Seinfeld

SEINFELD BLOG

Charlie's Angels - The Complete First Season

starring: Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith, Diana Muldaur, David Doyle
directed by: Allen Baron, Bernard McEveety, Bob Kelljan, Cliff Bole, Don Chaffey

: Charlie's Angels - The Complete First Season
See Larger Image
List Price: $39.95
You Pay Only: $19.99
You Save: $19.96 (50%)
Prices subject to change.



Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours




Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404932425
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 1404932429
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: May 27, 2003
Running Time: 1164 minutes
Sales Rank: 6854
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: March 21, 1976



Related Items:

Editorial Review:

Description:
This five-disc compilation features the entire First Season with the original Angels Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith and all their adventures from one of the most classic shows in television history.

Once upon a time, Jill, Sabrina and Kelly were police officers whose skills were being wasted in menial duties such as answering phones and filing. A mysterious millionaire named Charles Townsend took them away from all that by opening his own private investigation agency and hiring these gorgeous ladies as his operatives with John Bosley acting as their assistant and liaison.

Amazon.com:
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



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Charlie's Angels Season 1
Unable to find this DVD anywhere else. Great price. Will definitely buy hard to find DVDs again


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A definate must!!
Any hard core "Charlie's Angels" fan MUST have the first season DVD set which includes the pilot! ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Then and Now!
When Charlie's Angels made it's debut in 1976, I had just turned 10 years old. Me and my friends would ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Awesome 1st season, Despicable packaging!!!
The minute the pilot starts you will have a smile on your face when you are re-introduced to these three ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - MPI Home Video's Angels
Sony Pictures, selling Charlie's Angels to MPI Home Video would be a perfect idea for the fans, who have ... Read More

More Charlie's Angels - The Complete First Season Reviews

Browse for similar items by category:







Copyright ©2003, Mark Carey.