"Possibly the greatest wasted opportunity of all time" Topic

First two minutes or so over here:

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Okay, so you've got Anne Francis, who of course played Altaira in Forbidden Planet. She's private detective Honey West here, but still, it's Anne Francis being bludgeoned unconscious by a robot. How cheap do you have to be not to rent the old Robby the Robot costume for long enough to shoot the episode? How do you skip the golden opportunity to work in some snarky 4th wall breaking dialog – at least a "Do I know you?" or similar?

It's not like Robby wasn't still working regularly at that point. He was in everything from the Addams Family to the Man from U.N.C.L.E. to Lost in Space to an episode of The Thin Man in that era. Maybe that's it – a schedule conflict? Perhaps he was tied up filming with the Monkees when they were shooting Fun-Fun Killer?

He was afraid of being typecast.

He was busy fighting the Monsters of the mIDway!

They didn't waste the opportunity to place the Honey West Barbie-type doll in the episode. :-)

hell, I'm just enjoying the flashback . . . Honey and her Ocelot. . . :D

In the "purest" sense of the word, I've always considered Anne Francis and Lee Remick to be the most beautiful American actresses we've ever produced.

By purest, I'm referring to their "girl next door" type of looks. Obviously, they had many competitors and were surpassed in beauty by very many.

But for wholesome, corn fed, girl next door, yet sexy types…those two are hard to beat.

Wow,I dont remember that show at all!Thanks for the heads up.
Dont forget that RobbieTR also appeared in one of S.Spielberg's "Columbo" episodes as well,at least the top half of him.