12 Facts About Charlie's Angels

1.

Charlie's Angels is an American crime drama television series that aired on ABC from September 22,1976, to June 24,1981, producing five seasons and 115 episodes.

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Charlie's Angels continues to have a 1970s American cult and pop culture following through syndication, DVD releases, and subsequent television shows.

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3.

Charlie's Angels was generally formatted in the way of a procedural drama, much like the vast majority of other crime shows of the era.

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4.

Many of the episodes follow a regular structure whereby a crime is committed, the 'Charlie's Angels' are given the case details, and then they go undercover to solve the crime.

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5.

Kate Jackson has stated that she believes the first season of Charlie's Angels was the TV show's high point, and it was the most fun for herself, Smith, and Fawcett: "When you think about Charlie's Angels, you think about three specific people".

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6.

Camille Paglia, an American academic and social critic, said that Charlie's Angels was an "effervescent action-adventure showing smart, bold women working side by side in fruitful collaboration".

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7.

Charlie's Angels played host to a number of well-known faces during its five seasons.

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8.

The episode starred Barbara Stanwyck as Antonia "Toni" Blake, a wealthy widow socialite and friend of Charlie's Angels who ran a detective agency she inherited from her late husband.

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9.

Whereas most movie remakes of 1970s TV shows, like Starsky and Hutch, are actually remakes, the Charlie's Angels films are set in a different time and thus closer to a film revival.

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10.

Charlie's Angels is a 2000 American action comedy film based on the Charlie's Angels 1976 original television series.

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11.

In 2004, a television film entitled Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels aired on NBC; it was based on the book Charlie's Angels Casebook, by Jack Condon and David Hofstede.

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12.

In 2004, Taiwanese version of Charlie's Angels titled Asian Charlie's Angels, was produced by the Asian channel ImaginAsian.

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