I remember being pretty young watching Dr. No on CED videodisc, seeing Ursula Andress coming out of the water, and thinking to myself “Woah, women are cool!” :-)
Lynda Carter was another that I’d just stare at when she was on :-). Erin Gray in Buck Rogers was another.
~40 years later and the same thing *still* happens :-).
A little known fact is that Sean Connery was NOT the first actor to play James Bond. He was the third. Barry Nelson played Bond in a 1954 CBS TV adaptation of Casino Royale and Bob Holness was Bond in a 1950s live South African radio presentation of Moonraker. Connery was, however, the first big screen cinematic Bond.
not the first Bond Just the greatest of all of them