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TV SERIES · 2019–2019 · FRANCE

The Spy

Episodes
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10 archived facts 4 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) is the tenth James Bond film, starring Roger Moore as 007 opposite Barbara Bach as Soviet agent Anya Amasova. Its production is remembered for record-breaking sets, a troubled shoot in Egypt and the debut of the steel-toothed henchman Jaws.

10 Interesting Facts About The Spy

Interesting Facts (3)

  1. #001

    Across the series, Israel appears washed out and grey, while the places where Cohen operates as Kamel Thaabeth are rendered in vivid color. Red and yellow objects occasionally stand out against Israel's grey palette, since those are the colors of danger and caution, respectively.

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  2. #002

    Richard Kiel, who played Jaws, could keep the metal teeth in his mouth for only about 30 seconds at a time because they caused him severe pain, even though the role called for goofy facial expressions.

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  3. #003

    In episode 5, as Cohen photographs a stack of documents, one of the pages turns out to come from a paper titled "The military coups in Syria between 1949--1969."

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Production Story (3)

  1. #004

    The opening ski-jump parachute stunt in The Spy Who Loved Me was originally planned for George Lazenby's Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, but the budget and technology weren't available at the time, so the idea was shelved until it was used in The Spy Who Loved Me.

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  2. #005

    Production designer Ken Adam spent nearly $2 million of The Spy Who Loved Me's $13.5 million budget building what became Europe's largest soundstage, used for the Liparus supertanker set.

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  3. #006

    Barbara Bach was cast as Anya Amasova just four days before shooting began, and she had auditioned only hoping for a minor part; she later called Bond "a chauvinist pig who uses girls to shield him against bullets."

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Behind the Scenes (3)

  1. #007

    Jaws's metal teeth were designed by Katharina Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick's stepdaughter; Kiel's stunt double wore orange wedges wrapped in tin foil, and the chain Jaws bites through was made of licorice.

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  2. #008

    During filming in Egypt, producer Albert R. Broccoli had favorite foods flown in from England for the unhappy cast and crew, but someone forgot to switch on the freezer and the food spoiled; Broccoli then bought pots and pans in a nearby town and had pasta flown in from Cairo, cooking a feast himself.

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  3. #009

    Cinematographer Claude Renoir's eyesight was failing during production, and the supertanker set was so large that he couldn't see from one end to the other to oversee the lighting, so Stanley Kubrick did uncredited work on the scene's lighting and suggested using floodlights.

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Deeper Meaning (1)

  1. #010

    In the original script Jaws died at the end, but producers changed it so he could return in sequels; two endings were shot, so Richard Kiel didn't know his character's fate until the premiere.

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