Animated Series
The animated series, produced by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson and United Artists Corporation, debuted on 30 September 1991 and a total of 65 half-hour episodes were produced. James Bond Jr. was voiced by Corey Burton.
While attending prep school at Warfield Academy, James Bond Jr. with the help of his friends IQ (the hitherto unmentioned grandson of Q), and Gordo Leiter (the son of Felix Leiter, also not previously established), fights against the evil terrorist organisation SCUM (Saboteurs and Criminals United in Mayhem, which is an offshoot of organisations like SPECTRE). Expanding on his uncle’s famous line, James Bond Jr.’s catchphrase was “Bond, James Bond. Junior.”
Like many animated series, it regularly surpasses the Bond movies in terms of fantastic gadgets and mad scientists, and the violence of the adult Bond series is nowhere in evidence. Despite this, the show was fully sanctioned by (and produced in association with) Danjaq and United Artists, the rights holders to the James Bond property.
Jaws, a recurring villain from the Roger Moore films The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker, also made regular appearances, usually partnered with Nick Nack, a villain from the Roger Moore film The Man with the Golden Gun, to form a bickering comical duo. Auric Goldfinger also appears (alongside his assistant from the Goldfinger film, Oddjob), revealing he has a teenage daughter named Goldie Finger with equally expensive tastes. Many episode titles parodied the titles of Bond films, e.g. “Live and Let’s Dance.”
Read more about this topic: List Of James Bond Jr. Characters
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