Honey West (1965)
Honey West was created by Skip and Gloria Fickling (as G. G. Fickling) and appeared in a series of novels,
most of which were published in the late 1950s and early 1960s, although the final novel was published in 1971.
As television's first title-role female Private Eye, Honey West took on any tough case.
She could handle herself mingling with millionaires just as well as scaling a thirty foot wall.
After the death of her father, sexy Honey West took over his high-tech private detective firm,
assisted by rugged Sam Bolt and her pet ocelot, Bruce.
There is something of The Avengers in this series; Aaron Spelling had been to England and saw The Avengers with Patrick MacNee and Honor Blackman.
Both the 1962 Avengers episode Death of a Great Dane and the 1964 Burke's Law episode Who Killed the Richest Man in the World?
are about a reclusive billionaire who is actually dead but his staff is pretending he's alive to split up the profits from his empire.
Spelling was so impressed with Blackman that he offered her a job as the star of a private eye series he would create called Honey West.
But she opted to do Goldfinger, instead.
Spelling wasn't willing to give up on the idea and searched for the actress who most reminded him of Blackman and decided it was Anne Francis.
Honey West was then introduced on the Burke's Law episode Who Killed the Jackpot? in 1965.
The series began the following fall but lasted only one year as it was on opposite the huge hit Gomer Pyle.
01 The Swingin' Mrs Jones
02 The Owl and the Eye
03 The Abominable Snowman
04 A Matter of Wife and Death
05 Live a Little... Kill a Little
06 Whatever Lola wants...
07 The Princess and the Paupers
08 In the Bag
09 The Flame and the Pussycat
10 A Neat Little Package
11 A Stitch in Crime
12 A Million Bucks in Anybody's Language
13 The Gray Lady
14 Invitation to Limbo
15 Rockabye the Hard Way
16 A Nice Little Till to Tap
17 How Brillig, O, Beamish Boy
18 King of the Mountain
19 It's Earlier Than You Think
20 The Perfect Un-Crime
21 Like Visions and Omens and All That Jazz
22 Don't Look Now, But Isn't That Me
23 Come to Me, My Litigation Baby
24 Slay, Gypsy, Slay
25 The Fun-Fun Killer




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