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series, later said: “When the show was number three, I figured it was our acting. When it got to be number one, I decided it could only be because none of us wears a bra.”
Many famous faces popped up in Charlie’s Angels over the years including Christopher Lee, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Kim Basinger, Magnum PI’s Tom Selleck, Jamie Lee Curtis and Patrick Duffy.
Golden girl Farrah inspired hairstyles around the world and her exit from the series was explained by saying her character had left to
Angel Tanya Roberts went on to play Stacey Sutton in Bond film A View To A Kill alongside Roger Moore as 007 and Grace Jones as the superhuman May Day become a professional racing driver in Europe.
Cheryl Ladd replaced her to play Kris Munroe and Shelly Hack, who played Tiffany Welles, later replaced Kate Jackson in series four. Shelly herself was replaced by Tanya
Roberts who appeared as Julie Rogers in the fifth series.
The latest incarnation of Charlie’s Angels, starring Twilight’s Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and Ella Ballinska, opens in cinemas on November 29, but the original series is still remembered fondly.
The first Angels were kept busy solving crimes at a beauty contest, a health spa, a women’s prison and on a cruise ship. Their adventures became one of the top-rated prime-time shows of the late 1970s, and the opening episode set the tone. Entitled Hellride, it saw the original trio investigate the murder of a female race car driver.
Kate Jackson later said: “When the first year of Charlie’s Angels ended, our friendship didn’t. It just grew stronger through the years. I don’t know what the connection that the three of us have is, but it is there and it is something extremely special.”
Jaclyn Smith once said of the original line-up: “I met them both before the show. I met Farrah on a Max Factor commercial and we were each doing different things. And I just remembered thinking she’s from Texas and we both loved our parents and we had a lot in common at that time. I remember thinking ‘I like this girl,’ never thinking that we’d go on and be on a show together.
“It was just that we were two girls doing a Max Factor commercial who had a lot in common...
“I met Kate again at another audition. She always seemed, when Farrah and I started the show, like she knew the ropes and she was sort of the leader, and she was. She was very bright, very articulate, very outspoken.”
Charlie would have been proud of his employees.
Tom Selleck was among those who guest-starred
John Forsythe, pictured with Dynasty co-stars Joan Collins and Linda Evans, was the voice of the mysterious Charlie
Cheryl Ladd replaced Farrah Fawcett as Kris Munroe in the second series