Charlie's Angels: The Complete Third Season
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Movie Reviews of Charlie's Angels: The Complete Third Season
Movie Review: The Townsend Detective Agency ensures we have an Angelic Fourth
Summary: 5 Stars
Aaron Spelling's recent death certainly casts pallor over this DVD release. Yes, I am happy that the 24 episode third season of this `classic' (in every sense of the word) series has FINALLY been released. However, there is so much irony that he is unable to see how much enjoyment it will continue bringing to people.
There are a couple of episodes which don't work, but overall the production team remembered their winning formula and stuck with it as opposed to `experimenting'. They wanted to keep this show on the air and being watched by the largest market share of viewers possible. In an era when there actually were only three networks, viewer competition was still very fierce. The 1978-1979 season of the ABC blockbuster is dominated by the recurring themes of lavish sets and special guest stars.
Since it's still the 1970's,the obligatory `disco-theme' episode is also included. During "Disco Angels", the Angels investigate a killer who seems to be operating near a disco. This episode works well because it turns the then-cultural assumption of the disco as a `happy' and `carefree' place squarely on the head. Bad things unfortunately happen here too--necessitating the Angels's intervention. Naturally, they save the day though!
Perpetually best known for the `second Darrin' role in the 1960's `Bewitched', Dick Sargent guest stars as `Marty Cole', a lounge singer with secrets in the two-part season opener. Then, Jamie Lee Curtis plays `Linda', a young woman attempting to win a golf tournament in the era when women's professional sports associations themselves still were starting up, Casey Kasem guests as Tom Rogers' in the same episode . Before playing `Commander William Riker' on `Star Trek: The Next Generation', Jonathan Frakes was `Brad' in this series. Other famous names include Scatman Crothers. These people and their agents understood that the way to be seen in the late 1970's was to put in a guest appearance on this or another very popular show.
Of course, the most infamous guest star is Farrah Fawcett--obligated to return to the same series she had earlier left for `better opportunities'--as a `special guest star'. Because her absence was explained in prior episodes by having quit detective work to go off and race cars, Jill Munroe makes her first reappearance in "Angel Come Home" in the context of investigating why an old flame's experimental car which she had been asked to drive blew up. Ironically enough, Stephen Collins (who would later play `Eric Camden' in `7th Heaven') also makes his own guest appearance during this exact same episode.
She reappears in "Mother Angel" and "Angels in a Box", but oddly does not in "Angels on Vacation" when you consider that Kris's relatives are also HER relatives. Why would Jill Munroe only bail former coworkers out of tough situations but not both co-workers and family?
Charlie's Angels still gets portrayed as light-hearted camp, but "Angels belong in Heaven" raised an important question when a small-time-crook who was friendly with Charlie hires the Angels for a job. Being trained police officers (who are ideally not supposed to work with criminals of any kind) their most recent case creates an interesting situation for the Angels. How much do any of the Angels--current or former-- really know about their boss's business dealings or even the boss himself? It's campy in the sense that they don't start an examination and/or carry these ethical considerations over into subsequent episodes, but at least the issue was briefly raised instead of steadfastly maintaining the simplistic good/bad binary where the Townsend Agency and employees are always `perfect' and the people that they catch are the ones with flaws (ala `Batman').
Perhaps in a timely coincidence, lots of other references to then-current and then-future Spelling productions are tucked away in this same season. "Angels Ahoy" obviously invokes the then-simultaneous successes of the `Love Boat'; by having the Angels on a cruise ship for an investigation. "Teen Angel" appears to have `tested the waters' for the subsequently very successful `high school' years of `Beverly Hills 90210'; students at a school are so rich that they are easily affording to purchase and use drugs.
There were no extras included on this DVD release, but I genuinely expect something included on the next--and the DVD sets themselves being promptly released to meet enduring public demand. The prolonged gap for this series honestly is unacceptable. Get on the case!
Movie Review: ANGELS FOREVER!
Summary: 5 Stars
Role call: Sabrina Duncan, Jill Munroe, Kelly Garret, Kris Munroe, Tiffany Wells, Julie Rodgers, John Bosley and Woodville(pilot only)- hey, I liked 'em all, even Julie and Tiff.
Please hurry and release season 4 already, as I particularly liked "Caged Angel" where Kris goes to prison and infiltrates a criminal gang on the inside(who can forget Big Aggie- Agnes Kemp played by Shirley Stoler), and when the angels are stranded on the game reserve island and hunted down one by one by LLoyd Bochner. Those are the two stand out episodes of season 4. Oh my, I'm jumping ahead of myself when were supposed to be talking about Season 3. For all you completists, I recommend you buying this volume because it's Sabrina's swan song-"Angels Remembered". The stand out villan of this season is Zora from "Angels In Springtime". Dr. Slavin, the hypnotherapist that attempted to give Kelly a hypodermic filled with sodium penthethol and Zora had a little more than just a "freindship" going on. As well as Mercedes McCambridge's character and the murdered actress Eve Le Duex. It seemed like every season had some strong armed, lesbian type-that's what made "Angels" so entertaining. The first season had prison corrections officer Maxine"Max" of Pine Parish farm prison for women and Inga, Moonshadow's masuess(mispelled). The second season had the russian Olga on her ice skates totting a real mean machine gun. The storyline was always so predictable. In the end, the angels were going to defeat the big, bad and the ugly surely. Sometimes, I would have prefered the angels to losing to the criminal or not exactly solving everything about a case just to make it more realistic. The only problem I had with the ending of the series is that of the repeated storyline with Kelly being shot again. Come on producers and writers, you guys could've done something fresh and original. Also maybe made ammends with Kate Jackson since she was an original angel, and invited her back along with Farrah. Hell, you also could of given Shelly Hack a cameo since it was referenced that she had to go back East for awhile at the beginning of the 5th seaon. So that was kind of a cop out of a way of writing a character out of a series. So the producers wanted to stick with the Kelly being shot idea-it would've been a treat for all of the fans for the five angels(past and present) and Bosley too
that everyone be incorporated in the last episode. Again, come on Leonard Goldberg and co. it's the LAST show. I'm sure that would've touched Charlie for sure as he was looking through the door's window to see everyone there being as family and watching over their fallen freind and angel.
Julius-Allan Hernandez
Chicago,Il.
Movie Review: the Angels are back!
Summary: 5 Stars
Well it's about time! Angel fans have been waiting 2 yrs since the release of Season 2! This was the longest of the five seasons & the only time the Angel lineup didnt change. This is Kate Jackson's final season & the last we'll see of her in the series, which is funny because in the season finale she makes a toast saying, "here's to many more (adventures)!" This also is the first three of six contracted obligations for Farrah Fawcett to make guest appearances, almost leaving no room for Cheryl Ladd in one particular episode ("Mother Angel"). In fact David Doyle is almost forgotten as well. In this episode there's one too many angels, but the other two featuring Farrah, "Angel Comes Home" & "Angel in a Box" works out well for four angels. I can hardly wait!! I wouldnt be suprised every copy gets sold out & out of stock on July 3rd! The last time I saw season 3 was on TV Land & they edit each episode. Also they left out one episode, "Angels on Vacation" which I haven't seen since it reran in the summer of '79. Hopefully seasons 4 & 5 will each be released shortly afterward. Here's a list of season 3 episodes to the best of my knowledge in no particular order:
Angels in Vegas-part 1
Angels in Vegas-part 2
Angel Comes Home
Angel on High
Angels in Springtime
the golfing episode (can't remember title, w/Jamie Lee Curtis as guest star)
Haunted Angels
Pom-Pom Angels
Angels Ahoy!
Mother Angel
Angel on my Mind
Angels Belong in Heaven
the horseracing episode(again can't remember title, w/John David Carson as guest star)
Angels on Vacation
Counterfeit Angels
Disco Angels (unfortunately no nabbing-the bad-guy action from Kate Jackson)
Angels on Skis-part 1
Angels on Skis-part 2(both filmed in Vail, CO which I have been to numerous times)
Teen Angel
Angel in a Box
Marathon Angels(I wish Kate Jackson was in the spotlight w/Jaclyn & Cheryl, only they wear running shorts & do all the running)
Rosemary for Remembrance (taste of what we'll be experiencing next season w/solo angel episodes)
Angels in Waiting
Angels Remembered
Movie Review: "The Last Good Year For Charlie's Angels"
Summary: 5 Stars
"Charlie's Angels" began its third season in the fall of 1978 while entrenched as one of ABC's biggest hits. The series continued to flourish, ending the year with a huge 18.2 Nielsen rating, almost as high as its first season. All regular angels are back, as this would mark the only season in which all current angels came back from the previous year with no recasts. Farrah Fawcett, obligated to return for three more shows, returns, and the angles are in top form solving crimes and arresting the bad guys. The third year is also the final good year of "Charlie's Angels" before it "jumped the shark", meaning the program lost all credibility and suffered from the loss of lead angel Kate Jackson, who quit this season after Aaron Spelling wouldn't give her time off to do the movie "Kramer vs. Kramer", as she was supposed to star in the role made famous by Meryl Streep. After wrapping up production on "Charlie's Angels" in the early spring of 1979 Kate told the producers she was done. In a press release Kate stated the show had been good to her and her good to it, but it was time to move on, but privately she confided in friends that if she had been able to do "Kramer" she would have stayed with the show forever. Losing Kate Jackson killed this show, not only because she was the best actress on it (she had received multiple Emmy nods for her performance of Sabrina), but also because once she left morale was low on the set. The series lasted two more seasons, albeit to poor ratings, and the show never recovered from losing such an important cast member.
This season features all 22 episodes, but like the second season two shows are the cut/syndicated episodes called "Angels in Vegas" and "Terror on Skis".
This boxset came out in 2006 which meant the studio has been extremely slow in releasing future boxsets. In the spring of 2009 it was announced by Sony that season four is finally going to be released in the late summer.
Movie Review: Season Three Episode Guide
Summary: 5 Stars
CHARLIE'S ANGELS
Season Three Episode Guide
#47. ANGELS IN VEGAS (Two-Hour Episode)
Guest Stars: Dean Martin, Scatman Crothers, Vic Morrow, Dick Sargent and Robert Urich as Dan Tana
#48. ANGEL COME HOME
Guest Stars: Stephen Collins, Jackie Stewart and FARRAH FAWCETT as Jill Munroe
#49. ANGELS ON HIGH
#50. ANGELS IN SPRINGTIME
Guest Stars: Nancy Parsons (Porky's) and Mercedes McCambridge (The Exorcist)
#51. WINNING IS FOR LOSERS
Guest Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis and Casey Kasem
#52. HAUNTED ANGELS
#53. POM POM ANGELS
Guest Stars: Anne Francis (Honey West)
#52. ANGELS AHOY
#55. MOTHER ANGEL
Guest Stars: Gary Collins, Hermione Baddely and FARRAH FAWCETT as Jill Munroe
#56. ANGEL ON MY MIND
Guest Stars: Billy Barty and Jonathan Frakes
NOTE: Cheryl Ladd's daughter Jordan plays Kris as a child in a flashback
#57. ANGELS BELONG IN HEAVEN
#58. ANGELS IN THE STRETCH
#59. ANGELS ON VACATION
#60. COUNTERFEIT ANGELS
#61. DISCO ANGELS
#62. TERROR ON SKIS (Two-Hour Episode)
Guest Stars: Christopher George and Dennis Cole
#63. ANGEL IN A BOX
Guest Stars: FARRAH FAWCETT as Jill Munroe
#64. TEEN ANGELS
Guest Stars: Audrey Landers
#65. MARATHON ANGELS
Guest Stars: Sarah Purcell
#66. ANGELS IN WAITING
Guest Stars: Pat Crowley
#67. ROSEMARY FOR REMEMBRANCE
#68. ANGELS REMEMBERED
NOTE: This is Kate Jackson's final episode :(