HONEY WEST

[tgrman1]

it was cancled because the BIG JEW MACHO network didnt like powerful women,

it was a threat to their MANHOOD. 

[bobobread]

use to watch this when I was 10 years old

[billthestinker]

she would have made an excellent Bond girl in the 60's

[kkbeaty]

What a show, ocelot and all!!

[slobomotion]

I was very sorry to hear of her recent passing. I grew up in the States and this one didn't last long, but I found it riveting as a little girl. There was even a doll on sale.

[britfrenir]

I saw this show on Sunday night on Me Tv (WWMe) in Chicago. It is a new addtion on that station. It is a Four Star Production. Thank you for posting this.

[thanhmap100]

I saw this in T.V in 1967 in Vietnam. Now see it again. I am happy.Thank you.

[billthestinker]

honey west always good for a load

[Noveltooner]

One of Aaron Spelling's earliest TV series, it was also his classiest, and I'm sorry he never attempted to revive it when he really got clout. The teaming of Anne Francis with former fellow M-G-M contract player John Ericsson was pure heaven; a great bit of casting. (Who remembers them as the ill-fated sister and the brother in "Bad Day at Black Rock" with Spencer Tracy?) "Honey West" may have run only one season, but 35 years later when Nick-at-Nite re-ran it, I remembered it all.

[keca1430]

In her obituary, it said she was nominated for both the television Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for this role on TV. I wish she had done more TV shows in which she was the star. Too bad ABC didn't keep this classy show on the air!

[Neville6000]

@keca1430: After ABC's getting a hold of The Avengers, that was it for Honey West, IIRC.

[AbbyCunningham]

Anne Francis was a warm and caring person who personally replied to my letters and loved my Christmas cards featuring my two pugs ever year. Her online diary on her website told us of her strong battle against cancer. She put up a grand fight.

I will always remember Anne as the store dummy in The Twilight Zone episode who thinks she is a real woman. Honey West was a great role too, and Anne appeared in many classic TV shows and films. Thank you for your kindness and for being you. Robbie.

[shmuli9]

@AbbyCunningham That episode of the Twilight Zone could have been really creepy, except that the mannequins were more or less nice in the end. (If the episode had ended with them all ganging up on her and FORCING her bacck into the store, THAT would have been scary.)

[britfrenir]

@shmuli9 I thought I reconised her from that epsiode except here hair style looked different. That Twilght Zone episode was on over five years before this show though even though syndicated episodes used introduction from its 2nd season though. I wonder if she was in other TZ episodes. I think I had dream about that episode where I saw a madican in an elevator.

[shmuli9]

@britfrenir Anne was in at least TWO (and maybe three) Twilight Zone episodes... I can't immediately think of the polots, but apparently the producers liked her quite a bit, as there are a few people who made multiple appearances (another was Burgess Merideth)...

[shmuli9]

@britfrenir Oh! I remember at least one of them - the one about the Appalachian witch - something like "Jezebel", though I'm sure it's a bit different from that...

[nbcereuspotn]

To Anne, She had an amazing life and created paradigm shifting waves wherever she strode. Now a star travels to the stars with her furry female feline guide, Bruce Biteabit, still stalking and soothing at her silky striding side...Peace out, good girl...you're finally at rest...r010320110357cms(c)

[njnewf]

RIP Anne, your Honey West did more for my pre teen self esteem than any one of those stupid "Growing Up and Liking It" books ever did!! Class act to the end.

[sookietex]

</3 may the gods speed Anne Francis

[rockthose]

@NewYork10009 I am sad.

[ftsjr]

In the early 90s, I met Anne Francis at a memorabilia show. She was very approachable, and very friendly. RIP Anne.

[terrorterminator]

I remember that I wanted my dad to get us kids an Ocelot because Honey West had one.

Not very sure...but I think he weaseled out of it by telling us that they were illegal to have as pets in New York. But it wasn't a total loss because... he then broke down and got us a dog.

[NEPatriot]

At 31 seconds...one word...MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-YOW!

[ferbs54]

TV's "First Private Eyeful"...and the show that jump-started my puberty, waaay back when. Thx for posting!

[evpsareallaroundus]

ABC should have given it a better time slot.

[Robo1415]

There was supposed to be a Honey West feature movie coming out back in the '90s....Wonder what happened...

[Gnillob802]

@Robo1415 Set to go a few years ago then flops from Angelina Jolie (known at the time for sucking Billy Bob Thorton's blood & making out with her brother) & Halle Berry (Catwoman even closed down her Bond spinoff project) showed a strong woman heroine didn't sell tickets. Angelina's PR people got her to adopt orphans & Halle Berry won an Oscar for doing to Billy Bob Thorton what Angelina used to do, so now we like strong heroines again (SALT). Maybe Honey West isn't dead.

[Robo1415]

@Gnillob802 Maybe......it would be interesting to keep it set in the '60s...

[OsonsLaVertu]

imitation de Emma Peel, non ?

[sukneh]

@OsonsLaVertu Non, c'est homage!

[OsonsLaVertu]

@OsonsLaVertu peut-être mais la meilleure est Madame PEEL !

[JubalCalif]

I faintly recall watching this show as a kid in the 60's. Too bad it didn't last longer. Even as a boy I realized what a HOT babe Anne Francis was (and she still looks WONDERFUL!). Hubba hubba to the max, daddy-o! THANKS for sharing this delightful "blast from the past" with us! :)

[toodance]

I have not watched tv as an adult but I did watch this as a 10 yo girl. I would dream I was honey west in the black cat suit and still have vivid memories of the adventures!

[MrMACDADDY888]

They looked so much more appealing back in those days!

[gringo4x4do]

What a Babe Anne Francis was !

[Rocketjay12]

I can't believe this ran for only one season! I don't remember much specifically about the show other than I watched it regularly.

[webmail111]

It only ran for one season? Wow.  But it made an

indelible mark on me because I remember it so well.

[exitscreaming]

wasnt the actress here arrested for solicitation after she fell on hard times?

[sandaglad]

Absolutely not. You're thinking of some other actress, maybe Barbara Payton.

[VanWADebbie]

I wanted to be a detective like her.

[nacida007]

me too!!!!! i eevn had a fake molar place around the same area she has ( on her face of course_)

[jzw1953]

that was one hot woman!

[6459131]

i loved this show and her thanks for the post

[beattleBob]

It was cancelled because it had the same time slot as that NBC mega-smash Gomer Pyle.

[bartbro]

You are correct sir. Just one correction. Gomer Pyle was a mega-smash on CBS

[mellomutt]

@bartbro just read that it was because it became cheaper to purchase The Avengers than it was to produce their own show

[britfrenir]

@mellomutt My father passed away soon after. I think I saw somone who looked like her on other shows. I got see part of two back to back episodes last weekend.

[shmuli9]

@bartbro "Gomer Pyle", which I used to watch, is kind of odd, looking back. I think it would be hilarious if the Sarge had yelled "I've got piles!!!" instead of "Pyle!!!"

[htrrz]

@bartbro I have always read that Honey West was due to be renewed another year in a one hour format, and in color, but the english show the Avengers was big over seas, and ABC wanted only one woman in a cat suit fighting crime? ABC then followed with the Girl from Uncle, Batgirl on Batman, so there ended up alot of cat suited women on ABC. I never liked the Avengers. Honey West fans were robbed by ABC. By the way anyone know why Honey West shows have been pulled off utube as of 1/9/2011?

[britfrenir]

@bartbro If you know Tags was on CBC it is safe to assume that Gomer Pyle USMC was. I think i saw the last seasons of it.and saw promos of it on a local station WSNS 44 Chicago.

[sixtieskid062]

@bartbro

And,If I recall correctly, "Honey West" aired 30 minutes before NBC aired "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.". Now,THAT would have been going up against a losing cause; "U.N.C.L.E." was the 11th most popular show in the Nielsens during the 1965-66 season, which was when "Honey West" originally aired.

[VanWADebbie]

Gau-leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! CBS!

[calalilygirl]

i was just about to ask about that

[frantic1971]

This would be a GREAT candidate for a modern-day remake, maybe a feature film or a tv series.

Just curious as to who would be good actresses and actors for for a remake?

[Ramubay]

Both Alicia Silverstone and Rene Zwellwieger were attached to the big screen remake at one time but the project was scuttled after the performance of action films starring women in the lead failed to attract an audience (see various projects by Halle Berry, Angelina Jolie, etc...)

[JazzyAK]

I LOVED this show when it came out. When they didn't renew it for a second year I was flabbergasted!! What a great show!!

[britfrenir]

@JazzyAK And it probably would have been in color because if it started in 1965 and then shows most other shows converted to color as well as the first run shows and ones that were already in color.

[Ramubay]

I wanted to see this and it came out on DVD and I wasn't disappointed. I like the old 60's DVD sets, especially detective and spy stuff.

[nanajanamike]

This was a spinoff of "Burke's Law",one of the best detective shows of the early 60s!

[glawsny]

Anne Francis is one of the nicest people you ever wanna meet....just love her!

[Neville6000]

...And it was cancelled because ABC wanted The Avengers instead.

[CandaceDueck]

Where did the rest go??

[bigo723]

Don't remember this