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Charlie's Angels - Hellride
episode 1.1
USA 1976
produced by
Rick Husky, Leonard Goldberg (executive), Aaron Spelling (executive) for Spelling-Goldberg Broadcasting/ABC
directed by Richard Lang
starring Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith, David Doyle, Don Gordon, Mayf Nutter, Kurt Grayson, John Dennis Johnston, Jenny O'Hara, Ric Mancini, Norma Connolly, Rosanne Covy, Russ Grieve, Anne Ramsey, Bob Frank, John Forsythe (voice)
written by Edward J.Lasko, series created by Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts, music by Jack Elliott, Allyn Ferguson
TV-series
Charlie's Angels
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Stock car racer Suzy Lemson (Rosanne Covy) dies in a crash during a
race - but her mechanic Jerry Adams (John Davis Johnston) does not believe
in an accident, which is why he calls Charlie's Angels for help. To
investigate. Angel Kelly (Jaclyn Smith) checks on Suzy's background while
Jill (Farrah Fawcett) poses as the naive daughter of a wandering preacher,
played by Charlie's right-hand-man Bosley (David Doyle), and Sabrina (Kate
Jackson) actually takes part in the race. Soon, the four of them (the
three Angels plus Bosley) have tracked down not one but four culprits -
Suzy's criminal ex Dirko (Mayf Nutter), racing promoter Wells (Don
Gordon), mean racer Bloody Mary (Jenny O'Hara) and her mechanic Ted (Kurt
Grayson) - but no motive, and they have obviously attracted the attention
of their suspects, too, since Wells and Dirko soon try to shoot Jill and
do actually shoot Ted, who has during the course of events become more and
more of a liability ... The day of the race, a race that takes its
drivers from California to Mexico ... and finally, Bosley and the Angels
figure our gang of baddies plans a heist during the race and wants to use
Bloody Mary's car to smuggle the loot over the border - something Suzy has
apparently gotten wind of which is why she had to die. Need I say that the
Angels spoil the baddies' plan, and during the race, too? It's
hard to judge this (or any) episode of the wildly popular series Charlie's
Angels: As a piece of crime drama, it's silly to the hilt, as this
trio of very attractive crimefighters who try to charm their way out of
almost every situation hardly rings true - and yet there is a certain camp
element in the series that makes it hard to totally not like the whole
thing, something that has to do with the very premise of the series, the
girls' sexy outfits, too-white-to-be-true smiles, silly plot elements, and
limited acting abilities of the whole cast. Actually, it's a TV-show to
laugh at, not necessarily for all the right reasons (though to be fair,
the series as a whole never took itself too seriously). but laughing is a
good thing for any reason, isn't it?
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