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1976 - 1977

 

starring

KATE JACKSON as Sabrina Duncan

FARRAH FAWCETT-MAJORS as Jill Munroe

JACLYN SMITH as Kelly Garrett

DAVID DOYLE as John Bosley

JOHN FORSYTHE as the voice of Charlie Townsend

with

Michael Bell as Bill Duncan

David Ogden as Scott Woodville

 

Air Time -Wednesday 10:00 PM

AC Nielson year end rating -#5 (25.8 share)

CHARLIE'S ANGELS pilot film AC Nielson Rating (30.7 share)

Approximate budget per episode $310,000

 

Honorable Mentions

KATE JACKSON nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress

in a Drama Series/Emmy Award

 

JERRY ROSENTHAL, WILLIAM L. STEVENSON, MICHAEL CORRIGAN

for Best Editing for a Series/Emmy Award

"The Mexican Connection"

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      Almost everything ever written about CHARLIE'S ANGELS is based on

 the first season.  Using high levels of sexuality to draw viewers, Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg switched the pheromone dial to full blast.  The character of Charlie Townsend is often heard making sex jokes while in the company of some chesty bikini-clad vixen.  Jill Munroe is a bubbly flirt who likes to go bra-less and wears clothes with plunging necklines.  Kelly Garrett is presented as a passive woman with a tragic past.  Sabrina Duncan poses as the unofficial leader of the trio and heads most of the investigations.  The character of John Bosley is incredibly uppity and very concerned about the agency's finances.  In the pilot film, Bosley is teamed up with an English gentleman named Scott Woodville who assists the Angels on their first caper.  Here, in the first season, viewers are treated to more sex, more cleavage, and (gasp!) erect nipples pushed against too-tight shirts for the first time ever in the history of TV.  Many of the themes are lined with sexual plots, which gives the creators even more reasons to showcase the figures of the lovely Angels.  The 1976/1977 season of CHARLIE'S ANGELS is the model from which all other episodes are judged.

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"Charlie's Angels"

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"Charlie's Angels"

CHARLIE'S ANGELS

 

aired 3/21/76

written by Ivan Goff & Ben Roberts

directed by John Llewllyn Moxey

co-starring

David Odgen Steirs -Scott Woodville

Bo Hopkins -Beau Creel

Dana Muldaur -Rachel LeMar

Tommy Lee Jones -Aram Kolgeium

Grant Owens –Wilder

John Lehne –Bancroft

Ken Ansom -clerk

Ron Stein –Hick

Collette Bertrand -bathing beauty

Russ Grieve -sheriff

 

      The Angels investigate a seven year old murder mystery for a long lost heiress.

 

Undercover Angels:

 Kelly plays the kidnapper of Janet LeMar

Sabrina poses as the "real" Janet LeMar

Jill is her secretary, and Jilly Lou, the pretty caretaker of granddad's shack.

Bosley poses as Jilly Lou's granddad and a "bird watching" oil prospector.

 

Angel Clues:

*Note that the speaker phone used to contact Charlie is bright red!

 

*Charlie receives $250,000 for this case, the amount that Jill collects for the swamp land.

 

*Instead of the famous CHARLIE'S ANGELS symbol we all know and love, silhouettes of thhe Angels simulating prayer is used to splice the film into commercials!  The actual photograph of this image is used once more after the credits roll, when  Jill whispers, "Call if you need us!"

 

*The paperback book version of the episode offers more insight to the characters’ previous history before working for Townsend Associates. 

 

 

HELLRIDE

 

aired 9/22/76

written by Edward J. Lakso

directed by Richard Lang

co-starring

Don Gordon -Gene Wells

Mayf Nutter -Eddie Dirko

Kurt Grayson -Ted Kale

Jenny O'Hara -Bloody Mary

John Dennis Johnston -Jerry Adams

Ric Mancini -poker player

Norma Connolly -Mrs. Lemson

Russ Grieve -Mr. Lemson

Rosane Covy -Suzy Lemson

Bob Frank –Henry

Anne Ramsey -Henry's wife

 

When a female race car driver dies, the Angels are hired by her mechanic to find out if it was an accident or if she was murdered.

 

Undercover Angels:

Sabrina is a race car driver from Waco, Texas

Bosley is "Brother John" a "traveling messenger of the Lord!"

Jill plays his sexy daughter

Kelly poses as a friend of Suzy Lemson's

 

Angel Clues:

*Jill gives her "denomination" as being 35-24-35

 

*Viewers learn that Sabrina was once an aspiring race car driver

 

*In the September 25, 1976 issue of TV GUIDE, Kate Jackson would recall how she felt about the race car she had to drive. "It's orange!  Who the hell ever thought of painting it orange? It's the most miserable color in the world!  What'll I look like in an orange car?"  She looked fantastic!  And she might as well get used to it since she would be

driving an ugly orange Pinto for the next three years!

 

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"The Mexican Connection"

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"The Mexican Connection"

THE MEXICAN CONNECTION

 

aired 9/29/76

written by Jack V. Fogarty

directed by Allen Baron

co-starring

Caeser Donovan -Frank Bartone

Edward Power -Jim Taylor

Joseph Burke -Nick Doyle

Elyssa Davalos –Maria

Arnold Saboloff –Steiner

Robert Tafur - Col. Morales

Alex Tinne -peasant    

Dante Dandre -butler

 

While investigating a mysterious hi-jacking and crash of an airplane transporting heroine, the Angels bust up a drug smuggling operation and expose a mysterious drug czar.

     

Undercover Angels:

Kelly is a teacher at the Barkley School for Girls

Jill poses as a swim coach   

Sabrina is a stewardess & pilot's girlfriend

 

Angel Clues:

*Charlie donates money to the Barkley School for Girls because he feels that "all girls should be well rounded".  This snippet of  information is supplied by Bosley, who does not join the Angels in Mexico.

 

*Sabrina is bi-lingual, her second language being  Spanish!

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"Night of the Strangler"

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"Night of the Strangler"

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"Night of the Strangler"

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"Night of the Strangler"

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"Night of the Strangler"

NIGHT OF THE STRANGLER

 

aired 10/13/76

teleplay by Pat Fielder, Glen Olson, & Rod Baker

directed by Richard Lang

co-starring

Richard Mulligan -Kevin St. Clair

William Beckley -Alec Witt

Dean Santoro -Jessse Woodman

Alex Henteloff -Heinz Brandon

Elizabeth Robinson –Candy

Rosemary Forsythe -Michelle

 

The Angels probe into the world of high fashion when a model who looks exactly like Kelly is murdered by The Rag Doll Strangler.

 

Undercover Angels:

Kelly & Jill are fashion models

Sabrina poses as a photo stylist

Bosley is a tow truck driver

 

Angel Clues:

*Jaclyn Smith plays a dual role, as Kelly, and as Dana Cameron

 

*Jill proclaims that in her "tomboy days" that she was a "Roy Rogers freak!"

 

*While Kelly makes a remark about Jill, she reveals Jill's age as being twenty-four!

 

*Un-amused by the porno film they are watching, Bosley and  the Angels tell Charlie that it is full of sadomasochism and chains.  It isn't!

 

*The repartee between Kelly and Sarbrina after leaving Witt's house is quite revealing and unlike anything viewers would ever hear on the show again.  Sabrina tells Kelly that if she had not come in when she did, Alec would have "defiled" her.  Kelly then says that she had never heard Sabrina complain about being "defiled" before!  Sabrina states that if Alec looked like Robert Redford she maybe would have begged for it!!

 

*If that conversation isn't strange enough, what about Sabrina's attempt to arrest St. Clair?  She pushes over a hot steaming pot of flames in a room filled with mannequins and costumes, not to mention herself and the other two Angels!

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"Angels in Chains"

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"Angels in Chains"

ANGELS IN CHAINS

 

aired 10/20/76

written by Robert Earll

directed by Phill Bondelli

co-starring

Neva Patterson -Warden Sorenson

Lauren Tewis -Christine Hunter

Kim Bassinger -Linda Oliver

Mary Woronov –Maxine

David Huddelston -Sherrif Clint

Anthony James -Karl Stern

Christine Hart –Billie

Brooke Tucker –Fran

Brian Cutler -Deputy Wilson

Robert P. Leib -Doctor

Terry Green -Elizabeth Hunter

James E. Brodhead -Jill's drunk

Richard Kennedy -man

 

The Angels play petty criminals to enter the Pine Parrish County Prison to look for a missing inmate.  In the process they are sprayed down by evil lesbian guards and are almost auctioned off as prostitutes by a pimping female warden.

 

Undercover Angels:

Kelly and Sabrina are on probation and are cutting through town

Jill is a hitchhiker they picked up

 

Angel Clues:

 

*With a 56 share, this is the highest rated show in Angel history

 

*To the director's credits, when the Angels leave the showers and go to their rooms, their hair is still wet.  But, when out in the potato fields the next day, they are the only inmates with styled hair and full make-up.

 

*Kim Bassinger would go onto superstar status in Hollywood by the late 80s.  Her character, Linda, shows up at the end to become Charlie's receptionist.

 

*Laruen Tewis would go onto star in another Spelling gem, The Love Boat.  The Angels would become passengers on that boat  in a few more years.

 

*Mary Woronov was a member of Andy Warhol’s infamous 60’s Factory.  In the 90s she published her memoirs in Swimming Underground .

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"Target Angels"

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"Target Angels"

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"Target Angels"

TARGET: ANGELS

 

aired 10/27/76

written by David Levinson

directed by Richard Lang

co-starring

Tom Selleck -Dr. Alan Samuelson

Michael Bell -Bill Duncan

David Healy -Cavendish

John Horn -Harry Wardlow

Thayer David –Meeker

John Agar -Col. Blaylock

Bill Smillie –doorman

John Petlock –minister

Irene Tedrow -Sister Anne

Verda Bridges -Louise

Steve Burleigh -cabbie #2

Michael Lederman -referee

 

A mad assassin appears to be after the Angels, but once Sabrina fakes her own death the team soon learns that Charlie is the real object of  a maniac’s rage.

 

Angel Clues:

 

*Kelly's love life is presented as a total mess!  She can't commit to a relationship due to her distrust in humanity, stemming from her being orphaned as a child. We learn that Kelly only had one friend, a now deceased nun named Barbara. The orphanage Kelly visits is said to have burned down when Kelly was a child in the episode "One Love Two Angels"

       

*Sabrina has an ex-husband, one she still dates!  His name is Bill Duncan, a police officer who didn't want his wife to become a private detective in fear of her safety. Bill attends her mock funeral, begging to let him help her on the case.

 

*Sabrina's father is the only Angel parent viewers ever meet, however, Jill and Kris's aunt and uncle are featured in the episode "Angels on Vacation".

 

*Charlie's address is 674 Vinewood Lane.

 

*When Harry Wardlow, the assassin, is firing at slide show images of the Angels, he has one of Kelly sitting in  a skimpy nightgown. This photo is from their first assignment when Kelly was posing as a missing heiress.  How did he get a picture of her like that?

 

*Tom Selleck appeared with Farrah Fawcett-Majors in the film, Myra Breckinridge. He would go on to play a hip private eye himself in ‘Magnum P.I.’ 

 

*Note how eerie the close-up shots of Kelly and Alan are as they romance each other in front of the fire.  See "The Tragedy of Kelly Garrett" for more on this episode!!

 

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"The Killing Kind"

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"The Killing Kind"

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"The Killing Kind"

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"The Killing Kind"

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"The Killing Kind"

THE KILLING KIND

 

aired 11/3/76

written & directed by Richard Benedict

co-starring

Robert Loggia -Paul Terranova

Alex Sheafe -Dale Parker

Joseph Ruskin -Koslo 

Sean Fallon Walsh –West

Judson Pratt -Dr. Dingham

Nancy Stephens -Brooke

Lupe Ontiveros –maid

Frank Maxwell –Fitzgerald

Janis Jamison –Inga

Clark Gordon -Mr. Anderson

Hugh Gillin -Harvey Sunday

 

An old sailor buddy of Charlie’s hires the Angels to investigate the murder of his journalist daughter who has written a much sought after manuscript on a major scandal going on at the luxury resort of MoonShadows.

     

Undercover Angels:

Kelly plays a fashion photographer

Jill poses as a tennis instructor.

Sabrina poses as a fashion designer

Bosley is her model!

 

Angel Clues:

 

*Charlie refers to having been married once & reveals that he is not the "monogamous type".  He also claims that this case came in from his wife, but it would seem that Mr. Anderson is their real client.

     

*Bosley refers to having a wife in this episode, one that has packed brown shoes with his black tuxedo!  This "wife" is never mentioned again.  Could John Bosley have been so outraged by his wife's mistake that he divorced her?

 

*There are more plot holes in this one episode than any other.  In addition to the aforementioned anecdotes above, Bosley states that Sabrina has wrecked two company cars in one month, but in"Harrigan's Angels" the trio claim that they own their cars!  Also, this case seems to be wrapped up within a matter of hours.  By the time Kelly is getting a vicious massage from Inga, she claims that the cocktail party at Moonshadows will be held in the "afternoon".  Considering that

Jill and her were setting up their covers in the morning and Sabrina was doing      research, and they still meet later to discuss the case, what time does this party actually happen?  And it is clearly still daylight out when the Angels make their getaway from Terranova's stables. 

             

*Commenting on the red dress she wears in this episode, Jaclyn Smith had this to say to TV GUIDE in 1976.  "Isn't it awful?  Why would they have me wear a dress like this?  Do you think I'll ever have to wear it again?"  Sorry, Jaclyn.  The producers must have read this quote, for a scene of her in this dress was used in the opening credits right up into the last episode.  It was also featured on bubble gum card #50 -"One for the Angels".

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"To Kill an Angel"

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"To Kill an Angel"

 

TO KILL AN ANGEL

 

aired 11/10/76

written by Rick Husky

directed by Phil Bondelli

co-starring

Robert Donner –Korbin

Craig Ludwin –Masters

Dennis Dimster –Skip

Lee Bryant -Gail Frances

John Zaremba -Dr. Stafford

Danny Dayton -peanut vendor

Michael Allredge -Adams

Mike Robeli –Giovanni

Carol Jones –Cathy

George Kramer -Cliff Stanton 

Daryle Ann Lyndley -Nurse #1

Bea Silvern -Nurse #2

 

When Kelly is shot in the head by Skip, an autistic boy who she has been doing volunteer work with, Sabrina, Jill, and Bosley quickly search for him, but little do they know that he is being targeted by two bumbling killers.

 

Angel Clues: 


*Sabrina and Jill wonder aloud if they'll hear wedding bells for  Kelly in the near future.  Bosley wonders if he should place an ad for a new Angel!  Not yet, Bosley.  Not yet.

 

*Sabrina makes a stunning prophecy when she says of her Angel status.  "I'm beginning to feel we're an endangered species". Within in the next five years, three Angels would come and three Angels would go.

 

*This is the first time Sabrina shows a deep emotional side to her usually sophisticated self, when she learns Kelly has been shot.  Jill keeps calm and holds the situation together.

 

 

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"Lady Killer"

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"Lady Killer"

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"Lady Killer"

LADY KILLER

 

aired: 11/24/76

written by Sue Milburn

directed by George McCowan

co-starring

Tony Mann -Hugh O'Brian

Paula -Jan Shutan

Dave Erhard -Alan Fudge

Victor Burrell -Bob Basso

Danny Audette -Richard Foroniy

Carmel -Lory Kochheim

Shelly -Martha Smith

Nikki -Denise Gordy

Feline China -Ruth Ko

 

The Angels discover a sexist side to themselves while trying to protect Tony Mann, the publisher of the adult magazine, Feline.

 

UNDERCOVER ANGELS:

Kelly stars as a nightclub singer who lip-synchs "Embraceable You".

Jill poses as a Feline cocktail waitress

Sabrina poses as Tony Mann's "geriatric" girlfriend!

 

ANGEL CLUES:

 

*The dress Kelly wears during her singing number is the same dress Jaclyn wore for the Angels' TIME magazine cover shot.

 

*This is perhaps the biggest feminist statement CHARLIE'S ANGELS would ever make.  We see Sabrina's distaste for Tony Mann's Hugh Hefner-like lifestyle, and then we see her almost falling in love with him, as she realizes there may be more to a male chauvinist pig than meets the eye. Or is it that she has shown him there is more to women than just beautiful bodies and pretty hair?  She later states that women may be the most sexist of all, since none of the Angels ever considered a female as being the killer.  This prompts Kelly to giggle at the thought of Gloria Steinem drumming" the Angels out of the "corps" for not solving this case!

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"Bullseye"

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"Bullseye"

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"Bullseye"

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"Bullseye"

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"Bullseye"

BULLSEYE

 

aired 12/1/76

written by Jeff Myrow

directed by Daniel Haller

co-starring

L.Q. Jones -Sgt. Billings

Robert Pine -Dr. Conlan

Peter Leeds -General Green

Nora Marlowe -Cicley

Marla Pennington -Jenny Warren

Kelly Sanders –Trainee

Betty Bridges -Cpl. Sedgewick

Frank Geraci –Bartender

Erin O'Riely -Mary Jo Walker

Helen Lockwood -Sally Miller

Jeanne Bates -Alice Clements

 

Jill and Kelly join a military training camp for WACKs to find out who murdered one of it’s recruits.  To pay Charlie back, they send him an aging sex starved secretary named Cicley.

 

UNDERCOVER ANGELS:

Sabrina poses as a nurse

Kelly and Jill are WACK recruits.

 

ANGEL CLUES:

 

*Kelly and Jill are the only two recruits with long, stylish hair.  Take note of this while they practice one-on-one combat.

 

*Kelly rants and raves of how "Charlie Townsend is a no good, sadistic, totally insensitive, male chauvinist pig".  Many of the show's critics and even some of its fans feel this way too.

 

*L.Q Jones would go onto star in three more episodes of CHARLIE'S ANGELS.  His real name is Justice McQueen,  but deemed himself L.Q. Jones when playing a character with the same name in his first film Battle Cry in 1954.  He was featured in over 150 movies and over 700 television shows.

 

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"Consenting Adults"

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"Consenting Adults"

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"Consenting Adults"

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"Consenting Adults"

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"Consenting Adults"

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"Consenting Adults"

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"Consenting Adults"

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"Consenting Adults"

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"Consenting Adults"

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"Consenting Adults"

 

CONSENTING ADULTS

 

aired 12/8/76

written by Les Carter

directed by George McCowan

co-starring

Alan Manson –Bialey

Laurette Spang-Tracy

Dick Dinman -Clifton Cunningham

Ward Wood -Cooley

Audrey Christie –Maggie

George Sperdakos -Duran

G.W. Bailey –Mumford

Randy Stone -stable boy

Robert Hackman –bartender

Montana Smoyer -waitress

 

The Angels are hired to look for a missing antique dealer and soon uncover a prostitution ring in the form of a dating service.

 

UNDERCOVER ANGELS:

Kelly is a reporter for New Sport Magazine

Jill poses as a call-girl.

Bosley is the editor of New Sport Magazine and Jill's wealthy john.

 

ANGEL CLUES:

 

*The skateboard chase is one of the most talked about scenes in Angel history.  Jill skates top speed through a grassy park!

 

*Maybe Kelly really is crazy!  She states that she wants to be just like the celebrity horse, Khaki, "an undefeated two year old".  Why?!?!?!

 

*Jaclyn Smith's dog, Albert, makes his first appearance in this episode

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"The Seance"

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BEEMISH!

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"The Seance"

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"The Seance"

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"The Seance"

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"The Seance"

THE SEANCE

 

aired 12/15/76

written by Robert C. Dennis

directed by George Brookes

co-starring

Gertrude Flynn -Grace Rodehaver

Carole Cooke -Madam Dorian

Rene Auberionois -Terrence   

Kathryn Fuller –Putty

Cliff Medaugh -elderly gentleman

 

While investigating a bizarre robbery, Jill and Kelly attend a séance which opens up a flood of childhood horrors for the latter.

 

Undercover Angels: 

Kelly poses as Kelly Osling, the heiress to the L. Burton Osling oil fortune.

Bosley plays a limo driver

 

Angel Clues: 

*Lily Beth is really a beat up Raggedy Ann doll.  Kris Munroe also owns a Raggedy Ann doll as seen in the episode "To See an Angel Die".

 

*This is one of the most important episodes in Angel history, for it reveals Kelly Garrett's disturbing past as an abused orphan.

 

*If Charlie's Angels had been filmed in the 1990s, Charlie would have sent Kelly straight to a psychiatrist after her disturbing revelation at the seance. Instead, Kelly just reads a book on the human psyche and Beemish is never mentioned again.

 

*The actress (!?!) who portrays Beemish is not credited as doing so.

 

  

 

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"Angels on Wheels"

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"Angels on Wheels"

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"Angels on Wheels"

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"Angels on Wheels"

ANGELS ON WHEELS

 

aired 12/22/76

written by Charles Sailor

teleplay by Charles Sailor & Jack V. Fogarty & Rick Husky

directed by Richard Benedict

co-starring

Andra Akers -Jessica Farmer

Dick Sargent -Hugh Morris

Steve Sandor -Red Loomis

Taylor Lacher -Jerey Carr

Nate Esformes -Toby Rizzo

Kres Mersky -"Bad" Betty King

Bill Benedict -Emmet Winston Esquire

 

The Angels go undercover to find out why a roller derby queen was murdered.

     

UNDERCOVER ANGEL:

Sabrina works for the State Board Insurance Company.

Kelly is a writer for Women's View magazine, the "one with the male centerfold".

Jill plays Karen Jason's roller skating little sister

 

ANGEL CLUES: 

 

*Even though Kelly's car explodes it will appear throughout the run of the series. To the writer's credit, Hugh Morris buys Kelly an exact replica of her car because the Angels saved his business from going bankrupt.

 

*Kelly's license plate number is 356 CFX.

 

*It seems that Bosley's concern for Kelly's life is less than that of her car and the rental car, for he fears Charlie will blame him for their high insurance premiums. In a future episode "Harrigan's Angels", the trio claim that the cars belong to them and are not company vehicles, but it seems that Townsend Associates pays for their insurance.

 

*It is never explained how Charlie knew there was a bomb under Kelly's car!

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"Angel Trap"

ANGEL TRAP

 

aired 1/5/77

written by Ed Lakso

directed by George McCowan

co-starring

Fernando Lamas –Jericho

Phyllis Avery -Janin Manchand

John Larch -Kamden

Roy West -Officer Cohen

James Jansen -desk clerk

Ken Del Conte -bartender

     

The Angels are hired to protect a man who is being targeted by a political assassin from World War II.

 

Undercover Angels:

Kelly is a pretty hot dog vendor

Sabrina poses as John Larch's young girlfriend.

Jill poses as a model who has been in town six months

Bosley plays a disguised Englishman and later an eager businessman.

 

Angel Clues:

 

*Jill refers to Bosley's age as being over forty

     

*On Jill's business card we see that her phone number is 555-1472.  Her address is 2734 Ocean Way.  There is no city or zip code.

 

*We learn in this episode that Jill is not just a bouncy California  blonde.  Her sadness at setting up Jericho is sincere.  This is only the second time Jill shows a real sensitive side during the first season (also in "Night of the Strangler").  Upon her future visits,

Jill would be more emotional than bubbly.

 

 

THE BIG TAP-OUT

 

aired 1/12/77

written by Brian McKay

directed by Georg Stanford Brown

co-starring

Richard Romanus -Roy David

Bert Remsen -Pinky Tibbs

John J. Fox -McMasters 

Ton Giorgio -blackjack dealer

Don Wilbanks –Fawcett

Norman Bartold -Mr. Platt

Jerry Ayres -policeman #1

Joel Rosenzwig -policeman #2

William Putch -gambler

Grayce Spence –gambler

Kurt Andon –bartender

Nigel Billand -Comtrex employee 

Vince Martorano -club manager

 

The Angels set up a clever scam to out-con  a con man who has stolen $40,000 from his boss.

 

Undercover Angels:

Bosley plays "Chick", a bookie and Jimmie Joe Peepers, a southern millionaire.

Jill poses as Cindy Peepers, a southern belle who will be "as sad as gully dirt" if she can't have the race horse she wants!

Sabrina is a lucky gambler

 

Angel Clues: 

 

*In cases involving money, Charlie charges his clients 10% of the recovery fee, although he doesn't collect anything in this episode.

 

*Albert, Jaclyn Smith's dog, makes his second appearance here.

     

 

 

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"Angel on a String"

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"Angel on a String"

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"Angel on a String"

ANGEL ON A STRING

 

aired 1/19/77

written by Ed Lakso

directed by Larry Doheny

co-starring

Theodore Bikel -Prof. Wyncinski

Gary Wood –Paul

Charles Cyphers -FBI Agent Hallers

Jude Farese –Karl

Albert Paulsen –Rabitch

Nancy Steen –Mary

Earl Montgomery -elderly gentleman

Jack Smith –MC

Jason Wingree -Asst. Sec. of State

 

While Bosley is left in the office keeping track of the bookkeeping, the Angels go on a three day paid vacation, but that quickly changes when Sabrina’s political hero, Peter Wyncinski is kidnapped.

 

Undercover Angels: 

Sabrina poses as a plate breaking waitress

Jill dresses down as a cleaning lady

 

Angel Clues: 

 

*If Sabrina's intellect wasn't obvious before, it sure is now!  She has not only read all of Peter Wycinski's books, but she knows a great deal about his personal life.  Bosley, Kelly, and Jill do not even know who he is.

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"Dirty Business"

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"Dirty Business"

DIRTY BUSINESS

 

aired 2/2/77

written by Ed Lakso

directed by Bill Bixby

co-starring

Alan Feinstein -Paul Baylor

Warren Belinger -Marvin Goldman

John Calvin -Danner

Sidney Clute –Lembeck

Eda Reiss Merin -Esther Goldman

Bruce M. Fischer -Tulchuk

Delores Dorn -Mrs. Evers

Larry Anderson -film director

William O'Connel -Harold Parmadoor

 

After a film laboratory is set on fire, the Angels are hired by the owner's mother to investigate.  They soon find out that her son is involved with blackmail and pornography and is being targeted by a

ruthless politician who is trying to claw his way to the top.

 

Undercover Angels:

Kelly poses as an actress

 

 

 

THE VEGAS CONNECTION

 

aired 2/9/77

written by John D.F. Black

directed by George McCowan

co-starring

Michael Callan -Cass Harper

Brooke Bundy –Elsbeth

Ned Wilson -George Mallin

Carla Borelli -Tina Mallin

Michael Sterns -Sid Carver

Suzanne Hunt –Avril

Cliff Carnell -Zip

Jack Griffin –doorman

Blackie Dammett –Freddy

Walter Mathews -Max

 

The Angels are hired by a man to find out why his wife is stealing from him.  During the investigation which leads them to Las Vegas, they uncover a blackmail operation.

 

Undercover Angels:

Kelly poses as a wanna-be dancer

Sabrina is a tax auditor

Jill is a free-spirited gambler

Bosley plays a billionaire tycoon

 

Angel Clues: 

*Bosley turns on the charm when escorting Elsbeth home and even gets to give her a good-night kiss upon her request, thus proving he is more than just a silly foil for the Angel's amusement.

 

 

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"Terror on Ward One"

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"Terror on Ward One"

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"Terror on Ward One"

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"Terror on Ward One"

TERROR ON WARD ONE

 

aired 2/16/77

written by Edward J. Lakso

directed by Bob Kellian

co-starring

Sally Carter Ihnat -Nurse Farragut

Michael McGrevey -Ted Blaine

Jack Bannon -Dr. Danworth

Fran Ryan -Nurse Fager

Robert Lipton –Quincy

Arch Johnson –Halvorsen

Ray Vitte -Sharp

Bobbie Mitchell –Mason

Richard Deer -Ed Main

Eddie LoRusso -Miller

 

Kelly & Jill go undercover after a succession of attempted rapes plague the night shift at a hospital.

     

Undercover Angels:

Jill & Kelly are student nurses

Sabrina is a reporter

Bosley is a patient for a bone spur on in his toe.

 

 

 

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"Dancing in the Dark"

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"Dancing in the Dark"

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"Dancing in the Dark"

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"Dancing in the Dark"

DANCING IN THE DARK

aired 2/23/77

written by Les Carter

directed by Cliff Bole

co-starring

Dennis Cole -Tony Bordinay

Jean Allison -Laura Clusak

Logan Ramsey -Schaefer Goodhew

Benny Baker -Murphy Murphy

John Vandreeland -Alexander Cruz

 

Laura Clusak, the widow baseball legend Davy Clusak hires the Angels to stop her torment by sinister blackmailers who operate through the veil of a dance studio.

 

Undercover Angels:

Jill is a disco dance instructor

Bosley is Stuart Walker

Kelly plays a replacement for Cruz's evil detective, Goodhew

Sabrina is Sabrina Walker, the lunatic heiress to Walker Enterprises

Charlie plays Bosley's limo driver and then the real Mr. Walker             

 

Angel Clues: 

 

*Jill had to trade 5 Ralph Terrys, 6 Gil McDougals, and "a whole mess" of Tony DuBacks for a Davy Clusak bubble gum card

 

*Jaclyn Smith would meet her future husband, Dennis Cole on this episode.  He would appear in two more episodes during their courtship.

 

I WILL BE REMEMBERED

 

aired 3/9/77

written by Melvin Levy & Richard Powell

directed by Nicholas Sgarro

co-starring

Ida Lupino -Gloria Gibson

Peter MaClean -Frank Rose

Alfred Ryder –Barkley

Jan Peters -Galbraith

Wynn Irwin –Barney

Louie Guss –Lunchie

Richard Libertine –Ed

Aharon Ipale -Marinelli

Al Eben -gate cop

Ray Middleton –Jardine

Diane Duncan –daughter

Cathy Amsterdam -secretary

E. James Dogans, Jr. -assistant director

 

When a legendary film actress, Gloria Gibson, begins seeing horrifying images recreated from her films, she calls her old friend Charlie for help.  The Angels investigate wheather she is going insane or if someone is trying to make her think she is.

 

Undercover Angels:

 Sabrina plays Gloria's secretary

Kelly is an extra in Gloria's movie.

 

Angel Clues: 

 

*Take note of the "doctored" newspaper photograph shows Gloria.  That same photo with a new set of faces is also used in the episode "Island Angels"!

 

 

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"Angels at Sea"

ANGELS AT SEA


aired 3/23/77

written by John D.F. Black

directed by Allen Baron

co-starring

Frank Gorshin -Harry Dana

David Watson -Tom Lavin

Harold J. Stone -John Strauss

Louie Elias -Fred Couper

John Myhers -Captain

Meg Wyllie -Mrs. Gow

James Phipps –honeymooner

Bill Mclean -Mr. Gow

Carol Newell -honeymooner    

Katie Hopkins Zerby -Jerian

 

The Angels board a cruise ship to investigate a murder and soon become targets themselves. Once they capture the killer, a crazed lounge singer, he taunts them with the threat of three hidden time

bombs that each Angel must defuse.

 

Undercover Angels:

The Angels and Bosley pose as guests on the Belle Heline

 

Angel Clues:

 

*Sabrina reveals that she has lost a brand new bikini in her cabin, which caught on fire. Viewers know that Sabrina wouldn't be caught dead in a bikini!!

 

*Frank Gorshin is famous for his role as the Riddler in TVs camp classic show of the 60s, Batman.  As Harry Dana, he plays one of the most disturbed villains the Angels will ever deal with.

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"The Blue Angels"

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"The Blue Angels"

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"The Blue Angels"

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"The Blue Angels"

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"The Blue Angels"

THE BLUE ANGELS

 

aired 5/4/77

teleplay by Edward J. Lakso

written by Laurie Lakso Beasley

directed by Georg Standford Brown

co-starring

Dirk Benedict –Barton

Tom Ligon –Miller

Ed Lauter -Lt. Fine

Michael Bell -Bill Duncan

Timothy Carey –Burt

Joanna Kerns –Natalie

Paul Larsen -Capt. Rogers

Marilyn Joi -Brenda

Vidonne –June

Bernie Kuby –man

Stanley Brock –Breshnick

 

The Angels bust three crooked cops while investigating a murder at a seedy massage parlor.

 

Undercover Angels:

Sabrina poses as a police advisor sent from the Phoenix Police Department.  She also goes undercover in that role as a prostitute.

Kelly pretends to be a police cadet

Jill and Bosley are managers of the Paradise massage parlor

 

Angel Clues: 

 

*Kelly states that she once dated an East Indian tennis player

 

*Dirk Benedict would go on to star in ‘Battlestar Gallactica’ and ‘The A-Team’.  He also appeared in "The Jade Trap"

 

*Joanna Kerns would star in the 80s sitcom, Growing Pains.

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"Charlie's Angels"

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"Charlie's Angels"

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"Charlie's Angels"

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"Charlie's Angels"

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"Charlie's Angels"

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"Charlie's Angels"

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"Charlie's Angels"

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People Dec. 6, 1976

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"Hellride"

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"Hellride"

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"Hellride"

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"Hellride"

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"Hellride"

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"Hellride"

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"Hellride"

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"The Mexican Connection"

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"The Mexican Connection"

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"The Mexican Connection"

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"The Mexican Connection"

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"Night of the Strangler"

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"Night of the Strangler"

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"Night of the Strangler"

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"Night of the Strangler"

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"Night of the Strangler"

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"Night of the Strangler"

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"Night of the Strangler"

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"Night of the Strangler"

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Night of the Strangler

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"Angels in Chains"

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"Angels in Chains"

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"Angels in Chains"

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"Angels in Chains"

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"Angels in Chains"

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"Angels in Chains"

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"Angels in Chains"

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"Angels in Chains"

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"Angels in Chains"

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"Angels in Chains"

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"Angels in Chains"

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"Angels in Chains"

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"Target Angels"

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"Target Angels"

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"Target Angels"

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"Target Angels"

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"Target Angels"

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"Target Angels"

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People Dec. 27, 1976

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McCalls Oct. 1977

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The Killing Kind

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"The Killing Kind"

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"The Killing Kind"

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"The Killing Kind"

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"The Killing Kind"

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"The Killing Kind"

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"To Kill an Angel"

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"To Kill an Angel"

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"To Kill an Angel"

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"To Kill an Angel"

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"To Kill an Angel"

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"To Kill an Angel"

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"To Kill an Angel"

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"To Kill an Angel"

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"To Kill an Angel"

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"Lady Killer"

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"Lady Killer"

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"Lady Killer"

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"Lady Killer"

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"Lady Killer"

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"Lady Killer"

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"Lady Killer"

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"Lady Killer"

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"Lady Killer"

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"Lady Killer"

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"Bullseye"

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"Bullseye"

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"Bullseye"

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"Bullseye"

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"Bullseye"

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"Bullseye"

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"Bullseye"

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TV Guide Sept. 25, 1976

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"Consenting Adults"

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"Consenting Adults"

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"Consenting Adults"

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"Consenting Adults"

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"Consenting Adults"

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"Consenting Adults"

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"Consenting Adults"

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"Consenting Adults"

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"Consenting Adults"

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"Consenting Adults"

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"Consenting Adults"

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"The Seance"

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"The Seance"

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"The Seance"

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"The Seance"

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"The Seance"

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"The Seance"

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"The Seance"

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"The Seance"

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"The Seance"

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Farrah's World

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Angels on Wheels

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"Angels on Wheels"

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"Angels on Wheels"

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"Angels on Wheels"

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"Angels on Wheels"

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"Angels on Wheels"

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"Angels on Wheels"

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"Angels on Wheels"

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"Angel Trap"

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"Angel Trap"

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"Angel Trap"

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"Angel Trap"

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"Angel Trap"

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Gossip Dec. 1976

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"The Big Tap Out"

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"The Big Tap Out"

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"The Big Tap Out"

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"Angel on a String"

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"Angel on a String"

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"Angel on a String"

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"Angel on a String"

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"Dirty Business"

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"Dirty Business"

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"Dirty Business"

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"Dirty Business"

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"The Vegas Connection"

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"The Vegas Connection"

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"The Vegas Connection"

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Movie Market Place May 2000

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"Terror on Ward One"

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"Terror on Ward One"

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"Terror on Ward One"

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"Dancing in the Dark"

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"Dancing in the Dark"

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"Dancing in the Dark"

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"Dancing in the Dark"

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"Dancing in the Dark"

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"Dancing in the Dark"

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"Dancing in the Dark"

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People Oct. 20, 1986

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"I Will Be Remembered"

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"I Will Be Remembered"

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"I Will Be Remembered"

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"Angels at Sea"

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"Angels at Sea"

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"Angels at Sea"

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"Angels at Sea"

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"Angels at Sea"

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"Angels at Sea"

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"The Blue Angels"

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"The Blue Angels"

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"The Blue Angels"

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"The Blue Angels"

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"The Blue Angels"

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"The Blue Angels"

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"The Blue Angels"

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"The Blue Angels"

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"The Blue Angels"

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written by Henry Branham Jr
Charlie's Angels Forever (C) Copyright 1995

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