Honey West

"Honey West" was a one-season (1965-66) detective TV series, featuring Anne Francis (of Forbidden Planet fame) as the eponymous "Honey West", a private investigator with martial arts skills and a pet ocelot. It was based on stories created in the 1950s by Gloria Fickling and Forrest E. "Skip" Fickling under the pseudonym G. G. Fickling, and optioned for TV following an appearance in an episode of "Burke's Law".

Descriptions

• "As televisions first title roll [sic] female Private Eye, Honey West would take on any tough case. After the death of her father, the sexy private detective took over his high-tech PI firm. Being assisted by the rugged Sam Bolt and her pet ocelot Bruce, she could handle herself mingling with millionaires just as well as scaling a thirty foot wall."
• "Honey was the first female detective to front her own series, and certainly the first detective to be spied luxuriating in a bubble bath. Honey West only ran one season. For this, we can reportedly blame the top-rated Gomer Pyle and the arrival on the same network of The Avengers, with Diana Rigg's Emma Peel. But Honey West still delivers retro kicks. As one high society hostess remarks to Honey in one episode, "You're welcome at any party of mine."

Further reading

• Wikipedia
• John C. Fredriksen, Honey West (Bear Manor Press, 2009. ISBN 1593933460.)

• Honey West: This Girl for Hire]] by G. G. Fickling, the first in the series of novels; 2005 edition ISBN 1585676845.)

See also

• Emma Peel
• Veronica Mars