Following Sean Connery's decision to retire from the role after You Only Live Twice, Eon Productions selected an unknown actor and model, George Lazenby, to play the part of James Bond. It would be his only appearance in the role as he rather foolishly stepped out of his 7-film contract, believing that Bond would soon be outdated.

Q: I've been saying for years, sir, that our special equipment is obsolete. And now, computer analysis reveals an entirely new approach. Miniaturization. For instance, radioactive lint. When placed in an opponent's pockets, the anti-personnel and location fix seems fairly obvious.

Bond is driving on a Portuguese coastal highway, when he spies a woman walking into the tall waves of the Atlantic Ocean. Realizing that she intends to commit suicide, he drives down to the shore, runs into the surf and plucks her from the sea.

After she races off in his car, Bond is left holding her shoes. "Well, this never happened to the other guy," he quips, a veiled reference to Sean Connery's James Bond.

Bond's Aston Martin DBS is seen in the pre-credits teaser as well as the wedding scene. Nothing is known about what kind of gadgets were installed, except that it had a hiding place for a sniper rifle in the glovebox and, given what happens at the end of that movie, that it's not fitted with bulletproof glass.

The convention in the previous James Bond films was to accompany the opening credits with a song whose lyrics included the film's title, but composer John Barry felt it would be difficult to compose a theme song containing the title "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" and opted instead for an instrumental opening title theme.

DRACO: A martini for our guest, Olympe. Shaken, not stirred.

Draco reveals that Tracy is his only daughter and tells Bond of her troubled past, offering Bond one million pounds if he will marry her. Bond refuses, but agrees to continue romancing Tracy if Draco reveals the whereabouts of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE.

When M informs Bond that he's been relieved from Operation Bedlam (tracking and killing Blofeld), Bond impetuously dictates his resignation to Miss Moneypenny and clears out his desk.

While he waits for an electro-mechanical device to crack Gumbold's safe, Bond flips through the February 1969 issue of Playboy. Apparently, he likes what he sees as he tears out the centerfold and takes it with him.