5. For Your Eyes Only: Mrs Thatcher
For anyone outside the UK, this might seem an odd choice. It's the final scene in the movie, when Margaret Thatcher (played by impersonator Janet Brown) speaks to 'Bond' via telephone and congratulates him on a successful mission. The moment plays into a previously popular depiction of Thatcher as Britain's housewife-in-chief, doing the washing up and keeping her gormless husband Denis in check. However, by the time the film was released in cinemas, Thatcher was THE divisive figure in British politics. Her defiantly patriotic brand of leadership was very much in line with the series' worldview, but it seems a tad awkward to have a fictionalised Iron Lady fluffing her hair and giggling girlishly at a parrot's innuendos (probably best just to watch the movie, eh) when the real Iron Lady was presiding over unprecedented unemployment rates, race riots and industrial unrest. Possibly just as awkward, in light of her later struggle with dementia, is the fact that she thinks James Bond sounds exactly like a parrot ("Give us a kiss!"). The notion of Maggie unwittingly conversing by phone with a talkative bird sounds like some kind of mad satirical joke, but on the whole, this is a little bit of politics the series could probably have done without.