TCM SPECIAL THEME: JAMES BOND
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
This is as far as we get into TCM’s Bond issues – a.k.a., its Thursday-in-September foray through James Bond’s half-century of 007 movies, which began with Sean Connery in the 1960s. Tonight’s lineup brings the franchise, and the character, to the end of the previous century. The evening begins at 8 ET with 1987’s The Living Daylights (the first of two movies tonight starring Timothy Dalton as British secret agent James Bond), and ends at 5:30 a.m. ET with 1999’s The World Is Not Enough, the third of three movies tonight starring Pierce Brosnan as Bond). Brosnan came from TV, via Remington Steele – but the best “Bond girl” tonight (to use the once-widespread sexist shorthand vernacular) did, too. She’s Teri Hatcher, of Desperate Housewives, playing opposite Brosnan in 1997’s Tomorrow Never Dies, seen on TCM at 3:30 a.m. ET.