Charlie's Angels

About Charlie's Angels

Few TV series scream out "1970s!" better than Charlie's Angels. Created by Starsky and Hutch producers Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldbergit launched in 1976 in a sexy new approach to TV programming.

The series followed three female detectives routinely dispatched on crime-busting missions by Charlie, an always-unseen wealthy benefactor heard only by speakerphone (the character was voiced by Dynasty star John Forsythe). The Angels, as Charlie deemed them, would be assisted every week by the gazillionaire's right-hand man, John Bosley (David Doyle), as they chased baddies popping up where beauty contests and health spas to dude ranches and women's prisons.

As the opening credits elude, Sabrina (Kate Jackson), Kelly (Jaclyn Smith) and Jill (Farrah Fawcett-Majors) were Police Academy graduates who, upon entering the workforce, landed mundane jobs: Kelly was a crossing guard, Sabrina was a meter maid, and Jill typed police reports. This was the trio’s fate until Charlie Townsend “took them away from that” and hired them to work for his private detective agency. The Angels, who received their assignments from Charlie by phone and never saw their boss, used their beauty and sexy figures to trap unsuspecting villains.