Charlie's Angels (season 3)
| Charlie's Angels: Season Three | |
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| Starring |
Kate Jackson Jaclyn Smith Cheryl Ladd David Doyle |
Charlie's Angels: Season Three is the third season of the TV series Charlie's Angels. The show starred the cast from season two (making this the only season where there was no cast change). It also saw the return of "retired" Angel Jill Munroe (Farrah Fawcett-Majors) for three episodes, and was the final season to feature Kate Jackson. Season Three originally ran from September 13, 1978 to May 16, 1979.
This season saw Charlie's Angels decline in the ratings. However, a fourth season was commissioned, with Shelley Hack replacing Kate Jackson as Boston-detective Tiffany Welles.
Main cast
- Kate Jackson as Sabrina Duncan (regular)
- Jaclyn Smith as Kelly Garrett (regular)
- Cheryl Ladd as Kris Munroe (regular)
- David Doyle as John Bosley (regular)
- John Forsythe as The Voice of Charles "Charlie" Townsend (recurring)
Notable guest stars
- Farrah Fawcett-Majors (Three episodes)
- Dick Sargent
- Stephen Collins
- Mercedes McCambridge
- Jamie Lee Curtis
- Anne Francis
- Audrey Landers
- Dennis Cole
- Gary Collins
Episodes
| Order | Title | Original airdate |
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| 48 | "Angels in Vegas" | 13 September 1978 |
| When violent and suspicious deaths strike his closest friends, a casino boss hires the Angels to go undercover at the Tropicana Casino in Las Vegas. The Angels must discover the culprit behind the series of mysterious murders before it's too late. | ||
| 49 | "Angel Come Home" | 20 September 1978 |
| The Angels begin some high gear sleuthing when a car explosion kills Jill's fiancé and she becomes the next target in this high-speed adventure. This episode marks the first of six return guest appearances of Farrah Fawcett-Majors, reprising her role as Jill Munroe. Note: There were constant changes of hairstyles and clothes in each scene in this episode. | ||
| 50 | "Angel on High" | 27 September 1978 |
| The Angels are hired by their wheelchair-bound client to find his potential heir. The case takes them to the Reno Air Show where Kelly not only finds romance, but kidnappers, too. | ||
| 51 | "Angels in Springtime" | 11 October 1978 |
| When a famous stage actress is electrocuted at an exclusive women’s spa, the Angels are hired to capture the murderer and find a missing manuscript. Kris is an aerobics instructor, Sabrina a chef, and Kelly a guest. The Angels know they're on the right trail when Kris gets locked in a sauna and Bosley has to stage a power outage to gain entrance to the exclusive women only resort. | ||
| 52 | "Winning is for Losers" | 18 October 1978 |
| When an ambitious Professional golfer competing for first prize money in a high-profile tournament is suddenly shot, the Angels are brought in to solve the mystery. Kris wrestles an alligator! | ||
| 53 | "Haunted Angels" | 25 October 1978 |
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With the intent of contacting a beloved nephew who was killed four years earlier in a motorcycle accident, the Angels are hired by his aunt Claire to pose as psychics in order to uncover a possible fraud. Guest stars: Gretchen Wyler, Linden Chiles, Roger Bowen and Peter Donat | ||
| 54 | "Pom Pom Angels" | 1 November 1978 |
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One by one, three sexy cheerleaders are kidnapped by a small band of religious fanatics. In order to crack the case, the Angels must grab their pom-poms to catch the culprits behind this insidious plot. Guest stars: Anne Francis, Lonny Chapman and Fran Ryan | ||
| 55 | "Angels Ahoy!" | 8 November 1978 |
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An innocent woman is murdered after she identifies an escaped convict aboard a luxury liner. The Angels are assigned to infiltrate the ship and discover a ring that assists criminals in escaping the country. At a costume party, ballerina Kelly finally solves the case, but not before the villains try to drown her. Bosley befriends a lovely lady who turns out to be a black widow. Guest stars: Peter Brown, Jack Murdock, Doug Sheehan, Parley Baer and Janis Paige | ||
| 56 | "Mother Angel" | 15 November 1978 |
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Danger is close at the heels of the Angels as Jill joins their search for the killer of a victim who was accidentally discovered by a precocious girl. Guest stars: Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Gary Collins, Robert Davi, Hermione Baddeley, Olivia Barash, Roy Jenson, Mike Mazurki, Peggy Rea and John Steadman | ||
| 57 | "Angel on My Mind" | 22 November 1978 |
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After witnessing a murder, Kris suffers from amnesia and wanders away from the crime scene. Now it’s up to Sabrina and Kelly to find Kris before the murderer does. Guest stars: Jonathan Frakes, Billy Barty, Michael Witney (credited as Michael Whitney) and Frank Doubleday | ||
| 58 | "Angels Belong in Heaven" | 6 December 1978 |
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When an old friend is targeted to be killed, he leaves an urgent message for Charlie, warning him that someone is out to destroy one of his Angels. Guest stars: Don Galloway, Lloyd Bochner, Eddie Firestone, Barry Quin (credited as Barry Quinn) and John Voldstad | ||
| 59 | "Angels in the Stretch" | 20 December 1978 |
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A wealthy gambler is murdered at a racetrack, so the Angels go undercover and discover a scheme where a losing horse is being switched with his winning twin. Sabrina is charmed by an Irish groom, but will his involvement in the case chill their romance? Guest stars: John David Carson, James Gammon, Richard Bakalyan, Joyce Jameson and David Hedison | ||
| 60 | "Angels on Vacation" | 10 January 1979 |
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While vacationing in Arizona with Kris’s family, the Angels learn that gangsters have taken all the women in the small town hostage in exchange for one of their strongmen. The Angels dress as spinsters to attack the gangsters and free the captured women. Guest stars: Denny Miller, Lyle Talbot, Lee Delano, John McIntire, Jeanette Nolan, Jason Wingreen and Herb Vigran | ||
| 61 | "Counterfeit Angels" | 24 January 1979 |
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A devious scam is devised by three doppelganger women who pose as the Angels in order to rob a sports arena box office. The real Angels go undercover to capture their imposters when warrants are issued for their arrest. Guest stars: Bubba Smith, Hilary Thompson, Paul Cavonis and Noah Keen | ||
| 62 | "Disco Angels" | 31 January 1979 |
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When the Angels are summoned to investigate a strangulation, it leads them to the popular Freddie’s Disco where they go undercover to prevent another killing. Kris burns up the floor, but can she escape the unbalanced disc jockey? Guest stars: Zalman King, Shera Danese, Robert Symonds, Diane McBain and Arthur Malet | ||
| 63 | "Terror on Skis" | 7 February 1979 |
| When a plot to kidnap the President’s Special Envoy to the United Nations unravels at the site of the World Pro-Am Ski Competition, a government agent enlists the Angels to protect the envoy. Sabrina races against time to escape from her captors, the members of an extremist Italian Radical Group, and warn the other Angels of terrorist activity before time runs out. | ||
| 64 | "Angel in a Box" | 14 February 1979 |
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When Kris is mysteriously kidnapped, Jill returns to town to help locate her sister but soon discovers that she was the real target for a business mogul blaming her for his son’s untimely death. Guest stars: Farrah Fawcett-Majors, John Colicos, Perry Lopez, Bill Fletcher, and Art LaFleur | ||
| 65 | "Teen Angels" | 28 February 1979 |
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When a murder occurs at a posh all-girls school, the Angels assume false identities only to discover a ring of girls involved in drug and alcohol abuse. Guest stars: Audrey Landers, and Lori Lethin | ||
| 66 | "Marathon Angels" | 7 March 1979 |
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When the Angels investigate the unusual disappearance of two participants in a marathon, Kris and Kelly join the race to literally chase down the suspects. Everyone has an angle for the highly publicized female-only race. Guest stars: Sarah Purcell, Ronnie Schell and Walter Brooke | ||
| 67 | "Angels in Waiting" | 21 March 1979 |
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Bosley becomes annoyed with being so predictable and decides to play a game with the Angels to see if they can figure out the clues to his whereabouts. Unknown to Bosley, he is actually a target for a dangerous ex-con. Guest stars: Patricia Crowley and James Sikking | ||
| 68 | "Rosemary, For Remembrance" | 2 May 1979 |
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When an ex-mobster is targeted for murder, the Angels are called in by his nephew to investigate. When the mobster's nephew meets Kris, he hopes she can find the priceless diamond necklace the mobster gave to his wife the night of the murder. But when the ex-mobster starts to think Kris is actually his wife, and he reconstructs the last night he spent with Rosemary, she finds herself thinking she's going to be murdered like the original wife Rosemary was. (NOTE: Cheryl Ladd doubles as the Prohibition-era flapper.) Guest stars: Ramon Bieri, Robert Karnes and Barbara Tarbuck | ||
| 69 | "Angels Remembered" | 16 May 1979 |
| The Angels reminisce with Bosley and Charlie about their three years of working together. (NOTE: This is Kate Jackson's final episode and is a clip show.) | ||