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 of his life. He was reunited with Thompson in "John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!" (1965) and was one of many names in "Genghis Khan" (1965). Savalas guested on "Bonanza" and "Run for Your Life," then was in Pollack's feature film debut as director, "The Slender Thread" (1965), playing a psychiatrist. He had a supporting role in box-office flop "Battle of the Bulge" (1965) and guest-starred on "The Virginian," "Combat!," "The Fugitive," "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." (episodes released as "The Karate Killers"), "The F.B.I.," and "Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre." He also played the villainous sergeant in "Beau Geste" (1966).