Saturday, June 8, 2024

An Angels Catch Up 1

a writeup about Charlie's Angels from 1981

Charlie's Angels captured the imagination of the entire world when it first aired in March of 1976 (the pilot episode) and fans were saddened by the news of its cancellation in June of 1981. All in all, six women had the privilege of being part of the phenomenal hit TV series - Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith, Cheryl Ladd, Shelley Hack and Tanya Roberts. Interest in all the women didn't end when the series ended though. In fact, writeups about them would come out every few years - a sort of catch up to what each of them has been up to. The earliest would probably have been just a few months after when TV Week Aus asked "What's Happened To TV's Celestial Six?" By then, Kate had starred in the movie Dirty Tricks and was filming Making Love. Farrah had starred in the movie The Cannonball Run. Jaclyn had finished filming the TV movie Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. Cheryl was concentrating on her music career. Shelley was still THE Charlie Girl and had starred in the play Vanities (and, no, she wasn't married as was said). And Tanya was capitalizing on her newfound fame and was getting ready to embark on a movie career.

gorgeous Shelley in a promo pic from 1979