On Her Majesty's Secret Service/Trivia

• Development Hell: It was first announced as a successor to Goldfinger (Thunderball came in because of lawsuits and such), then after Thunderball (but the winter locations made producers priorize You Only Live Twice).
• Fake Brit: Lazenby is Australian.
• Hey, It's That Guy!: Draco is the railroad baron from Once Upon a Time in the West. Diana Rigg is of course Emma Peel. Sir Hillary Bray's actor, George Baker, appears as a Royal Navy admiral in The Spy Who Loved Me.
• One-Hit Wonder:
  • Irma Bunt was Ilse Steppat's only English language role. She died shortly after the film came out.
  • Peter Hunt quit the franchise after this film. He'd been the editor for the first four films and had a falling out with Broccoli and Salzman over being passed over for directing You Only Live Twice. That and the problems shooting this film figured in his decision.
  • Lazenby's story is well-known.
• The Other Darrin:
  • George Lazenby replacing Sean Connery as James Bond. Features a Lampshade Hanging.

"This never happened to the other fella!" (Also counts as Breaking the Fourth Wall )

• • Telly Savalas replaced Donald Pleasance as Blofeld. This is a holdover from the original book, where Blofeld had plastic surgery to alter his appearance to make him harder to identify.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Lazenby was reported to be quite a prima donna on the set, sure that he would become just as big a star as Connery with the role. This probably contributed to his not doing any more Bond films.
  • Lazenby has gone on record as saying that it was mainly him listening to very bad advices by his agent that made him behave that way, including his decision to stop making Bond films. The fact he always said in later interviews that this was one of the worst decisions he ever made but that he also fired his agent just a couple of years later really does not come as a surprise if this in fact is true.
• Throw It In: The St. Bernard rolling in front of Bond was totally unexpected, and Lazenby reacted accordingly ("Never mind that! Go and get the brandy, huh?").
• Troubled Production: Granted, not anywhere near as much as the press at the time made it out to be, but there were a lot of disagreements between Lazenby and director Peter Hunt, and also between Hunt and the producers, which resulted in neither man ever returning to the series.
• What Could Have Been: Had Lazenby's agent not convinced him to leave the series, his contract was for seven movies. Tracy's death would only occur in the follow-up, but since the main actor was leaving, the producers decided to keep it in just one movie.