PRODUCTION # 6440     Episode #17       7th. January, 1966     HONEY WEST   Starring ANNE FRANCIS   Co-Starring JOHN ERICSON     HOW BRILLIG, O, BEAMISH BOY   © MCMLXVI FOUR STAR TELEVISION All Rights Reserved   Written by Don Ingalls   Directed by Ida Lupino     Honey and Sam are hired by a man named Ben Fancher, who offers to pay them $200 if they will collect a package from a Safety Deposit Box, and then deliver it to him.   Anticipating trouble, the two P.I.'s devise a strategy which - they hope - will ensure the task is completed successfully.   Sam collects the package, and when he finds himself being tailed by two grim-faced men, he diverts to a sidestreet where Honey is waiting in her car.   Dropping the package into the Cobra's passenger seat, Sam ducks into an alleyway while his partner makes good her escape, and transforms his appearance with the aid of a reversable coat, a flat cap, and some thick-framed spectacles.   At first, the subterfuge appears to have been successful. Sam's shadows walk past him unknowingly, and he beings to retrace his steps towards the main street. He is then approached by a corpulent and apparently unsighted man who asks for his assistance in crossing the road.   After guiding the man to the pavement opposite, Sam prepares to continue on his way - whereupon his beneficiary clubs him unconscious with a walking stick...   Honey, meanwhile, has returned to the office, concerned at the fact that Fancher failed to arrive at the appointed meeting place. Her distress increases when she discovers that Sam is also conspicuous by his absence.   Telephoning their client's hotel, she learns that Fancher has checked out without leaving a forwarding address, and with little alternative, she opens the package. To her astonishment, she finds that it contains half a million dollars in cash...   Honey barely has time to register this before she receives a visitor - the fat man who assaulted Sam.   Initially, he appears charming and mildly eccentric; he hands Honey a bunch of flowers, and reveals that his surname is Brillig - a word taken from a nonesense rhyme from Lewis Caroll's "Alice in Wonderland".   His true nature is revealed, however, when he produces Sam's wallet - complete with his H. West and Company I.D. card - and tells Honey that unless she hands him Fancher's package - and tells him where he can find Fancher - Sam's life will be forfeit...     Produced by Richard Newton   Starring Anne Francis   Co-Starring John Ericson   Irene Hervey as "Aunt Meg"   Guest Star John McGiver   Norman Alden as "Ben Fancher"   Little Ardo Sheriff Johnson Wong Terk    Howard Dayton  Monte Hale  Leon Lontoc  Charles Horvath and Bruce as Himself   Associate Producer Don Ingalls   Developed for Television by Gwen Bagni and Paul Dubov   Based on the Honey West novels by Skip and Gloria Fickling   Production Supervisor Norman S. Powell   Editorial Supervisor Bernard Burton   Supervising Art Director Bill Ross   Music by Mullendore   Music Supervision by Alfred Perry   Director of Photography Carl Guthrie A.S.C.   Art Director Production Manager Michael Assistant Director Story Editor   Edited by Set Decorator Sound Music Editor Sound Effects Casting      Gibson Holley    Salamunovich  Pat Casey  Bud Kay    C. Lyle Boyer, A.C.E.  Joseph Stone  Gary Harris  Aubrey Lind  Frank Warner  Betty Martin   Miss Francis' Gowns designed by Nolan Miller   Mr. Ericson's Wardrobe Furnished by Botany 500   Make-up Hairstylist Wardrobe Titles Designed Format    Carlie Taylor  Scotty Rackin  Robert B. Harris  by  Productions, Inc.   The characters and events depicted in this photoplay are ficticious. Any similarity to persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.   A Four Star Production   Executive Producer Aaron Spelling