Charlie's Angels - The Complete First Season
by Allen Baron, Bernard McEveety, Bob Kelljan, Cliff Bole, Don Chaffey
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Actor: David Doyle, Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith, John Forsythe, Kate JacksonDirector: Allen Baron, Bernard McEveety, Bob Kelljan, Cliff Bole, Don Chaffey
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Unknown
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1164 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-05-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Charlie's Angels - The Complete First Season
Movie Review: "TV's Best Crime Drama"
Summary: 5 Stars
"Charlie's Angels" is the best television crime drama that ever aired on the commercial broadcast networks. Debuting on ABC on September 22, 1976, the series quickly became one of TV's biggest hits, propelling all of its stars to superstardom, most notably Farrah Fawcett who became an international celebrity. The three leads of the show even graced the cover of "Time" magazine, a rare feat for a cops and robbers show.
It was Fred Silverman who gave the green light to "Charlie's Angels", as it was he who headed up the network. Originally called "Alley Cats", it was designed for a vehicle for Kate Jackson, who had just finished a supporting role run on ABC's "The Rookies". It was actually Kate who came up with the change in the series' title, as she suggested using the word angel in the opening sequence. "Charlie's Angels" had the kind of ratings that "American Idol" now has, and the series ended that first season at #5 in the Nielsens with a whopping 18.4 rating. Millions tuned into the series every week as they watched as three female undercover police officers tackled the bad guys. The show was the first of its kind in that no other television show featured three women in the main leads doing what men had done before. "Charlie's Angels" opened the door for other women in television, and it is still regarded today as one of the most beloved crime series ever. The last of the three leads, Jacklyn Smith, also became a star, who would go onto leads in movies made for TV. The voice of Charlie was none other than Blake from "Dynasty", John Forsythe, and the opening music is one of the most haunting of all-time.
The first season's boxset is beautiful, featuring all 22 episodes, as well as the original pilot movie that aired in the spring of 1976, that also has a new opening. Each disc in the boxset has it's own individual case made of hard plastic, so the DVD's themselves will last a lifetime from not being scratched. Seasons 2 and 3 are already available, with season 4 coming out in the summer of 2009.
Summary of Charlie's Angels - The Complete First Season
This five-disc compilation features the entire First Season with the original Angels Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith and all their adventures from one of the most classic shows in television history.Once upon a time, Jill, Sabrina and Kelly were police officers whose skills were being wasted in menial duties such as answering phones and filing. A mysterious millionaire named Charles Townsend took them away from all that by opening his own private investigation agency and hiring these gorgeous ladies as his operatives with John Bosley acting as their assistant and liaison.
America's guiltiest pleasure of 1976--the inaugural season of Charlie's Angels--has returned in all its jiggly, jolly glory in this tidy boxed set. It's hard to describe just how captivated the nation's media and viewing public were with cheesemeister Aaron Spelling's ABC-TV hit, but for awhile Charlie's Angels was wildly popular appointment television at its most self-consciously banal. The first season's three (and best-remembered) belles--lioness Farrah Fawcett (then Farrah Fawcett-Majors), pin-up babe Jaclyn Smith, and Thinking Man's beauty Kate Jackson--were something like primetime Spice Girls, gracing countless magazine covers and bestselling posters. The idea (even if a fan of the show didn't happen to be a straight male) was that one was compelled to choose a favorite angel as a kind of ink-blot window onto one's subconscious life.
While the 2000 Angels feature film (starring Cameron Diaz, etc.) kept faith with the original show's self-mockingly sloppy storytelling, there's nothing like seeing the old episodes for a lesson in narrative hubris. Basically, the three leading characters were bored policewomen wooed away to a private firm owned and operated by the unseen sybarite, Charlie (voiced--over speakerphone--by an uncredited John Forsythe). After a long set-up each week, the girls' investigations typically saw them going undercover: as fashion models--no great stretch--in "Night of the Strangler"; nurses in "Terror on Ward One"; roller-derby stars in "Angels on Wheels"; and vulnerable convicts (of course) in "Angels In Chains." The exploitation factor is not as bad as it might have been. The cast was so glamorous, their chemistry so perfect, Charlie's Angels never became a mere meat market. Despite such nods to modernity as Fawcett's no-bra look, the episodes were old-fashioned in their heroine-in-peril appeal, yet there was a difference: The Angels looked out for themselves and each other. --Tom Keogh
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