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Honey West
"Live a Little...Kill a Little"
Originally aired October 15, 1965
Karen (Maurine Dawson) is leaving a dance hall when Honey tries to stop her to talk. Then a sniper is spotted on a roof, Honey shines a search light in his face, and he's wishing there was a drink underneath him instead of concrete. Meanwhile, Karen slips away in a taxi, wanting to talk to the cabbie's manager. Honey was hired by reputed tax attorney Arthur Strickland (Warren Stevens, who was in a film with Anne), on behalf of a client, executive Charlie French (Harry Millard), to find Karen, who's said to be Charlie's sister. When Honey reports at Strickland's Beverly Hills digs, Sam is knocked out by a heavy (Herb Edelman) while taping outside via the trusty shotgun mic. Honey goes undercover as a dancer at the club and has a talk with Karen's friend Vicky (Mary Murphy), who confirms that Vicky was running scared from someone, but clams up when she happens upon the gun in Honey's purse. Sam and Honey listen in from the van as Vicky subsequently calls an unheard man named Phil, who's concerned that this means the two of them will be marked for death.
Honey and Sam examine the tape to try to make out the number that Vicky dialed, trying a couple of possibilities, and one of them turns out to be the number of a shady PI named Phillip Moody, whom they realize fits what they saw of the man who attacked Sam in the van. Sam breaks into Moody's office by night while Honey tails the PI to a dockside rendezvous, where she finds that Moody was fatally attacked in his car, warning Honey with his last words about the danger to Karen and giving her an address. Sam finds files indicating that Charlie is a mobster named Margardo, and actually Karen's fiancé...Karen actually being a wealthy socialite. Sam's unable to reach Honey, who proceeds to the address and is taken prisoner by Charlie and tied up in a cellar with Karen, who explains that the manager of a crime committee wanted to speak to her, as she knows a lot of names of, shall we say, crooked managers. Sam finds Honey at Strickland's place and takes down Margardo in a cellar brawl, after Charlie is disarmed by Honey with a surprise karate chop.
In the coda we learn that Karen's been naming names, and Strickland and Margardo want to speak to the warden.
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Honey West
"Whatever Lola Wants...."
Originally aired October 22, 1965
The episode opens with a man (Jerry Brutsche) running down a fire escape trying to escape from a knife-throwing gentleman (Richard Angarola), only to end up in a dumpster with a blade in his back. Honey visits the apartment where this started, to be met by the knife-thrower, who goes by the name Ramon Vargas. Ramon hires her to accompany him to a charity ball being held by socialite Lola Getz (Audrey Christie) to have her get close to one of the guests, Emmanuel Rodriguez (Johnny Haymer), in order to find out where he stashed embezzled money. At the ball, Rodriguez immediately makes moves on Honey, but is actually interested in the man who brought her in, whom a confederate working as a waiter, Gunter (Horst Ebersberg), identifies as actually being Raul Lucas from South America. Meanwhile, Honey sees Vargas being taken into a room, finds it empty, and while searching for a secret panel, is caught at gunpoint by Getz.
Honey ends up in a cell with Vargas, who tells her of how he was a member of a horse racing syndicate who changed his identity and used what he knew to go into business for himself; but he was lured out of hiding by false betting info from a contact, Carlos--the man he killed. After a thwarted escape attempt using a gas-firing pen, Honey and Vargas are taken through Getz's race-fixing nerve center and tied and gagged in crates to be shipped to Caracas. Along the way, Getz discovers Honey's necklace mic and sends Gunter out for Sam, who's posing as Honey's chauffeur. But Sam is prepared from what he heard, and attempts to storm the house looking for Honey. He ends up hopping onto Getz's getaway truck with the crates in back and making the vehicle pull over. As the police are arriving, Lola uses a concealed detonator to blow her mansion full of evidence.
Aunt Meg and Bruce do not appear in this episode. The exterior of Lola's mansion had a very familiar look to it...it was either Stately Wayne Manor shot from a different angle, or another, similar-looking piece of real estate that I've seen pop up a time or two on these shows, like Stately Cochran Manor.
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Honey West
"Live a Little...Kill a Little"
Originally aired October 15, 1965
Frndly said:
Karen (Maurine Dawson) is leaving a dance hall when Honey tries to stop her to talk. Then a sniper is spotted on a roof, Honey shines a search light in his face, and he's wishing there was a drink underneath him instead of concrete. Meanwhile, Karen slips away in a taxi, wanting to talk to the cabbie's manager. Honey was hired by reputed tax attorney Arthur Strickland (Warren Stevens, who was in a film with Anne), on behalf of a client, executive Charlie French (Harry Millard), to find Karen, who's said to be Charlie's sister. When Honey reports at Strickland's Beverly Hills digs, Sam is knocked out by a heavy (Herb Edelman) while taping outside via the trusty shotgun mic. Honey goes undercover as a dancer at the club and has a talk with Karen's friend Vicky (Mary Murphy), who confirms that Vicky was running scared from someone, but clams up when she happens upon the gun in Honey's purse. Sam and Honey listen in from the van as Vicky subsequently calls an unheard man named Phil, who's concerned that this means the two of them will be marked for death.
Honey and Sam examine the tape to try to make out the number that Vicky dialed, trying a couple of possibilities, and one of them turns out to be the number of a shady PI named Phillip Moody, whom they realize fits what they saw of the man who attacked Sam in the van. Sam breaks into Moody's office by night while Honey tails the PI to a dockside rendezvous, where she finds that Moody was fatally attacked in his car, warning Honey with his last words about the danger to Karen and giving her an address. Sam finds files indicating that Charlie is a mobster named Margardo, and actually Karen's fiancé...Karen actually being a wealthy socialite. Sam's unable to reach Honey, who proceeds to the address and is taken prisoner by Charlie and tied up in a cellar with Karen, who explains that the manager of a crime committee wanted to speak to her, as she knows a lot of names of, shall we say, crooked managers. Sam finds Honey at Strickland's place and takes down Margardo in a cellar brawl, after Charlie is disarmed by Honey with a surprise karate chop.
In the coda we learn that Karen's been naming names, and Strickland and Margardo want to speak to the warden.
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Honey West
"Whatever Lola Wants...."
Originally aired October 22, 1965
Frndly said:
The episode opens with a man (Jerry Brutsche) running down a fire escape trying to escape from a knife-throwing gentleman (Richard Angarola), only to end up in a dumpster with a blade in his back. Honey visits the apartment where this started, to be met by the knife-thrower, who goes by the name Ramon Vargas. Ramon hires her to accompany him to a charity ball being held by socialite Lola Getz (Audrey Christie) to have her get close to one of the guests, Emmanuel Rodriguez (Johnny Haymer), in order to find out where he stashed embezzled money. At the ball, Rodriguez immediately makes moves on Honey, but is actually interested in the man who brought her in, whom a confederate working as a waiter, Gunter (Horst Ebersberg), identifies as actually being Raul Lucas from South America. Meanwhile, Honey sees Vargas being taken into a room, finds it empty, and while searching for a secret panel, is caught at gunpoint by Getz.
Honey ends up in a cell with Vargas, who tells her of how he was a member of a horse racing syndicate who changed his identity and used what he knew to go into business for himself; but he was lured out of hiding by false betting info from a contact, Carlos--the man he killed. After a thwarted escape attempt using a gas-firing pen, Honey and Vargas are taken through Getz's race-fixing nerve center and tied and gagged in crates to be shipped to Caracas. Along the way, Getz discovers Honey's necklace mic and sends Gunter out for Sam, who's posing as Honey's chauffeur. But Sam is prepared from what he heard, and attempts to storm the house looking for Honey. He ends up hopping onto Getz's getaway truck with the crates in back and making the vehicle pull over. As the police are arriving, Lola uses a concealed detonator to blow her mansion full of evidence.
Aunt Meg and Bruce do not appear in this episode. The exterior of Lola's mansion had a very familiar look to it...it was either Stately Wayne Manor shot from a different angle, or another, similar-looking piece of real estate that I've seen pop up a time or two on these shows, like Stately Cochran Manor.
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