With regular law enforcement agencies powerless to prevent their deaths, Her Majesty's Government sends in their top agent Charles Bind who is licensed to kill.

In 1965, Canadian director Lindsay Shonteff directed and co-wrote Licensed to Kill, a low budget British made James Bond imitation/parody exploitation film.

[6] The sequel was not released until 1979 under the title Licensed to Love and Kill with Gareth Hunt replacing Nicky Henson who had signed with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Simon Bell wrote and performed the theme song "Givin' It Plenty" that was also used in the first sequel Licensed to Love and Kill and reused in Tintorera (1977).

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A good deal more violent but no less appealing than the Charles Vine James Bond spoofs of the Sixties, this knockabout spy picture returns to familiar territory.

1 of the Secret Service and its sequel Licensed to Love and Kill as "the odd picture [that] turned up in the cinema schedules", refers to both films as "crude parodies".