And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.

I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.

We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.

Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.

And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.

Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth.

No, we didn't shoot... in the ones that I did there were hardly any sex... there were suggestions of sex scenes but we never actually shot a sex scene as such.