17 May 2014, The Aston Martin Works Sale In its 15th year Bonhams Aston Martin Works sale totals at £8.7 million Roger Moore’s ‘The Persuaders!’ Aston Martin DBS sets world record for DBS ...

In the battle of the Bonds, Roger Moore was almost always considered ... Saint and then alongside Tony Curtis in The Persuaders! for Lew Grade, Moore was already a household name.

The Aston Martin made famous by Roger Moore in 1970s adventure show The Persuaders! has been sold at auction for a world record £533,000. The Bahama Yellow DBS, which was driven by Moore's ...

"The Persuaders!" The 1971 series "The Persuaders!" wasn't nearly as successful as the Roger Moore-led show that preceded it -- "The Saint" -- lasting only one forgettable season. But Moore was ...

Moore had, of course, come to the role as a known quantity – familiar to TV viewers as the dapper star of The Saint and The Persuaders! “When Roger took over as Bond, the average age of the ...

Roger Moore was forever surrounded by “Bond girls ... “The Saint,” which made him a TV star in England, “The Persuaders!,” a very underrated British TV series that never made it ...

Sir Roger Moore has been The Saint, one of the Persuaders, and, of course, James Bond. But he calls himself One Lucky Bastard, which is the title of this memoir about a life spent working and ...

"Lew wanted to make more Persuaders!, but Roger didn't. By that time, Roger had the offer to play Bond." Grade toyed with replacing Moore, but they decided to leave it as it was. "Otherwise ...

Roger Moore was already a famous actor in the U.K. long before taking over the James Bond franchise. Still, earlier successes in TV's The Saint and The Persuaders didn't necessarily point to an ...