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Format: Box set, Black & White, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 4
Running Time: 900 Minutes
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Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
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Release Date: September 2, 2008
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 Great DVD treatment for America's first girl detective TV series September 23, 2008
Penumbra (Atlanta, GA USA)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
"Honey West" has finally made it to DVD! I haven't seen any of these since they were originally aired. Watching them now, 40 years later, is a fun exercise in nostalgia.
When I was a little girl, my neighborhood pals and I gave up playing cowboys and forts or cops and robbers the day after this show debuted. We all started to play play Honey West instead.
What made Honey West so exciting? In an era where women on TV were housewives or secretaries, Honey West was the first female detective on US television. As portrayed by Anne Francis, Honey was cool, capable, resourceful, glamorous and the girl could kick bad guy butts in a major way! She not only had a beautiful, extensive wardrobe, she also had incredible accessories. She had the unheard of luxury of a phone in her car. It looked like a regular house phone with a standard handset and a coiled cord, but it was installed in her AC Cobra convertible. She had radio transmitters in her sunglasses, powder compact, and lavaliere so she could communicate with her associate. A mascara wand in her sequined evening bag did double duty sending out clouds of knock out gas into a malefactor's face. Her pet ocelot, Bruce, sported a flashy rhinestone collar.
In a way that anticipated "Moonlighting" two decades later, Honey was also a successful businesswoman, the owner of H. West & Co. She had a handsome male business partner, Sam (John Ericson), with an uncanny knack for showing up in the nick of time. The two were vaguely flirtatious, but the relationship was secondary to their detective work. Honey always outsmarted the crooks and saved the day.
This was a terrific early effort of Aaron Spelling. Many familiar faces from 1960's TV show up in guest appearances. Watch for Bobby Sherman as a kidnapped singer, and Maureen McCormick as a tiny tot.
The DVD package includes all 30 half hour, black and white episodes from 1965-1966 on four disks. Each disk also includes special features such as a photo gallery (glamor shots, behind the scenes) and a selection of vintage early 1960's commercials, including ads for cigarettes, cigars and throat lozenges; a large spray bottle of Chanel Number 5 eau de parfum is advertised at $5.00 (about $95.00 today); Chiffon, the first margarine so soft and spreadable it was packaged in a tub; PSAs for safe driving and United Nations promotional. Both the series episodes and the commercials have been digitally restored and look great.
This is a lot of fun for fans of Honey West, classic 60's television programming, or Anne Francis! Highly recommended!
Not to bad of a DVD collection September 22, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If your into Anne Francis, then this set will be for you. I got this for somebody who enjoyed the series when it was on TV an became a huge fan ever since and a huge Francis fan as well. Not everybody will be into it, however, if you like vintage TV and Dragnet or any of the older vintage TV cop shows that were on many moons ago, then this is a great set to buy. Recommended for fans of cop shows and Anne Francis fans only.
Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun! September 19, 2008
Erik Herrmann (Portland, Oregon)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Younger generations may not remember that, at one time, Anne Francis
was considered the dishiest doll on the planet - with the most famous
mole this side of Cindy Crawford. Though generally considered a 'B'
movie actress in her heyday ('Forbidden Planet', 'Bad Day at Black Rock')
this short-lived TV series guaranteed her a spot in the Male Baby-Boomers
Hall of Fame. This series actually didn't need to run any longer than
it did because, like many of its episodes, it made its point fast and
clear. There's a whole lot of retro fun to be had here and VCI is to
be commended for making this show available to a new generation of future
Francis fans. Honey West kicked some serious butt and managed to look
extremely fabulous doing it. Small wonder that producer Aaron Spelling
would, ten years later, times Honey by three and call them 'Charlie's
Angels.' Actually though, you can really see the influence of this
show on the '80's series 'Moonlighting'. And while male lead John Ericson (who was also Francis' co-star in 'Bad Day at Black Rock') is
no Bruce Willis, this series had many more charming erotic innuendos.
If you haven't already, discover this series and have some fun.
to it however.
 Honey of a Deal for the Nostalgic September 13, 2008
Miles N. Fowler (Charlottesville, VA USA)
8 out of 13 found this review helpful
Long before "Veronica Mars" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," this 1965-1966 TV series tried to present a woman who was both feminine and able to hold her own with tough guys. Fast-forward 40-odd years and this early attempt seems dated, almost tame. For example, Honey can't stand the sight of a dead body. Even if she killed the guy herself, she has to seek comfort on Sam's shoulder for a moment or so. Whether someone intuited the necessity of this conceit or perhaps even tested it on audiences, they somehow decided that folks wouldn't accept a female character who had steeled herself to the reality of death. Only villainesses could get away with that. A woman's equality with men was not just limited in those days, it was inconceivable. So it is not easy to remember that even with her nods to convention, Honey West still went further than women had before this on U.S. TV. (We in the U.S. had yet to discover British TV's Emma Peel.)
Since action scenes are a significant aspect of "Honey West" let us say that TV fight scenes have gotten better since then; although I think perhaps "Honey" was part of that process; possibly, the fight scenes improve from the first to the last episodes of this show. (I think there remains plenty of room for improvement especially on TV.)
There was more to a TV series in those days. Today there will be only 20 to 22 episodes per season, whereas in those days more than 30 was the norm. So in that respect you are going to get your money's worth from "Honey West." Being yet another guy who was going through puberty when "Honey West" was on, I found this a real trip down memory lane. Anne Francis still appeals to my (long since) formerly adolescent libido.
This show was on during the first era of households with two-plus TVs, which was why I was able to watch "Honey West" on the small TV while my father watched "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C." on the big TV. Most of the country watched "Gomer" instead of "Honey"; no doubt this contributed to the demise of "Honey" after only one year, even though I'll bet her absolute number of viewers was higher than CSI's today. But those were the days when networks could treat audiences almost as captives; the idea of cable as we know it, or "pay TV" as the idea was called back then (cable systems in those days had been used mainly in remote areas where mountains and valleys prevented reception), was still on the horizon and its implications for viewer choice were not fully understood.
The features on the disks in the "Honey West" set are not essential but they are amusing. The galleries of still photos give an edge to glamorous nostalgia and the commercials...these old commercials bring back memories while at the same time making me think, "Didn't they look slicker back then? Aren't these just bad parodies of what I used to watch?" What must people who don't remember the sixties think of these ads? The (unintentionally)funniest one is the ad in which the man takes Sucrets throat lozenges so that when his sore throat has been relieved, he can now light up a cigarette. It is obvious that nobody connected with this ad saw any irony in it.
If you remember "Honey West" fondly, this DVD set might teach you that you can't go back and find a show to be exactly the same as you remembered; nevertheless, I wouldn't have wanted to miss this opportunity to see it again.
Note to the hearing-impaired: For those who need captions, unfortunately there seem not to be any.
Sweet Honey West September 11, 2008
Willard Onellion (Dallas, TX United States)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Got the dvds today and promptly watched them. I only got to the 4th episode, but what fond memories. I was 12 in the fall of 65, and yes, I had a big crush on Honey West. Anne Francis was a great actress, and what a great show this was. Thank you VCI.
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