Though you wouldn’t be faulted for forgetting this fact, as Moore was credited as “Turk Thrust II”, a nod to personal friend/A Shot In The Dark actor Bryan Forbes, aka “Turk Thrust”.
As Octopussy was filming around the same time as 1983’s Curse of The Pink Panther, a plot was hatched to have Roger Moore play the famed bumbling detective in only the second film in the original Pink Panther chronology to feature another actor playing Clouseau.