CREDITS ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE, 1969 dir: Peter Hunt George Lazenby Diana Rigg Telly Savalas Bernard Lee Lois Maxwell Desmond Llewelyn Angela Scoular George Baker

A bit more story this time around, and a bit more length, too, but a bit less Bond. Since this is the only appearance in the series of the chiselled woodenness of TV adman George Lazenby, that's not a particularly bad thing.

The glamorous locations are around Switzerland and Portugal.

The opening sequence, of Bond rescuing Tracy Di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg) from the sea, was shot on on Guincho Beach near Cascais, west of Lisbon, Portugal. Draco’s home, scene of the birthday party, is the Da Vinho Estate at Zambujal, about 20 miles south of Lisbon.

Bond stays at the Palacio Estoril Hotel, Rua Do Parque, Estoril, west of Lisbon (tel: 35121.4648000).

In Switzerland, the office of solicitor Gumpold, where Bond demonstrates that exciting new invention the photocopier, is the Schweizerhof Hotel, Bahnhofplatz 11, Berne (tel: 031.326.8080).

The mountaintop ‘allergy clinic’ of Blofeld (Telly Savalas) was a revolving restaurant, then under construction, atop the Schilthorn Mountain peak, above Murren, Switzerland. Permission to film there was granted on condition that the film company furnish the interior and build a helipad. They forked out to the then princely sum of £60,000. The restaurant is still in business.

The stock-car rally was staged at Lauterbrunnen, two miles from Murren, and the skating rink is nearby Grindelwald.

In the UK, M’s house is Thames Lawn, a riverfront mansion at Marlow, near the Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire.

Bond researches heraldry in the College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street, EC4, in the City of London. The handsome brick building, behind imposing black and gold gates, dates from the 1670s, though it was remodelled in the 1860s when Queen Victoria Street was laid out (which truncated the side wings). A uniquely British institution, the college is home to the heralds who grant and keep records of the coats of arms of the nobility – and the wannabe-nobility.

Where better for Bond to get a crash course in heraldry, in order to pass himself off as Sir Hilary Bray (George Baker, who’s voice Lazenby does an impressive job of imitating). Well, OK, it’s dubbed by Baker himself (who was, coincidentally, himself once in the frame to play Bond).

Bray reveals the Bond family motto, “Orbis non sufficit” (‘The world is not enough’), which proved such a handy title for the 19th Bond movie.

If you fancy having your own coat of arms, you’ll need to prove a pedigree showing direct male-line descent from an ancestor already entitled to arms. Or perhaps you could just apply for arms to be granted.