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Blackman started acting on television in the recurring role of Nicole, secretary/assistant to Dan Dailey's character of Tim Collier in the television series The Four Just Men (1959).
This was not Blackman’s start in television; she had TV credits years earlier, including a 1954 episode of The Vise.
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This sentence says Honor Blackman started acting on television with The Four Just Men (1959), but contemporaneous and official biographical sources show she had already appeared on television years earlier.
- Honor Blackman’s official biography says: “Television work soon followed and began to dominate her career with appearances in episodes of The Vise ... Douglas Fairbanks Jr Presents ...”
- A contemporaneous TV Index listing from October 1954 specifically credits her in The Vise: “Set a Murder ... with Clifford Evans, Martin Boddey, Honor Blackman.”
- The University of Bristol Theatre Collection also says her television career included appearances in The Vise, Douglas Fairbanks Jr Presents, The New Adventures of Charlie Chan, and others before later fame in The Avengers.
Because she is documented on television in 1954, the claim that she started acting on television with The Four Just Men in 1959 is incorrect.
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- Honor Blackman - Biography
Television work soon followed and began to dominate her career with appearances in episodes of The Vise for the Danziger Brothers, Douglas Fairbanks Jr Presents, The New Adventures of Charlie Chan, African Patrol, The Invisible Man, The Pursuers, Kraft Mystery Theatre and The Saint, opposite Roger Moore, amongst them.
- TV Index, 4 October 1954
The Vise ... ABC 9:30 ... Set a Murder - (0) by James Eastwood; with Clifford Evans, Martin Boddey, Honor Blackman; Dir by David MacDonald.
- Honor Blackman Archive | Theatre Collection | University of Bristol
Television work began to dominate her career with appearances in episodes of The Vise for the Danziger Brothers, Douglas Fairbanks Jr Presents, The New Adventures of Charlie Chan, African Patrol, The Invisible Man, The Pursuers, Kraft Mystery Theatre and The Saint, opposite Roger Moore, amongst them.