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''Honey West'' is an American crime drama television series that aired on ABC during the 1965–1966 television season. Based upon a series of novels that had launched in 1957, the series starred Anne Francis as female private detective Honey West and John Ericson as her partner, Sam Bolt. Only 30 half-hour episodes were produced. The entire series is available on DVD. ==Creation== (詳細はpseudonym “G.G. Fickling” in the late 1950s. Skip had been a United States Army Air Forces Air Gunner during World War II, then enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve after the war where he was called back into active service during the Korean War. The G.G. represented the initials of his wife, Gloria Gautraud whom he married in 1949 with initials being used so the sex of the author would remain vague. Though Gloria said that most of the writing was done by Forrest, Forrest said Gloria’s ideas were used to make a plausible female character with Gloria also providing Honey’s dress sense. Forrest told the ''Los Angeles Times'', “I first thought of Marilyn Monroe, and then I thought of (detective ) Mike Hammer and decided to put the two together ... We thought the most used name for someone you really like is Honey. And she lives in the West, so there was her name.” West was one of the first female “private eyes” to ever appear on television. Francis first played West in the second season episode of ''Burke’s Law'', entitled “Who Killed the Jackpot?”, broadcast on April 21, 1965, which led to this series being commissioned as a spin-off. West drove a Jaguar convertible in the ''Burke's Law'' episode and was twice referred to as the "private eyeful." She carried a gun and was trained in martial arts. Honey West was intended to be the American equivalent of the popular characters Emma Peel and Cathy Gale in the British series ''The Avengers''. Produced by Aaron Spelling, his first choice for the role of Honey was Honor Blackman, whom Spelling had seen in England playing Cathy Gale on ''The Avengers'' and as Pussy Galore in ''Goldfinger''. Blackman turned the role down. Anne Francis’ fashions in the Honey role were by Nolan Miller with her action scenes choreographed by Gene LeBell. The series was developed for television by Gwen Bagni and Paul Dubov, writers of several Burke's Law episodes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Honey West (TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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