The Matt Helm books by Donald Hamilton - done straight, with someone other than Dean Martin as Helm. Gawd save us.

Sapir and Murphy's "Destroyer" series. They did one, and it was terrible, except that the guy who did Chuin got it right - Dale Grey, something like that.

There's hope. They made a movie of "Dune" and it was awful; then recently the Sci-fi channel did it again as a mini-series, and that was a pretty good job, much more faithful to the book.

Peter.