The three-month program creates a lasting bond that extends to the entire network.

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The mid-1960s were awash in Bond parodies in the cinema and on network television, with films like Our Man Flint and the original Casino Royale (a parody of Fleming's novel that starred David Niven as Bond and Woody Allen as James Bond's nephew) in 1966 and 1967.

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