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I have a vivid memory of sitting up in bed and watching Hart To Hart on my Ferguson b/w portable TV while drinking tea from my Incredible Hulk mug. I must have been about 14 at the time.
The show was OK but nothing special. I read somewhere that one of the producers didn't like the idea of women fighting, so Powers is relatively meek next to the counterexample of Diana Rigg, who was the first female Avenger to reach the States in prime time. By 1966, when GFU launched, AVENGERS had made a sizable impact here, and a lot of that was for the novelty of seeing a female doing karate chops and the like. Not that the novelty guaranteed success-- HONEY WEST debuted the same year the AVENGERS made it to US shores, and WEST also only lasted a season. But keeping Powers meek and mild certainly didn't HELP sell the series.
I note that when Burke's Law was revived in the '90s for two series, Anne Francis appeared as Honey Best, not West, no doubt due to copyright reasons. As you'll know, GP, the Honey West TV show was a spin-off from Burke's Law, in which the character was first introduced. I read somewhere that The Avengers replaced Honey West in the US TV schedules when the show was cancelled.
The replacement is doubly ironic if it's true, as Wiki saith, that one of the WEST producers was inspired to adapt the Honey West novels in 1965 because the guy had seen the Honor Blackman AVENGERS episodes while in your bailiwick.
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I have a vivid memory of sitting up in bed and watching Hart To Hart on my Ferguson b/w portable TV while drinking tea from my Incredible Hulk mug. I must have been about 14 at the time.
And were you wearing your Magic Roundabout pyjamas at the time, CJ? We need to know.
Spot on, Kid!! How amazingly perceptive of you!!
I know. It's a gift, CJ.
The show was OK but nothing special. I read somewhere that one of the producers didn't like the idea of women fighting, so Powers is relatively meek next to the counterexample of Diana Rigg, who was the first female Avenger to reach the States in prime time. By 1966, when GFU launched, AVENGERS had made a sizable impact here, and a lot of that was for the novelty of seeing a female doing karate chops and the like. Not that the novelty guaranteed success-- HONEY WEST debuted the same year the AVENGERS made it to US shores, and WEST also only lasted a season. But keeping Powers meek and mild certainly didn't HELP sell the series.
I note that when Burke's Law was revived in the '90s for two series, Anne Francis appeared as Honey Best, not West, no doubt due to copyright reasons. As you'll know, GP, the Honey West TV show was a spin-off from Burke's Law, in which the character was first introduced. I read somewhere that The Avengers replaced Honey West in the US TV schedules when the show was cancelled.
The replacement is doubly ironic if it's true, as Wiki saith, that one of the WEST producers was inspired to adapt the Honey West novels in 1965 because the guy had seen the Honor Blackman AVENGERS episodes while in your bailiwick.
Guess it's a small world, eh, GP?
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