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Dr. No

(1962)

Live And Let Die

(1973)

The Living Daylights

(1987)

Quantum of Solace

 (2008)

From Russia With Love

 (1963)

The Man With The Golden Gun

(1974)

Licence To Kill

(1989)

Skyfall

(2012)

Goldfinger

 (1964)

The Spy Who Loved Me

(1977)

GoldenEye

(1995)

Spectre

(2015)

Thunderball

 (1965)

Moonraker

(1979)

Tomorrow Never Dies

(1997)

No Time To Die

(2021)

 You Only Live Twice

 (1967)

For Your Eyes Only

(1981)

The World Is Not Enough

(1999)

 

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

 (1969)

Octopussy

(1983)

Die Another Day

 (2002)

 

Diamonds Are Forever

(1971)

A View To A Kill

(1985)

Casino Royale

 (2006)

 

Not part of the official
EON PRODUCTIONS series:

Casino Royale

 (1954 - TV)

Casino Royale

 (1967)

 Never Say Never Again

 (1983)

Host for CLIMAX! William Lundigan

William Lundigan

James Bond (Barry Nelson)

James Bond (Barry Nelson)

Valerie Mathis (Linda Christian)

Valerie Mathis (Linda Christian)

Casino Royale logo (From TV Guide)


Date of broadcast: 21st October 1954 CBS-TV
Running Time: 52 minutes
James Bond: Barry Nelson
Plot:

American CIA agent ‘card-sense’ Jimmy Bond joins forces with Clarence Leiter of the British Secret Service to outwit Soviet Agent Le Chiffre, who is using party funds to raise money at the Baccarat tables of Casino Royale.

Bond’s Women: Valerie Mathis (Linda Christian)
Bond’s Enemies: Le Chiffre (Peter Lorre)
Zoltan (Kurt Katch)
Basil (Gene Roth)
Bond’s Allies: Clarence Leiter (Michael Pate)
Art Directors: Robert Tyler Lee & James D. Vance
Screenplay: Antony Ellis & Charles Bennett
Host for
CLIMAX!
William Lundigan
Director: William H. Brown
Producer: Bretaigne Windust
Music: Jerry Goldsmith [uncredited]

Casino Royale was originally broadcast live on Thursday, October 21st 1954 as the third show in the first season of the anthology drama series CLIMAX!. Casino Royale was long thought to be lost but surfaced from obscurity when film and TV historian Jim Schoenberger discovered an old kinescope of the production in Chicago in the early 1980s*.

Exclusive 007 MAGAZINE archive article
Casino Royale: The TV Bond Found!

Casino Royale ACT 1/End Title

Casino Royale ACT 1/End Title

Le Chiffre (Peter Lorre)

Le Chiffre (Peter Lorre)

Clarence Leiter (Michael Pate)

Clarence Leiter (Michael Pate)

*The original discovery was a truncated version of Casino Royale which was missing the final 2½ minutes of the production (which included closing comments from host William Lundigan and the original end credits) and was released on VHS video in the UK in 1995, and later appeared as an extra feature on DVD releases of the 1967 film Casino Royale. A complete poor quality version of the kinescope was later discovered and released on Video & DVD in the USA by Spyguise, with the original ending restored.
Watch the original ending


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