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James Bond has arrived on BT Vision. To celebrate the imminent release of Quantum Of Solace and ensure you can get your fill of 007, we’ve got 20 Bond movies available to watch on Vision FILM now — that’s 40 years of secret agent spectaculars starring George Lazenby, Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan. Click here for the full list.

But which Bond moments are the best? What are the most iconic scenes of the series? Have no fear — we have the answers…

1. The birth of the Bond Girl
Hiding from villains in 1962’s Dr No, Bond encounters the beautiful Honey Ryder when she emerges from the Caribbean Sea dressed in a white bikini. The scene made Swiss actress Ursula Andress a household name as the first of many ‘Bond Girls’.

2. Laser torture: “Do you expect me to talk?”
“No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die.” In one of the most famous exchanges between Bond and a villain, Auric Goldfinger (1964) almost slices 007 in half with a laser before deciding that our hero is worth more to him alive.

3. Escape by jet-pack
By 1965, the James Bond franchise and its star Sean Connery had become the epitome of cool for fans all over the world. Just to add to his reputation, the producers show Bond donning a jet pack and escaping through the air to his waiting Aston Martin in Thunderball.

4. Little Nellie: the portable helicopter
In 1967’s You Only Live Twice, gadget guru Q provides Bond with a portable helicopter to enable him to take some high-risk aerial photos. Codenamed ‘Little Nellie’, it folded away into several suitcases and was actually piloted by its inventor, RAF Wing Commander Ken Wallis.

5. Bond’s wife gets murdered
George Lazenby’s only outing as Bond, 1967’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, was eventful to say the least. He falls in love, quits the secret service and marries – before his wife (played by Diana Rigg) is tragically killed by thugs.

6. The Union Jack parachute
“James, I need you,” says the girl at the beginning of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). “So does England,” is the patriotic reply from our summoned hero as he makes a hasty exit before being chased down a mountain on skis by villains. His escape, when he skis off a mountain and opens a Union Jack parachute, is one of James Bond’s finest hours.

7. The car that becomes a submarine
One of Q’s most famous creations, Bond’s modified Lotus Esprit from The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), converts itself into a submarine and back at the touch of a button. It enables Bond to escape unharmed from a car chase by driving off a pier into the sea.

8. Death on the Golden Gate Bridge
At the climax of 1985’s A View To A Kill, Bond (Roger Moore) grapples with arch-villain Max Zorin (Christopher Walken) on San Francisco’s iconic Golden Gate Bridge. Zorin eventually falls to his death and, having blown up Zorin’s airship, Bond escapes again with the girl.

9. The best bungee jump ever
The 720-foot bungee jump at the start of Goldeneye (1995) was voted the best movie stunt of all time in a 2002 poll. Coming after a six-year absence, it announced spectacularly that James Bond, in the form of Pierce Brosnan, was back.

10. The invisible car
Pierce Brosnan’s final outing as Bond saw one of the most memorable gadgets of the entire Bond franchise. When Bond travels to Iceland to investigate mysterious billionaire industrialist Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens), Q branch arms him with an Aston Martin that can turn invisible. How’s that for convenience?

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