On the U.S. TV crime drama "Honey West", which actress played the seductive detective Honey West?

On the 1965 - 1966 U.S. TV crime drama "Honey West", the actress who played the seductive detective Honey West, one of TV's first female crime fighters, was Anne Francis. For critics and others, Honey and the show were considered something of a trendsetter.

Honey was introduced on television in an episode of "Burke's Law" (1963 - 1966). In the story, she matched wits with Gene Barry's key character, a playboy chief of homicide. Honey is a woman of exotic charms; she is seriously sexy, glamorously outfitted, proficient in karate and judo, and has a pet ocelot. She runs her late father's Los Angeles detective agency. She works with a hot-headed guy named Sam (John Ericson). He is a former junior partner, who provided her with such clever gadgets as tear gas earrings and an radio transmitter disguised as a martini olive.

Because Honey had it all, it truly is not hard to believe that she "wouldn't be welcome at any party, social group meeting, or slick business affair."