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aka Operation Kid Brother, aka O.K. Connery. "NEIL CONNERY IS TOO MUCH" "Such close friends. Such beautiful enemies." The evil organization Thanatos, staffed primarily by a horde of young scantily-clad women who for some reason follow a middle-aged bald guy, threatens the world with their machine-breaking superweapon. It's just another Thursday at Secret Spy HQ, which by the way is staffed by a number of familiar faces. But the usual secret agent sent to solve these issues, you know the one, can't make it, so they recruit his plastic surgeon brother, to save the world. Fortunately, he's pretty much omnipotent. This movie is overflowing with weirdness, and it's another great episode. Example 1: it's scored partly by Ennio Morricone! Example 2: they got M (Bernard Lee) and Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell) from the Bond movies to play similar roles with different names! Example 3: The Thanatos girls. I mean, have some self respect ladies. This episode has one of my personal favorite host segments, Joel's "I Know" sketch. YouTube (1h35m) Premiered September 11, 1993. [more inside]
posted by JHarris on Jun 1, 2016 - 6 comments

An investigation of a horse-racing scam leads 007 to a mad industrialist who plans to create a worldwide microchip monopoly by destroying California's Silicon Valley. [more inside]
posted by doctornecessiter on Aug 27, 2015 - 11 comments

A fake Fabergé egg and a fellow agent's death lead James Bond to uncover an international jewel-smuggling operation, headed by the mysterious Octopussy, being used to disguise a nuclear attack on N.A.T.O. forces. [more inside]
posted by doctornecessiter on Aug 20, 2015 - 12 comments

Agent 007 is assigned to hunt for a lost British encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands. [more inside]
posted by doctornecessiter on Aug 13, 2015 - 11 comments

James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle and discovers a plot to commit global genocide. [more inside]
posted by doctornecessiter on Aug 6, 2015 - 13 comments

James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads with the help of a KGB agent whose lover he killed. [more inside]
posted by doctornecessiter on Jul 30, 2015 - 22 comments

Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin and must hunt him down to stop him. [more inside]
posted by doctornecessiter on Jul 23, 2015 - 20 comments

007 is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organization and a reliable psychic tarot card reader. [more inside]
posted by doctornecessiter on Jul 16, 2015 - 19 comments

A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas, where he uncovers an extortion plot headed by his nemesis, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. [more inside]
posted by doctornecessiter on Jul 9, 2015 - 22 comments

James Bond woos a mob boss's daughter and goes undercover to uncover the true reason for Blofeld's allergy research in the Swiss Alps that involves beautiful women from around the world. [more inside]
posted by doctornecessiter on Jul 2, 2015 - 12 comments

Agent 007 and the Japanese secret service ninja force must find and stop the true culprit of a series of spacejackings before nuclear war is provoked. [more inside]
posted by doctornecessiter on Jun 25, 2015 - 11 comments

James Bond heads to The Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by SPECTRE agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme. [more inside]
posted by doctornecessiter on Jun 18, 2015 - 10 comments

Investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve. [more inside]
posted by doctornecessiter on Jun 11, 2015 - 17 comments

James Bond willingly falls into an assassination ploy involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device before it can be stolen by SPECTRE. [more inside]
posted by doctornecessiter on Jun 4, 2015 - 21 comments

A suave and skilled government agent named James Bond looks for answers about a missing colleague and the disruption of the American space program. [more inside]
posted by doctornecessiter on May 28, 2015 - 19 comments