007 And The Daleks
26th February 2021
When a British writer slipped a Doctor Who reference into Thunderball's script
By MI6 Staff
This is the hitherto untold tale of why British screenwriter John Hopkins, who was hired to polish Richard Maibaum's script for the fourth James Bond film 'Thunderball', slipped in a pop-culture reference to the Daleks - the infamous pepper-pot villains from Doctor Who.