screen captures Shelley
from the original 1979 opening credits
of Charlie's Angels season 4
Let's take another break from the Jack and Mike episode "Personal Foul," another commercial break that is... and check out the rarely seen original opening credits of the fourth season of Charlie's Angels in 1979. Shelley became Charlie's Angel No. 5 in 1979 and everyone wanted to know everything about Charlie's newest cherub. Write-ups about her immediately came out as soon as it was announced that Revlon Charlie's Superstar model got the part of Tiffany Welles in the hit series. "The Charlie Girl becomes Charlie's newest Angel" was the headline Aaron Spelling was counting on to help bring interest to the show - which, by then, was entering its fourth season. In the past season, the show had dropped from #4 to #12 in the Nielsen ratings; and the casting shake-up was just what the series needed to bring viewers back. When Shelley's debut episode "Love Boat Angels" finally aired, it topped the Nielsen ratings.
screen captures Shelley
from the original 1979 opening credits
of Charlie's Angels season 4
The opening credits for fourth season of Charlie's Angels was updated to include newest Angel Tiffany Welles, Shelley's character. Like all the Angels before her, Tiffany graduated from the police academy; but she did so in Boston (originally though, it was reported that Tiff was going to hail from Connecticut). It seems her police academy shots were a combination of Sabrina's (Kate Jackson) and Jill's (Farrah Fawcett)... as it showed her shooting a target and then typing at an office. The newest Angel team did the traditional "Angel Walk" but this time they didn't exit the police academy. And in Shelley's original opening credits montage, footage of her from the episode "Angel Hunt," then from "Love Boat Angels," then another from "Love Boat Angels," then from "Angels Go Truckin'," then finally from "Angels at the Altar" were included. Later, the final one was changed to footage of Shelley from "Angels on Campus." The one with the "Angels on Campus" footage has been the one in use until today.
screen captures Shelley
from the original 1979 opening credits
of Charlie's Angels season 4
