Honey West Redux A Guilty Pleasure

Previous:  "Honey West" Redux: Introduction                        Next:  Episode Two: The Owl and the Eye Honey kisses a microphone disguised as an  olive before dropping it in Sam's martini. Private detective Honey West (Anne Francis) goes under cover as a rich widow at a resort where blackmailers take juicy pictures of rich widows being made love to by a local lothario who lives with his scheming mother. Honey's partner, Sam Bolt (John Ericson), poses as a competing lothario. Guest starring Ray Danton as the handsome loser-villain. The gang of blackmailers fall for the detectives' act at first but are tipped off that Honey is a P.I. They set a trap for Honey and Sam, who manage to turn the tables in the end and roll up the whole gang. No, these are my sunglasses, and I gotta put you  on hold so I can answer my regular glasses. Honey and Sam talk into their radios-disguised-as-eye-glasses, rather...

     NEXT:   Opening Theme and Images of "Honey West"                 Episode One: The Swingin' Mrs. Jones     ANNE FRANCIS AS HONEY WEST, WITH BRUCE, HER PET OCELOT Who is Honey West? If you have to ask "Who is Honey West?" perhaps you are not among friends here, but I will humor the question, nonetheless. Honey West was a fictional private detective first seen in print in 1957, having been created the year before by Forrest "Skip" Fickling and his wife Gloria (under the nom de plume G.G. Fickling, the "G.G." standing for Gloria Gautraud, which was her maiden name). The saga of Honey West began in 1956 when [Skip] Fickling was talking to his friend, mystery writer Richard Prather.... “One day,” Fickling recalls, “I said, ‘Why don’t you do a female private detective?’ He said, ‘I’m too busy. Why don’t you try it?’ ”                            ...