Proof that Roger Moore’s 007 was fast becoming a laughing stock came near the end of 1983’s Octopussy, in which he fakes his way into the big top where Louis Jourdan has hidden a nuclear bomb by donning a clown outfit. “Roger was very apprehensive about being dressed up as a clown and took a lot of persuading,” admits director John Glen. “But, as ever, he embraced the idea and performed it beautifully.”

That wasn’t the only questionable attire in Moore’s fifth Bond outing, which also sees him disguise himself as a crocodile and take refuge in a gorilla costume.