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Charlie's Angels

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    I hate to say it, but the show should have hired younger with each new Angel. Shelley and Tanya were both in their 30s when they were hired, and Jaclyn was 35 in the final season. I honestly think the

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I was considering doing a thread on this myself, but was going to name it Charlie's Soaps for the many several Soap Performers that appeared on the Show ex: Eric Braeden, Melody Thomas Scott, Robin Eisenman , Carla Borell, Linda Dano etc

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Thank you, @DRW50 !!

It's hard to celebrate any anniversary of this show w/o David Doyle or Farrah Fawcett. But I hope Kate Jackson and Cheryl Ladd have managed to set aside their differences. It's been 50 years, ladies, give or take a few. Who knows how much longer any of us have on this mortal coil?

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I watched a few season 4 episodes of Charlie's Angels.. and it's still a pretty good show even after Jackson left. Especially the Caged Angel episode with Louise Sorel guest starring with a younger Sally Kirkland

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On 4/14/2026 at 11:27 PM, Soaplovers said:

I watched a few season 4 episodes of Charlie's Angels.. and it's still a pretty good show even after Jackson left. Especially the Caged Angel episode with Louise Sorel guest starring with a younger Sally Kirkland

I loved season 4 and thought Shelley Hack was great. In my most recent re-watch I was stunned at the quality jump with Tanya Roberts. Had they not sabotaged Hack, they could've gotten another 2-3 seasons with her. Season 4 didn't have a total ratings drop. Had they properly supported and promoted her it would've been fine.

She wasn't even properly featured until several episodes in.

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53 minutes ago, Chris B said:

I loved season 4 and thought Shelley Hack was great. In my most recent re-watch I was stunned at the quality jump with Tanya Roberts. Had they not sabotaged Hack, they could've gotten another 2-3 seasons with her. Season 4 didn't have a total ratings drop. Had they properly supported and promoted her it would've been fine.

She wasn't even properly featured until several episodes in.

Roberts was an absolute downgrade from Hack. That was their undoing.

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1 hour ago, Chris B said:

I loved season 4 and thought Shelley Hack was great. In my most recent re-watch I was stunned at the quality jump with Tanya Roberts. Had they not sabotaged Hack, they could've gotten another 2-3 seasons with her. Season 4 didn't have a total ratings drop. Had they properly supported and promoted her it would've been fine.

She wasn't even properly featured until several episodes in.

Hack didn't get an episode focused on her until episode 11 of the season, and it was after there were two episodes that featured Fawcett as guest star. And in those two Fawcett episodes, it seemed like it was Jill/Kelly/Kris that had the rapport and chemistry with Hack barely in it except as support.

And there were episodes where the three main angels were hardly together as a trio.. which didn't help to establish chemistry or rapport amongst the three.

And I also don't think the writers understood how to write someone from the East Coast, especially from New England.

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Years ago when TNT (?) repeated the show I watched an episode with Tanya Roberts. I liked her, she had a lot of energy. Yet she also came across as trashy to me, which was the antithesis of what the show was intended to be.

Jaclyn Smith's memoir has been released. She mentioned some of the issues with Kate and with Kate/Cheryl, which wasn't a surprise. One surprise was that Tanya asked her for a threesome with Tanya and her husband (Jaclyn declined, but praised her freedom and so on - I imagine she was not as admiring of her freedom at the time...). Jaclyn also said that by the end of the show so many people were doing drugs on set that she spent most of her time in her trailer.

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3 hours ago, DRW50 said:

Years ago when TNT (?) repeated the show I watched an episode with Tanya Roberts. I liked her, she had a lot of energy. Yet she also came across as trashy to me, which was the antithesis of what the show was intended to be.

Jaclyn Smith's memoir has been released. She mentioned some of the issues with Kate and with Kate/Cheryl, which wasn't a surprise. One surprise was that Tanya asked her for a threesome with Tanya and her husband (Jaclyn declined, but praised her freedom and so on - I imagine she was not as admiring of her freedom at the time...). Jaclyn also said that by the end of the show so many people were doing drugs on set that she spent most of her time in her trailer.

I agree. TR kind of had had a trashy persona. Nolan Miller spills some tea in his Archive Of American Television on CA, Dynasty etc... He said he went over to Tanya's house for a wardrobe fitting/discussion. Tanya's husband was wasted and told Tanya to take off her clothes and show Nolan her(using the F word) body. Tanya stripped naked and showed it to Nolan......LOL

He also trashed Shelly. He said he begged Aaron to hire her so he could dress her and then shortly after he said he was begging Aaron to fire that bitch......LOL

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5 hours ago, DRW50 said:

I watched an episode with Tanya Roberts. I liked her, she had a lot of energy. Yet she also came across as trashy to me, which was the antithesis of what the show was intended to be.

1 hour ago, SoapDope78 said:

I agree. TR kind of had had a trashy persona.

Not to derail the thread, but many have said that Tanya Roberts was the worst heroine ever of a James Bond movie.

For years Tanya Roberts birth year was reported as 1955 but after she passed away it was reported that her actual birth year was 1949.

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17 minutes ago, kalbir said:

Not to derail the thread, but many have said that Tanya Roberts was the worst heroine ever of a James Bond movie.

She was. A View to a Kill is only worth watching for Christopher Walken and Grace Jones.

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16 hours ago, Soaplovers said:

Hack didn't get an episode focused on her until episode 11 of the season, and it was after there were two episodes that featured Fawcett as guest star.

I know there's been claims that they had issues with Hack's acting from day one and gave lines meant for her to the other two girls early on in the season until she had improved a bit. That might explain why she ended up so marginalized until midseason when they apparently had started talking about doing away with her.

I'm honestly surprised they never did go for a African-American angel, especially with the popularity of blaxploitation. I mean, what was Teresa Graves doing in 1979?

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