I had seen the Honey West series as a teen but had no recollection of it. It wasn't that high up on the list of dvd sets I wanted to purchase. That made it a perfect candidate for NetFlix. I watched it the over the last few days as the discs came and went. There aren't that many shows, only 30, and they're aren't any extras to speak of, just a few commercials from the era, a few stills from the show. This half hour crime drama first aired September 17 1965 and it lasted until April 8 1966. Aaron Spelling produced the series and patterned it off of The Avengers. He even tried to hire Honor Blackman. She turned him down and Anne Francis got the part of Honey West. She first appeared on Burke's Law in 1965 and got her own show that fall. Honey has taken over her late father's detective agency and runs it with her partner Sam Bolt who's played by John Ericson. They have a modern office in a building and behind a secret door is Honey's apartment. Her aunt lives there and she has a pet ocelot named Bruce. 
Each week the duo seem to bungle their assignment and have to fix the problem. It really wasn't every week but it was often enough that I started to notice. Like the show it emulates it's got pleny of spy gadgets, odd, goofy or interesting costumes, and occasionally a silly premis. Unfortunately the scripts didn't support all those bits and pieces and pull it all together. Occasionally there's an interesting or odd guest star, Joe Don Baker, Maureen McCormick, Michael J Pollard, Kevin McCarthy, Wayne Rogers and Dick Clark are the ones I know. The scripts are as mixed a bag as the actors. Some are much better than others but even at their best they're aren't that great. It fails to capture that spark the The Avengers had, that's for sure. Even at the current price of 12 bucks on Amazon I don't think I'd bother picking this set up. I've seen them and this post should remind me to spend that 12 bucks on something else.
I had to snap some pics of the robot killer from The Fun-Fun Killer episode. It's been created by a murderous toy maker. Sadly the robot turns out to be the a guy in a suit. They catch him with a big magnet. It's all pretty stupid. The series rates a 7.3 on the IMDb, not deserved at all, but none of the single episodes rates more than a 6.7. There's only one that high and 3 over a 5. Most are 2s and 3s. The robot episode was a 2.6 and I saw one that was a 2.1. Oh, well. Can't have great tv all the time. No one would ever get anything done.
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