They recently did a Honey West marathon on the "Decades" .channel. It brought back memories. I was 15 years old when when the series premiered and I fell in love with Anne Francis immediately. She was so alluring yet tough and daring too. She wasn't affraid to use her sex appeal, but she was quite capable of taking out a male tough guy if the game got rough. Her co-star amd on screen partner John Ericsson was also very good. He and Honey gave the impression that they might be having a relationship, but you sensed that he was looking for a more a more exclusive one.
The show did have problems though. Anne's spectacular blonde good looks cried out for a color version rather than a black & white one. The format should have been an hour rather than 1/2 hour to build up the villains and create an atmosphere of danger. The stunt work was fair but not great. Sometimes you could see that stunt doubles were working. The fight scenes were okay, but those scenes were done better in the Diana Rigg version of the British series "The Avengers". Despite this the scripts were good at first, but but became weaker as the series continued. What saved the show was the beautiful and talented Ms. Francis I believe the show was almost renewed ,possibly with an Improved format, but mediocre ratings against tough competition, and more importantl the fact that the British "Avengers" with better scripts, could be gotten moore cheaply doomed renewal. Too bad.
The show did have problems though. Anne's spectacular blonde good looks cried out for a color version rather than a black & white one. The format should have been an hour rather than 1/2 hour to build up the villains and create an atmosphere of danger. The stunt work was fair but not great. Sometimes you could see that stunt doubles were working. The fight scenes were okay, but those scenes were done better in the Diana Rigg version of the British series "The Avengers". Despite this the scripts were good at first, but but became weaker as the series continued. What saved the show was the beautiful and talented Ms. Francis I believe the show was almost renewed ,possibly with an Improved format, but mediocre ratings against tough competition, and more importantl the fact that the British "Avengers" with better scripts, could be gotten moore cheaply doomed renewal. Too bad.