Stars: Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, David Doyle

Summary: Once upon a time, Jill, Sabrina, and Kelly were just everyday police officers with routine desk jobs. But when mysterious millionaire Charles Townsend takes them away from it all to work at his own private detective agency, their lives become infinitely more adventurous. All 22 episodes from the first season of the classic Aaron Spelling-produced female detective series are included in this special 5-disc set. 1970s glamour girls Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith, and Kate Jackson co-star.

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Back in the late 1970s Charlie's Angelswas wildly popular television at its most self-consciously banal. The jiggly, joggly jolly first series' three (and best-remembered) belles--lioness Farrah Fawcett (then Farrah Fawcett-Majors), pin-up babe Jaclyn Smith and thinking man's beauty Kate Jackson--were something like primetime Spice Girls, gracing countless magazine covers and bestselling posters. The idea (even if a fan of the show didn't happen to be a straight male) was that one was compelled to choose a favourite angel as a kind of ink-blot window into one's subconscious life.

While the 2000 Angelsfeature film kept faith with the original show's self-mockingly sloppy storytelling, there's nothing like seeing the old episodes for a lesson in narrative hubris. Basically, the three leading characters were bored policewomen wooed away to a private firm owned and operated by the unseen sybarite, Charlie (voiced--over speakerphone--by an uncredited John Forsythe). After a long set-up each week, the girls' investigations typically saw them going undercover as fashion models--no great stretch--in "Night of the Strangler", nurses in "Terror on Ward One", roller-derby stars in "Angels on Wheels" and vulnerable convicts (of course) in "Angels in Chains". The exploitation factor is not as bad as it might have been. The cast was so glamorous, their chemistry so perfect, that Charlie's Angelsnever became a mere meat market. Despite such nods to modernity as Fawcett's no-bra look, the episodes were old-fashioned in their heroine-in-peril appeal, yet there was a difference: the Angels looked out for themselves and each other. --Tom Keogh

Aspect Ratio:	4:3 Full Frame
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Featurette - 1. A N G E L S F O R E V E R
Year:	1976
Release Date:	June 23, 2003
Runtime:	288 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C D R P 1145
Keywords:	Action, Angels, Box, General, Series, Set, Tv, Adventure, Charlie's
Genre:	Action/Adventure