There's a really lovely story about Roger Moore from a scripwriter named Mark Haynes "As a seven-year-old in about 1983, in the days before First Class Lounges at airports, I was with my grandad in Nice Airport and saw Roger Moore sitting at the departure gate, reading a paper. I told my granddad I'd just seen James Bond and asked if we could go over so I could get his autograph. My grandad had no idea who James Bond or Roger Moore were, so we walked over and he popped me in front of Roger Moore, with the words "my grandson says you're famous. Can you sign this?" As charming as you'd expect, Roger asks my name and duly signs the back of my plane ticket, a fulsome note full of best wishes. I'm ecstatic, but as we head back to our seats, I glance down at the signature. It's hard to decipher it but it definitely doesn't say 'James Bond'. My grandad looks at it, half figures out it says 'Roger Moore' - I have absolutely no idea who that is, and my hearts sinks. I tell my grandad he's signed it wrong, that he's put someone else's name - so my grandad heads back to Roger Moore, holding the ticket which he's only just signed. I remember staying by our seats and my grandad saying "he says you've signed the wrong name. He says your name is James Bond." Roger Moore's face crinkled up with realisation and he beckoned me over. When I was by his knee, he leant over, looked from side to side, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said to me, "I have to sign my name as 'Roger Moore' because otherwise...Blofeld might find out I was here." He asked me not to tell anyone that I'd just seen James Bond, and he thanked me for keeping his secret. I went back to our seats, my nerves absolutely jangling with delight. My grandad asked me if he'd signed 'James Bond.' No, I said. I'd got it wrong. I was working with James Bond now. Many, many years later, I was working as a scriptwriter on a recording that involved UNICEF, and Roger Moore was doing a piece to camera as an ambassador. He was completely lovely and while the cameramen were setting up, I told him in passing the story of when I met him in Nice Airport. He was happy to hear it, and he had a chuckle and said "Well, I don't remember but I'm glad you got to meet James Bond." So that was lovely. And then he did something so brilliant. After the filming, he walked past me in the corridor, heading out to his car - but as he got level, he paused, looked both ways, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said, "Of course I remember our meeting in Nice. But I didn't say anything in there, because those cameramen - any one of them could be working for Blofeld." I was as delighted at 30 as I had been at 7. What a man. What a tremendous man."

That poor sheriff. So traumatized. He’s going to have to take a long, foreign vacation to get away from it all.

"Who's Ben Hur?" *as my Gen X self dries up to a pile of dust and is blown away*

Casting Roger Moore proved to be a masterstroke for the Bond series. He was already a famous actor thanks to television. That gave Moore the confidence to play 007 entirely different than his good friend, Sean Connery. As evident from Diamonds Are Forever, the series was becoming more humorous so Moore's llight-hearted approach fit perfectly. His popularity in the role would extend the life of this series for over a decade.

“Who's Ben Hur?” A movie that won 11 Oscars and is on AFI’s top 100 movie list. 👀

Can hardly wait for Ashleigh's reaction to "Moonraker" "I think he's attempting reentry" 😂

I just want to do Geoffrey Holder some justice here, he was not just the 7up guy, but an important dancer and choreographer

The voodoo priest role here (Geoffrey Holder), with the laugh, remains iconic. Perfect casting! Also, Jane Seymour as Solitaire.

Easiest way to tell an alligator from a crocodile, is that an alligator will see you later, and a crocodile will see you in a while.

Geoffrey Holder as Baron Samedi (an important figure in Voodoo tradition, and yes, the same figure seen in "The Princess and the Frog"). Iconic voice. I remember him from the old 7-Up commercials.

Geoffrey Holder made a career with his laugh and smile. He was so identifiable and they helped him become the spokesman for 7-up, "The Un-Cola!"

The Man With The Golden Gun and The Spy Who Loved Me are absolute classics.

RIP, Yaphat Kotto, Geoffrey Holder, and Juilus Harris, for playing some of the scariest Bond Villains in the world.

What I like about this movie is that it's like James Bond was dropped into a "Blaxploitation" movie like Shaft or Superfly.

"Who's Ben Hur?" LOL - Next movie for sure!

That stunt running on the crocs was done for real several times, with the stunt man falling once or twice.

Traditionally, the band plays sombre music on the way to the cemetery, and upbeat music on the way back.

New Orleans native here. The boat chase scene was filmed on Bayou Liberty in Slidell,LA and went right past my wife’s grandmother’s house. Her grandmother crashed a party down the street and got to meet Roger Moore.

Live and Let Die, and Moonraker were my favourites as a kid. We had them on VHS recordered off the TV, along with Star Wars, and no other blank tapes. So my brother and I watched them endlessly.

I grew up watching Roger Moore as 007. I personally think he was the best and had the most gadgets.

8:45 Solitaire is played by Jane Seymour, who Ashleigh saw in Somewhere In Time with Christopher Reeve.

Fun fact: When Paul McCartney wrote the theme song, there wasn't a script available, so he read the book (which is very, very different) for inspiration.

"Too much of a good thing can make a good thing a bad thing real quick." He was never good in the first place lol. He comes back!

And THAT is where I learned to start a fire with hairspray. Seriously, I saw the snake fry in the theater, went "ooooh!" And all my mom said to me was, "if I catch you doing that......"

„Who’s Ben Hur?“ Alright, that’s one more movie to add to your watchlist.

I love how Solitaire's cards all have "007" on the back.

Ashleigh: I need to bring back 70's fashion. everyone else; NO! NO YOU DON'T!

I worked at an aquarium for 12 years, and what I would like to say is the guy came up with their names had dyslexia because an alligator has a snout shaped like the letter C and a crocodile has a snout shaped like the letter A.

Yaphet Kotto, remembered mostly for "Homicide: Life on the street", but also Parker in "Alien".

One of my favourite James Bond movies, glad we made it here. The great thing about Moore's Bond movies is they leaned harder into the comedic angle of Bond, playing up the goofy villains with absurd schemes and wacky gadgets. Moore himself was quoted in an interview saying that he couldn't take Bond seriously, since he introduced himself to everyone with his real full name.

Saw this movie as a little kid in the theater...and the we thought the theme music was by the Beatles...we had no idea it was ALMOST the Beatles in that it was Paul McCartney!! We didn't have the intertubularnets or smart fonez to look up things back then. I didn't realize it until I heard a DJ say who it was and played the song on AM radio....

@AshleighBurton With Live And Let Die there are a number of firsts: - This is Roger Moore’s first outing as 007, and as you’ll see over the next few weeks he would not be just one and done. - Jane Seymour makes her film debut in Live And Let Die. You might remember her from Somewhere in Time (1980) with Superman himself, Christopher Reeve. - This film and Dr. No (1962) are the only times where you don’t see Q, played by Desmond Llewelyn. - The character of Quarrel, Jr. is meant to serve as a connection to the character of Quarrel who was in Dr. No (1962). - The music for the Bond pictures takes a big leap with Paul McCartney & Wings singing the title song; a trend that would continue over the next few films with a popular singer/group hired to perform the title track.

No candy-ass CGI or rubber lizards in those days. A crazy stuntman ran across real 'gaters. The tall bald man with all the flair was famous for his soda commercials. I remember them well: 7-Up I think.

14:13 the son of Quarrel, Doctor No

The funny thing is that alligator sound when he ran across all the Alligators was an actual real stunt man who did that and got it right on the first take without getting bit by any of them which is pretty amazing

🔔 @ 19:39 Solitaire: "I know he'll be looking for me and he'll never stopl" 007: "Darling, when we get out of our current predicament, let me refer you to a friend of mine who serves aboard a ship called the Battlestar Galactica. It'll take you very, very far from here. Now, about our sleeping arrangements...:

London busses are designed to allow a 28 degree tilt without falling over - they are tested doing skids like that with the top deck fully loaded. They're really safe.

You asked "Who's Ben Hur?" It's an epic, a classic movie starring Charlton Heston in the title-role....

I always crave 7Up after watching this film.

Missed a bit of trivia Ashleigh. Quarrel Senior was Bond's fisherman friend in "Doctor No"(he sadly got cooked by No's "Dragon"). Dr.Kananga survived his encounter with Bond and went into space as a trucker years in the future, lol.

When filming the boat jumps, they broke the world record for the longest boat jump.

On his DVD audio commentary, Sir Roger Moore considered this to be his second best Bond movie after The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).

Well now Ashleigh needs to see Ben Hur.

I first saw this aged ten, the ending with Baron Samedi sitting on the train laughing creepily gave me the chills.

She said smack “the living daylights “ out of her which is, ironically, an upcoming bond movie.

Man With the Golden Gun will be one of the highlights of the series. Sir Christopher Lee, he of Saruman of The Lord of the Rings series, Count Dooku of Star Wars, and the best ever to portray Dracula, is the main bad guy and title character of the film. It will be a wild ride, knight v. knight (Sir Roger Moore).

Ashleigh provides great commentary. So many "first time watching" wannabes just sit there and go "Wow." or "Okay." The whole point of posting one's reactions for people to watch on KZfaq is to be entertaining and interesting.

Interesting trivia, Yaphat Kotto was 33 when he played Mr. Big, making him, to date, the youngest actor to play a James Bond villain. According to Yaphet Kotto, he was not allowed to do any press for this movie, nor was he allowed to attend the premiere. Kotto states the producers told him they were afraid of the public's reaction to the villain being black. Personally, I think he did a spectacular job as the villain.

You can tell the difference between an alligator and crocodile is if you will see them later or in a while

Ben Hur is a famous movie starring Charlton Heston that takes place during Biblical times. There's a great chariot race in it.

"Just a little off the top." OMG!!! Ashleigh you are right on point with the James Bond puns. Almost six decades ago, when I was a young tween I somehow got hold of one of those carved, voodoo looking coconut heads with one eyeball. I of course put it in my sister's bed (on the pillow) with the sheets and bed cover pulled up over it. Came bedtime and hilarity ensued! 👹😱🤪

Ben-Hur is a classic movie and considered one of the biggest movies of its era. You should definitely have it on your watch list.

I'm going to assume Sheriff JW Pepper was probably too southern for Ashleigh

I was indifferent to Roger Moore growing up, but he and his Bond films have really grown on me over the years. He's more tongue-in-cheek than most Bond actors, and he was too old by the time he retired from the role, but I still love him.

The "stuntman", a local crocodile farmer called Ross Kananga, performed the "running across crocodiles" stunt five times for the film. However, after each time he performed it, the crocodiles got wise to what he was doing and so caught him more than a few times. He is said to have received 93 stitches about his legs and face. He was paid $60,000.

FYI - for many years, that long boat jump in the bayou chase was in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest speedboat jump

The Spy Who Loved Me is getting closer.

Roger Moore is the bond I grew up with

Can’t believe Ashleigh missed the ‘lick you into shape’

The whole boat chase was filmed in my hometown (Slidell, LA) in 1972, so a few years before I was born, but there are still a lot of residents who remember the production. I'm friends with some folks who were hired as "bayou guides" to lead the actors and film crews into the swamps for their location shoots. Everyone still remembers how friendly both the cast and crew were, especially Mr Moore, with all the locals.

6:10 Oh you'll be saying that a lot with the Moore era. 😂Roger knew he couldn't match Sean in the 'Macho' stakes so he decided not to even try but instead he bumped up the humour level. He's "my Bond' as he was the first I was old enough to see in the Cinema. I had some interactions on social media with him and he seemed to be a thoroughly nice bloke too. Did loads of good work for kids across the world with UNICEF too.

James Bond having sex with Rosie Carver was an issue in some markets. They didn’t want to show a movie with interracial sex.

FYI: Solitaire was played by Jane Seymour, in her big screen debut.

For most of us, this was the first time seeing Jane Seymour, an event that would last a lifetime.

When 007 is held captive in a chair by Tee Hee, Sir Roger Moore's quip "Butterhook" was improvised.

This led to years of seven up commercials. "Cola nut? UN-cola nut? Hahahahahahahaha!"

I'm always amazed at the things Ashleigh doesn't know or never heard of

I'm glad you are doing these. They are fun to relive first seeings and you are one of the few that has tackled them. Keep doing it, because I love your sense of humor added to it.

Sir Sean Connery turned down the then astronomical sum of $5.5 million (close to $32 million in 2019 dollars) to play James Bond for a seventh time. Connery gave Sir Roger Moore his personal seal of approval for inheriting his role, calling him "an ideal Bond".

6:15 Ashleigh casually predicting one of the silliest Bond jokes ever.

"He always did have an inflated opinion of himself" (and Ashleigh's reaction! 😅).

Yaphet Kotto was Mr. Big. He was also in Alien. He is great in Midnight Run. You should check that out. I don't know if any other Bond movie has incorporated the theme song so thoroughly into the film. Not just the woman singing it, but throughout the score as well. Roger Moore looks younger than Sean Connery, but was actually three years older than him. RIP to both men.

This is Roger Moore's first but definitely not his last stint as James Bond. He's the actor who stuck with it the longest up until the middle 1980's. After that is Timothy Dalton, who you saw in Flash Gordon a couple weeks ago. Roger had just finished a stint as "The Saint" who was a secret agent of sorts on British TV in the 1960's. He is the best with the puns and the gadgets and his take on Bond is rather fun. This movie was one of the more interesting. They actually broke a record with the longest boat jump in the boat chase in the bayou scene. I believe it was 106 feet if I remember the entry from Guiness correctly. I grew up with him as Bond so he the more familiar to me. This one was a good start for him, but he gets better as he goes along. Man with the Golden Gun is much better. And I love Christopher Lee in that one. Looking forward to more Bond reactions from you.

Not sure if anyone had mentioned this before but that "little circle" at the start with James bond walking on... Is actually inside the barrel of a gun... The lines spiralling around are the rifling in the barrel.

Fun Fact: The scene where the boat jumps over a road broke the record for longest boat jump in recorded history. That jump was 110 ft. long and stood for 3 years. The Roger Moore era of Bond movies has some of the most interesting villains. The end of the Sean Connery era wasn't as painful as many thought it would be, primarily because Roger Moore fit the role so perfectly. Basically, Roger Moore was born to play James Bond.

This is the movie that made me realize how frequently James bond has fist fights on trains. Pay attention, I think it's in literally half the Bond movies.

"I want a spin off where Moneypenny finds happiness!" And that's why fanfiction exists! Well.. ... that's ONE of the reasons fanfiction exists 👀

I'm not sure if you ever saw it or not, but Jane Seymour (Solitaire) would later star in the TV series "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman", which aired on CBS from 1993 to 1998.

Ben Hurr 1959 is probably the best movie ever made. Nominated for 12 Acadamy awards and won 11 of them. The greatest Epic ever filmed in my opinion.

"Ben Hur" ...... absolute brilliant film starring Charlton Heston

Quarrell Jr is the son of the sidekick from Dr. No. Just a fun callback.

"Who's Ben Hur?" Hope you're ready to watch a long film to find out 😂. One of the most epic of epic films though and from a time long ago. When the word was used appropriately 😢.

This the first James Bond movie that my dad saw in theaters. He tells me that at the time it was a strikingly "modern" James Bond movie, loaded with the then-current style and themes of the 70s - drugs, Voodoo/cults, wide trousers, Blaxsploitation, and a former Beatle doing the (excellent, iconic) theme song. Of course, he and his buddies loved it for all those reasons. It's also interesting that though Moore was a decent chunk older than Connery, he seems so much more "fresh" and modern - his age would definitely tell on him later in the series, however.

Can't wait for Ashleigh's reaction to seeing the Sheriff again in The Man with the Golden Gun. 😉

Only James Bond movie with Sir Roger Moore in which Felix Leiter appears. David Hedison, who played Felix, played the role again in Licence to Kill (1989), becoming the first actor to reprise the part.

Now we're in the Moore era and with puns and punch lines, more gadgets for later films. People were upset Q wasn't in this movie so they decided to keep him in later films.

The main villain, Kananga, is played by Yaphet Koto, he's also in Alien, Star Chamber, with Michael Douglas and Hal Holbrook, and midnight run with Robert Dinero, Charles Grodin, and John Hoyt from Beverly Hills Cop.

🎶 Chicken pot pie... chicken pot pie 🎶 😂

Yes! Onto the Roger moore bond films which are my personal favourite. My all time favourite is the spy who loved me

"I don't know if he's here for a couple movies..." 🤣🤣🤣

"Who's Ben Hur?" OMG. Ben Hur is a movie. About a race vehicle driver named Ben Hur. His racecar only had two horsepower but he still won races. In ancient Rome.

There is a book series called “The Moneypenny Diaries” by Kate Westbrook and Samantha Weinberg that came out a few years ago. Story is told from her point of view. The conceit of the book is that Mrs. Moneypenny kept a diary (against regulations). Her grand niece was bequeathed the diaries and decides to publish them. The books alternate between Mrs. Moneypenny’s story and the niece becoming aware that “someone” doesn’t want the story told.

Honestly 'take your meds I love you' is what everybody needs to hear.

The guy in the gunbarrel sequence for the first three movies is supposed to be Bond, but it's not actually Sean Connery until Thunderball.

The real owner of the crocodile farm was Ross Kananga, the villian was named after him. Kananga preformed the stunt of running over his croc and alligators several times before nailing it. He die from cardiac arrest at the age of 32

Did you know that Jane Seymore's debut movie was Live and Let Die as Solitaire? If you don't know who Jane Seymore, then, research or watch Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman.

"who's Ben Hur" That hurt, it's a must watch movie from 1959. The Ten Commandments 1956 is also a great movie.

Sean Connery will always be James Bond, but Rodger Moore is my favourite version of 007 because he was the one I grew up with. Live & Let Die, Moonraker, The Man with the Golden Gun & Octopussy are masterpieces 🔥

Julius Harris, who played Tee Hee, used to babysit me when I was a toddler. I lived in an old apt. building in Manhattan in the 60s with my Mom. She was trying to be an actress, and he would babysit me when she had auditions. ❤

Sir Connery returned to Bond role once more, for last time, in movie Never Say Never, which is remake of Thunderball. This movie isn't part of official Bondiana, but still worth to watch it (and because it's remake of Thunderball you can watch it anywhere after Thunderball).