Charlie's Angels - The Complete Third Season

Charlie's Angels - The Complete Third Season Review

On some episodes some facts don't mesh. On "Angel on my Mind" when Kris almost got hit by the taxi, the taxi driver acted like it was her fault, but he was running a stop sign. If he was going to stop the way he was supposed to by law he would have stopped before he even came close to hitting Kris. On "Angels in Vegas" Kelly told Haines that Mary Phillips was a girlfriend of hers, but when Slokum told him Kelly was talking to Mary Phillips roommate he seemed surprised Kelly knew Mary Phillips, even though it was a few minutes after Kelly told him she did. Also when Jip got hit by the black truck he was walking his cat in the driveway. My problem with this one is that when he saw the truck he didn't move out of the way. He just kept walking in front of the truck, as if he was waiting to be run over. Any sane person would have moved out of the way. There are a lot of other examples of this in the series. I love the first three seasons and the packaging of season three was excellent, but sometimes the content is a little rediculous.

Charlie's Angels - The Complete Third Season Feature

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Charlie's Angels - The Complete Third Season Overview

Millionaire Charles Townsend starts up his own private investigation firm and hires three female police officers as his investigators.

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They're back, they're beautiful, and they mean business--but in a sweet way. Charlie's Angels: The Complete Third Season finds Kris Munroe (Cheryl Ladd), sister of departed Angel Jill Munroe (Farrah Fawcett), well ensconced in the Charles Townsend Investigation agency. Jill, however, isn't entirely absent from the scene: Fawcett turns up in at least three episodes, not quite ready to shake her old job despite the lure of car racing and a handsome beau (Stephen Collins). But enough about her: the current incarnation of Charlie's team kicks off the season with a two-part mystery set in Las Vegas. Dean Martin plays a maverick casino owner who believes he's being "gaslighted," i.e., made the target of psychological harassment by an unknown enemy. Trouble is, some of his employees and friends are getting hurt and even killed by this same assailant. The girls, including brainy Sabrina Duncan (Kate Jackson) and streetwise Kelly Garrett (Jaclyn Smith), plus mirthful supervisor Bosley (David Doyle), go undercover to root out a plot to ruin Martin's character. (Sure, Dino romances one of them: Sabrina.)

The rest of the season follows the usual Charlie's Angels formula of relying on the cast's appealing personalities and substantive, anti-bimbo characters, while also getting them (well, not Jackson so much) in various states of undress as quickly as possible. An accent on stories requiring the wearing of leotards and showgirl costumes certainly helps the cause, but there are plenty of non-exploitational episodes as well. Among the best programs is "Angel Come Home," in which Jill arrives at Charlie's by surprise after receiving a phony emergency cable in Europe from someone claiming to be Kris. Eager to investigate, Jill soon hooks up with an old friend (Horst Buchholz) developing a new car engine targeted by enemies. "Angels in Springtime" capitalizes on a creepy suggestion of lesbian incarcerators running an expensive spa for women. "Haunted Angels" is a spooky tale of a young man's demanding spirit being channeled, from beyond the grave, through a terrified woman. It could be real or it could be a scam; only the Angels can find out. "Counterfeit Angels" finds a trio of bank robbers claiming to be Kris, Kelly, and Sabrina; the girls fight for their innocence. Finally, a great episode from its era (1979), "Disco Angels," gets the ladies exactly where they belong: on a dance floor. --Tom Keogh

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