Rewind: ‘Manimal’ revisited
Everyone loves a high concept TV series and it doesn’t come much higher than this. Dr Jonathan Chase is a square jawed hero with the frankly fantastic ability to transform, at will, into any animal.
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Everyone loves a high concept TV series and it doesn’t come much higher than this. Dr Jonathan Chase is a square jawed hero with the frankly fantastic ability to transform, at will, into any animal.
James Bond pursues KGB turncoat Georgi Koskov, renegade US arms dealer Brad Whittaker and a murderous Pretenders-loving milkman, armed only with a cello and a set of car keys.
Richard Rich. Esq. Famous thesp, yeah? Up there with Tarby, Brucie, Ronnie, that other Ronnie, that one from that game show, oh, you know, northern type, oh what’s his name.
001. The story Investigating the murder of 009, Bond discovers that an Afghan prince and a rogue Soviet General plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on an American base in Germany, by smuggling it in with the circus. Unfortunately 007’s forgotten his Q-branch issued clown costume… 002. The villains Steven Berkoff dials the crazy … >
Perhaps not the most fun of the Roger Moore Bonds, but it’s certainly the one that brings out Moore’s strongest performance as Bond.
Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a man in a cape solving street-level crime! Yes, it’s 1952’s The Adventures of Superman.
That 1979’s Moonraker to this day remains the most sci-fi Bond film is testament to just how wildly ambitious it was.
Everything just seems to gel together, from the chemistry between James and Anya, to the blend of action and humour that the Roger Moore era never quite managed to balance again.
001. The story James Bond gets the heads up about a vicious contract killer, and there’s a bullet with his name (actually, his number) on it. The entire plot is based on a clever sleight of hand (the villain isn’t even that bothered about Bond until very late on in the film), but soon descends … >
001. The story Armed with a novelty watch, some flyaway flares and a volatile eyebrow, Roger Moore finds himself in a 1973 blaxploitation pastiche, trying to stop a corrupt Caribbean dictator called Dr Kananga and a Harlem gangster named Mr Big flooding the USA with cheap heroin. After sneakily seducing soothsayer Solitaire via some sleight-of-hand … >