Jimmy Bond (an aging Peter Lorre played Le Chiffre, the baddie Bond beats at the baccarat table). Clearly Bond creator Ian Fleming didn’t have a problem with the tube.
Before he died in 1964, he pitched a spy show to NBC, “Ian Fleming’s Solo,” but then the original Bond producer, Cubby Broccoli, talked the author out of slumming for television.
Fleming ended up selling his TV concept to NBC — for a grand total of one British pound — and the network turned it into “The Man From U.N.C.L.E,” a swinging secret-agent series that ran from 1964 to 1968 (with Fleming’s name conspicuously missing from the credits).
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