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Charlie's Angels - The Complete First Season |  | Directors: Allen Baron, Bernard McEveety, Bob Kelljan, Cliff Bole, Don Chaffey
Actors: Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith, Diana Muldaur, David Doyle
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
List Price: $24.95
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Rating:  71 reviews
Sales Rank: 5825
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 5
Running Time: 1164 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.5
MPN: D01030D
ISBN: 1404932429
UPC: 043396010307
EAN: 9781404932425
ASIN: B00008WJEZ
Theatrical Release Date: March 21, 1976
Release Date: May 27, 2003
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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
Product Description
ONCE UPON A TIME, JILL, SABRINA & KELLY WERE POLICE OFFICERS WHOSE SKILLS WERE BEING WASTED IN MENIAL DUTIES. A MYSTERIOUS MILLIONAIRE NAMED CHARLES TOWNSEND TOOK THEM AWAY FROM ALL THAT BY OPENING HIS OWN PRIVATE INVESTIGATION AGENCY AND HIRING THOSE GORGEOUS LADIES AS HIS OPERATIVES.
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 CHEAPEST PACKAGING EVER!!! September 2, 2009
Joseph D. Huffman (Tennessee)
The show is great, but it's the worst packaging I've ever seen for a big-time show. No booklet or inserts in the individual plastic cases (4 of which are varying degrees of blue and the 5th simply clear...what? Did they run out of blue cases? Ridiculous!) One reviewer said his came with a logo sticker to hold the 5 cases together. Mine didn't even have that. But with that being said, it is great fun to see the three angels again.
 It brings back more than memories August 29, 2009
Amy W. (Virginia)
When Charlie's Angels entered my life, I was a senior in high school. Watching the angels each week gave me the idea that a girl COULD be beautiful, wear great clothes, have fabulous hair and still kick someone's butt and have an awesome career in something like the police field. I never went that route, but it opened up a whole generation of girls eyes into believing in themselves for whatever they chose to do. Each week I tuned in to see what exciting adventure the gals would find themselves in, and although there are episodes that have some corny possibilities in them, this show was meant to entertain. It still does, 30 years later. I am sad that Farrah Fawcett was only in season 1, as I think she added a lot to the show with her character, and of course - us girls were just wanting THAT HAIR. Have some fun, go back in time 30+ years, and watch the first season of Charlie's Angels, which in my opinion, is the best season.
Charlie's Angels August 17, 2009
Bonnie L. Jennings (USA)
Very Pleased with it brings back good memories of watching this in the 80's.. will always MISS Farrah Fawcett!!!
 The packaging doesn't really deserve even 3 stars July 22, 2009
D. Mckinzie (Atoka, OK)
I gave this 3 stars simply because of the show itself. The packaging is pathetically cheap. Each set of discs is in a plastic holder that doesn't even have any labeling, so there's nothing that shows what the episodes are about. But they didn't forget to include a brochure of all their other DVD's. I didn't bother to read it, since I figured any other DVD's they were selling would probably also be packaged cheap. Whoever planned the packaging really dropped the ball.
man, what a great show! June 29, 2009
kevin k. (st. louis, mo)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
i was watching the farrah tribute marathons this week-end and had such a fun time with it that i ordered the first season. hadn't really watched it since it aired (when i was in middle school-- what a perfect age for this show (i'm a dude)) and was really surprised by how enjoyable it is. sure, it's as formulaic as they come, but the cast had great chemistry, the actors acquitted themselves quite nicely, and the show was actually pretty funny (intentionally-- as well as unintentionally of course). and the music was really great (parts actually reminded me of lost's music-- giacchino must have studied 70's t.v. music). plus, you gotta love all the cars crashing down some hill and totally exploding! and then there's all the no-bras and bikinis(kinda the bread and butter of the show, i guess).
anyway, this is a super-fun show that has all the best the 70's had to offer. and you'll be surprised at how fun and innocent and, oddly enough, how girl-power it is.
too bad there's no commentaries(the original angels on a couple of the best eps would have been priceless) or in depth documentaries or making-ofs, but oh well. at least we have have this classic show.
and a quick word about farrah. she was never my favorite-- to my 10-year-old eyes kelly was the most beautiful and sabrina was the coolest. but watching these again it's easy to see why she was such a colossal sensation. of course she was great lookin', but she was also really funny, flirtatious (in the good, innocent kind of way), and just had this honest, fun way about her. and man, that smile just dazzled. rest in peace farrah fawcett.
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