The Spy Command
@TheSpyCommand
A blog about James Bond 007, UNCLE and other spies. Est. 2008
Bond film franchise March 2025 | Cusp of big changes hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/06/bon…
Despite a busy acting career, Robert Vaughn found time to complete a PhD at USC which explored the effects of blacklisting on showbusiness. He published it as Only Victims a couple of years later and I'm told that it is a text still used by some university law departments today.
My copy of the expanded OHMSS soundtrack was supposedly shipped on July 21. It still hasn't arrived.
Florida theater showing GoldenEye this weekend hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/tam…
Final results. Not surprising, David Arnold got two-thirds of the votes.
Who should score Amazon's first Bond movie?
From the archives, 2012: The Andy Griffith/Hawaii Five-O/007 mashup hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2012/07/04/the…
The reason I included John Williams was he initially said the 5th Indiana Jones would be his last film score. Then, he later said maybe he could do a Bond movie.
Who should score Amazon's first Bond movie?
He wrote an live TV adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for the CBS series Climax! in the 1950s.
“There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.” Gore Vidal
Robert Brown played a villain in The Avengers and had a fight scene with Patrick Macnee.
"We're not a country club, 007. Effective immediately, your license to kill is revoked, and I require you to hand over your weapon." On this day in 1921, Robert Brown is born. Brown played Admiral Hargreaves in TSWLM and M in four further movies from Octopussy until LTK.
The notion of an underwater car came up in early drafts of Oh Her Majesty’s Secret Service when Bond prevents Tracy from drowning herself. It was used then but was revived during preproduction of Spy.
We think the Lotus Esprit featured in THE SPY WHO LOVED ME might just be one of the most iconic #JamesBond cars of all time, but what’s your picks for the Mount Rushmore of Bond vehicles? Hear more in our SPY review: pod.fo/e/2f2dc2
Listen to "Craig describes how he revamped Bond role" by The Spy Command. creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/bi…
Craig says how he revamped the Bond role hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/cra…
The creator of the show was Bruce Lansbury, a producer of The Wild Wild West and Mission: Impossible and younger brother of Angela Lansbury.
Tony Blake (Bill Bixby), escapologist, professional stage magician & amateur sleuth. Blake was one of a merry band of TV lead characters who have served time on trumped up charges. I always felt The Magician deserved more than a single season.♠️🪄
The cast of the unreleased 1994 ‘THE FANTASTIC FOUR’ film have arrived on the blue carpet for ‘THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS’. 💙
Fastastic Four reviews come in hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/fan…
A friend found this: Connie Francis sings Goldfinger on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1965 youtube.com/watch?v=IMUkg0…
Kojak was great. 🍭👩🦲 It was created by the show's executive producer Abby Mann, who was inspired by the book "Justice in the Back Room" (1967), written by author & investigative reporter Selwyn Raab. Raab passed away in March this year.