'TV Tales: Charlie's Angels'

May 31, 2021

Primetime has never seen private eyes like this before, freeze, okay, Kelly, you're okay, Bri, right? Yes, Charlie's Angels invented a whole new kind of television. I was ridiculous, television channel. I don't check my chest. I was going to worry about that. I'm saying personally that work, the big hit created an instant superstar, I was the athletic one, what a Ferro frenzy, that was smart, come on, calm down, the jacket is beautiful, hello, but when the cameras weren't rolling, the trip got bumpy, she's not. I don't want to be there, you can't quit, you're fired, they just came to this impact.

Over the next two hours you'll find out what really happened behind the scenes with exclusive interviews and rare first-time clips with all six

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. they will reveal their secrets behind the scenes I can't believe they did it there were a lot of divorces I'm not an exhibitionist these girls dominated the Nielsen ratings and they kick the pants of the bad guys these are the details of Charlie's Angels it's an invitation you can't I refuse when Charlie's Angels started fighting bad guys in 1976. The three

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became stars. They lived in a real fishbowl. Crowds formed and shouted.

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Now I know what rock stars go through and they were queen fish, but an angel became an overnight phenomenon. Farrah mania was sweeping the country Farrah Fawcett emerged as a national obsession, but the breakout star of Charlie's Angels only wanted one thing, all she really wanted out. Oh beauty, this was crazy, why was she doing it so getting Farrah out wouldn't be easy? It was ugly Farrah's battle with the producers was heavily hidden from the rest of the cast oh it was horrible we were all sad so we were in the eye of this incredible storm and the series became a revolving door of replacement angels.

I knew I was in a It was a curse, in a way, a break. I had press people crawling through my windows. It was simply the best of times and the worst of times. There is a downside to these things. You get pigeonholed when you're in something that gets so much attention. the show became a victim of its own success when you were number one, number one, number one and you fell to number 15, that's shocking, we went through a hell of a year, it was devastating, complicated for you, difficult, don't you You regret it, it was horrible, you can't. make everything perfect from the beginning Charlie's Angels had to overcome notable obstacles just to get on the air, but the series came from one of the most successful production teams of all time Leonard Goldberg's Aaron Spelling, the dynamic pair dominated the television programming. in the '70s with shows like Starsky and Hutch Fantasy Island Family and Vegas, the two men first worked together during the '60s, when Goldberg was a network executive.

I've known this for a long time, when he was at ABC and we became friends and I bought some shows from Aaron, who was then producing on his own mainly Mod Squad in 1972, Goldberg joined forces with spelling, the producers scored big , you're the police drama called the rookies, it's a story of both of us, he was a kid from Dallas, Texas, and I was a kid. from Brooklyn, New York, and together we seemed to be able to find some good things in the spelling of 1974 and Goldberg put together a proposal for a new series which they called The Alley Cats, the show about three beautiful girls who were private detectives and we called it the alley cats because their names were Allison Lee and I pretended to be a Tharin during the 1970s police dramas featured strong male leads like narrator Kojak Savalas, but spelling and Goldberg realized the climate was changing, we thought the audience He'd like to escape into something a little more fanciful so we start with the idea of a beautiful girl.

I was single and then he attracted me thinking about casting anyway in 1974 the newbies were still going strong on ABC. The cast featured a 25-year-old actress named Kate Jackson. Jackson was a Southern Belle from Birmingham Alabama in 1970. Kate graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. Like many young actors, Jackson took a job as a waiter to pay the rent. I had just been hired as a waitress at game and beer in New York, so I left. I went in to talk to the man and tell him I might be a little late because I had a screen test or a soap opera and he said, "You mean you're an actress, you're fired, people never show up, but Jackson won a role on the soap opera." gothic Dark shadows I started with Guus I didn't talk for five weeks They called me He couldn't really go to get married to call and I learned that this is the way back and you put your hand down Can you extend your hand and you just look and that's a sign and? they come to you every time they see they've been in dark shadows in 1972 Jackson joined the cast of rookies you want to roll the dice every time Sam you know activist bait for a man who's already killed three women, not exactly a light task , I was Jill Danko and I was the nurse and obviously I got a fair amount of fan mail because almost every week the rookies ended up in the hospital and no matter what happened to whoever they brought to the hospital that was in my department I was there. there to help them Jackson also starred in a TV movie by Spell Goldberg called Satan's School for Girls oh I can't believe I did that I played Satan I mean I've seen one of the girls Producer Leonard Goldberg saw Kate Jackson as a rising star who could carry his series The Alley Cats.

We thought she was great, so we started with Kate Spelling and Goldberg revealed the Alley Cats during a power breakfast with the breasts of ABC programming at the Polo Lounge in the Beverly Hills. Hills Hotel here and I had breakfast with my boys, we're in Varadero, at the Beverly Hills Hotel, and we proposed this idea and they said it's the worst idea we've ever heard and we forgot about it and even though we didn't forget it, The pitch fell flat, but the stray cat still had one or two lives left. A few months later, the idea was revived when producers discovered that an unlikely pair of partners, the glamorous Hollywood couple, Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood R, Jay Wagner and his wife Natalie Wood, had made their only television movie at that time. moment called the thing and part of their salary from the movie was that they would receive 50% of the next pilot that spelled the spelling of Goldberg's store and Goldberg realized that Wagner's contract could revive the alley cats page 19 He said ABC would pay twenty-five thousand dollars to develop a script that would be jointly owned by his company Rona Productions and Spelling/Goldberg then pitched the idea of Alley Cats to Robert Wagner, when I saw RJ I told him the idea because we were going to be partners and he said.

To me it's a terrible idea for a television series, but you know what you're doing, if you like it, go ahead, with the Wagners on board, the producers convinced the network to let them develop a script for alley cats, but even with a script. Network executives still weren't interested, the project was shelved at ABC and this time the ideas seemed dead forever, but nothing lasts forever on television. In 1975, ABC had a new head of programming. Fred Silverman Silverman was best known for turning CBS into a powerhouse with sitcoms like All in the Family and The Mary Tyler Moore Show Silverman was intrigued by a new trend in action shows with feminist themes like Police Woman starring Angie Dickinson and the Bionic Woman with Lindsay Wagner in the title role.

I think it at least exposed the network to the fact that a woman could really be in an action show. Silverman gave the green light to make the pilot for Alley Cats starring Kate Jackson, the actress jumps right into the creative process. I came in and Aaron, Leonard and I sat down and I gave them some of my ideas and they didn't like them very much and they gave me some of their ideas and I didn't really like Goldberg's spelling and Jackson continued brainstorming. I stood up and said, okay, but what if you had saved three women who were who I was?

I worked for um and my eyes fell on the speaker on Aaron's desk, someone they never saw because he called them and there were detectives and he called them to give them his, Heinemann and his name was like I don't know. Harry or something, then the creative team got to work giving the angels their wings. She and I were talking about what to call it. He suddenly said: I have an idea. Someone actually said that image was an oil painting of three angels and her. she said why we called it Los Angeles and we just looked at each other and then it was called Harry's Angels, but the producers then realized that the title Harry's Angels wouldn't work on ABC.

Well, we were calling it Harry's Angels, but a show called Harry Oh with David Janssen came on the air, so we thought we didn't want to have another Harry on the air, since Harry was enough for network television, so that the creative team created a new title, Charlie's Angels. Kate Jackson seemed like a perfect fit as the lead angel, but Spelling and Goldberg had one big problem: who would be the other two beauties that would be you? In 1975 there was a casting call for a new pilot called Charlie's Angels, starring a blonde, a brunette, and a redhead who could kick ass and solve crimes we thought. dark haired girl, another blonde, we should get a redhead, that's how deep we were to become.

Producers Leonard Goldberg and Aaron Spelling already had their brunette Kate Jackson, they planned to build their show around her main angel Kelly Garrett, but they still needed two more angels. and one of them had to fit a very specific profile she was the quintessential California girl she was beautiful blonde very optimistic and very athletic outdoors the producers the quintessential California girl actually came from Texas Farrah Fawcett was a sexy blonde from 27 years old Corpus Christi Farrah was Stunning, I mean her hair, her smile, her teeth and everything was perfect. Farrah lost her career in television commercials.

My mother always told me: sit up straight, eat all your vegetables, and stay away from small foreign cars, but Joey, my mother never told me about my ultra-bright mother. I thought all that whitewashing would be too exciting. Someone who never told me about ultra-bright. In 1969, the model turned actress with a small role in the television series I Dream of Jeannie. I know you're crazy about me and all, but I just can. I try to keep her paws off of me, it's okay, this is an official party, four years later, Farrah hooked up with popular TV star Lee Majors.

She was married to a very handsome television star, Lee Majors, who was the star of the Six Million Dollar Man before she met Kate Jackson. Farrah saw Fawcett and Lee Majors at a Hollywood party. I remember looking at them and thinking that they are the most beautiful couple I have ever seen in my life. I have no chance of doing this in 1975. Farrah appeared on shows like Harry Oh. In addition to her husband in the series Six Million Dollar Man, producer Aaron Spelling recognized Ferris's star potential after casting her as a flight attendant in a television movie.

There was a sparkle in her eyes and her eyes told you everything she had done on a show called Murder in Flight. 502 she only had this small role and 502 but we loved her and she was kind of a great ensemble piece, a very eclectic group of people from Sonny Bono, it was a Spelling Goldberg show, she used to come with Lee Majors and play tennis with candy . So we got to know her spelling pretty well and Goldberg decided that Farrah had the goods to be one of Charlie's Angels. Well, we just chose it. We thought she would be great and then we looked for the third girl.

Kate and I walked in. and I read with some girls and we found the elusive third angel to be difficult, we couldn't find any redheads we liked. One of the producers of Charlie's Angels at the time Rick Husky was familiar with Jaclyn had dated several times, so when her name came up. He suggested to me that he had had an audition and it didn't go well. Jacqueline doesn't do well with cold readings. I never really liked her, you know, off the cuff. I like to have the lines, so when she came in, she just felt it.

Like she had done a terrible reading, she didn't look good. The show's silent companion turned out to be Jacqueline's guardian angel. Actor Robert Wagner still owned 45 percent of Charlie's Angels. Wagner was so impressed with Jaclyn Smith when she appeared on CBS's The Change of Her series that he decided to help her get a second audition. RJ called and said, "You know you're really going to see it," so he was instrumental in taking over the world. Jaclyn Smith was a stunning 29-year-old beauty from Houston, Texas, when she was a girl. Smith dreamed of becoming a ballet dancer.

She studied dance from a young age and went to New York to study withBalanchine and the School of American Ballet at the urging of friends. Smith traded in his dancing shoes for dramatic acting roles on shows like McLeod and the Rookies, but the first time around most people saw Jackman Smith in TV commercials, so how about some shampoo? He is the only shampoo for me. Try it for normal or oily hair. You will love your hair. Although Smith's first audition for Charlie's Angels didn't go well, his second attempt was much better. I came in and it was a joke and I didn't really think much about it, she was a relatively inexperienced actress, but we thought it would develop over time, it was always inferred that she got the job because she was dating Rico Ski, but that relationship. finished, she just got it because she was glowing in front of the camera, she walked in and we looked at each other - oh my god, that second reading convinced her future co-stars too, Jacqueline walked in and we knew that yes, she was the one we liked. each other we Kate was from southern Fahrenheit Texas we had a lot in common Farrow was the only married angel Kate and Jacqueline at that time were both single and neither had time for a social life these girls worked constantly the ladies were ready but the network bosses still needed some convincing, the three of us went to the network and thought we were just going to meet the network people and then we found out we were going to read so they could see what it sounded like and apparently everyone ran away to each other and They were a little scared, but we read it and it must not have gone that bad because we did the pilot with the three angels instead.

The producers turn their attention to Charlie. Originally, Aaron Spelling cast the young gig as the voice of Charles Townsend. The elegant Oscar-winning actor had a soft, sophisticated voice. voice exactly as the spelling is needed but gig young also had a devastating drinking problem well it's unfortunate because at one point he was a big movie star and we were very lucky to have him and he had a great voice but he only had a few personal problems that prevented it. prevent him from giving a performance that we thought we needed, so the producers called in the actor John Forsythe, the only voice of Charlie, the only person who did that, I mean, the way he did it was just fantastic.

John Forsythe was a familiar face on television, although no one would ever see him on Charlie's Angels in the late 1950s. Forsythe played the lead role of a single father in 1969. Forsythe played a university professor in the series A Rome with love. Forsythe was a reliable veteran who could play a role even if he wasn't on camera, he did this Charney stuff like it was the Bible. Actor David Doyle also joined the cast of the pilot after launching his acting career on Broadway. Doyle spent a year on the television comedy Bridget Loves Burnie in 1971. Doyle landed the role of John Bosley's business partner Charlie. without even reading for the role, he is a wonderful actor, he has a great cheerful disposition, he plays comedy very well.

David Doyle was a consummate professional, he was just fantastic. I mean, you needed him, you needed Bosley and Bosley needed to be just the way David played him. To make it work, actor David Ogden Stiers rounded out the cast as Scott Woodville, Charlie's personal attorney who helped Bosley assign the Angels his assignments with a cast. A 90-minute pilot episode of Charlie's Angels began filming in July 1975. Guest stars for the pilot. It included boyfriend Hopkins, Diana Muldaur, and another Texan, a young actor named Tommy Lee Jones. I remember him being very, very nervous and I thought about it later, as he had seen all the wonderful performances he had done, but his hands were shaking, but I guess again. that was the beginning for him, but it was good, it was great, the pilot script was put together to make an angel the star, the character named Kelly Kate Jackson was supposed to play that role, but she changed her mind.

Kelly was really the best role in the pilot. and it was written for Kate when I read the script. I just liked Sabrina's character. Veteran Lee called Aaron and said, could it be Sabrina? Please, she wanted the challenge of being, you know, this kind of debutante model. I became Sabrina instead of Kelly Sabrina. She may have been fashionable in clothes, but cars were another matter. Oh, the only thing I didn't like about my character was that she did it. She drove that orange Pinto every time you went to Charlie's office, there was that Pinto parked out front so you could never forget that Sabrina drives an orange Pinto, but it was awesome that Pinto was able to go, but that Pinto didn't last that long.

I'm not laughing at the orange Pinto. I'm laughing at the orange Pinto. Jaclyn Smith took on the featured role of Kelly Garrett. but the network suits wanted to fire Smith after the first day of shooting when we filmed the pilot and the networks or the first day on set when they wanted her to replace Jackie Smith, they said well, not her, you know she's not good enough, they were very serious. about wanting to replace Jackie was terrifying, it was the first time, but I had a leading role in a series, you have butterflies, you have nerves, I mean, you're learning, I mean, it was a whole new world, a whole world, you know, full education for me, spelling and Goldberg came out to bat for his young actress Erin and I fought them very vigorously and told them we think she's going to be a big star and we think you're wrong and so why don't you look at the pilots of other people and let us do what we want?

They did and so they accepted the producers dodged a bullet at least for the moment Smith was still angel material once the pilot was completed however the producers prepared for another old fashioned showdown ABC programming chief Fred Silverman loved the pilot, but network president Fred Pierce had some problems with the script Fred Silverman's right-hand man was former ABC executive Seymour Amylin, seemed promising, but it was a risk that the network had that stupid thing that Whitman can't air a series and they were very nervous about that, very nervous about having the women do action and adventure the network decided not to schedule the pilot, so the producers immediately called a meeting with Pierce we love each other oh hell here we go less That Spelling and Goldberg could convince the network boss to change his mind Charlie's Angels would be axed before the 90-minute pilot hit the subway in the fall of 1975, the ABC head took a look at the Los Angeles pilot Charlie and decided to scrap the show, but the network boss gave the producers one last chance to save the series they kept. saying well, what makes it different Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg had experienced a situation about how the Angels graduated from the police academy, but a man named Charlie took them away from police work and hired the Angels as private detectives and they said, oh, that's it. great that explains everything and they bought it from that moment we decided to try it by putting it on the air in March and seeing what the reaction would be on March 21, 1976 the Angels aired for the first time in a special 90 minute film made for television satisfied that, of course, it was much better than that the ratings surprised everyone more than 30 million viewers tuned in to see the pilot of Charlie's Angels on the Nielsen scale the program obtained 49 share, which means almost half of the people who I was watching TV at the time I was watching Charlie's Angels which was a score usually reserved for big events like the Super Bowl the numbers were incredible as soon as it was over I turned off the TV and said we have a winner and this came out. huge rating oh wow there's no way to describe it we knew we had hit a nerve somehow it's a day when you see all the competition and cable and none of the shows have that kind of ratings euphoria we thought we could have another hit that The angels cleared was a big obstacle and the network decided to reward them.

ABC scheduled the show as a series regular for the fall season. The cast and crew took up a permanent home on the 20th Century Fox lot in Century City. Soundstage number eight wasn't exactly heaven, but it became the new home of Charlie's Angels, we had fun, the chemistry was great, but we all bonded like Kate, who had done a series before doing the newbie so she was like you know the mother hen you know she would tell you. We do this and she's a little bossy, but we know we adore each other, we were all different, you know, everyone came and brought something different to the show, there was a cast change, however, David Ogden Stier's character was written out of the show. program a year later.

The stars joined the cast of Mash for six seasons as Major Charles Winchester, the third and then, during the summer of '76, while the first episodes were in production, a madness began that changed the fate of Charlie's Angels months before of the fall premiere when Charlie's Angels began Farrah Fawcett. Always Bigger on Her Show I think the show was always trying to catch up with Farrah. The Farrah phenomenon began after her pinup poster was released in July 1976. Over the next six months, the sexy poster sold more than seven million copies and made Farrah an icon. They saw that this poster could represent something for everyone because she was a sexy but all-American girl, you know, with this beautiful smile, hundreds of thousands of men had their first sexual experience with Farrah, she just wasn't there, it was a great poster .

I know I think she really captured Farah and the essence of her. The unusual thing about this, besides the beauty of her, was that that red swimsuit with the nipples pushing against the fabric of the swimsuit had never been part of what people realized could turn on the man. species, while the poster was making a big splash for Charlie's Angels, trouble was already brewing on set, the cast got along great, but the creative team was being criticized by the network for bad scripts that summer. Marni Rosen's joker joined Charlie's Angels is one of the The producers of the show Charlie's Angels was a nonsense that was going nowhere, they thought, and that it was going to be a failure, they thought everyone was feeling the pressure On September 22, 1976, Charlie's Angels debuted as a weekly series.

Charlie's Angels started on Nielsen. top 10 with the debut episode at number 8. Now I know what rock stars go through because it was so successful from the beginning and we were filming, you know, all summer and I always felt like we had this big little secret because we still haven't He was up in the air, but he knew he was going to go crazy. Three beautiful girls chained together delivered exactly what a young male audience craved. The fourth episode ranked number three in the Nielsen ratings. We had some really uniquely high ones. episodes, I think it was some angels in Chains and I had a share of 42, which was unheard of, so we were training together, but we were just chatting and talking when one of us had to go to the honey wagon, you knew you would . your arm is stuck under the port-a-potty door, there's this thing in the bathroom and the chain was long enough that the person on the other side of the door was like that and you were still doing what you had to do do. and then we were chained together for about a week and we got to know each other really well, it was fun, it was just fun and it was probably one of the most memorable and fun because we were chained together and it had all these clichés like how long has it been?

It's been since you got sprayed, get cute here and you might get hurt in the fall of '70. The craze for the six angels was in full force, everyone wanted to meet them, everyone wanted to have them at their dinner party to be at their event and use them. Their clothes to be on the cover of the magazine were incredible, they require that you have half an hour to prepare, girls, ready for what you are going to a party and believe me, it is an invitation that you cannot refuse. ABC was inundated with an average of fan mail. eighteen thousand letters a week most of that mail was going to one angel in particular Farah there is pretty and there is beautiful and then way above there is Farrah Fawcett with Farrah front and center the Angels soon found themselves on the covers of magazines like People and TV Guide's November ratings shot straight into the primetime sky when the show hit number one and the trio landed the coveted cover of Time magazine.

The show was no longer just a hit, it was a total sensation. Aaron Spelling and Len Goldberg, they call it. us and saying "you're number one" they were so excited for us they just became part of the coachmen there's no way to stop them and they didn't disappear but the celebration wasn't unanimous all the critics criticized us Charlie's Angels were ridiculed for launching what is known as jiggle TV wasridiculous jiggle TV I mean we were in swimsuits on the beach it's meant to be live it's meant to be so light if you threw it in the air it would take a week to reach the On the ground it wasn't meant to be Shakespeare it was meant to have fun and escape, and you know, we needed the guys at NBC to say they invented gigolo television, I guess because it wasn't on NBC, each episode usually featured at least one of the stars wearing a skimpy outfit or sporting a bikini, the The producers stressed that point to writer Ed Laakso and all they really wanted was for the girls on this show to have as much skin as possible.

The feminists had fun firing shots. On the show, I was big, I never felt like we were going to film. I never felt like, well, this is sexual exploitation. It never crossed my mind, there was never a choice of who said I was putting women down because we were doing well and I was. Saying, don't you understand? It is the first time that there were three women who had protagonists. They should applaud the fact that there are three female protagonists instead of three men in the series. This shows you that women can do anything. We were independent women, empowered women.

Despite some battle scars from critics and feminists, the success of the first season of Charlie's Angels was nothing short of magical, but a ticking time bomb was ticking. Kate Jackson had top billing and made much more money than her co-stars. I have this feeling. whole things about to explode Kate may have been like ten thousand a week and Pharaoh made five and Jaclyn Smith made five but everything changed during the fall of 1976 millions of Americans had something in common a raging case of angelic fever an angel in Farrah Fawcett was a national obsession. Farrah became an overnight phenomenon.

I mean, she achieved almost legendary status in a matter of months. I mean, it was just a Farah frenzy. She was very smart and smarter. about merchandising that me and she knew that she had made this poster and it was hers everything was just fair what do I think of Farrah Fawcett majors? I love her oh she is a very beautiful girl, he is a beautiful girl and she has fantastic hair. Like her, hypnotized sexy blonde men and women everywhere wanted Farrah's look. Ferris' former hairstylist Alan Edwards, the interesting thing about her hair was that it was the first long hairstyle to become famous.

All the women wore their hair like Sarah and one of her daughters. growing up and being like her and then I wanted to marry her instead of just sleeping with the ferret craze sparked lookalike contests in Hollywood overnight she was the sex goddess of the seventies and her future seemed limitless I remember the conversation in her trailer I said Farrah I'm going to help you become the biggest star in the world and she said Jay, that's very nice, but I have an appointment with the hairdresser and I would like to sit here longer and talk to you, but really I have to go.

That was it. The producers behind Charlie's Angels wasted no time cashing in on Farrah's Fever Angels merchandising. Like a rocket, I never dreamed that Tao would have a model of mine and then gave it to my daughter. The head flew off and the legs of one of the dolls I had in the most vulgar outfit I've ever seen are a little red. number I don't even know what to say, I can't describe it and my hair was so weird, the show sold a lot of toys and games, but Farrah was the real frenzy, we didn't expect it to break out the way he did.

It blew up when Farrah started getting all the attention and it started to get clingy and there were slightly awkward moments about who was going to do what. It was hard for Kate to handle that because she was the first one we cast and imagined. She would be the star of the show, Kate Jackson, who was promised one thing and got another. I'm sure she was very upset by the way the concept of the show was evolving, but Farrah just came out, it just happened and suddenly every girl had to have a new dressing room and if it was much bigger than the others build another one, but it was having so much success giving me and Aaron Spelling made sure the Angels got what they wanted, the producers shelled out the money so the ladies always looked Divine and we never let the audience down.

We spend a lot of time and a lot of money on our makeup and hair. We filmed our own makeup artist and hairstylist. Someone joked: If you ever want to find one of the angels on set, just follow the hair. the brushes are their dressing rooms, what do you think this is Saks Fifth Avenue throw away the towels and go there? They didn't want us to change our hair, you know, take as much time as you want, comb your hair to do your hair. Seven changes, the more the better We spend more than $100,000 a season on clothes.

Kate was the one who never wanted to do any fitting fairs and I couldn't wait to put on the pretty clothes. Spelling's old friend Nolan Miller was hired as the Angels. Costume designer Miller teamed up with Farrah to unleash a new trend and that's how we managed to eliminate the bra from it. Oh Farrah started all that because on the Paris runways the models didn't wear bras, so of course Farrah was the first to ditch them. their bras and the next thing we all did was follow suit, that's how the show became known as the show with the shakes they used to say, they always said more wives were lucky after Charlie's Angels than the rest of the week It didn't matter if we were in a ditch we were going to look good, but the workload was demanding and the schedule was difficult.

You have a long, hard day tomorrow in the potato fields and you wake up at 5:00 am. m. oh gee, I never get up until 10:00 oh well then I'll leave you a call, Kake's horrible work hours, you know, 18 hours a day, forced calls, we come to drag him to work in the morning and We worked until 11 at night, if you really must know it was so boring, I think I went to sleep Hi Kelly, come on, calm down, we know you're tired, I'm tired too, they lived in a real fish tank and they were the queen, I fished the stunts and you know, cars, skateboards and ice, if we were called upon to do everything necessary.

The stunts and long hours were especially difficult for actress Jan Alexander's childhood friend Farrah. She lost 12 pounds in the first two weeks of filming. It was very difficult. People say there was a grueling schedule and she lost weight, but I don't believe it. So, but maybe Farrah was in the best physical and athletic shape of anyone she knew, but even producer Leonard Goldberg could see that Farrah was becoming physically exhausted. In fact, Farrah at one point looked very. I said Farah, you know you look tired. He said oh, I'm doing a lot of these takes, you know, we work until 8 and 9 o'clock every night, now we can understand where this advertising fara was not the only one that was under intense pressure according to producer Barney Rosensweig, everyone in the set.

I lived on top of a powder keg it was a difficult business to ply your trade sniper all the time sniper in the background guessing all kinds of spy mechanisms everywhere everything was chaos you couldn't go to the bathroom without being informed in the main office no one I knew what to do and some of the scripts are horrible. Something as simple as the show's producer making the decision to draw the curtains had to be directed by the front office, everyone having an opinion and no one doing anything. Otherwise, it was a fraught pressure, tensions were high and tempers flared, everyone seemed to be stressed, but Ferris' former manager Jay Bernstein believes the real source of pressure on Farrah was her husband Lee Majors.

I could tell that Lee was not happy because he is a very traditional man and wanted a traditional marriage with a traditional life from the beginning, reportedly Matrice insisted on adding a clause to Ferris's contract that allowed him to return home to making him dinner every night, her husband would wake up in the morning and she would go do hair and makeup at Fox while he had to make his own breakfast on the way to Universal to do Six Million Dollar Man. He came home at night dying of fatigue and she was an area that Bernstein said Majors was eager to see his wife walk.

Outside of the series I was very unhappy and his attitude towards me was: look, this family makes fifty-five thousand dollars a week and I make fifty, he said, so this is ridiculous, you know, I don't want this to continue. Jay Bernstein says the fireworks began in February at the 1977 People's Choice Awards, where Lee Majors gave Candy Spelling some devastating news about the future of the ferry with Charlie's Angels. Aaron Spelling, his wife Kandi, has been kind to Lee and said that next year will be so exciting that we will go to Europe. We're going to do all these things and they just looked up and said, "Well, she's not doing it next year." Candy Spelling was stunned and so was Jay Bernstein, who was representing Farrah and Lee Majors at the time.

Bernstein assured Mrs. Spelling he would fix everything the next day, so I called Lee, making sure he was joking, he said no, no, that's it and they said, and by the way, you always said J, yes the actor He should never be the villain you want to be ours. manager, okay, then you'll be the villain if there was tension behind the scenes the problems didn't appear on screen Charlie's Angels ended the year at number five on Nielsen for the first time in history ABC's perennial third place network reached number one and One of the reasons was Charlie's Angels, but it meant a lot to me because we had fought when I was there.

Milton Berle famously joked that he knew how to end the Vietnam War. He put it on ABC and it ran for over 13 weeks, so we were the target. of a lot of jokes, so it was very gratifying to be a part of making it number one. The show's formula seemed perfect, but there was one big question lurking: Was Farrah Fawcett too old to continue with the TV series? Even the actors were wondering if she would return for a second year, well I don't know, I can honestly say, I sure hope so. I talked to her the last day we were working together and we were joking about it and she said you wouldn't be mad if you wanted it to come from her.

I came back and answered her quite honestly that everyone has to make their own decisions. The sexy blonde with the perfect smile and the figure that launched countless fantasies was about to break many hearts. Charlie's Angels finished its first season in fifth place in the Nielsen ratings. but the show's breakout star was threatening to split from the cast. She had never had a serious conversation with us. I want to leave the program. She came out of the following. That's when we were shocked. I met her. Asia wanted to get the functions rented from her. and her husband wonders come cook so she was a lady torn between the two of us we met with Ferran I told her Farah what do you want what is this all about well I want to be a movie star in the court documents Farrah stated that she gave him The status of her contract she and I hadn't really finished negotiating my contract so it was open, she hadn't signed her contract because they never agree on marketing, according to court documents, the producers insisted that Farrah was bound by an oral agreement she gave before the series began. picked up, they soon learned that Farrah was no pushover when it came to business.

I think she was in a slightly different position than most actresses who were just coming in, so you know, we just reached this impasse. Jay Bernstein says when Aaron Spelling found out Pharaoh was serious about leaving. the two men had a private meeting he said do you know how we can stop this and I said I don't think I can stop this he said we have a hammer it was the hottest show on the air the stakes were high Pharaoh was By becoming a superstar the producers had difficulties meeting her demands, they had been negotiating her contract and hit a snag with merchandising and this was used to remove her from the show.

We urge Spelling to do everything possible to keep it. she got a fantastic deal with MGM to make a movie starting at $500,000, which in those days was unheard of and amounted to a million dollars a movie, and we said here you want to be a movie star, no, she still wanted to leave the program. On June 1, production began on the second season of Charlie's Angels at studio number 8 on the 20th Century Fox lot. Two of the angels were on set, but Farrah was nowhere to be seen. Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith noticed that her carriage door was not coming back.

We were all sad about it, it was devastating because we were so close and we were having so much fun, the show was doing so well. I was disappointed, but I think if you care about someone you have to say if this is what shewants and she won't be happy here some people felt she did the right thing other people felt she should have been loyal to them so it was a 50/50 split on set the producers remained optimistic and so did LA co-stars David Doyle, she said oh They'll probably vaccinate me, you know who knows, they might sue me and Farrah was right.

On June 11, production on Charlie's Angels stopped. The producers filed a $13 million lawsuit against Farrah Fawcett Majors for breach of contract. They sent a letter to everyone in the The business was very uncomfortable, it was ugly and all the studios were notified. If you do business with Farrah Fawcett majors, you could possibly be part of this lawsuit. We told her we could prevent her from working anywhere else for a year, so she died in this town, but she left us no choice, Farrah was up for the lead role in the movie Dirty Play, but had to give up the role due to her contract dispute over the way Goldie Hawn ended up making the movie that featured Chevy Chase and made her a huge star while awaiting her day in court.

Farrah left Hollywood to star in the independent film Someone Killed Her Husband alongside Jeff Bridges. It wasn't a good movie, but the idea was just to keep it working to stay in the game in the meantime. The producers began a frantic search for a new angel. Aaron Spelling's first choice was actress Cheryl Ladd. We all just found out Farrah was leaving and I said, you know, thanks, but no thanks. I didn't really see myself on that show. In that role, Born in Huron, South Dakota, Cheryl Ladd moved to Hollywood in 1970 and eventually landed a job as a melody singing voice on a popular Saturday morning cartoon series, Josie and the Kittens, the actress called herself Cheryl stop amore, soon began.

Appearing in Cop Drop as the rookies I always seem to be the girl next door who was kind of a fish out of water in the big city who was raped and murdered and then died, you know, in the opening credits in 1973. Cheryl Stop Amour She became Cheryl Ladd that year she married actor David Ladd, son of famous Hollywood star Alan Ladd, in addition to getting a husband, Cheryl was also making a name for herself in Hollywood. Aaron Spelling was so impressed with the young actress that he decided to cast her in his 1973 television movie Satan's School for Girls and in fact I worked with Kate on that movie and Aaron was very aware of me and I was one of his favorites in 1977, the searched spelling led to Farrah being replaced as the next Charlie's Angel he had met. and I really wanted her to do it and her answer was no, no, no.

I wasn't that worried about it, except I thought that if I really screwed this up and people hated me, that might be the end of my career forever. She felt that. Farad created something so big that she had a father who should be crucified. Ladd rejected Spelling's offer. He disappointed in the spelling and Goldberg continued his search for a new angel. They met up with Kim Basinger, 23, who was a guest star on the Highly Rated Angels episode on Chains. I just hope I can live up to it, but Aaron Spelling couldn't get Cheryl Ladd out of his head or his eyes, maybe the feeling of never having done anything wrong, she really was an angel, she just came through the spelling.

He approached the boy again and fortunately. Aaron called me later and said, "Okay, we've looked at 250 girls. I haven't found anyone I want on the show and I want to talk to you. Come on, will you come talk to me?" I said, "Of course, I'll meet with the spelling." lead to alleviating his anxiety about joining the cast. I just don't feel like I can be fair. I mean, only fair is fair and he said no, no, it would be a completely new character. What if you were his younger sister? I told him okay. If I could be funny, if I didn't have to be this kind of glamorous all the time, when we started talking about Chris Monroe in those terms, all of a sudden, like I lit up, I was like, "Okay, this could be funny." From the moment Cheryl Ladd walked onto the set of Charlie's Angels she faced an uphill battle.

We don't want it and we don't need it. There is nothing personal. It's just that we don't need anyone to be right, whoever she is. Now look, no one can take Jill's place with us, no one, the three of us had been there from the beginning. I know it was difficult for Cheryl to come into a program that was already established, she was a little intimidating because everyone was a family, you know they had. a successful program and they had been doing it for a year. I mean, she had some tough shoes to fill, so the first day of walking on set was a little stressful.

Ladd decided to make light of the difficult situation at that time. Farrah Fawcett majors, so I wore a shirt that said farrah fawcett minor and everyone laughed and I laughed and everyone got the joke, but Cheryl's struggle for acceptance was just beginning, we never became close friends, the new angel felt the pressure to replace. Farrah, what's wrong with you? And the producers prayed that she would pass the test. This has been fun, but I managed to run. The second season of Charlie's Angels began with a cliffhanger. The fan favorite angel was missing. Farrah Fawcett Majors was caught in a producers' legal battle. while the newest angel wondered if her co-stars and viewers would accept her, maybe we'll work with her and maybe you won't, did you hear yes?

I just put everything that was going to happen politically with Farrah without Farrah coming. back, I had to put all that out of my mind and become Kris Munroe. I'm the one Kris Kris Munroe, everyone was a little nervous about whether we were going to have a show or not, so all of that was out there and there was a lot of pressure around this with Cheryl Ladd in the cast instead of Farrah. The chemistry between the Angels wasn't the same, we never became close friends, but I think on camera the relationship between the three of us still worked very well, so it was good, but it was different.

It was easy to work with her, you know, she really gave the best she got. I know it was difficult. I wouldn't say there was any kind of welcome to the show because no one was relaxed. Cheryl got there, that's where she had a difficulty. They were hard on her some days Kate would talk to her and other days she wouldn't but Jacqueline didn't want to mix things up, she was afraid that if she was too nice to Cheryl then Kate would be on her case. It was that kind of bad balance and whatever animosity happened between those two that was very uncomfortable for Jacqueline.

The tension led Vlad to seek advice from the show's writer and producer and Black, so she says they just don't do it. They make me feel uncomfortable all the time. I once said you were fantastic, I love you too, keep doing what you are doing and this too, no pants, he found a true friend and joined Bosley. Dear David Doyle from the beginning, he simply took me under his wing and helped me maintain a sense of humor, particularly at the beginning when everything was so stressful and tense, he remained my friend and friend to pique the interest of the viewers For the next season, the cast and crew went to Hawaii to photograph angels in Paradise, you know, we really could.

To go out, people were in the hallways outside our room, we had thousands and thousands of people around us all the time, we had to have guards, I had never had so much attention, it was a completely different way of living, it was fun and exciting , overwhelming and hot, the producers were worried about much more than the heat in Hawaii, a crucial test was just around the corner. Judgment Day for the Angels came on September 14, 1977, when Angels in Paradise was released, we were very, very worried, everyone was really kind of holding their breath we didn't know how it would be judged that certainly wasn't a love note that I found in the car no and that bullet could have been aimed at Kris yes, the cast change didn't hurt Charlie's Angels at all Angels in Paradise took first place in the ratings the show was still at the top The United States was fell in love again with a new angel, you can imagine how relieved we all were and how much less tension there was after the first show aired, we knew that Pharaoh I wouldn't miss it, it was a great celebration, the toy manufacturers were eager to cash in , that's a little strange because I had a child who played with dolls, you know, having a mommy doll, I don't know, it was a little.

It is strange to all of us that the popularity of the Angels was not limited to the home front, they were burning abroad. Two real fans made a personal visit to Los Angeles. An eligible bachelor named Prince Charles, we thought, why is he coming to our set? He was saved in the In the end, his mother in particular really liked the show Los Angeles had fans all over the world, but critics still hated jiggle TV, well come on, it wasn't Shakespeare being a nasty cat, though honestly spoken, I knew part of the reason they hired me was because Aaron liked the way I looked in a bikini and that was an element of the show and we all faced that music and the ratings were even higher than the first year, but Farrah was still a force to be reckoned with after months of delays. the runaway star of the first season faced a court date with the producers, we didn't know if we would win or lose and they know we are losing.

Producers felt they already scored a victory in the court of public opinion during a special screening. from the John Travolta film Saturday Night Fever a test audience in Cincinnati booed when the famous ferry poster was shown on the big screen clearly the perception was that she was greedy and selfish she only thought about herself she didn't think about her fans The Farrah's ex manager Jay Bernstein decided to play hardball. I told her: Look, she's not going to change her mind and I'm not going to change my mind. All you can do if you want me out of this, you should have to kill me.

Both parties agreed to resolve the dispute. After a short time in court, according to published reports, the producers agreed to drop their lawsuit if Farrow returned to the show for at least six guest appearances over a three-year period. Hollywood's golden girl left the courtroom spotless Farrah was all smiles as she walked. and she kept that famous smile all the way to the bank, she would get more for a week and have for the entire season. Published accounts have indicated that the producers agreed with Farra for approximately one hundred and fifty thousand dollars per guest appearance, but those terms were not publicly revealed at the time, so we had to sign contracts that for 15 years they would not tell anyone that the Angels They had a lot to smile about because their show finished the second season at number four.

The show's ratings were even higher without Farrah, but in the third season, Farrah returned in a few episodes for a role she didn't want, all she really wanted to get. I can say in one word that she was out. I didn't exactly experience the welcome bandwagon for me, the third season of Charlie's Angels began. She left like a breeze the three angels showed up for duty well, I think the embarrassment was worth it, the season also brought one of the most anticipated events of the entire television year Farrah was returning to Charlie's Angels, everyone was a little nervous , I was particularly a little.

Nervous because I didn't know how she would be with me and I guess she didn't know how I would be with her. There was a battle to the death after Farrah left the series. Her guest appearance was part of a court settlement with producers Ferris. Her return home was bittersweet. I loved it when she came back in third year. I was glad to see her. You know, I mean, you don't forget a friendship like that. Everyone was very friendly; It was still okay, but it was different. He's all complicated. I wonder if it will be difficult to walk on the set and she will be a little shy walking on the set.

It was hard for Farrah because I don't know if she wanted to come back. She had these about three dozen long. -red stem roses delivered to her trailer and the Welcome Back part and all that, the fact that she had to come back, I think it wasn't something she was excited about, she didn't want to be there, but she had to do it. being there, they needed it and were paying a lot of money to get it back, so why make it difficult? It was complex because everyone had moved in another direction, but we made it work.

I have a friend with me. I thought maybe you would like it. to say hi I don't know, we're really busy here I'm pretty busy, huh? The ratings showed that Farah was still a phenomenon. The angel returned home and finished in third place for the week. She was great when she came back. It was fun. It was like the old days, but the old days didn't last long. Another angel was about to make a permanent exit. Kate Jackson had her eye on the big screen andShe got the role of a lifetime which was difficult because Kate had an offer to do a Very Good movie and we had to tell Kate she couldn't do it and that didn't endear us to Kate.

The internal turmoil Kate had to deal with losing that storyline to do a TV series that you're still not happy about was emotionally difficult. She was right about the movie it was Kramer vs. Kramer and an actress named Meryl Streep got the part in it. Kate's personal life was in much better shape in August 1978, Jackson married actor Andrew Stevens, son of famous actress Stella Stevens, then in October, the Los Angeles heard of the wedding. The bells rang again as Jaclyn Smith walked down the aisle for the second time. Smith married actor Dennis Cole. They were happy times for Smith, but Kate Jackson was forced to deal with career disappointment the following spring.

Jackson saw Meryl Streep win the Oscar for the role she was forced to give up. Jackson reached a turning point as an actress. I felt like, you know, she had done everything she could do with that character and that role. Kate was not happy with the program, it was not a love fest. I thought she was getting a little ax here and some of the scripts and I'm getting a little frustrated. She did her job and it might be difficult, but she did the job. The film's rejection was, I guess, the final straw for her after three seasons.

Fighting crime in Charlie's Angels Kate Jackson decided to hang up her wings, it was difficult because she was with us at the beginning, we tried to convince her to stay because now we would be losing a second of the original angels and she just said "I can." . I don't do it anymore. I've done it enough. I want to try other things. I really felt like she had served him well. She had served me well. It was time to move on in the final episode of the season. Sabrina raised her glass in gratitude. A heartwarming toast to the coming year and many more.

Those were Jackson's last words as an angel. It's hard and we hate that it happened, but she didn't surprise us that much. I don't regret that she got to a point where she wasn't. happy I didn't think maybe maybe I'm making a mistake or oh wow I'm so sad this is all coming down on me I was, it was time but Charlie's Angels had another problem the ratings went down the show fell out of the top ten I they fell to number 12 at the end of season 3, no one was pressing the panic button yet, but suddenly there was reason to worry, it was difficult and a little scary because again we had a successful show and we wanted it to continue in At that moment, when We finished that season, I didn't know who was coming or going or what, the third season was not a charm for Charlie's Angels.

Ratings fell and Kate Jackson left the show at the end of the year, but the loss of another original show. angel the producers felt deja vu once again Mia can't do anything and said oh hell what's next more than 5,000 women were considered for angel wings among the contenders were future stars Michelle Pfeiffer and Connie sellecca Shari Belafonte, daughter of singer Harry Belafonte was also in the running for a while and so was actress Catherine Bach. Bach didn't become an angel, but she played another sexy character for six seasons as Daisy Duke on the CBS series The Dukes of Hazzard, a different park and no relation to Kathryn.

She stole the spotlight in the spring of 1979, when the New York Daily News reported that former Bond girl Barbara Bach was the new angel. That report turned out to be incorrect. Barbara Bach was one of the people we considered, but we chose Shelley, who had this New England sharp look Shelley hacks the New England look was genuine the 27 year old was born in Greenwich Connecticut It was a great place to grow up and it was the eldest of six siblings, so it was a very close family and a simple trick definitely had the face of an angel she started modeling at 14 my first job was a cover of Glamor magazine they babysat so I did it in the summer when I went to school I realized that it was fun Shelley hack looked another advantage in the Charlie's Angels competition I just had this incredible feeling that something really good was about to happen and it did.

I had a crush on her because of the Charlet commercials and went with Aaron. I said, oh please, you know, please, Hershey, I should add that style to become a Charlie girl. Walking into one of Charlie's Angels seemed natural to me. I received a phone call from my agent. I jumped out of the shower and had lost a lens. There were all these water triplets and one of them was my lens, so I was crawling around on the floor. floor and foaming I picked up the phone, said Aaron Spelling wants to see you the looks were very, very important Gus, you know we had three beautiful works by Elaine Joyce and then we lost one, replace it with another beautiful angel that we are losing in that The other angel and I think in some I was going to blend in with her beauty and style and Shelley was the one we chose.

I thought it was a great choice because Shelley brought this East Coast quality and certainly hers was a departure and unlike any other. who had been on the show I love Sally she's just a great girl just a great girl I was on the evening news I was in all the papers it was a big deal Shelley brought a lot of different things to the show Shelley hack made her debut on the 12th September 1979, Jacqueline and I looked at each other like well, here we go, let's hope this works. The Angels episode of Love Boat was ranked number one for the week, but it was the last time the Angels were ranked at the top, it's a little strange, don't you think, very strange.

I'd say fans weren't excited about the new Charlie's Angel. I received very strange questions from the press. Well, you don't have much experience in acting, how do you even know that you have an experience? To do this show I kept trying to be really understanding and I really understood how hard it was to come and be the new girl. She had been there and done that, so I just tried to give her all the support and be. As loving and helpful as she could be, I don't know what happened to her. I think she was a little lost.

I don't think she spent enough time on her character or how she was going to fit in. With us it was an awkward introduction. I was only at the first couple of shows. I don't know where she went. It was really unfortunate and unfair to Shelley. I think she felt very insecure and she got to a point where she wasn't being as nice anymore. She became very picky and very, you know, a little difficult about her wardrobe and everything that wasn't what any of us expected, meanwhile, Charlie's Angels lost its time slot to the NBC comedy Diff 'rent Strokes.

We were disappointed, but we all realized she wasn't. they were missing something that we didn't know that the network's usual promotions for Charlie's Angels failed to pique viewers' interest. I think people got a little disillusioned with the show, even Farrah Fawcett couldn't reverse the trend of bad ratings for Los Angeles, her final guest. Her appearance recorded the lowest rating of the season and finished at #34 for the week. At that time, the magic was gone. The magic was also gone from Farrah's marriage in 1979. She once said that men don't run my life anymore. , yes, she set out to do what she believes is right for Farrah's split from her husband Lee Majors.

Both stars worked full time on feature films, so they actually had less time than when they were both making television series. Farrah began a passionate romance with her husband's actor friend, Ryan O. "Neal, the lack of time together took its toll on the marriage and they eventually doubled. There were some prices to pay. Fawcett wasn't the only angel who ended up in court There were a lot of divorces on our show in the middle of Season 4. Charlie's Angels was running out of steam. I think people lost track of what the show was and who we were.

The show didn't change. You know, the concept didn't change. Other networks had two years to try. To counter the show, they were counterprogramming more effectively every year and that's what was going on for a while. It was just the best of times and the worst of times. , all at the same time. Cheryl Ladd filed for divorce in January 1980. My marriage wasn't doing well and no, it was a lot, it was just a lot Charlie's Angels wasn't doing so well either with the rap of the season. 1979-80 the show fell to number 24 Shelley hack the party was over I never expected to be there more than a year and I wasn't there Shelley brought a lot of different things to the show the chemistry never worked she didn't really work she wasn't very happy doing the show she wasn't running Shelley hack wasn't invited to return for Another Season, so I made my year and moved on.

It's always sad, it's so intense with these girls, they're your friends and then boom, they're gone, that was good, that was enough for me when season four ended, the producers got ready. for another angel search with lower ratings and terrible publicity Charlie's Angels was in real trouble, the pressure was on to find a perfect angel who could save the series. I think at the time they thought it was an advantage for the show because it was always a surprise, who's going to be the new angel? I don't remember who we saw. It was like: do we have to do this to make things worse?

Jaclyn Smith, the original Last Angel, announced she was leaving at the end of season five. She was on a hit show I learned a lot and made a lot of friends, but I thought she was ready to move on at that point in the show and her marriage In June 1980 Smith separated from her second husband, actor Dennis Cole. . I wish everyone would understand that when a young woman takes a role in a series, she has very, very little time for herself and she doesn't have time to give her husband or boyfriend the necessary time. Everyone geared up for a bumpy ride as they reach season five.

When the fifth year came around, I think Jacqueline said, "Okay, I'm done, I've had enough and that was my fourth year and having a little boy at home, that was enough in the meantime, after looking at over 2,000 beautiful candidates." , Aaron Spelling liked a 25-year-old newcomer named Tanya Roberts Tanya Roberts was born in the Bronx at 15. Tanya began doing off-Broadway plays and television commercials. Tanya met her future husband, Barry Roberts, waiting in in line to see a movie. I went out with him and we became best friends and a few months later I asked him to marry me and we have been together since 1975 when the newlyweds left the Bronx behind and headed to Hollywood.

To find success, Tanya continued to land small roles in various films and television projects such as the film Zuma Beach starring Suzanne Somers in 1980. Tanya auditioned to become an angel. The sexy redhead was exactly what the producers were looking for. We tried to find someone who would be. a little more street, a little more urban, a little more ethnic, suddenly. I had a great rest overnight, that was with Tanya Roberts, man she was great, good job, good love, she again brought another earthy quality to show that she was quite colorful in her language most of the time.

Jacqueline, I would go, but she made us laugh. She was so excited, she was thrilled to be there and worked so hard. I thought this might work, it's different and I really liked it. Costume designer Nolan Miller saw another side of Tanya. I went to her apartment and asked the typical questions I ask her. You know, do you feel comfortable going braless? What kind of things do you like this kind of thing? And her husband said out loud and said that she has a beautiful body. She can wear anything. He said go ahead honey show her and she takes off her sweater.

There, gulp, I'm not, no way, she was, she wasn't shy, get out of here, she was a hoot, she didn't care, she was wearing a bikini, you know, in the laundry, she was going to do what had to be done. do and she just she just had a great attitude about it, with ratings declining the show needed a boost so once again the cast and crew headed to Hawaii, that was our excuse to put it in a bikini, You see, bikini fever, we called it, but trouble was brewing in Hollywood. I never expected them to stop the season, we had a hellish year.

The fifth season of Charlie's Angels began with the trip to Hawaii, but filming was interrupted. Production stopped suddenly when the actors union went on strike on July 21, 1980. The cast and the team packed up and returned to Hollywood where the work was less glamorous. I remember carrying a sign walking around the studio with David Doyle. It was weird. The actors' strike continued for three months. The strike delayed the fall television debut. season in October and November creating chaos and pressure to get ratings quickly, we were down for those three and a half months and we hadn't had enoughmomentum to build before the strike hit when the Angels made their season debut on November 30.

In 1980, they also had a new Sunday night time slot and much tougher competition from Archie Bunker on CBS and Chips on NBC. ABC decided it wasn't good enough to be number one, they had to win every half hour on television, so they moved. They moved us to Sunday night because they weren't winning Sunday at 8:00 The network was pressuring the producers to put the Angels back on top After opening night of the season The Angels had reason to celebrate While the show landed in Nielsen's top 10 for The Week We Went to Hawaii and that boosted the ratings quite a bit, Charlie's Angels was still struggling to stay alive despite the addition of Tanya Roberts as a sly new angel. , the show's ratings plummeted, it was evident by the numbers we were.

Understanding that this show had lost its buzz after years of ratings supremacy, the show that launched Jiggle TV lost its sizzle. People magazine even asked if it's the gigolo, you know, dreams that look like that, yeah, but when it speeds up, I mean, it's going to feel a lot more. like a nightmare in February, the show fell to #59 out of 66 shows on February 21, 1981 ABC put Charlie's Angels on hiatus. I never expected them to stop the season any more than anyone expected the punch in the sky, so those things happen there, unfortunate. a little bit of disappointment and a lot of relief I think I was tired at that point it seemed like the Angels solved their final case towards the end I think it's a lot of things that Kate left and then Shelly and there everything seemed to kind of implode on itself somehow manner.

I think everyone was ready to say goodbye at that point, but the network picked up the series in June and returned the show to its original time slot on Wednesday night. We were just trying to find a time period where I could tell. work to allow us to, you know, keep it for another season, well, we like to finish what we start for new episodes, we fight reruns on the other two networks, the series that debuted to Super Bowl-sized ratings and went up up to number one. in its first season it was hit by the white shadow on CBS and real people on NBC ABC made it official I'm sorry Charlie I'm sorry Charlie I'm sorry Charlie Charlie's Angels was canceled it was kind of a mutual decision that we thought the show had moved on. course since Do you know it was quite expensive?

It just wasn't worth keeping on. You realize that you're not going to go back to the studio and you're going to have the same parking spot that you've had for four years and you changed my life, you know, I mean, it really was like that, I don't know for better or worse, but it was what that it should be. I was really sad because you know it was a big break for me and I was really sad and everyone else was jumping. I walked away thinking that this was an important moment in my life and a good time in my life.

Poor Tanya was just starting to get going and it was all over for her, which is really sad, but they dragged me along for a day, you know? I got over it, it's all in your education and you know I had signed a five-year contract, you know, I don't want to sound like a goody two shoes, but that's my feeling, you know, you keep your contract and you deliver. I did it and I loved it. All we wanted was a successful program. We didn't want to become icons, but still, when it's over, it's over, it's hard to walk away knowing that you won't see those people every day again.

Sadly, the final episode Let Our Angel Live aired on June 24, 1981 and then Charlie's voice went silent, but the Angels would take flight again in a big way. It was difficult for me to revisit the past after Charlie's Angels ended the show in 1981. aired in syndication and the Angels went their separate ways Farrah Fawcett took on a variety of serious acting roles, including the 1984 television movie The Burning Bed, which earned Farrah her first Emmy nomination posing for Playboy in 1995. The Sexy Blonde once again set magazine sales records. proving that she was still a phenomenon, but Farrah's personal life has been full of ups and downs following her separation from her husband Lee Majors.

Farrah began a long-term relationship with actor Ryan O'Neal. The couple had a son in 1985, but Farrah broke up with O.' Neal in 1997; during an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman that year, Ferris' unusual behavior sparked public speculation about drug or alcohol abuse. People thought it was a drug-induced performance, but she is not a drug addict. Whatever had happened, she hadn't slept. five days because I was editing any playboy video but for me it's very sad to have something that is judged guilty in the court of public opinion like that because she was innocent and maybe she would have had some obstacles along the way but in the end, I'm sure which she is proud to say she went independent in 2002.

Farrah seemed in good spirits with her guest appearances on the CBS series The Guardian four years after Charlie's Angels Kate Jackson returned to primetime with four successful seasons on the CBS. scarecrow and mrs. King, but Jackson went through three marriages that ended in divorce in 1987. Jackson was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a lumpectomy. Two years later, Kate underwent a mastectomy and the public still supported her during her illness. Kate to this day is cancer-free. She is an Or she adopted a child who was eight years old now she is doing well and continues like all the other angels trying to do the best she can in the field of entertainment like Jackson Jaclyn Smith racked up three marriages and three divorces but in 1997 she walked towards the altar a The fourth time Smith shares another moment with Jackson in 2002 Smith became a breast cancer survivor after undergoing a lumpectomy and radiation treatment for the disease.

She was dubbed the queen of many theories for so many years raising two wonderful children and maintaining her values. I won't tell you any woman we work with is as sweet as Jacqueline, the other angels also enjoy active careers. Cheryl Ladd earned critical acclaim for her work, including her portrayal of Grace Kelly in a television movie. I have made 35 movies of movies that got television. doing Broadway, who knows if that would have been there for me without Charlie's Angels, the show took a toll on the guys' personal lives, you're not going to have everything right all the time and no one told us that part about something always I was going to suffer.

Whether it's your children, your marriage or your job, you can't have it all and have everything be perfect. Shelley Hack appeared on the ABC series Jack and Mike in 1985, but the show only lasted one season. Currently, Hack functions as an international media outlet. consultant mainlyI deal with media and politics and how the media relates to building democracy, so I have worked a lot in Bosnia, Albania, Croatia. Tanya Roberts posed for Playboy in 1982 and went on to star in several films, including a role as a Bond girl with an eye on a kill with Roger Moore as special agent double zero seven when you've been in something as high profile as angels or bond, it's like If it never ends, there is always an interest that goes on and on.

Tanya returned to primetime television in 1998 for three seasons on the series that '70s show. She left the series in 2001. The actor remembered as the lovable Bosley. David Doyle suffered a fatal heart attack on February 26, 1997. He was 71 years old. David Doyle was a dream, he was very much the spirit of the show. He continued to make me laugh, he continued to be my friend and friend and I could never thank him enough. I miss him. The original Angels believe the secret to the show's success was their special bond. I think it was the camaraderie that you know.

The three of us, I mean, and I think I can say with certainty that the three of us clearly had a real friendship, a real emotional bond and it showed, even though most critics panned Charlie's Angels then and now, Charlie's Angels They themselves are proud of the impact the program had. We were all like three grown girls, cats, we never slept with anyone, you know, we always ended up, you know, they kept each other upright. I still meet all kinds of children and children, they are older, now they are leaving. I used to play with you.

I used to run around the neighborhood, you know, in a way it was a very good role model for kids because it showed young girls that they could be anything. In the year 2000, a new craze was born again with a big screen version of Charlie's Angels, the film he starred in. Cameron Diaz Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu I think the movie version is 10 times bigger because of all the stunts and everything they have and the tricks that the three hyungs do are amazing physical tricks. I haven't talked about tricks in bed. or something, Jaclyn Smith returned to her original role of Kelly Garrett for the film's sequel in 2003.

Smith starred with second-generation angel Drew Barrymore. I did a scene with Drew and she is amazing and I had watched this show as a kid and that made an impression on her diehard fans continue to celebrate the series and so does the former angel who was there when the show was created we were in the right place at the right time and the country was ready for it will always be together with mine as one. The best amount of things we've ever done, all we ever wanted to do is entertain you and give you an hour, let's have a little fun with us every time I do my Charlie's Angels impersonation, of course, I'm going to freeze Kelly. you're okay, Bri, I can't tell you how many thousands of times I said on my tombstone that it's going to say for free, are you okay, Kelly? okay, breathe, it feels like I just said it a billion times, right, those were the ones.

Charlie's Angels, we need relief on television and that's what Charlie does. Angels were and I guess that's why you know he's still alive today because it's a winning concept, it's a bit of fantasy that we all did in life God, hello, I'm sure I scream and you'll be watching angel, I'm sorry, what is it? are you watching