Every Bond Girl Ranked - Worst To Best

“I’m looking for Dr Goodhead.” “You’ve found her.” “A woman…?” Great chuckles were had. At this point, a concentrated and deliberate effort was being made to put Bond girls into more positions of skill, power, and respect, and so it was in Moonraker, painfully self-aware as it was.

Unfortunately, despite the strong concept of the character, Goodhead herself is bland as mayonnaise, and woodenly played by Lois Chiles. Her fixed dour expression and monotone voice is remarkably out of place in one of the most wacky and ridiculous Bond films of all. Moonraker takes 007 to outer space to do battle with Hugo Drax and his handpicked superhumans, but Goodhead constantly looks remarkably bored by the whole thing.

One of the main “revelations” in the film is that Goodhead is actually a CIA agent - yet all anyone remembers her for is having sex with James Bond in zero gravity. She earns a few points for the concept behind the character, but she's severely lacking when it comes to iconicity and just plain entertainment. Despite the originality of her character, none of her scenes are real stand-outs, merely replicating established formulaic tropes like so many Bond Girls before her.

Best moment: “Take me around the world one more time!” It’s basically a beat for beat remake of the climactic scene from the previous film, but it does allow for Q’s stellar comment that Bond is “attempting re-entry”.

Worst moment: Goodhead all but insists that Bond test his g-force tolerance in a centrifuge chamber, and is then distracted by a phone call leading to an assassination attempt on 007. It’s basically a beat for beat remake of the spinal traction scene from Thunderball. Noticing a pattern here?