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From: starner@psuvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: James Bond info source
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Date: Sat, 2-Jul-83 18:52:02 EDT
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	In 1956, Henry Morganthau III, a producer with NBC
proposed to Ian Fleming that he write a half-hour adventure 
series entitled Commander Jamaica. The Central character of this
script bore a remarkable resemblance to James Bond. The
television project came to nothing, but Fleming used the
script, which concerned missles fired from Cape Canaveral,
being destroyed by villians with remote-control, as the 
basis for his novel "Thunderball".
	In 1958, CBS renewed interest in Bond by suggesting
a James Bond Television Series. Again Fleming agreed, despite
his past experience with television, and wrote six episode
outlines. Again nothing came of it, but Fleming retrieved
three (not five, as was previously stated) of the plots
and used them in his anthology of short stories,
"For Your Eyes Only".
	The source of my information is:
		James Bond in the Cinema (2nd Edition)
		written by John Brosnan
		published by The Tantivy Press
		copyright 1981 ($12.95)

I am interested in corresponding via mail with anyone
interested in James Bond, both the novels (Fleming and Gardner)
and the movies.
				Mark Starner
				Penn State University
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