pronounced, his face is not seen, and only his lower body is visible as he strokes his trademark white cat. Czech actor Jan Werich was originally cast by producer Harry Saltzman to play Blofeld in "You Only Live Twice". Upon his arrival at the Pinewood set, both producer Albert R. Broccoli and director Lewis Gilbert