a paparazzi pic of Shelley
during the 1979 filming
of the Charlie's Angels episode
"Love Boat Angels"
In 1979, Shelley was proclaimed as Charlie's newest Angel and she became a Hollywood superstar virtually overnight. Her face appeared on every magazine in the world and her casting was even mentioned in the evening news. "I couldn't believe it. What was I doing in the evening news?" Shelley exclaimed. In St. Thomas, at the Caribbean, where the Charlie's Angels season opener "Love Boat Angels" was to be shot, she described, surprised, "When I got off the plane, there were maybe eight million paparazzi. I looked around for Sophia Loren. It was for me. I couldn't believe it."
a paparazzi pic of Shelley with Cheryl Ladd,
Bert Convy, Bo Hopkins and Jaclyn Smith
during the 1979 filming of the Charlie's Angels
episode "Love Boat Angels"
And Shelley's debut episode "Love Boat Angels" topped the Nielsen ratings. It was a crossover episode with another Aaron Spelling hit TV series The Love Boat. Aside from The Love Boat cast, Bert Convy, Bo Hopkins and Dick Sargent were brought in as special guests. The season was off to a great start and many predicted that Charlie's Angels would remain a ratings-topper for that coming season.
a paparazzi pic of Shelley
during the 1979 filming
of the Charlie's Angels
episode "Love Boat Angels"
