First Bond on TV ?

Thunderpussy

In the same vein as James Suzuki's " First Bond in the cinema ? " thread. I was
Thinking that many members might of had their first Bond experience from watching
a Bond on telly.
I can still remember the excitement of as a kid seeing the first trailers for the first
Bond on ITV, way back in 1975. Bond up till then hadn't really registered on my radar.
I'd seen LALD in the cinema, loved it but somehow didn't make the connection to a
Series of films / books )
On seeing DrNo I was hooked, couldn't wait to see FRWL, then began to find out about
Films etc, until TSWLM was released, I remember watching every entertainment and
movie show for info and to see a clip.
By this stage I was the only kid in the house ( the rest married and moved out ) so I
Controlled the TV, from then on after Christmas dinner. The family would gather in
Front of the telly to watch the big Bond film. ) , so Bond ( I'm sure for many other
Families as well ) became a family event.
So any members have found memories of their first Telly Bond ?

Peppermill

I have told this story before on this forum but I don’t mind telling it again.

The first Bond movie I ever saw was Moonraker. I was staying with a friend (and my father and sister) in a luxurious hotel in the center of Amsterdam. My friend and I were around 9 years old and had our own room with big boxspring beds. We reenacted the pre title sequence by making summersaults on the beds, from bed to bed and from the desk and chairs to the bed. The people in the room next door and below must have thought that some raunchy party was going on but it couldn’t have been more innocent. I do remember watching the rest of the movie and thinking it was amazing too. It had space shuttles, a super strong giant and pretty women; what more can you want?! But that pre title sequence really made that movie for me.

Thunderpussy

{[] I was completely blown away with MR opening stunt, as a Teen working
In a local bar, I once set up the beer barrels ( on their sides) so I could
Reenact the crocodile scape from LALD ) .

Peppermill

Thunderpussy wrote:

{[] I was completely blown away with MR opening stunt, as a Teen working
In a local bar, I once set up the beer barrels ( on their sides) so I could
Reenact the crocodile scape from LALD ) .

We can start a new topic "The beer barrel Bond quote conversation"! Ill start, one barrel to the other:

"I gave him the limp" )

AlphaOmegaSin

First Bond I saw on TV was either GF or LALD -{

Thunderpussy

I always remember reading that on its first showing LALD got
Viewing figures of 24 or 25 million ! ( yes only three TV stations )
but, still amazing to think at least half the homes in Britain were
Watching. -{ , IMHO nothing else apart from a huge sporting
Event could have pulled in that amount of viewers. {[]

Number24

I didn't see Bond on TV until I was in my 20's. When I grea up there was only one TV channel and they never had the rights to the Bond series. Foreign channels was never and option because the mountains blocked their signals. I really don't remember what Bond film I first saw on Tv, since by then I had seen them all on VHS video.

Peppermill

Number24 wrote:

I didn't see Bond on TV until I was in my 20's. When I grea up there was only one TV channel and they never had the rights to the Bond series. Foreign channels was never and option because the mountains blocked their signals. I really don't remember what Bond film I first saw on Tv, since by then I had seen them all on VHS video.

Ah, the good old VHS, where it took 5 minutes of rewinding before you could watch the movie again after finishing it!

Thunderpussy

) and you could always spot the most watched bits, as a sound bar line
Would appear and move down the screen. ) most noticeable on "blue "
Movies, ........ Or so I've been told.

bond2002

I can't remember which one Exactly but ITV used to show the films on a Saturday teatime back in the early 90s so it must been one of those )

DEFIANT 74205

The Man With the Golden Gun.

I distinctly remember a scene with Bond hanging from the rafters. The mirror room looks familiar too. I would've been a kid at the time (younger than 9 years old - I was still living in Hong Kong at that time), watching it for the first time on TV.

Dalkowski110

I'm fairly certain the first complete Bond film I saw on TV was Thunderball. The second and third I remember far better: Goldfinger and From Russia with Love, in that order.

BIG TAM

This is a nice nostalgic thread.

LIVE & LET DIE was the first Bond I saw in the cinema in 1973. Then along came DR NO on TV in 1975. I never made much of a distinction. My dad used to bang on about Moore being inferior to Connery but apart from he being tough & Moore funny, both entertained me equally. I loved DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER getting its TV premier on Xmas Day 1978. At last a 70s Bond - my decade - on TV. Probably why I have such an affection for the film. It seemed so slick & sleazy. And still does. In some ways the advent of VHS & DVD can never quite match the excitement of the anticipation of seeing a Bond film on TV. It was an event! Now, it's just tucked away in a mid-afternoon schedule. A shame. But the presentation's better now. So nice to see YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE's "Welcome to Tokyo" in glorious widescreen. Infinitely superior to "lcome to Tok" in appalling pan & scan.

Thunderpussy

Also watching YOLT on the small TV screens we had back then, in fact
All the fantastic Bond sets, looked like nothing. Thankfully today with
Large screens, bluray, and better sound we can at least appreciate a lot
better the early films. )

MooseWithFleas

Goldeneye. I remember the opening titles, being in awe of how cool it was.

GoldenEye85

I don't remember the movie, but it was back when TBS ran their 15 days of 007 and I can remember trying to record them all o a VCR. )

lueth2048

My parents let me watch Goldfinger the second time it was on TV. I was probably 10. The only reason I was able to watch it then was because my gather was an extra in the movie.

The first Bond movie I watched on TV, simply because it was a Bond movie. was the Man With the Golden Gun when I was in the 10th grade. This was about a year after seeing Moonraker at the theater.

Sir Hillary Bray

I've noted this on some similar threads in the past, but my real introduction to Bond was watching TSWLM on early cable television in 1977 or 1978. That was basically the dawn of channels like HBO that showed films with interruption, so I was lucky enough to get the cinematic version (no editing, no advertisements) in the comfort of my parents' den.

I was absolutely captivated by the film and must have watched it at least 10 times in a matter of weeks. That led to me seeing MR in the cinema when it was released, and FYEO a couple years later. I also made sure to watch the older films whenever they were shown on network television. By the time the OP and NSNA came out in 1983, I was fully caught up on all previous films.

AlphaOmegaSin

Are you American SHB? As you mentioned HBO and Cable TV

Sir Hillary Bray

AlphaOmegaSin wrote:

Are you American SHB? As you mentioned HBO and Cable TV

Check my post in the "Henchmen You Hate" thread...how many u's do you see in "humor"? )

Born and raised in southern California. Now a "New Yawkah". But lived in London for a spell, which has resulted in a passion for English football and an annoying habit of saying "cheers" instead of "goodbye" at the end of phone conversations.

AlphaOmegaSin

) You got me there

Thunderpussy

From New York eh !
" Hey, I'm writing here, I'm writing here " ) ( midnight cowboy )

Blackleiter

Thunderpussy wrote:

From New York eh !
" Hey, I'm writing here, I'm writing here " ) ( midnight cowboy )

Watch it! )

Brosnan_fan

The very first Bond film I saw on TV - in full - just happened to be DN.

It was a late Friday night in 1985; I was 12 and my family (my parents, brother and I) sat down to watch this film after the prime-time one.

One could not forget that immortal introduction of SC, that distinct score, or the image of Ursula Andress emerging from the sea dressed in a bikini.


Later that same year, I also saw FRWL, TB, YOLT, DAF, LALD and MR, all on TV.

I would later see AVTAK (This would be my first real Bond cinema experience, where I could recollect much; I had seen TSWLM back in '77, but to me it went by too fast ).