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Charlie's
Angels
 USA
/ ABC/ x60m-e / 1976-81
First
Episode: Wednesday 22 September 1976 / 10.00pm
Last Episode: Wednesday 19 August 1981 / 8.00pm
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 "Once
upon a time there were three little girls who
went to the police academy....but I took them
away from all that...my name is Charlie:.
so spake the opening lines of Charlie's Angels
each week. Charlie's Angels practically invented
"jiggle tv" (i.e. lots of running
around in skimpy costumes and no bras and as
such the show was very popular with the male
viewing public, especially as the girls were all
gorgeous).
The show concerned a trio of sexy private
detectives working for the Charles Townsend
Detective Agency, helped by Charlie's right hand
man John Bosley, most of the girls cases
involved them going undercover, the original
trio were Kelly, Jill and Sabrina but after the
first season Farrah Fawcett-Majors who played
Jill left the show because she wanted to build a
film career capitalising on the enormous
popularity she had garnered thanks to her role
in the show. A famous poster of Farrah in a swimsuit
was a must have wall adornment for much of the
seventies, it even appeared in Saturday Night
Fever.
 The
shows producers were none too happy about this
of course and took Farrah to court with the
result that she appeared in occasional episodes
(six in total) over the following three seasons.
A new regular arrived in the form of Jill's
sister Kris (who in fact stayed till the end).
But the show never really recovered from the
loss of Sabrina, after Kate Jackson left the
show continued for two more seasons (with a
different girl making up the trio each season -
these were Tiffany Welles and finally Julie
Rogers).
Charles Townsend never actually appeared but was
heard over the office intercom every episode, he
would, however, make an occasional sort of
appearance where you would see the back of his
head or something as he sunned himself on some
tropical beach attended to by assorted dusky
maidens.
The late 1990's saw an explosive big screen
revival of the series with Drew Barrymore and
Cameron Diaz.
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Cast
JACLYN SMITH as Kelly Garrett / KATE JACKSON as
Sabrina Duncan 91976-79) / FARRAH FAWCETT-MAJORS
as Jill Munroe (1976-77) / CHERYL LADD as Kris
Munroe (1977-81) / SHELLEY HACK as Tiffany
Welles (1979-80) / TANYA ROBERTS as Julie Rogers
(1980-81) / DAVID DOYLE as John Bosley / JOHN
FORSYTHE as Charlie Townsend (voice only) |
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