Honey West - Official Announcement for The Complete Series: Date, Specs, Cost, Extras, Box & DVD Art

This past March we gave you a peek at the box art for VCI Entertainment's planned late-2008 release of Honey West - The Complete Series on DVD. Now VCI has provided a look at the final version of the box art, and disc label art, too! We've got that for you below, underneath the studio description.

VCI has announced the specific release date of September 2nd for this 4-disc set. Besides all 30 black and white episodes, digitally restored from the original 35mm grains, you'll get photo galleries and vintage commercials as well. Note that the episodes, running 900 minutes, are not commercially interrupted on the DVDs, though. Sound was restored as well, and is presented in English Dolby Digital. Cost is $39.99 SRP.

Honey West (Anne Francis), sensual and glamorous female private eye, was something of a trendsetter, she was one of television's first liberated females. In an era when actresses were restrained to sedate housewives and girlfriend roles, this series marked an exceptional and original departure. In 1965 the character was introduced to television audiences in a Burke's Law episode, "Who Killed the Jackpot?" and true to form, Honey outwitted the suave detective played by Gene Barry. Producer Aaron Spelling spun the character off into a separate thirty-minute series which premiered in the fall of 1965. Honey West was the first dramatic TV show with a female star in an action-adventure role.

In the show, Honey inherited her spying business from her late father, a top private eye. She also got his partner in the deal, rough and handsome Sam Bolt, played by John Ericson. In addition to being television's first modern, independent, self-sufficient woman, Honey frequently engaged in fight scenes and shootouts. She was expert at judo and held a black belt in karate. She is also the first character, male or female, on U.S. television to use martial arts as self-defense.