Nothing to Play With was the seventh episode of the 1991 animated television series, James Bond Jr, produced by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation. Written by Jeffrey Scott, the episode first aired on US television on 24th September 1991.
Plot[]
In Hong Kong, Captain Walker D. Plank and his unnamed co-conspirator have commandeered a toy factory owned by a Mr. Ling and begin producing an army of lethal remote-controlled toys. The unwilling factory owner, who fears for the safety of his young daughter May, smuggles out an SOS message in a teddy bear which is subsequently won by James Bond Jr. at a fair. Discovering and reading the note, Bond travels to Hong Kong; finding the girl and foiling a live-test of one of the villains' deadly "Captain Plank" action figures. Bond infiltrates their factory as "James Boothroyd" of the fictitious Boothroyd Toys company; bringing along I.Q. to demonstrate a hot new toy design (in reality I.Q.’s experimental Infrared Remote Access Glove). After their cover is blown by the faulty glove, the heroes attempt to escape with Mr. Ling, but are cornered by Plank action figures.
The villains bind James, I.Q. and Mr. Ling with rope and leave them on a toy train track. Hurtling towards them is a model train loaded with a bottle of nitroglycerin. To ensure their demise, the thug removes Bond's wristwatch and rips off the transformer knob. However, he forgets about the gadget glove which later allows them to escape. Plank and the thug watch the resulting explosion (assuming Bond to have died) and drive off in their radio-control van to rob the Bank of Hong Kong with their toy army. They activate a shipment of transforming action figures in a nearby shop; which combine together to form a ten-foot tall robot. After Bond intervenes with a fork-lift, the robot snatches Mr. Ling's daughter. Bond disrupts the robot by throwing I.Q.'s glove into its mouth and grabs the girl as she falls from its grasp. Now out-of-control, the robot throws the control van around before collapsing on top of it and exploding. The villains crawl from the ruined vehicle and escape.
As one last favour to Bond and his friends, Mr. Ling and May trick Trevor Noseworthy into believing Bond and I.Q. are still in Hong Kong using cardboard cutouts. Attempting to follow them throughout the episode, Noseworthy phones Warfield Academy in a bid to get them in trouble for sneaking off school grounds. He ends up in trouble himself - Bond and his friends are already back in the Principal's office.
Cast & Characters[]
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