The Battle for Bond deal with Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli: "Thunderball" (1965) that was released at Christmas. McClory's court victory also entitled him to remake "Thunderball" (1965) as "Never Say Never Again" (1983), again with Sean Connery as James Bond, the cinematic competition Broccoli had tried to legally ban. With the remake, McClory attempted to continue with his own James Bond film series, but was stopped after legal action by Broccoli and MGM. In a later unsuccessful lawsuit, McClory went further and now claimed that he created the cinematic James Bond, and demanded a share of the three billion dollars earned by
No. 1 of the Secret Service with those films. With the continued popularity of the James Bond films starring Roger Moore in the mid 1970s, talk of Sean Connery reprising his 007 role in the planned "James Bond of the Secret Service" and the delay in the production of Eon Productions’ "The Spy Who Loved Me", Shonteff thought he would return to the imitation James Bond field with his own film. The original title of "008 of the Secret Service" was replaced by "No. 1 of the Secret Service". Perhaps to avoid rights difficulties with producer James Ward, Shonteff replaced the name of "Charles Vine" with