Space shuttles! Airplanes! Parachutes! Skydiving! Circuses! Jaws! Explosions! Plans to kill Bond . . . and a beautiful woman! Can shuttles fly? Is Bond really on his last leg? Whatever happened to that leg?! All of this happens in the action-packed MOONRAKER pre-title sequence.

Join Dan, Tom and Vicky as we get a leg-up on this pre-title sequence! And Philip Latchford and John Cork weigh in too with us!

In this episode, we decode the following from the pre-title of MOONRAKER:

The use of the 747 and needed modifications
Why the shuttle couldn’t do what the movie shows
Bond on his last leg
Where did Jaws come from?
The great aerial stunts in this scene
How the 1969 movie THE GYPSY MOTHS likely inspired part of this pre-title sequence
A costume tie-in to real 18th century attire
And more …

We think the MOONRAKER pre-title sequence is a lot of fun and has some great stunts.

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