 First credited appearance of MI6 Chief of Staff Bill Tanner, played  here by James Villiers (qv). The character had previously appeared  (played by an uncredited Michael Goodliffe (qv)) in  _Man with the Golden Gun, The (1974)_ (qv). The character would be  resurrected as a regular in the Brosnan Bond films, played by  Michael Kitchen (I) (qv) in _GoldenEye (1995)_ (qv) and  _World Is Not Enough, The (1999)_ (qv).