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And Honey, I've missed you... (Updated)

By September 9, 2008January 12th, 20262 Comments

Honey

As a white, male, American het­ero­sexu­al approach­ing the age of 50 (don’t worry, I’m not gonna whine about how I’m oppressed) I have a sim­ul­tan­eously dim and vivid memory of how Anne Francis’ por­tray­al of super-hot female spy, detect­ive, um—whatever-the-hell-she-was-except-she-had-a-skintight-head-to-toe-turtleneck-jumpsuit-and-a-pet-ocelot—Honey West was an, ahem, form­at­ive exper­i­ence for my hor­mon­ally under­developed self dur­ing the 1965–66 sea­son that Ms. West had a tele­vi­sion series named for her. Just scored the VCI four-disc set of the com­plete series (def­in­itely the first, and likely the last, DVD set with the copy “From Executive Producer Aaron Spelling” on its box that I’ll ever spend money on), and will report back later as to wheth­er the thrill has gone, or not. Or not. I don’t wanna get too self-indulgent, after all…

UPDATE: Having just dipped into the set I have to say it does not dis­ap­point. Francis is, um, sassy. And the half-hour format neces­sit­ates a lot of plot com­pres­sion, so man are these epis­odes brisk. Quite a treas­ure trove for a vari­ety of cult­ists, as Michael J. Pollard, Joe Don Baker, Ray Danton, and oth­er such fig­ures turn up in guest spots; Ida Lupino dir­ects one epis­ode. I had for­got­ten Honey’s pet ocelot was named Bruce. He’s adorable. 
Kittie

UPDATE: I grant the com­menter Mr. Dayoub his wish below the jump. 

Honey_oh_hai

This is an “Oh hai” shot if I ever saw one…

2 Comments

  • Harvey says:

    EDDIE
    You know who she looked like? Christie Love. ‘Member that TV show “Get Christie Love”? She was a black female cop. She always used to
    say “You’re under arrest, sugar.”
    MR. PINK
    I was in the sixth grade when that show was on. I totally dug it.
    What the fuck was the name of the chick who played Christie Love?
    MR. WHITE
    Anne Francis?
    MR. PINK
    Anne Francis was white.

  • Tony Dayoub says:

    Glenn,
    As long as you’re updat­ing this with a pic of Bruce the ocelot, any chance I can twist you’re arm into post­ing a medi­um or full-length shot of the beau­ti­ful Anne Francis (don’t get me wrong… I love the ultra close-up you posted).

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