Charlie's Angels - The Complete First Season (1976)

Awesome 1st season, Despicable packaging!!!

The minute the pilot starts you will have a smile on your face when you are re-introduced to these three gorgeous women. All the episodes have been digitally remastered and somehow the show looks fresh again. The monsoon of nostalgia will make you appreciate this very special moment in tv history. The dvd has adequate extras like the featurette Angels Forever.I would of like to have seen some current interviews with the stars as well as some behind the scenes clips. The restoration of the series on this dvd collection is great however the packaging is abysmmal and disappointing!If you consider what a cultural juggernaut Charlie's Angels was and the constant media coverage of the show I cannot believe this collection was put together so shabbily! The dvds come housed in see through plastic slimline dvd cases no images of the girls and the dvd cases (five in all) are held together at the spine with a sticker with the logo of the show which after a few times of use peels off.The packaging is cheezier than the polyester and Ford Pinto's on the show! Obviously it's the show that matters but when I see in stores much lesser shows get the royal treatment as far as packaging goes it just stings a little because I'll never have my Farrah poster again!Oh well! The show get's 5 stars the packaging gets half a star! July 19, 2008

MPI Home Video's Angels

Sony Pictures, selling Charlie's Angels to MPI Home Video would be a perfect idea for the fans, who have waited 6 years to collect all 5 Seasons of the series on DVD. Please do not say no to my suggestion. MPI Home Video will be willing to re-release the first 3 seasons, and release the 2 remaining seasons with no problems. Please sell Charlie's Angels to MPI Home Video!
June 17, 2008

Great DVD EXCEPT NO FEATURES!!!!

Great dvd of all the episodes and the pilot but i'd already taped all this when it came on tv land to promote the 2000 Charlie's Angels movie. There should have been some feature on here, behind the scenes, a documentary, a showcase of some of the famous clothes and where they are now (like if one's on display at Planet Hollywood somewhere) SOMETHING!!!! Even a slide of behind the scenes pictures would be great. Personally, i wanna see the ABC special that the original three introduced and talked about the show (the pictures from Time Magazine and People are the dresses they wore) April 16, 2008

SEASON 1 IS THE BEST

Now this, is a groovy classic!

Charlie's Angels helped changed the face of Police Drama and it also helped inspire young and old women to become cops and detectives.

The series was Created by the late Ivan Goff and the late Ben Roberts who also Produced the CBS Sci-Fi Drama Series Logan's Run Starring Gregory Harrison and Heather Menzies Urich and it was also Produced by Leonard Goldberg and the late Aaron Spelling and it is now in the hands of Columbia TriStar and SONY!

Kate Jackson (Spelling's The Rookies and Scarecrow & Mrs. King) and 2 young Texans Farrah Fawcett (Former Mrs. Lee Majors) and Jaclyn Smith (Former Mrs. Roger Davis) were THE Best!

My favorite Episodes includes The Pilot Movie, Angels in Chains, The Vegas Connection and my all time personal favorite BULLSEYE!

The 1st Season also featured many Guest Stars including Diana Muldaur, Tommy Lee Jones (The Fugitive, Men in Black and Double Jeopardy) Bo Hopkins, Tom Selleck (Magnum P.I.), David Huddleston (Santa Claus: The Movie) Kim Basinger (Batman and Cool World), Logan Ramsey, the late John vanDreelan, Renee Auberjonois (Benson, Star Trek: DSN, Disney's The Little Mermaid), Sidney Clute (Cagney & Lacey), the late Robert Donner (Mork & Mindy) the late Richard Mulligan (SOAP & Empty Nest), Marla Pennington (Small Wonder), Robert Pine ("CHiPs"), Jenny O'Hara (As the World Turns), Dirk Benedict (Battlestar Galactica and The A-Team) Laurette Spang (Battlestar Galactica) M*A*S*H Stars G.W. Bailey and David Ogden Stiers and it also featured Special Guest Stars like Neva Patterson, Dennis Cole (Jaclyn Smith's 2nd Husband), Rosemary Forsyth, Carla Borelli (Another World, Texas and Falcon Crest), Jan Shutan, and Ed Lauter (The Longest Yard) and it also featured Special Appearances by the likes of Fernando Lamas (Father of Falcon Crest and Renegade Star Lorenzo Lamas) Robert Lipton and the late Frank Gorshin (Batman's Original Riddler).

and BTW, Dirty Business was Directed by the late Bill Bixby (The Courtship of Eddie's Father) and To Trap an Angel and The Blue Angels were Directed by Kate's Co-Star from The Rookies Georg Stanford Brown.

God Bless Farrah, Kate and Jaclyn for their excellent performance, God Bless David Doyle, he is truly missed and God Bless abc, Leonard Goldberg and Columbia Pictures Television for a job well done.

and Thank You Aaron Spelling for bringing Charlie's Angels into our homes, you are truly missed.

and also, Kate Jackson went on to greater success w/Scarecrow and Mrs. King. March 15, 2008

Fun Guilty Pleasure

There is great television that captures the imagination with its complicated characters and plots. Then there are shows like this one that are mindless, fluff entertainment but completely fun in their own cheesy way.

The show focuses on three female police officers who quit their boring police jobs to work for mysterious millionaire Charlie Townsend (voiced by the never really seen John Forsyth). Sabrina (Kate Jackson), Jill (Farrah Fawcett), and Kelly (Jaclyn Smith) now work as private detectives handling cases for people who turn to Charlie for help. That usually requires the three of them to go undercover to gather the clues needed. Assisting them in any way needed is Bosley (David Doyle).

So what kind of cases do they take on in this season? Well, there's the aging film starlet who keeps seeing scenes from her old movies. There's the case of the rag doll strangler. The centerfolds at Feline Magazine keep dying. Jill goes undercover at a roller derby. And in the most famous episode of the season, the three ladies get themselves arrested to discover the fate of a woman arrested and never heard from again.

While the series will never be mistaken for great television, it is fun. The acting is decent, at least from the leads. And there's an impressive display of guest stars including a young Tommy Lee Jones, Kim Basinger, and Tom Selleck.

Unfortunately, the stories sometimes leave a little something to be desired from a mystery standpoint. Many of the cases are solved by coincidence with the details being explained to us in the last few minutes. A couple of the episodes are clunkers, like "The Big Tap-Out" which is boring the entire way through. And some of the guest actors are so over the top it really gets annoying.

Fans will enjoy watching this set, which contains the original two hour long pilot plus all 22 first season episodes. The only extra, a documentary on the popularity of the series, isn't that special.

This show is not great television. It was popular because it was fun. And, if you can ignore some of the flaws, it really still is. August 19, 2007

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