"(In the first season) Bosley was sort of officious effeminate snip.   I fantasize Charlie really works for Bosley, who's the brains of the operation - a man with style, class, and the nerve of Napoleon". -David Doyle 1977

      John Bosley may just be the brains behind Charlie's

operation.  He is without a doubt one of the hardest working, loyal, and dedicated employees Charlie Townsend could ever hoped to have had.  Although Bosley started out as a comic foil to a parade of jokes made by the Angels, he would turn into a serious detective who was right by their side capturing killers and kidnappers, but never receiving the same accolades they did.

   Bosley's past is even more mysterious than Charlie's.  It is learned through a psychic in "Haunted Angels" that Bosley was quite a party animal during his youth and how he lost his clothes while involved in a skinny dipping escapade.  From that point to his employment at Townsend Associates, his life accomplishments are very unclear.  In "The Killing Kind", Bosley refers to a wife.  Her existence is never mentioned again.  If he was still married to her, then he would definitely seem to be quite the louse.  Bosley had more affairs than any of the Angels.  Bosley possessed a great deal of charm and apparently a great deal of virility, for women flocked to him at every given chance.  And he was always the gentleman.  One of the most tender scenes featuring Bosley is when he escorts a former prostitute, Elsbeth, home after she helps the Angels entrap a blackmailer ("The Vegas Connection").   Even though he is more of a father figure to her, she requests a good-night kiss, seeing that she has never had one before.  Sweetly, he obliges.

     Bosley's shining moment came in the episode "Angels in Waiting".  Fed up with being "predictable" and a laughable sidekick for the Angels' amusement, Bosley goes off on a tirade and challenges the Angels to a contest.  Smitten with an elegant woman he met in a restaurant earlier that day, he returns to romance her and finds himself having the time of his life.  His luck with love was pretty much equal to that of the Angels (see "Romantic Angels").  This love interest had ulterior motives in seeing him and broke his heart as so many other women had done before.  Through this incident, the Angels now viewed Bosley as a peer, rather than as a fuddy-duddy sidekick and from that point on he was pretty much treated with equal respect.

      John Bosley may have fussed about case fees and the expenses the Angels cost Townsend Associates (like Kelly's wrecked cars in "Angels on Wheels"), but deep down inside he was extremely lovable.  He was always there for the Angels in a pinch, rescuing them from many compromising situations.  Any repressed anger he had came to the surface when he watched in horror as his best friend, Kelly Garrett, was shot in the head!  After beating her assailant to a pulp, Bosley became the rock that held Kris and Julie together during their time of grief.  "Listen, both of you," he said.  "We are a team.  A winning team and we always have been.  This is no time to start doubting ourselves".  Of all things, Bosley was definitely a team player.  He never minded taking a backseat to all the praise the Angels received from Charlie and took their jokes and put-downs fairly well.  David Doyle was correct when he said he thought Bosley had "style, class, and nerve..."  Over the years John Bosley had proven himself a great detective, protector, friend, and the best partner an Angel could ever have!