Charlie's Angels: Season 1

1976 · 22 episodes · ★ 6.8

What Season 1 of Charlie's Angels

Sabrina Duncan, Jill Munroe and Kelly Garrett graduate from the Los Angeles police academy and end up in dull jobs, such as writing parking tickets or watching a crosswalk. Fed up with the routine, they quit and become private detectives working for Charlie Townsend, a millionaire who is never seen face to face. He assigns their cases over the phone on speakerphone, because he has many enemies and wants to protect his agents and his identity. The three investigate crimes in a city where any assignment can go wrong. Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Jaclyn Smith lead the cast, while John Forsythe voices Charlie.

22episodes

Sep 22, 1976premiered

May 4, 1977latest episode

18.1 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 Hellride
Sep 22, 1976 · 47 min · ★ 5.6
Sabrina pretends to be a racecar driver when the girls go undercover to investigate a conspiracy surrounding the death of a female racer.
Directed by Richard Lang · Written by Edward J. Lakso · Starring Jenny O'Hara, Don Gordon, Kurt Grayson, Russ Grieve
1x02 The Mexican Connection
Sep 29, 1976 · 48 min
The Angels head to Mexico in search of a downed plane full of heroin. While trying to find the only survivor of the crash, they end up in the crossfire between two warring heroin dealers.
Directed by Allen Baron · Starring: Cesare Danova, Arnold Soboloff, Elyssa Davalos, Robert Tafur
1x03 Night of the Strangler
Oct 13, 1976 · 47 min
The Angels investigate a series of rag-doll stranglings, using Kelly's resemblance to the first victim to attract the murderer.
Directed by Richard Lang · Starring: Rosemary Forsyth, Richard Mulligan, Alex Henteloff, William Beckley
1x04 Angels in Chains
Oct 20, 1976 · 48 min · ★ 6.2
The Angels go behind bars to uncover a scheme at a prison-farm in a corrupt small town where rich women are enslaved for their fortunes and then killed.
Directed by Phil Bondelli · Written by Robert Earll · Starring: David Huddleston, Kim Basinger, Neva Patterson, Mary Woronov
1x05 Target: Angels
Oct 27, 1976 · 47 min
Running from an unknown assassin, the Angels hide out in Charlie's mansion only to discover that they've led the killer to his real target, Charlie.
Directed by Richard Lang · Written by David Levinson · Starring Thayer David, John Agar, David Healy, Tom Selleck
1x06 The Killing Kind
Nov 3, 1976 · 50 min
The Angels pose as employees and guests of an exclusive hotel-resort to solve the murder of an investigative reporter.
Directed by Richard Benedict · Written by Rick Husky · Starring Judson Pratt, Joseph Ruskin, Hugh Gillin, Frank Maxwell
1x07 To Kill an Angel
Nov 10, 1976 · 50 min · ★ 5.2
Skip, a mentally challenged child who Kelly has taken on an outing, witnesses a murder and runs away when Kelly is wounded. Sabrina and Jill try to find Skip, while the killer, posing as Skip's father, visits Kelly at the hospital.
Directed by Phil Bondelli · Written by Rick Husky · Starring Robert Donner, John Zaremba, Lee Bryant, Bea Silvern
1x08 Lady Killer
Nov 24, 1976 · 50 min
Jill becomes a candidate for the centerfold of Feline Magazine, hoping to tempt the murderer of two models.
Directed by George McCowan · Written by Sue Milburn · Starring: Alan Fudge, Hugh O'Brian, Martha Smith, Richard Foronjy
1x09 Bullseye
Dec 1, 1976 · 50 min
The Angels enlist in the military to uncover a drug-profiteering scheme run by a cruel drill sergeant and a crooked military physician.
Directed by Daniel Haller · Written by Jeff Myrow · Starring: Marla Pennington, L.Q. Jones, Robert Pine, Jeanne Bates
1x10 Consenting Adults
Dec 8, 1976 · 50 min
A computer dating service, fronting for prostitutes and their burglar accomplices, starts an underworld war when the thieves steal diamonds belonging to a ruthless crime syndicate. Jill poses as a hooker, while Sabrina and Kelly disguise themselves as veterinarians in order to kidnap the kingpin's prize racehorse.
Directed by George McCowan · Written by Les Carter · Starring: Randy Stone, G.W. Bailey, Ward Wood, Audrey Christie
1x11 The Séance
Dec 15, 1976 · 50 min
Kelly assumes the identity of a rich Texas widow so the Angels can nab a medium who hypnotizes people into believing their dead spouses manage their business affairs from beyond the grave.
Directing: George W. Brooks · Writing: Robert C. Dennis · Starring: Gertrude Flynn, Tonya Crowe, George Wyner, Nancy Cameron
1x12 Angels on Wheels
Dec 22, 1976 · 50 min · ★ 5.2
The Angels go undercover to investigate the mysterious "accidental" death of a roller derby star.
Directed by Richard Benedict · Starring Andra Akers, Taylor Lacher, Steve Sandor, Dick Sargent
1x13 Angel Trap
Jan 5, 1977 · 50 min · ★ 5.6
The Angels try to stop an assassin intent on killing members of the WW II French underground. Sabrina poses as the girlfriend of the next victim.
Directed by George McCowan · Written by Edward J. Lakso · Starring: John Larch, Fernando Lamas, Phyllis Avery
1x14 The Big Tap Out
Jan 12, 1977 · 50 min
The Angels con a compulsive gambler out of his money in order to catch him replenishing his funds through burglary.
Directed by Georg Stanford Brown · Written by Brian McKay · Starring: Bert Remsen, Richard Romanus, Norman Bartold, Jerry Ayres
1x15 Angels on a String
Jan 19, 1977 · 50 min
An international political spokesman for free Poland is abducted and a double is substituted for him at a world conference being held at a resort where the Angels are vacationing.
Directed by Lawrence Doheny · Written by Edward J. Lakso · Starring: Charles Cyphers, Theodore Bikel, Albert Paulsen
1x16 Dirty Business
Feb 2, 1977 · 50 min
While investigating an arson at a legitimate business, the Angels discover it is actually a front for a pornographic film studio that blackmails wealthy people into investing.
Directing: Bill Bixby · Writing: Edward J. Lakso · Starring: Warren Berlinger, John Calvin, Alan Feinstein, Eda Reiss Merin
1x17 The Vegas Connection
Feb 9, 1977 · 50 min
The Angels roll into Las Vegas disguised as a casino auditor and two aspiring showgirls. With Bosley playing the role of a big-spending gambler, the girls set a trap for a con artist.
Directed by George McCowan · Written by John D.F. Black · Starring: Michael Callan, Brooke Bundy, Blackie Dammett, Carla Borelli
1x18 Terror on Ward One
Feb 16, 1977 · 50 min
Jill and Kelly pose as student nurses to catch a rapist who has been terrorizing a hospital night watch. Sabrina plays a local magazine writer working on a story, and Bosley enters the hospital as a patient with a bone spur.
Written by Edward J. Lakso · Starring: Jack Bannon, Richard Derr, Fran Ryan, Michael McGreevey
1x19 Dancing in the Dark
Feb 23, 1977 · 50 min
The Angels investigate a gigolo who charms wealthy women in a ballroom dancing class and then blackmails them. Jill masquerades as a disco dance instructor, Sabrina as a rich heiress and Kelly as a replacement for the gigolo's usual photographer.
Directed by Cliff Bole · Starring: Logan Ramsey, Dennis Cole, John van Dreelen, Jean Allison
1x20 I Will Be Remembered
Mar 9, 1977 · 50 min
The Angels go undercover on the set of an aging movie star's comeback film to catch thieves who want to steal the actress' valuable artwork.
Starring Ida Lupino, Richard Libertini, Alfred Ryder, Louis Guss
1x21 Angels at Sea
Mar 23, 1977 · 50 min
In a series of conspicuous accidents aboard a cruise ship to Hawaii, a young couple is murdered. The ship's owner hires the Angels to investigate. The murderer knows the Angels' true identities from the start and sends them death threats.
Directed by Allen Baron · Written by John D.F. Black · Starring: Meg Wyllie, Frank Gorshin, David Watson, Harold J. Stone
1x22 The Blue Angels Season Finale
May 4, 1977 · 46 min
Sabrina goes undercover on the vice squad with a cop suspected of two murders. Kelly attends the police academy with two of his accomplices and Jill reopens the massage parlor where the murders took place.
Directed by Georg Stanford Brown · Written by Edward J. Lakso · Starring: Dirk Benedict, Joanna Kerns, Timothy Carey, Ed Lauter