Honey West

Yeah, there are a lot of, a lot of real funky ones.

Honey West, you might remember that show or that series.

Love Honey West.

Yeah.

Love Ann Francis, everybody.

[laughs]

... uh, she's a TV, you know.

You know, I love Honey West, and it's a shame it was only one season.

Um, I wanna do a show on Perry Mason, I think, this week.

Um, I, I might do a show on Honey West on the weekend.

Uh, Tim Jenkins says, "Deep-fried foods seem like a good subject." They are.

They always are.

Well, That's interesting because I had nothing new to read this week, so I had to jump into the Wayback Machine.

In moving some DVDs around to find stuff for an upcoming movie night, I grabbed the complete Honey West collection of that 1965 television show.

Based on a 50-60 series of novels by Gloria and Forrest Fickling, the ABC show featured Anne Francis as a no-nonsense karate-chopping private eye, much in the vein of Dame Diana Riggs' Emma Peel from The Avengers, a series that ABC had just secured the rights to air and would actually sort of replace the Honey West series early in 66 because it was cheaper to buy The Avengers than produce Honey West as a television show.

Here you go.

It's a 30-episode run, and Ms. Francis actually won an Emmy.

So it's a really cool show if you like that sort of stuff from back then.

And tying this in, there was a one-shot comic adaptation from Gold Key back in 66, but I'm going to speak about the 2010-2013 Honey West This Girl for Hire series, which featured stories by Elaine Lee from Starstruck and our old pal, the late Trina Robbins.

Set in the swinging 60s, the comics have all the vibes of the TV show and its era.