Shelley joined the cast of Charlie's Angels in 1979. Many critics dismissed the show as fluff; and Shelley was aware of that. She said it was fluff, but the best kind of fluff. "You don't compare Agatha Christie to Tolstoy," she said. And she was right in saying that. Charlie's Angels was the very best of it's kind - copycat shows never fared as well as it did.
