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 and "Love Is a Ball" (1962) with Glenn Ford and was in the gangster film "Johnny Cool" (1963). Savalas guest starred on "77 Sunset Strip," "The Twilight Zone" (the episode "Living Doll" ), "Channing," "Arrest and Trial," "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour," "Breaking Point,""Kraft Suspense Theatre" (several times, once directed by Pollack), "The Rogues," and "Burke's Law." Savlas reprised his "Interns" role in "The New Interns" (1964) and made a TV movie "Fanfare for a Death Scene" (1964). Savalas shaved his head to play Pontius Pilate in "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (1965) and kept his head shaven for the rest