Charlie's Angels

  • Farrah Fawcett Jill Munroe (1976-1977, 1978, 1979, 1980) ( Almut Eggert, Evelyn Maron )
  • Jaclyn Smith Kelly Garrett (1976-1981) (Andrea Brix, Ulrike Moeckel )
  • Cheryl Ladd Kris Munroe (1977-1981) (Katrin Miclette, Maud Ackermann )
  • Shelley Hack Tiffany Welles (1979-1980) ( Marietta Meade )
  • Tanya Roberts Julie Rogers (1980-1981) ( Rebecca Volz )
  • David Doyle: John Bosley (1976-1981) ( Gerd Duwner )
  • John Forsythe: Charlie Townsend ( voice ) ( George Corten, Jürgen Thormann )

Charlie's Angels ( Original title: Charlie 's Angels ) is an American crime series from the 1970s and 1980s. The series aired from 1976 to 1981 in the U.S. and brought it to a total of 115 episodes in five seasons.

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The three attractive police academy graduates Sabrina Duncan (Kate Jackson), Jill Munroe ( Farrah Fawcett ) and Kelly Garrett ( Jaclyn Smith) are hired by the Charles Townsend Agency in Los Angeles as a private interior. Your rich and mysterious boss Charlie, who calls her his " angel ", they have never met, instead they receive their orders by speakers from him. In the solution of their cases receive the Three Angels support of John Bosley (David Doyle ), the head of the detective agencies.

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  • The voice of Charlie was spoken of in the original English version by John Forsythe.
  • Originally the concept for the actress Kate Jackson was created. We then decided, however, to ask her two fellow activists on the page.
  • The success of the series was based not only on the originality of the scripts, which could act to ever new locales the angels, but also on the attractiveness of its three leading ladies. Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Jaclyn Smith were in some way influential in fashion and make-up of the late 1970s.
  • After only one season Farrah Fawcett got out of the series, but had to commit to take several guest appearances in later episodes. In its place, Cheryl Ladd joined ( Kris Munroe ). She played the younger sister of Jill. After the departure of Kate Jackson of the third angel of Shelley Hack ( Tiffany Welles ) was played. But they already ended the role after one season and was replaced by Tanya Roberts (Julie Rogers ).
  • Only Jaclyn Smith remained from beginning to end of the series there and also had the only one in the 2003's film version 3 Charlie's Angels - Full Throttle a short guest appearance as a former angel.
  • The success of the original series, however, was surpassed by the filming of the Angels for the big screen. The first movie 3 Charlie's Angels in 2000, starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu brought such good business for that in 2003, with 3 Charlie's Angels - Full Throttle was a continuation nachgeschoben.
  • At the ceremony for the Emmy Awards 2006, the " Ur Angel " Kate Jackson Jaclyn Smith and Farrah Fawcett united on stage to pay tribute to the recently deceased Aaron Spelling.
  • In the original English version, the title sequence includes a brief spoken by Charlie introduction in which he explains how he their previous " exciting " (store such as files, use as a traffic warden or in the telephone, etc.) tasks the three angels has snatched. You can hear in the German dubbing nor the corresponding points at which the music for the text passages is regulated somewhat quieter. The text of the first season is as follows: "Once upon a time, there were three little girls who went to the police academy ... And theywere each Assigned very ' hazardous ' duties ... But I took them away from all that, and now They work for me. My name is Charlie. " In later seasons of the text has been adjusted somewhat to explain the background of each new angel.
  • For the role of Charles Townsend Gig Young was originally been committed, but because of his alcoholism could not meet its obligations. So he was at the last moment replaced by John Forsythe.
  • In March 2011, the production of rebooting the series, in which Annie Ilonzeh, Minka Kelly, Rachael Taylor and Ramon Rodriguez began playing the lead roles. The series started on 22 October 2011, exactly 35 years after the start of the original series on ABC. However, the production has already been set after only four episodes broadcast due to declining rates.

Crossover

Between the broadcast of the pilot film for the American television series Vegas and the first regular episode graduated from Robert Urich as Dan Tanna a so-called "crossover" in a gambling Las Vegas episode of the series. This fact was certainly due primarily to the fact that Aaron Spelling was a producer of both series.

Another crossover was there with the series The Love Boat, also a production of Aaron Spelling. In the episode "Adventures in the Caribbean " determine the Angel on the " Pacific Princess " on the making of the main suspects of looting a cruise. As a guest star Gavin MacLeod, Lauren Tewes, Fred Grandy, Bernie Kopell, and Ted Lange occur in their Love Boat roles.

DVD releases

The first two complete seasons are available on DVD at each trade as box sets. The episodes of the first season match - including cuts and German title sequences - the local television broadcast and are only in German synchronization before. In contrast, the second season also contains the original English, and two episodes that were never aired in Germany and thus be out of sync and only subtitled German. Season three has been available since April 2009 in the trade.

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