Throughout his long and multi-countenanced career at MI6, James Bond has worked for several different Ms and flirted with a variety of different Miss Moneypennys. Yet despite the best pleas to the contrary from quartermasters Peter Burton, Alec McGowen and John Cleese, there has only ever been one true Q – and that’s the irascible, white-haired weapons expert played by Desmond Llewellyn.

In seventeen films from 1963 to 1999, this curmudgeonly genius was on hand to arm the first five faces of 007 with the kind of firepower that you only find these days on the rooftops of East London during the Olympics. Here, in an accurately-soundtracked compilation of his finest moments, the Bond production team pay tribute to the man who made an initial into an icon.