SPECTRE Etc.

Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. In this episode, we are warned that the dead are alive but not that history is about to be re-written. Join us as we chop down Bond’s family tree in “Spectre”. * The pre-titles sequence sees Bond destroy Day of the Dead in a single take before ambushing an ambitious helicopter pilot. Sam Smit...

Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. In this episode, MI6 is forced underground by cyber attacks. Join us as we head for the hills in “Skyfall”. * The pre-titles sequence is up to old tricks by faking Bond’s death before Adele takes us deep inside 007’s psyche. Back in London, M is under pressure to explain mission failures befo...

Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. In this episode, the writers have gone on strike and left us to join the dots of this chase-heavy movie. Join us as we try to flounder our way through “Quantum of Solace”. * The pre-titles sequence has Bond avoiding pineapple trucks as he chauffeurs Mr White to Siena. Another rocking title tr...

Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. In this episode, we gush over the action scenes and pretend to be poker professionals. Join us as we explore the origins of our favourite spy in “Casino Royale”. * The pre-titles sequence has Bond in a meeting that seems to mainly deal with a recent bathroom struggle. Bond’s 00-status is conf...

Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. With James on his 20th official adventure, this film is JW Peppered with callbacks to previous adventures. This launches our own retro-SPECTRE-ive as we wish the car wasn’t the only thing invisible in “Die Another Day”. * The pre-titles sequence starts with Bond shooting us right in our gun,...

Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. In this episode, we learn all about how bullets help brains. Join us as we salvage this disaster of a film by throwing Christmas puns at “The World is not Enough”. * The pre-titles sequence begins with Bond being a banker. MI6 blows his pile of cash, so Bond’s back in a boat, being a spy! Bon...

Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. In this episode, we try to mediate the dispute between a hard-working newspaper man and some British twat. You’ll be Wai Lin for more after you listen to our pun-peppered discussion of “Tomorrow Never Dies”. * The pre-titles sequence has Bond busting up a bizarre bazaar before jumping in a je...

Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. In this episode, we take the Pierce out of Brosnan and reminisce about mid-90s technology. Join us as we call in on an old flame with ”Goldeneye”. * The pre-titles sequence introduces our new Bond with a failed mission, bookended by successful stunts. Then Tina takes a turn at the titles trac...

Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. In this episode, Timothy Dalton does his damnedest to compete with all those great 1980s action films. The angry chief at our precinct demands results and has given us 48 hours to go rogue with a ”License to Kill”. * The pre-titles sequence has Bond warming the bench while Felix attends to a...

Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. In this episode, Timothy Dalton takes us on a tour of an Afghan conflict and shows us the conflict of a Cellist tour in “The Living Daylights”. * The pre-titles sequence is a welcome return to M’s office being out of his office. Bond has to jump a jeep off Gibraltar, before some music from A-...

Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. In this episode, we return to the safety of EON films so the Broccoli Family can Roger us one Moore time as we Walk-ento “A View to a Kill”. * The pre-titles sequence is pre-empted by a legal disclaimer that strangely fails to warn the viewer about the upcoming Beach Boys sound-a-like. * Q an...

Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. In this episode, we risk the wrath of the Broccoli Mafia by straying from Eon Productions. Find out if Kevin McClory’s offer was one we should have refused in “Never Say Never Again”. * The pre-titles and the titles are efficiently merged. Sean’s face fills the screen before his cinematically...

Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. In this episode, Roger offers a history lesson on India’s colonial past! Enjoy our efforts to out-do Bond for schoolboy humour, and join our short stay on a sapphic island in “Octopussy”. * A pre-titles sequence everyone enjoys sets us up for what we can only assume is the all-time high of Ri...

Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. In this episode, we catch MacGuffin Mania to get back our ATAC! Join us for this Winter Games extravaganza, as we watch James Bond do stunts that are clearly beyond Roger Moore in “For Your Eyes Only”. * We open with Please-Don’t-Call-Me-Blofeld hijacking a helicopter carrying Bond! This bald...

Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. In this rant-filled episode, we follow Bond for a race to Outer Space (with hasty pit stops in California and Venice and Brazil). Along the way, we will dissect and then reassemble the Frankenstein of a film that is Moonraker. * A space shuttle is hijacked, Bond is thrown out of a plane witho...

Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. In this Egyptian episode, we join Bond on his XXX-rated mission to retrieve microfilm from the Jaws of defeat. Ignore that floating Lotus - let us wet-bike you to Atlantis and beyond as we strive to find an original premise in The Spy Who Loved Me. * The pre-titles sequence introduces Agent X...

Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. In this episode, we ponder the confluence of factors that has brought together the unholy trinity of Roger Moore, Guy Hamilton, and JW Pepper. Thankfully this mess is saved by Christopher Lee’s superb Scaramanga. Join us as we jump on his junk to journey through a melange of Asian cultures in...

Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. In this episode, we warmly welcome a British icon to the Bond franchise. But enough about Paul McCartney, let’s meet Roger Moore - our third James Bond in three films. Join us for our voyage into voodoo as we jump the crocodile and explore why Moore is less.  * The pre-titles sequence is a pr...

Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. In this episode, we welcome Sean Connery back to the title role as he takes his chances in Las Vegas. * The pre-titles sequence shows Sean beating up people around the world before finally coming face to face with Blofeld (who looks frustratingly similar to a Bond ally from an earlier film)....

Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. In this episode, it is “Sayonara Sean!” as the only Bond we’ve ever known is re-cast. George Lazenby is not the only new thing about this Bond - our cold-hearted spy now has all sorts of feelings! Join our journey on George’s emotional rollercoaster in “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”. * The...

Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. In this episode, we watch as Bond says goodbye to the Bahamas of “Thunderball” and konichiwa to Japan as Roald Dahl’s screenplay for “You Only Live Twice” opens the door for so very many racist undertones. And overtones. * The pre-titles sequence takes place in outer space with reasonable spe...

Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. This week, we follow the fun of “Goldfinger” with a Caribbean Crusade as James attempts to dominate Domino while finding Largo’s cargo in “Thunderball”. * Viewer Fatigue sets in with yet another “Is Bond dead?” pre-titles sequence, before we decide that Jones ain’t no Bassey. * Matt gushes ab...

Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. This week we continue the fun we had watching “From Russia with Love” by joining James for a roll in Auric’s hayshed in the third 007 outing: “Goldfinger”. We follow Bond’s journey from the Fountainebleau in Miami - where he sends Dink on her way with an Oscar-winning slap - back to London fo...

Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. This week we follow up the overwhelming success of our Dr. No podcast with a hilarious ride through Bond’s second film: From Russia with Love. After exploring possible explanations for that baffling pre-titles sequence (Why does that henchman need to wear a mask? Could the audience even see a...

Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. Of course, our opening episode revolves around Bond’s cinematic premiere: Dr. No We follow Bond from winning big at baccarat, to the greengrocers atop that mountain. Once Bond is finished with Taro, he is off for adventures with the Crab Key dragon, which leads to the tragedy of his boat runn...