James Bond Junior

AlphaOmegaSin

I don't know if many of you are aware of this rather obscure Cartoon, but I think CBBC used to show this in the 90's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoWexi-DWFQ

Kind of funny when you look at it.

TheExit148

I loved this show when I was younger. The SNES game is impossible too.

NeverSayDie

Yes! Yes! Yes!
I still have the toys and the VHS of the first few
episodes. I'm watching the entire run on YouTube now.

Silhouette Man

Very vaguely remember this being on. Dire stuff indeed. However, I do have a JB Jnr. Sticker album I swapped with a friend!

NeverSayDie

I think it depends on how old you were when you saw it.
I was 8 when it was on and I was already into all the films as well.

I've just realised I haven't grown up... the toys are just bigger and more expensive now )

scotty8692

I was into this in a fairly big way when I was younger-well, it's one of my more vivid memories from childhood. I had a couple of the novels, think there were comics as well, had some of the figures, had the game.

And so true NeverSayDie-I don't remember the Bond toys I had when I was younger being as expensive as the one I buy now!

PPK 7.65mm

This cartoon helped me get into the film series. I watched during its original run on FOX in 1991, purchased the toys, the novels, the comic books and even the NES video game. Later in the mid 1990's, when Cartoon Network ran reruns I watched them again and even taped a few. Granted the show might have not been perfect when it came to some of the writing, but I still love to this day. I hope that somebody puts this series on DVD at some point, even if it does not the same treatment as The Real Ghostbusters did for example when Time Life released it.

Still I would to see it on DVD, even if it is just the episodes and no special features.

NeverSayDie

Most of the episodes are on YouTube.
I found most of figures the other day. Result!

Sherbrook

I bought my young son a couple of James Bond Junior books c. 1992

James Suzuki

Sherbrook wrote:

I bought my young son a couple of James Bond Junior books c. 1992

Books? I never knew there were books? Novels or kid colouring books?

Sherbrook

James Suzuki wrote:

Sherbrook wrote:

I bought my young son a couple of James Bond Junior books c. 1992

Books? I never knew there were books? Novels or kid colouring books?

Small hardcover books with text and plenty of pictures (IIRC)

I'd post pics but I fear that they've been since given to charity

James Suzuki

Nah it's ok

Skocia

Review of the first episode. Dr. No makes an appearance at the end of part 2 )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFLplb7k1Mo&list=UU-9lKusIRrNK3KcU-Jvn8yg&index=8

Silhouette Man

John Gardner's For Special Services was in some ways a literary version of James Bond Junior when you think about it - new Blofeld's daughter, new Felix Leiter's daughter, new SPECTRE, all but a new Bond - the old Cold Warrior from the 1950s!

James Suzuki

Silhouette Man wrote:

John Gardner's For Special Services was in some ways a literary version of James Bond Junior when you think about it - new Blofeld's daughter, new Felix Leiter's daughter, new SPECTRE, all but a new Bond - the old Cold Warrior from the 1950s!

I never thought of it like that.

Blood_Stone

I liked the show growing up although even back then I had a WTF reaction to seeing Odd Job being dressed up in hip-hop gear.

Silhouette Man

James Suzuki wrote:

Silhouette Man wrote:

John Gardner's For Special Services was in some ways a literary version of James Bond Junior when you think about it - new Blofeld's daughter, new Felix Leiter's daughter, new SPECTRE, all but a new Bond - the old Cold Warrior from the 1950s!

I never thought of it like that.

I've long thought of For Special Services from this particular critical angle (though it is one of Gardner's best novels, IMHO) - I'm planning a review article on this book at some stage, hence I thought that I would share it here on AJB first off!

Nick37

For Special Services is definitely Gardner hitting his stride. Oddly enough, his favorite novel "The Man From Barbossa" is my least favorite of them all.

Never thought of the book as a James Bond Jr. type story, but then again, I haven't seen anything to do with that cartoon since it was actually on tv as a child.

Silhouette Man

Nick37 wrote:

For Special Services is definitely Gardner hitting his stride. Oddly enough, his favorite novel "The Man From Barbossa" is my least favorite of them all.

Never thought of the book as a James Bond Jr. type story, but then again, I haven't seen anything to do with that cartoon since it was actually on tv as a child.

Yes, it definitely is, but I needed a 'hook' or a critical angle on it to be able to write about it in more depth. I'm a big Gardner fan!

Nick37

I am too. I thought Gardner did a great follow-up to the Fleming books, they were all well done. Plus, he took fewer liberties than Raymond Benson, who I never quite forgave for making Marc-Ange Draco a villain in one of the later books.

I'm slowly re-reading the Gardner's right now. I'm halfway into Scorpius.

Silhouette Man

Nick37 wrote:

I am too. I thought Gardner did a great follow-up to the Fleming books, they were all well done. Plus, he took fewer liberties than Raymond Benson, who I never quite forgave for making Marc-Ange Draco a villain in one of the later books.

I'm slowly re-reading the Gardner's right now. I'm halfway into Scorpius.

Yes, on Marc-Ange Draco - I know it was controversial, but hardly unexpected - he was a gangster, after all. Amis made this point in his 1965 book The James Bond Dossier and it still stands in both 2001 and 2013, in my view.