{"id":21326,"date":"2016-10-21T04:48:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T08:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21326"},"modified":"2016-10-24T04:47:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T08:47:31","slug":"october-21-1954-james-bond-moves-from-page-to-tv-screenson-this-day-in-1954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21326","title":{"rendered":"October 21, 1954&#8230;James Bond Moves From Page To TV Screens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 21, 1954&#8230;James Bond Moves From Page To TV Screens<\/p>\n<p>On this day in 1954, Barry Nelson became the first actor to play James Bond. Before this, 007 had only been a literary character in  the novels written by Ian Fleming. <\/p>\n<p>The event was a one hour, live presentation of &#8220;Casino Royale&#8221; on &#8220;Climax&#8221;; a Sunday night CBS drama showcase that ran from &#8217;54 till &#8217;58. Fleming was paid $1,000 to adapt the novel to a screenplay for the CBS production.<\/p>\n<p>It would be six more years before Bond came to the big screen with &#8220;Dr. No&#8221; in 1962.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the run time for the TV play is 00:51:45 leaving only 8 minutes for commercials. How refreshing! -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/1114452625258952\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/October-21-1954...James-Bond-Moves-From-Page-To-TV-Screens-On-this-day-in-1954\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/1114452625258952\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 21, 1954&#8230;James Bond Moves From Page To TV Screens On this day in 1954, Barry Nelson became the first actor to play James Bond. Before this, 007 had only been a literary character in the novels written by Ian Fleming. The event was a one hour, live presentation of &#8220;Casino Royale&#8221; on &#8220;Climax&#8221;; a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[783],"class_list":["post-21326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}