You Catch More Flies with Honey West

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More Dead Than Alive
Anne Francis, best remembered as Mama Jo, cranky spinster head of an all-girl charter boat service moored next to Cody and Nick on the first season of Riptide, has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 80. She also played Honey West, one of the first female TV detectives who matched her male counterparts with inexplicably well financed high-tech toys, unmatched martial arts skills, and needlessly exotic pets, in this case an ocelot named Bruce. Other gigs included two episodes of The Twilight Zone, as a witch infatuated with James Best, and the other as a mannequin come to live – not sure which is less believable, and was one of Lucy’s mothers-in-law-to-be on Dallas. She also starred in Forbidden Planet, the play William Shakespeare would have written if he had have conceived of a robot and an invisible monster that was the manifestation of the human Id. Francis died less than a month after her Forbidden Planet co-star Leslie Nielsen, who co-starred in Airplane!, which was based in part on The Crowded Sky, which co-starred Francis.