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Charlie's Angels
*At one point, the series was getting 18,000 fan letters each week!
*Originally, the producers of the tv show wanted a blonde, a redhead and a brunette for the three Charlie's Angels cast members but they wanted both Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith so bad that they gave up the idea.
*John Forsythe was not the first choice for the voice of Charlie. The originally hired actor showed up drunk for work and John agreed to take the job.
*The hair style worn by the charachter "Jill Monroe" was so popular that shortly after the show began, a large percentage of America's females were wearing "Farrah Fawcett Hairdos".
*Robert Wagner reluctantly accepted 45% ownership of the series as payment for a prior contract he had with Aaron Spelling. He said that he felt the show was the worst idea he'd ever heard!
*Charlie's Angels was the only immediately obvious hit of the 1976-77 season. By the end of the season, 59% of all tv viewers were watching the show in its time slot. It stayed in the Nielson ratings "Top Ten" for the first three seasons.
*Two of Charlie's Angels cast posed in Playboy magazine. Tanya Roberts in October of 1982 after the series was cancelled. Farrah Fawcett posed in December of 1978 (not nude) and bared it all at age 48 in December of 1995.
*Originally, the show was to be about three female cops and would be called "Alley Cats". Kate Jackson suggested that the women be detectives instead, that the name be changed to "Harry's Angels", and that Harry should be a voice on an intercom and never be seen. The producers used all of her suggestions except they changed "Harry's" to "Charlie's" because the tv series "Harry O" was already using that name. Ironically, Jackson was ultimately fired from the show for constantly complaining about how lousy the scripts were.
*Due to the popularity of Charlie's Angels, it was the first show to break the $100,000 per minute barrier for advertising.
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