Charlie's Angels - The Complete First Season
buy dvd movies, videos
|
 |
List Price: $49.94
Our Price:
$34.99
You Save: $14.95
Features
• Box set
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• DVD-Video
• Full Screen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 1976
DVD Release : 27 May, 2003 |
| [ + Zoom ] [ Buy Now ] |
DVD : Usually ships in 24 hours |
|
Charlie's Angels - The Complete First Season Customer Reviews
|
|
|
|
♥♥♥♥♥ |
Fun Guilty Pleasure
|
There is great television that captures the imagination with its complicated characters and plots. Then there are shows like this one that are mindless, fluff entertainment but completely fun in their own cheesy way.
The show focuses on three female police officers who quit their boring police jobs to work for mysterious millionaire Charlie Townsend (voiced by the never really seen John Forsyth). Sabrina (Kate Jackson), Jill (Farrah Fawcett), and Kelly (Jaclyn Smith) now work as private detectives handling cases for people who turn to Charlie for help. That usually requires the three of them to go undercover to gather the clues needed. Assisting them in any way needed is Bosley (David Doyle).
So what kind of cases do they take on in this season? Well, there's the aging film starlet who keeps seeing scenes from her old movies. There's the case of the rag doll strangler. The centerfolds at Feline Magazine keep dying. Jill goes undercover at a roller derby. And in the most famous episode of the season, the three ladies get themselves arrested to discover the fate of a woman arrested and never heard from again.
While the series will never be mistaken for great television, it is fun. The acting is decent, at least from the leads. And there's an impressive display of guest stars including a young Tommy Lee Jones, Kim Basinger, and Tom Selleck.
Unfortunately, the stories sometimes leave a little something to be desired from a mystery standpoint. Many of the cases are solved by coincidence with the details being explained to us in the last few minutes. A couple of the episodes are clunkers, like "The Big Tap-Out" which is boring the entire way through. And some of the guest actors are so over the top it really gets annoying.
Fans will enjoy watching this set, which contains the original two hour long pilot plus all 22 first season episodes. The only extra, a documentary on the popularity of the series, isn't that special.
This show is not great television. It was popular because it was fun. And, if you can ignore some of the flaws, it really still is. |
|
Charlie's Angels - The Complete First Season dvd movie.