Evening campers!
Today we round off 1970’s TV Week with a bit of quote “Feminist movement”. Aaron Spelling’s idea of women’s liberation
is a bit off but hey it’s got bouncy girls in it so who cares? Yeah sexist pig factor will be pretty apparent
with this little number so grab a soda, some snacks and just drop down in an
easy chair. This is Charlie’s Angels.
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| Dirty....Harriet?? |
Good Morning spoilers…
Feeling that 1976 had a hallmark for detective shows be it a
cop on the beat, flying around in a Grand Torino or a ’75 T-Bird, something was
missing. Writers Ivan Goff (Backfire, White Heat, Captain Horatio
Hornblower, Green Fire, Serenade and Shake Hands with the Devil) and Ben Roberts (Man of a Thousand Faces, White
Heat, Midnight Lace, The Rogues and Three for Danger) put their heads
together and under the wing of producer Aaron
Spelling (Fantasy Island, Hart to Hart, Finder of Lost Loves, The Love Boat,
Dynasty, Models Inc., Beverly Hills 90210, Charmed and Melrose Place) collaborated
to create a detective agency of three veteran police officers that wanted
excitement, danger and really wild things.
Why is that so odd? Gasp the
detectives in question are girls. Well
we know they cannot find clues, fend off bad guys and God forbid solve a crime
without worry about makeup, hair and nails.
Yeesh that is probably the most sexist thing I ever wrote and I had to
review Big Tits Zombie.
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| A blonde filing papers?? This is fiction. |
Our three soon-to-be heroines were all assigned mediocre
police gigs such as: meter maid, files clerk and crossing guard duty. Not exactly the most glamorous of jobs. One day each of these ladies receives an
invitation to work for an enigmatic millionaire through his assistant Bosley (David
Doyle of Chopper One,The Invisible Woman, The Fall Guy, New Love, American
Style, Foofur and Rugrats ) Our girls Kelly Garrett (Jaclyn
Smith of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Rage of Angels, The Night They Saved
Christmas and Florence Nightingale), Sabrina Duncan (Kate
Jackson of The Rookies, Thin Ice, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Loverboy, Baby Boom
and Homewrecker) and Jill Munroe (Farrah Fawcett of Logan’s Run, Harry O, The
Six Million Dollar Man, The Cannonball Run and The Burning Bed) each
fed up with their demeaning station in police work join forces with Charlie (John
Forsythe of Studio One in Hollywood, The Trouble with Harry, Everything But the
Truth, Kitten with a Whip, To Rome with Love and Dynasty) who seems to
only contact them via speaker phone.
Each week the girls are placed in high risk situations their
collective skills gets them out of and yet their undercover work is the
hallmark of pigdom. Oh Angels, I need
you to go undercover as Catholic schoolgirls.
Angels I need you to sneak into a massage parlor. Yeah so if you were expecting a highly
developed plot cycle that actually shows their unique personalities meshing as
a team…well…yeah I suppose it is there but first let’s put the girls in terry
cloth shorty shorts.
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| Lots of hair tussling. |
Farrah left the
show after 29 episodes to be replaced by her plucky kid sister Kris (Cheryl
Ladd of When She Was Bad…, The Hasty Heart, Grace Kelly, Now and Forever and
Purple Hearts) Kate Jackson left shortly after and was replaced with Tiffany
Welles (Shelly Hack of Annie Hall, The King of Comedy, The Stepfather and Not
in My Family) only to be replaced later by Julie Rogers (Tanya
Roberts of Vega$, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, Beastmaster, A View to a Kill
and Hotline) and while the Angels round robin did occur I was more of a
fan of the original line-up but hey that is just me. Choose your angel and make the most of
it. Boy that just sounded like some
bizarre dating game scheme. Man it takes
ages to get that tune out of your head too.
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