But who can remember the original TV Series
Coff, You beat me to it. Must have been repeated in the early 1970's as I still remember three of the stories in the series and I would have only been 3 at the end of the first run. The one with the two French Canadian exchange pilots who get substituted in transit by some bad guys to carry out some form of espionage. The one were the Blond haired pilot bangs out of his Mirage III while searching the North African desert for a missing test IRBM warhead that was driven off course by the bad guys (can't remember if he was shot down by them or not) and ends up finding the warhead and guarding it. Plus one where the two French pilots are at a research establishment with a Canberra fitted with a massive long pitot what played some part of the story.
All very James Bond'ish.