Charlie's Angels - The Complete First Season | 
 enlarge | Directors: Allen Baron, Bernard Mceveety, Bob Kelljan, Cliff Bole, Don Chaffey
Actors: Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith, Diana Muldaur, David Doyle
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
List Price: $39.95
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Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 15841
Format: Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 5
Running Time: 1164
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.5
MPN: COLD01030D
ISBN: 1404932429
UPC: 043396010307
EAN: 9781404932425
ASIN: B00008WJEZ
Theatrical Release Date: March 21, 1976
Release Date: May 27, 2003
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Product Description
Once upon a time jill sabrina & kelly were police officers whose skills were being wasted in menial duties. A mysterious millionaire named charles townsend took them away from all that by opening his own private investigation agency and hiring those gorgeous ladies as his operatives. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/27/2008 Starring: Farrah Fawcett Kate Jackson Run time: 1164 minutes
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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. 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
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 Excellent all the way December 15, 2008
I still have yet to finish watching all of this collection,but from what I have seen so far,it is superb,...a MUST for any Angel fan. Jaclyn is great as always,but I am starting to like the others(Kate and Farrah),too.
But Jaclyn is my most loved Angel in my book.
Charlie's Angels Season 1 November 17, 2008
Unable to find this DVD anywhere else. Great price. Will definitely buy hard to find DVDs again
A definate must!! September 24, 2008
Any hard core "Charlie's Angels" fan MUST have the first season DVD set which includes the pilot! A guilty pleasure and a blast to the past!
Enjoy!
Then and Now! August 20, 2008
When Charlie's Angels made it's debut in 1976, I had just turned 10 years old. Me and my friends would watch every episode of Season One as if it were required by law! We convinced our parents to buy us the trading cards, the t-shirts, the magazines, the posters, the stickers that we placed on our school notebooks, and anything else the merchandising industry would churn out. Like it or not, the introduction of Charlie's Angels made an enormous impact on pop culture in the 1970's.
A couple of years ago, I noticed the Season One set at a local retailer and purchased it simply because the price was right. To be quite honest, the front cover of the box also hooked me. I really didn't remember any details of the show and just thought that I would set it aside for a rainy day. Finally, that rainy day came and I decided to start watching it while working out on my elliptical trainer in the evenings. The first few episodes were a bit dull, however, it did not take long for me to remember why I loved watching my Angels in the 1970's.
There are two very good reasons to buy this set. The first is that watching Charlie's Angels is just plain fun. The plots are not too heavy, there is plenty of action, the dialogue is light and campy, and anytime anyone is murdered or killed, YOU ARE NOT FORCED TO WITNESS A BLOOD-BATH! (Sorry "Law and Order" Fans.) Oh yes, I forgot to mention the SEX APPEAL didn't I? While the show is most certainly full of "eye-candy" it is nothing compared to what you see on television today.
The second reason to purchase this set is because Charlie's Angels takes you back to the highest form of glamour and glitz that existed in the 1970's. (The good, the bad, and the absurd.) The Angels are beautiful, the automobiles are enormous, the decor is hideous, the hair-styles are gigantic, and the clothing...WHAT IN THE WORLD WERE THEY THINKING? Then again, what were any of us thinking?
Charlie's Angels was a concept that could not fail and I am quite certain that if you purchase this set, you will agree with me.
Awesome 1st season, Despicable packaging!!! July 19, 2008
The minute the pilot starts you will have a smile on your face when you are re-introduced to these three gorgeous women. All the episodes have been digitally remastered and somehow the show looks fresh again. The monsoon of nostalgia will make you appreciate this very special moment in tv history. The dvd has adequate extras like the featurette Angels Forever.I would of like to have seen some current interviews with the stars as well as some behind the scenes clips. The restoration of the series on this dvd collection is great however the packaging is abysmmal and disappointing!If you consider what a cultural juggernaut Charlie's Angels was and the constant media coverage of the show I cannot believe this collection was put together so shabbily! The dvds come housed in see through plastic slimline dvd cases no images of the girls and the dvd cases (five in all) are held together at the spine with a sticker with the logo of the show which after a few times of use peels off.The packaging is cheezier than the polyester and Ford Pinto's on the show! Obviously it's the show that matters but when I see in stores much lesser shows get the royal treatment as far as packaging goes it just stings a little because I'll never have my Farrah poster again!Oh well! The show get's 5 stars the packaging gets half a star!
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