Honey West

1 9 6 5 – 1 9 6 6 (USA)
30 x 30 minute episodes

Martial arts expert Honey West (Anne Francis) took over the running of a private detective agency after inheriting the business and her partner, ex-Marine Sam Bolt (John Ericson), from her late father in this ABC crime drama series.

Sam made a promise that he would look after Honey and keep her out of trouble if anything should happen to her father, although the shapely (36-24-34) blonde Honey could certainly take care of herself.

Publicised as “television’s pretty private eyeful”, Honey (who had a pet ocelot named Bruce that she adored) was an expert at judo and had a black belt in karate.

Honey operated from her luxurious apartment at 6033 Del Mar Vista in Los Angeles, where a wall displaying various vases was actually the secret entrance to her lab behind the living room wall.

However, she often did her spying out of a travelling office-cum-spying van that was disguised as a delivery truck and had the name ‘H W Bolt & Co, TV Service’ emblazoned on its side.

The character had first appeared on an episode of Burke’s Law (“Honey West: Who Killed the Jackpot”) and was spun off into her own show with a cool array of high-tech gadgets: lipstick walkie-talkies, exploding smoke-bomb earrings, and a convertible sports car (complete with car phone).

The gimmicks failed to make up for poor production values, unimaginative scripts and the obvious use of a stuntman in a blonde wig for the fight scenes.

Based on the novels of the husband-and-wife writing team of GG Fickling, Honey West only lasted one season. Joseph Mullendore composed the opening theme Wild Honey and the closing signature Sweet Honey.

Honey West 
Anne Francis
Sam Bolt 
John Ericson
Aunt Meg 
Irene Hervey