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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. |
