Things That Aren’t Proper Bond Films

Casino Royale (1967)

An indignant-looking man, in pyjamas and a nightcap, stands in an expensive-looking room.

Episode 6
Sunday 7 February 2016

What the hell just happened?

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Casino Royale Niven Nonsense Things That Aren’t Proper Bond Films

Never Say Never Again

A middle-aged James Bond is standing, half-smiling, in front of a display of bottles and glasses. He is clearly at a bar outdoors.

Episode 15
Saturday 5 November 2016

For legal reasons, this month, Brendan, Nathan, Richard and James have decided to do a remake of Bondfinger Episode 4, with much more exciting lighting and production design and a much less coherent script. But all is not lost. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Max von Sydow, Rowan Atkinson and Pamela Salem to the world of Bond, and Never Say Never Again.

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Connery Things That Aren’t Proper Bond Films

Casino Royale (1967) Redux

David Niven is standing in an expensively decorated old room. He is taking off his singlet in a determined-looking way.

Episode 23
Saturday 6 January 2018

In this Very Special Holiday Episode, we right one of the greatest wrongs in the history of the Bondfinger franchise — Richard’s exclusion from our commentary on Casino Royale (1967), which is a film that Richard knows and loves and a film about which has many hilarious and insightful things to say.

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Casino Royale Niven Nonsense Things That Aren’t Proper Bond Films

Casino Royale (1954)

A black-and-white foto of a group of more than a dozen expensively dressed white people clustered around a card table in a posh casino.

Episode 24
Monday 9 April 2018

We’re finally back, and we’re taking a break from either recording commentaries on the David Niven Casino Royale or simply not podcasting at all, in order to release a commentary on the first ever appearance of James Bond on screen: a live television adaptation of Casino Royale, first broadcast on American television in 1954.