Shelley and Cheryl Ladd on a break
from filming the Charlie's Angels
episode "Angel Hunt," 1979
Shelley became Charlie's Angel Tiffany Welles in 1979. After a long search, executive producers Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg chose Shelley to fill the spot vacated by Kate Jackson in the spring of 1979. Shelley said, "I remember there was a big Angel hunt going on, and they asked me to audition. The hunt seemed to go on for a long time. A lot of my girlfriends went in to be tested, but I wasn't involved until sometime later when my agent called and said, 'It's a terrific show - you really should think about testing.' So, I thought about it again and went in."
Shelley and Cheryl Ladd on a break
from filming the Charlie's Angels
episode "Angel Hunt," 1979
The second episode she filmed for the series was "Angel Hunt". Filmed in August of 1979, parts of it were shot on location at Zuma Beach in California (where the paparazzi and fans had a field day taking snaps of the Angels as they were filming). As mentioned in Mike Pingel's book Channel Surfing: Charlie's Angels, in the scene where she was up a tree, Shelley remembers being left up that tree when the whole crew broke for lunch (How could they do that?). And in the scene where she fell into the water, she swallowed some of it, so she was given a hepatitis shot.
Shelley and Cheryl Ladd on a break
from filming the Charlie's Angels
episode "Angel Hunt," 1979
