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| aired from: Mar 1976 to: Jun 1981 | 116 eps | ABC | 60 min | mono | |
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The wealthy Vincent Le Mer has been missing for seven years, and is about to be declared legally dead. His daughter, Janet, has not been in contact with the family for some time; so his second wife will inherit the estate. Kelly shows up at the house, posing as Janet Le Mer. Mrs. Le Mer and her associates accept her story, but try to poison her. Kelly is exposed as a fraud when the family receives word that the "real" Janet (actually Sabrina) is on her way to town. Kelly claims to have inside information about the Le Mer fortune, and promises to keep quiet about the attempt on her life in exchange for a share of the estate. Sabrina shows no interest in the inheritance, save for a portion of swampland that she would like to convert into a bird sanctuary. Bosley snoops around the swamp and allows one of Mrs. Le Mer's cohorts to capture him. He claims that there is oil on the property. Panicked, the man tries to dig up Mr. Le Mer's body and remove it before the property transfer can take place. The Angels, with some help from the police and a friend of Janet's, catch him in the act and apprehend him. The Angels learn that their client was Janet Le Mer, who had hoped to expose the truth about her father's murder.
b: 21 Mar 76 pc: _______ w: Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts d: John Llewellyn Moxey| Back to TOP of Page |
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Suzy Lemson, a driver at a ladies-only racetrack, dies in a crash during a race. Her mechanic, Jerry Adams, suspects sabotage; and hires the Angels to prove that he was not negligent in his duties. Jerry brings in Sabrina as his new driver, while Bosley and Jill pose as preacher "Brother John" and his daughter and set up their trailer at the racetrack. Jerry and Sabrina discover that the car was sabotaged; and learn that Ted Kale, the mechanic for rival driver Bloody Mary Barrows, was seen tinkering with it the day before the race. Kelly visits Suzy's parents and discovers that she had once been romantically involved with Eddie Dirko, an associate of track promoter Gene Wells. Kelly hits on Eddie, and then gets him arrested for drunk driving so that Jill can have time to snoop around his motel room. She finds a course map of the upcoming race--which goes over the Mexican border--and information about a sophisticated security system. The Angels discover that Wells and Dirko plan to steal diamonds and have Bloody Mary sneak them back across the border during the race. Their scheme is foiled, and Mary spills details of Suzy's murder to the police. Suzy had refused to participate in the heist, so Wells and Dirko eliminated her by paying Kale to tamper with her car and having Mary slam her into the wall.
b: 22 Sep 76 pc: 1 w: Edward J. Lakso d: Richard Lang NOTE: Opening monologue: "Once upon a time, there were three little girls who went to the police academy. And they were each assigned very hazardous duties. (Cut to shots of Sabrina writing parking tickets, Jill typing, and Kelly as a crossing guard.) But I took them away from all that, and now they work for me. My name is Charlie."During a hijacking, a pilot is forced into a crash landing, which kills his sister and leaves him severely injured. His sister is found with heroin on her body. He learns that the hijackers were after a shipment of heroin, and hires the Angels to find out who was responsible for the drugs. Sabrina goes undercover as a stewardess and works alongside Jim Taylor, the client's best friend. Kelly heads to Mexico and gets close to Frank Bartone, the owner of the airline, who is rumored to be heavily involved in drug trafficking. Bartone hires Jill to coach his teenage daughter, an aspiring swimmer who is beginning to wonder if there is some truth behind the rumors about her father's illegal activities. Sabrina discovers a laboratory where Bartone is manufacturing heroin, which is to be smuggled in wine bottles aboard his own planes. After Bartone and his henchman catch Jill in the wine cellar, she claims to be an associate of Escobar, a rival drug trafficker suspected of orchestrating the hijacking. Jill gives Bartone the location of her next scheduled meeting with Escobar; she claims that he has convinced Bartone's Los Angeles connections that he can no longer meet their demands. The body of the man who ran Bartone's heroin lab is delivered to his house in the middle of a party, courtesy of Escobar. Bartone goes across the border in the hopes of meeting his nemesis, unaware that he is walking right into a trap. He is surrounded by drug enforcement agents and taken into custody. Sabrina realizes that the mysterious Escobar is none other than Jim Taylor. He tries to grab Sabrina, but the Angels are able to apprehend him.
Quotes:
Kelly (referring to bikini): "Every time I wear it I get proposals, but not for marriage."
Jim: "We'll tell him we stopped at a motel. He'll understand that."
Sabrina: "Hey...how was I?"
Jill: "Right on schedule, Stewardess Sabrina."
Sabrina: "The only way to fly."
Kelly: "Tacky, Sabrina. Very tacky."
Sabrina: "You keep Bartone off our backs."
Kelly: "It's not your backs he's after."
Jill: "Now I know where to come in case of an air raid."
Sabrina: "I'll drink to that."
Jill: "Kelly's right. You are tacky tonight."
Jim: "You mean you three are a team?"
Jill: "Just like the Supremes."
The Angels investigate the strangulation death of Dana Cameron, a model who was having an affair with her employer, Kevin St. Clair. Kelly and Jill get modeling work at St. Clair's agency, due in large part to Kelly's strong resemblance to Dana. Sabrina cons her way into a job as a photo stylist. St. Clair is considered the prime suspect, until his estranged wife is strangled while he is with Kelly. Suspicion then falls on Jesse Woodman, a public relations official with a previous conviction for aggravated assault; but another (non-fatal) attack occurs while Woodman is dining with Jill. Sabrina arranges a date with photographer/porn director Alec Witt, and finds a photograph of the three victims with exes drawn over their faces. Kelly arrives to help her fend off an attack from the overzealous Witt. Jill has dinner with Heinz Brandon, a strange and lonely costumer. He leaves after stepping away to take a phone call; and is found dead in a church confessional after an apparent suicide, leaving behind a note in which he confesses to the murders. Jill suspects foul play, noting that Heinz--a devout Catholic--would never have killed himself. Sabrina discovers that St. Clair had taken out a large life insurance policy in his wife's name. He collaborated with Woodman and Witt to strangle the three women to make it appear that his wife's death was the work of a serial killer. They each attacked one of the victims, thereby making it seem as though they all had alibis. Bosley finds the entire case very confusing.
Quotes:
Jill: "Sorry. I wasn't trying to be funny."
Kelly: "You weren't."
A woman hires the Angels to locate her sister, who disappeared from a women's prison farm after being picked up for drug possession (possibly on phony charges) in a small town. In order to infiltrate the prison, Sabrina purposely gets pulled over for speeding. The sheriff plants drugs in the trunk and arrests the Angels, who are railroaded into a prison sentence without receiving a fair trial or even being allowed to contact an attorney. They discover that many of the women inside the facility were framed. An inmate reveals that the missing girl was taken to the infirmary about a month earlier (after a deputy tried to rape her), but hasn't been seen since then. Jill fakes stomach cramps to get into the infirmary and investigate; and discovers that Elizabeth signed into the infirmary, but never checked out. The Angels are given fancy dresses and hauled away to a party, where they find that the warden has inmates perform sexual favors for prison suppliers in exchange for discounts on their wares. Jill questions a drunken partygoer about Elizabeth, and learns that she was killed in an escape attempt. The sheriff catches Jill trying to get in touch with a deputy who was the Angels' only contact. He tells her that the man is dead. The warden orders the crooked cops to haul the Angels away and kill them, but they escape from the car and find their way to a rickety pick-up truck. Jill and Kelly throw the truck's potato shipment at the sheriff, causing his car to crash and explode. The corruption at the prison is exposed, and the innocent inmates are released.
Quotes:
Kelly: "There are girls who get a thousand dollars a week for this!"
Jill: "We need another diversion."
Kelly: "Like...?"
Jill: "Come on. I'll show you."
Kelly: "At fifty miles an hour?"
Sabrina: "Sixty!"
Kelly (referring to Jill): "Sometimes I worry about her!"
b: 20 Oct 76 pc: 4 w: Robert Earll d: Phil BondelliA sniper fires a high-powered rifle into Kelly's bedroom, narrowly missing her. The same man tries to attack Jill at a gymnasium, where she had been coaching a youth girls basketball team. Kelly decides to dump her boyfriend rather than explaining her predicament and allowing him to put himself in danger. Kelly and Jill deduce that Sabrina is the likely next target and decide to stay at her apartment. Jill and Sabrina realize that someone has tampered with Sabrina's water bottle and planted explosives under the cap. They fake Sabrina's death, even going so far as to hold her funeral (which she attends, disguised by a veil). The assassin's employer is furious, as he was not supposed to succeed in killing any of the women. Sabrina's colonel father tells her of a contact who might have information about the assassin. Sabrina learns the identity of the hit man and goes to his hotel room, where she finds that he has been murdered. The Angels seek refuge at Charlie's house. They note that it seems odd that a skilled assassin would fail three times, and realize that someone was using them to locate Charlie. Bosley discovers that Ronald Meeker, a man whom Charlie put away for embezzlement, has just been released after serving a fifteen-year prison term. Realizing that Meeker will attempt to kill Charlie the moment he arrives home, Jill and Kelly steal a cab and beat Charlie back to the house. They jump out of the vehicle just before Meeker throws his explosives, and Bosley and Sabrina nab him. Charlie spots the Angels and has the cab whisk him away before they can catch a glimpse of his face.
Quotes:
Sabrina: "Do you have a place to keep a low profile?"
Kelly: "A motel in Burbank."
Jill: "That's as low as a profile can get!"
Bosley: "He was a terrific accountant, lousy crook."
Sabrina: "Like an administration we once had."
Sabrina: "After sitting in prison for all those years, I'd wanna see my victim die."
Jill: "That's terrific. Remind me never to get you mad at me."
Two men try to force investigative reporter Brooke Anderson to turn over her manuscript, which could expose a scandal involving their resort. When she refuses to cooperate, they have a female henchman drown her during an ocean swim. The woman's father, a longtime friend of Charlie's, enlists the Angels' help to prove that his daughter's death was not an accident. Jill and Kelly go undercover at the resort. They discover that the man in charge, Paul Terranova, is bribing the sheriff and head of the local planning commission in the hopes of getting clearance to expand to an area that is currently protected by environmental statutes. Sabrina learns that Terranova and his wife have false identities; they joined the witness protection program after testifying against some of their partners in crime years ago. His associates kidnap Brooke's father and try to force him to reveal the whereabouts of her manuscript. An impostor poses as Mr. Anderson in the hopes of prying information from Sabrina, who later eludes an attempt on her life by forcing her pursuer off the road. Kelly is caught rummaging through Terranova's office and held prisoner with Mr. Anderson. Jill discovers that Terranova's men have killed a senate investigator who had been working as Brooke's informant. Sabrina rescues Kelly and Mr. Anderson from their captors, and the police arrive to help catch Terranova.
b: 3 Nov 76 pc: 6 w: Rick Husky d: Richard Benedict NOTE: Bosley mentions a wife in this episode; but in later shows, claims to have never married.Kelly opts out of a meeting, explaining that she has a date. She has actually arranged an excursion with Skip, a young autistic boy whom she befriended while visiting the children at a sanitarium. She loses track of him for a moment at the amusement park; and he bumps into two men who have just committed a contract killing inside the tunnel of horrors and causes one of them to drop his gun. Skip picks up the weapon and fails to realize that it is a real gun. He shoots Kelly in the head before she can warn him, and runs away in a panic. Kelly does not sustain life-threatening injuries. The Angels realize that Skip can identify the men responsible for the murder in the tunnel, and fear that the killers will come after him. The doctor at the sanitarium suspects that Skip will seek out a familiar place. He shows Jill and Sabrina the note left with Skip when his mother abandoned him, which is written on an old time card. Skip picks up a stray kitten and wanders around gathering the gifts described by Kelly in a story about a sleeping princess. Jill and Sabrina use the time card to identify Skip's mother, but the boy stays one step ahead of them. He shocks his mother by turning up on her doorstep, but quickly leaves. She had been heartsick after giving up her son (at his father's insistence), but could never relocate him. One of the killers comes to Kelly's room, posing as Skip's father. Under the influence of sedatives, she gives away Skip's probable location--the amusement park. Upon realizing her mistake, she leaves the hospital and takes a cab to the park in the hopes of saving him. She has the cabbie call Charlie, and reinforcements quickly arrive to subdue the men. Skip goes to live with his mom and her new husband.
b: 10 Nov 76 pc: 7 w: Rick Husky d: Phil Bondelli NOTE: The young girl who drives Skip to the beach sports a T-shirt for another Spelling-Goldberg series, Starsky and Hutch.Tony Mann hires the Angels to investigate a string of mishaps involving his Feline Club, including the murders of a pair of waitresses who were to appear as centerfolds in his magazine. Jill joins his staff as a waitress (and potential centerfold); Kelly pretends to be a singer; and Sabrina becomes Tony's houseguest and tries to teach him the virtues of women over the age of twenty. Jill is offered a chance to appear in the magazine, and is nearly taken out by an exploding tennis ball during a photo session. Kelly uncovers evidence that suggests that Dave Erhard, Tony's best friend, has been sabotaging the club in the hopes of forcing him to sell to a competitor. However, it is not enough to hold up in court. Kelly pretends to blackmail Erhard, who sets up a meeting at an abandoned refinery. She wears a wire, and her friends move in after Erhard pulls a gun on her. Erhard chases after Kelly and tries to grab her, but she is able to toss him over the edge after a distraction from Bosley. The Angels believe they have wrapped up the case after Erhard is arrested, but someone breaks into Jill's house and tries to kill her. They assume that the only remaining suspect is Victor Burrell, a troubled club employee; but Tony informs them that Victor is in ill health and couldn't possibly have killed two healthy women. The actual murderer is head of waitresses Paula, who invites an unsuspecting Jill to stay with her so that she can make another attempt on her life. Sabrina and Kelly thwart her plans. They discover that Paula has gone insane after losing her hair and suffering severe scarring to one side of her body in a car accident. They stop Paula from taking her own life, and she is placed in a hospital.
Quotes:
Jill: "That's not undercover; that's not any cover at all!"
Sabrina: "Cheer up. As soon as I'm out of here, you can run right down to the high school and check out the graduating class."
b: 24 Nov 76 pc: 8 w: Sue Milburn d: George McCowanMary Jo Walker, a WAC-in-training, is shot and killed by a sniper on the shooting range. The general in charge of the base, a friend of Charlie's, calls on the Angels to investigate the death. Jill and Kelly enter basic training, while Sabrina infiltrates the base hospital as a nurse. Mary Jo's roommate tells Jill that Sgt. Billings, the man in charge of their training, suddenly turned on Mary Jo a few weeks into the session. Sabrina suspects a connection between Billings and Capt. Canlon, a successful doctor at the military hospital. Bosley discovers that both men have been placing suspicious deposits in their bank accounts. A young woman suffering from a heart murmur tries to warn a nurse against using a particular medicine to treat her, and the drug turns out to be past its expiration date. Sabrina realizes that Canlon and Billings have been buying and selling expired medications; which are then shipped to other nations as part of relief efforts, thus making it impossible to trace them back to the source. Mary Jo had been one of a string of soldiers who had covered for them in the scheme, and was killed when she threatened to blow the whistle. Kelly deduces that the rifle used in the shooting has been broken down and shipped out in the kitchen garbage, which is delivered to farmers. Bosley wades through hog slop to find parts of the weapon, and the gun is traced to Billings. Billings catches Jill snooping in his office and takes her hostage. He orders Canlon to turn over his share of their profits, and kills him when he refuses to comply. Gen. Greene wants to give into his demands, but Sabrina and Kelly realize that Billings has no intention of releasing Jill. They take matters into their own hands and rescue her, before denying Billings' escape attempt.
Quotes:
Kelly: "Charlie Townsend is a no-good, sadistic, totally insensitive male chauvinist pig!"
Clifton Cunningham arrives at his gallery to discover that it has been robbed. His business associate Mr. Bialy (a former racketeer who now owns horses) is convinced that he staged the burglary; he kidnaps him and presses him for information. Cunningham's mother hires the Angels to locate him. They discover that his "girlfriend," Tracy Martell, is a longtime prostitute who arranges robberies for an alleged dating service. Jill tells Tracy of Cunningham's disappearance, and promises to help her deal with her legal woes if she aids them with a sting on her boss. After his captors convince him that Tracy is to blame for the robbery, Cunningham tells them her whereabouts. Bialy kidnaps Tracy, but agrees to release her if she tells them where her boss has taken the loot. Tracy's boss and friend catch Sabrina snooping outside their warehouse. Bialy's henchman soon arrives and shoots both men, but leaves Sabrina alone because she has been blindfolded and cannot identify him. He smashes an antique frog and removes a bag of diamonds, which Cunningham had smuggled back from a buying trip to South Africa. The Angels nab Bialy's prized racehorse and promise to return it in exchange for Cunningham and the diamonds. Jill double-crosses Bialy's henchman and eludes him on her new skateboard. The police catch up to Bialy, while Tracy skips town. Cunningham's mother is philosophical about her son's legal woes, reasoning that the time in prison might straighten him out.
Quotes:
Sabrina: "Move and you're part of the wall!"
Bosley: "What a rotten attitude."
Grace Rodeheaver receives a phone call that apparently places her into a trance. She removes a valuable ring from a safe and leaves it in an outdoor location, where an unknown individual retrieves it. She cannot recall any of these events, and hires the Angels to find out who is responsible for the string of burglaries committed against her. Sabrina follows Mrs. Rodeheaver in her day-to-day routine. Kelly and Jill pose as an heiress to an oil fortune and her assistant in order to investigate Mrs. Rodeheaver's spiritual adviser, Madame Dorian. Her assistant, Terrence, hypnotizes Kelly. During a séance, she reverts to her childhood and has flashbacks about being abused by Beamish, the matron at the orphanage where she grew up. She refuses to discuss the incident, and becomes angry when Jill and Sabrina express concern for her well-being. Terrence places Kelly into a trance and gets her to come over to his house in the middle of the night in the hopes of pumping her for financial information. After she blows her cover, Terrence convinces her that Jill is actually Beamish in disguise. Terrence kills Madame Dorian after she learns about his robbery scheme and tries to call the police. He orders Kelly to kill Jill and herself by driving off a cliff. Jill gets her to snap out of it and slow down just in time. Terrence tries to rip off Mrs. Rodeheaver one last time before leaving town. Sabrina sees her go into the hypnotic state and switches the jewels with a couple of rocks. Terrence grabs Jill in a scuffle, but Kelly scares the hell out of him by pretending that she is in another trance and wants to kill him. After he releases Jill and confesses to all his crimes, she admits that she was only acting.
b: 15 Dec 76 pc: 11 w: Robert C. Dennis d: George BrooksAfter roller derby star Karen Jason dies in an apparent accident during a game, her sister hires the Angels to investigate. Jill poses as Barbara Jason and wins a spot on the squad. Sabrina questions Jessica Farmer, who runs an insurance company owned by Hugh Morris, the owner of the roller derby team. Kelly looks through Karen's apartment and finds a baggage claim ticket for a bus locker. Red Loomis, the burly apartment manager, calls Jessica about Kelly's discovery. Her associate, Jeremy Carr, places a bomb on the bottom of Kelly's car. Kelly discovers that the ticket leads to a suitcase filled with money; which also contains several phony drivers' licenses for Betty King, one of Karen's teammates. Charlie tips Kelly off about the bomb, and she is able to escape with the evidence. Karen's sleazy boyfriend, Joe Esposito, is found murdered. A stock market expert with ties to Charlie tells Sabrina that the Hugh Morris Corporation is suffering heavy losses due to questionable insurance settlements. Jessica and Betty ask Jill to take part in a scam in which they stage phony accidents and collect insurance settlements by using various aliases. Jessica and Jeremy discover Kelly and Jill's true identities. Jessica tries to cut a deal with Kelly, and reveals that Jill will suffer a fatal accident in the next game. Betty flips Jill over the railing, but help arrives before Jeremy can harm her. Jill climbs back onto the track and gets revenge on Betty. The Angels and the police arrest her attackers; as well as the team's coach, who was buying stock in the Morris corporation as part of a takeover attempt. Esposito had been attempting to blackmail Jessica, and Karen was killed because she knew too much information.
Quotes:
Kelly: "I've been on a roller coaster ride."
Bosley: "You're at an amusement park?!"
After four members from his old Army Intelligence unit are killed by a skilled assassin, a man turns to the Angels to keep himself from becoming the next victim. The culprit is believed to be a man known only as Jericho, but no case can be made against him because he never leaves any evidence. The client, Kamden, agrees to continue his daily routine in the hopes that Jericho can be caught making an attempt on his life. Sabrina poses as Kamden's girlfriend and takes him to a nearly vacant park for lunch, with Kelly, Jill, Bosley and the police providing back-up around the park's perimeters. Jericho observes Kamden, but refuses to make a move. Jill arranges a "chance meeting" with Jericho, and begins seeing him to try to get a read into when he will attempt the hit. Jericho gets a tip that someone has been asking questions about him; he suspects Jill, but does not take any action. Jill falls for Jericho's charms, and feels extremely guilty when he is wounded and placed under arrest after aiming at Kamden. Jericho had been hired by a prominent French politician, who wanted to protect his career by eliminating anyone who could reveal that he acted as an assassin for the Allies during World War II.
b: 5 Jan 77 pc: 13 w: Ed Lakso d: George McCowanRoy David is caught running out of a building after a robbery, but cannot be arrested because he has shoved the money into a mail slot. He is a career criminal and gambler known for pulling off robberies whenever he hits a bad streak. The Angels set him up to lose the proceeds from his last job, knowing that this will force him to attempt another heist. Bosley poses as a bookmaker at a bar frequented by David, and Sabrina shows up to collect on winning bets for several successive days. Bosley tells David that Sabrina and Kelly are wealthy heiresses to a computer fortune; and David is led to believe that Sabrina is cheating by predicting the outcome of horse races via computer. He blackmails her into picking a winner for him. The Angels rig the outcome of a race by tricking owners into withdrawing two of the three favorites. David bets $20,000 on another race; but this time, Sabrina gives him a sure loser, and she and Bosley disappear with the money. David loses the rest of the money in a rigged blackjack game, as Charlie has planted the dealer. After observing Jill's suspicious behavior at the table, David follows her and sees her buy some sort of plans. She is apparently hit by a car, and the layout to the gambling club falls into David's hands. He pulls off the heist, but Kelly waits on a street and slams into the back of his car. He tries to get away without making an accident report, but the police and a tow truck quickly arrive. As a crowd gathers, the trunk finally pops open, revealing his stash to everyone.
b: 12 Jan 77 pc: 14 w: Brian McKay d: Georg Stanford Brown NOTE: Joel Rosenzweig is the brother of producer Barney Rosenzweig.The Angels go away for a three-day paid vacation. Sabrina is thrilled because Prof. Peter Wycinski, a highly respected Polish political writer, is making a speech at their hotel. Sabrina has a chance encounter with the professor, who comes to her room for a drink and asks to meet with her again. When she waves to him a few moments later, he ignores her. Kelly and Jill find her story highly dubious, but Sabrina insists that something is wrong. Prof. Wycinski's advisors try to convince her that he simply doesn't want to acknowledge her in public because it would be bad for his reputation. Sabrina realizes something is amiss when a man trying to pick her up claims never to have heard of the professor, even though she had seen him keeping surveillance on his room. Sabrina disguises herself as a waitress and sneaks into the banquet hall in the hopes of finding out what is going on. Jill and Kelly discover that someone is being held hostage in a chalet. When one of the captors tries to sneak him out in the back of a trunk, Kelly and Jill follow him and force him off the road. They find that Prof. Wycinski is the prisoner. An impostor has been sent to the banquet hall in his place; he is to make a speech supporting communist rule in his nation. The impostor attempts to drug the Assistant Secretary of State, who will then become confused and go along with a resolution in favor of the communists. Sabrina causes a commotion and removes the poisoned wine. The Angels and an FBI agent grab the culprits and send the real professor out to make his speech.
Quotes:
Kelly (expressing disbelief about Sabrina's story): "Yeah, just last week, Rosalynn Carter leaped through my window with a quart of chili!"
A woman hires the Angels after two men try to set fire to the film vault at her son's business, Goldman Laboratories. Assistant D.A. Paul Baylor--known for his exemplary conviction rate--overhears Jill asking questions about the case and approaches her, claiming to have information. Bosley and Sabrina question two of Goldman's investors, and are confused when the pair angrily denies knowing the man. The Angels discover that Goldman is a pornographer. Goldman admits that he blackmailed his investors into backing him, using film he had taken of their tryst at a local motel. A man tries to shoot Jill in the garage at Sabrina's apartment building. While looking over more footage, the Angels notice a man hurriedly coming out of a building in the background of one scene. Jill suspects that it is the same guy who attacked her, and goes to the location where the film was shot to investigate. She discovers that the building includes an apartment that was the home of a murder suspect that Baylor is prosecuting. She calls a number given to her by Baylor and talks with an officer named Sgt. Danner. He and his partner come to speak with Jill, who recalls that the murder suspect claimed that someone planted evidence. She suddenly realizes that the two officers were responsible, and notices Baylor watching from a distance. He had pretended to work with her on the Goldman case so that he could monitor her progress and do away with her if she got too close. Jill appears to be in serious trouble, but Kelly and Sabrina arrive and help her bring the situation under control.
Quotes:
Sabrina: "That is not the Little Bo Peep I knew and loved as a child!"
Jill (during film): "I'm confused."
Kelly: "Well, all right. Ask questions and I'll try to explain."
Kelly: "I'm still saying a prayer for her."
Charlie: "Gloria?"
Kelly: "No, Millicent. Gloria's prayers have already been answered by now."
A man hires the Angels after his wife is caught stealing money from his safe. Sabrina trails Mrs. Mallin to the Poker Palace, and discovers that she has been purposely losing on a regular basis. She loses a bundle of money, but the other players each make deposits of only $1000. Mrs. Mallin and the other players each have a connection to the Versailles Hotel, a Las Vegas casino. She finally admits that she sought work as a chorus line dancer at the facility years ago, but a job never opened up. She became so desperate that she let Cass Harper talk her into spending the night with one of the high rollers for money. Someone took pictures of the encounter and has been blackmailing her for years. Kelly auditions for a spot as a dancer, and learns that Harper routinely uses young women as part of a plot to blackmail wealthy patrons. (Mrs. Mallin was targeted because she happened to end up marrying a rich man.) Jill must fend off an attack from one of Harper's accomplices, who recognizes her from the Poker Palace. The Angels seek the help of Elsbeth, an aspiring dancer who is trying to turn her life around. Bosley takes a liking to her. He poses as a Texas millionaire and sets himself up as a mark so that Sabrina can find out who else is in on the scam. Sabrina assumes the role of a tax investigator and convinces the casino owner that Harper is stealing from him. He tries to flee, but is caught by two of the owner's henchmen and forced to "go for a walk" in the desert. While he is being beaten, the Angels seize the blackmail evidence. They destroy it and tell the victims that they are in the clear.
Quotes:
Bosley: "No advice. I cook alone."
Jill: "You eat that much garlic, you'll be doing everything
alone."
The Angels investigate the misdoings at a hospital, where someone in doctor's scrubs has attempted several rapes on the nursing staff. Kelly and Jill go undercover as nurses, while Sabrina poses as a reporter. Jill accepts a date with one of the suspects, a nervous intern known for repeatedly making advances toward nurses, and discovers that he is basically harmless. Sabrina learns that chief surgeon Ted Danworth has been taking a form of methamphetamines to cope with his grueling schedule. Several pills are found at the scene of one of the attacks, and Kelly finds a number of empty bottles in Danworth's office. Bosley checks into the hospital under the pretense of having a bone spur in his toe treated. His cantankerous roommate sneaks back into the room in the middle of the night, not long after one of the rape attempts. After learning that Bosley is a detective, Halvorsen slips him his sleeping pill and switches their charts. He punches out an orderly and makes a break for it. Charlie later discovers that Halvorsen actually feared that Bosley was investigating him for overdue alimony payments. Bosley accidentally undergoes an unnecessary appendectomy. Sabrina discovers that Danworth was accused of malpractice after a man died during surgery several years earlier; the orderly, Ted Blain, is the deceased's son. She does not realize that Blain has overheard her talking with Bosley. Kelly returns to Danworth's office to find that he has overdosed, leaving a confession in an apparent suicide note. However, someone has actually forced him to take the pills at gunpoint. Kelly overpowers the attacker and discovers that it is one of the nurses. Blain tells Sabrina that he and the nurse--his mother--plotted to avenge his father's death by discrediting and murdering Danworth. He tries to attack Sabrina with a lead pipe, but Jill and Kelly disarm him. Danworth recovers from the overdose.
Quotes:
Bosley: "Now if he was cleverly and deftly interrogated..."
Jill: "Good idea, Bos. The only trouble is, you're the one that's closest to him, so you'll have to do it."
After a woman rejects the advances of her dance instructor beau, he suddenly attacks her. Someone bursts in and photographs her in a compromising position, and also snaps photos of some drugs that have been planted in her purse. Her late husband is up for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame, so she pays $10,000 to keep the pictures out of circulation. Now on the verge of bankruptcy, she asks the Angels to help her retrieve the money. Jill gets a job as a dance instructor at Alexander Cruz's studio, while Sabrina poses as a nerdy heiress and puts herself in line as instructor Tony Bordinay's next target. Bosley pays Schaffer Goodhew, the private detective working with Cruz, to leave town. Kelly passes herself off as Goodhew's assistant and wins Cruz's trust. Sabrina pretends to get drunk and pass out during a date with Bordinay, and Kelly snaps incriminating photographs. Bosley, claiming to be Sabrina's father, pays $20,000 for the photos. Sabrina tells Cruz that Bosley is a scam artist who intends to sell the pictures to her father for a huge profit. Cruz confronts Bosley and forces him to sell back the photographs for $40,000. Goodhew returns to town and exposes Kelly as an impostor. She does her best to convince Cruz that she is just an opportunist with no ulterior motives, but they have Goodhew hold her at an abandoned bowling alley that is one of Cruz's properties. Cruz and Bordinay pay a visit to Sabrina's "real" father (actually Charlie), who emphatically states that the woman in the pictures is not his daughter. They return to the alley before Kelly can escape, but she and Jill use their bowling skills to incapacitate Bordinay and Goodhew. Sabrina catches Cruz trying to make a getaway.
Quotes:
Sabrina: "She's your girlfriend, isn't she?"
Tony: "Don't be silly. Jill is just an employee here."
Sabrina: "Make her go away. I don't like her!"
Sabrina: "Remember when Julie Andrews sang, 'I Could Have Danced All Night'? She wouldn't have lasted three minutes with Bordinay."
Cruz: "That was yesterday, when your name was Walker. Today is today, Bosley."
Bosley: "And tomorrow is tomorrow is tomorrow."
Kelly: "If we're going to stand around quoting Shakespeare, it's going to be a very tedious day."
Esteemed veteran actress Gloria Gibson seeks the help of her old friend Charlie after she experiences a string of frightening mishaps, including seeing a man hanging from a tree in her front yard. Because all of the events are recreations of scenes from her films, there is some speculation that she might be hallucinating. Gloria insists that someone is trying to drive her crazy--or perhaps even kill her. Sabrina stays in Gloria's house as her secretary, while Kelly lands a job as an extra in her next film. Jill hangs around the set as a reporter. Gloria nearly dies when she is trapped inside her trailer after it is set on fire. Kelly finds it suspicious that one of the stage hands, Galbraith, just happens to have a crowbar handy to pry open the trailer door. Galbraith and his friend Barkley become nervous as Jill investigates the "accident." Barkley climbs onto a catwalk and tries to drop a light onto Jill; but Sabrina warns her, and Barkley falls to his death. Sabrina and Jill see Galbraith and Barkley with Gloria and her husband in an old photograph. She reveals that they once helped her husband obtain a reproduction of a famous painting, which now adorns a wall in her den. Kelly is bewildered to see Gloria's agent, Frank Ross, meeting secretly with Galbraith on the set. She is caught calling her friends, and Frank chases her onto the catwalk with a gun. Sabrina and Jill arrive to help her. They reveal that the painting was actually an original, worth millions; Galbraith and Barkley decided to re-acquire it after the death of Gloria's husband. Frank hoped to keep Gloria from working so that she would become destitute and sell the house, putting the painting into the trio's hands.
Quotes:
Kelly: "I did plays in high school and college, and I never get speeding tickets."
Barney: "Speeding tickets? What does that have to do with anything?"
Kelly: "Whenever the police pull me over, I cry."
Kelly: "Would you think I was pushy if I asked why you were shooting at me?"
b: 9 Mar 77 pc: 20 w: Melvin Levy s: Richard Powell d: Nicholas SgarroThe owner of a cruise line hires the Angels to determine who is responsible for a series of accidents during the voyages, including the death of a honeymooning couple. The Angels receive a threatening note before they have even boarded the ship. A crew member is murdered during the cruise, and Bosley is knocked out and stripped naked after a phony "man overboard" warning. The killer locks Kelly into a passageway and turns on the steam valve; but she is able escape through a panel in the ceiling. Bosley, Jill and Sabrina announce that Kelly is dead, and ask the passengers to submit to fingerprinting so that their prints may be compared to those supposedly left on the steam valve. The killer takes the bait; and Kelly catches Harry Dana, the ship's comedian, wiping the valve clean. The Angels capture him, only to learn that he has planted three sophisticated bombs somewhere on the ship. The deranged Dana explains that he developed psychic abilities after a car accident a few years ago, and blames his boss for his inability to obtain funding to begin a research center. He finally reveals the location of the bombs. A member of the bomb squad communicates with the Angels via radio and helps them work on the devices, which they are ultimately able to throw overboard.
Quotes:
Jill: "My guess is, he's the murderer. How else would he know that Charlie called us angels?"
Sabrina: "Well, it could have just been a coincidence. He was trying to come on to all three of us and needed a collective noun."
Sabrina: "We're not going to laugh at you, Bosley."
Kelly: "And we're not gonna make jokes, either."
Jill: "Jerian did wanna know if you're married though."
Lt. Howard Fine enters a massage parlor, where the owner has shot and killed a customer for assaulting an employee. Fine kills him for threatening to expose his involvement with the establishment, which is a front for prostitution. The chief of police hires the Angels to investigate corruption within the vice squad, as someone has been tipping off the massage parlors before raids. Bosley and Jill re-open one of the parlors, while Sabrina goes to the police department as a special investigator from Phoenix. Fine instructs two men to run over Sabrina in an alley. She gets their license plate number, and is stunned to discover that the car is registered to police cadet John Barton. Kelly returns to the police academy and enrolls in the same class as Barton. He and his friend Miller admit that they are involved in a rather lucrative venture. Fine plans to kill Natalie Sands, the girl who was beaten at the massage parlor; but Sabrina interrupts. Natalie reveals that her boss received inside information from "Doc," a man with ties to the police department. Fine spares her life because she cannot identify Doc or his associates. Bosley records a conversation between Barton and Fine that proves their involvement in the scandal. Fine calls Bosley and explains that he will "look out" for his establishment in exchange for weekly payments. Sabrina's ex-husband, who had been transferred to Santa Barbara, notices her name plate during a brief stopover at the police station. He ends up blowing the Angels' covers. Jill goes to the restaurant where Kelly is dining with Barton and advises her to watch him. Jill and Kelly ride to a junkyard with Barton and Miller, but realize that something is amiss and disarm them. Fine takes Sabrina to the junkyard and plans to kill her, but walks right into an ambush. He shoots himself in the stomach.
Quotes:
Bosley (on phone): "We take reservations, but she's booked up through next week. No, she wouldn't do that. I don't think she even knows what it is! I know I don't know what it is!"
Charlie: "You seem a bit down in the dumps, Bosley."
Bosley: "Actually, I'm down on the floor, Charlie."
Charlie: "Whatever pleases you."
There were 33 character deaths during the first season.
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Sabrina and Kelly are upset over Charlie's decision to hire a replacement for Jill, who has taken a leave of absence to pursue a career as a race-car driver. Their fears quickly fade after they discover that their new partner is Jill's younger sister Kris, who attended the police academy in San Francisco. They must fly to Hawaii after Charlie calls and reveals that he has been kidnapped from his boat. The Angels meet Charlie's captor, a cunning young smuggler named Leilani Sako. She threatens to kill Charlie unless the Angels help her husband Billy escape from prison. Sabrina determines that they will break Billy out, and then return him after Charlie is safe. Billy's lawyer arranges for a court hearing, and the Angels and Bosley set up an elaborate scheme to stage an accident and spring him from a police car. The Angels grow concerned over the interference from one of Leilani's rivals; who attempts a hit on Leilani, shoots Billy's sister, and threatens Kelly. Leilani loses Charlie to the competitor, Alfred Blue, but still hopes to force the Angels to return her husband. Sabrina emphatically states that she will not see Billy again unless she helps them find Charlie. Blue tries to cut his own deal for Billy. A man's body washes up on the beach--with Charlie's identification in his back pocket.
Quotes:
Bosley: "I always thought the world of Jill. She tell you anything else?"
Kris: "She said you had eyes like Paul Newman and a smile like Robert Redford."
Bosley: "I see that you've got your sister's peculiar sense of humor."
Kris: "Is that the speaker that Charlie talks to you on?"
Kelly: "There is no Charlie. Bos made him up."
Kris: "I can't believe it. Charlie's been kidnapped, and I haven't even seen him yet."
Kelly: "So what else is new?"
Kona: "Hey sister, you in the business?"
Kelly: "No."
Kona: "Big shame, girl. Could get rich."
Kelly: "Money ain't no big thing, sista."
Sailor: "How 'bout a massage?"
Sabrina: "No thanks."
Sailor: "How 'bout you give me one?"
Sabrina: "You'll have to wait till I'm done with the admiral in the back."
(Blue sneezes)
Kris: "God bless you...I think."
Leilani: "Sabrina, I am not accustomed to taking orders."
Sabrina: "Learn."
The Angels cannot identify the body, but one of Leilani's men says that it is not Charlie. Billy describes to Bosley the way he fell in love with Leilani, and laments her reluctance to give up their shady lifestyle. Billy suggests that they simply trade him for Charlie, but the Angels refuse to even consider sacrificing him. Kelly and Kris search for Sammy Telford, an eccentric man who might have information about Blue. One of Leilani's men tries to kidnap them to set up an exchange for Billy, but Blue's men drive the attackers away. Leilani assures Kris and Kelly that she had nothing to do with the kidnap attempt, and promises that there will be no further interference. Kris finds Sammy at a nude beach, where he is preaching about the dangers of too much sun. She must discard her clothes to get onto the beach and talk to him, prompting much teasing from Kelly and Sabrina. Sammy tells Kris that Blue is most likely holding Charlie on his yacht. The Angels cannot call the police because they would get into hot water for springing Billy. Sabrina contacts Blue and pretends that she wants to turn over Billy in exchange for cash and future employment opportunities. She goes to his yacht to discuss business, with Kelly, Kris and Billy hiding under a cover in her speedboat. The trio sneaks on board the boat, where Kris barricades herself in the engine room and Kelly takes over the bridge. Sabrina tries to free Charlie, but he breaks loose of his shackles and jumps out a window while she is fighting with Blue and his men. Kelly steers the boat toward shore; and the Coast Guard comes aboard and accuses Blue of harboring a fugitive. Billy comes out of hiding and surrenders, claiming that Blue broke him out of prison. The Angels follow Charlie's lead by jumping overboard and swimming to shore.
Quotes:
(Kelly and Sabrina laugh hysterically.)
Kris: "Well, fine. What would you have done in my place?"
Kelly: "I just wouldn't have thought it would have been this funny if it had been me!"
Sabrina (while watching film of herself hula dancing): "I will never have another Mai Tai as long as I live."
b: 14 Sep 77 pc: 23B w: John D.F. Black d: Charles S. DubinA temperamental ice show owner hires the Angels to investigate after someone breaks into his office. Billy, a slow-witted locker room attendant, accepts a bribe to leave a door unlocked so that some masked men can kidnap the male skating star. They also take his partner, much to Billy's dismay. Kelly and Kris audition for the show. They are able to sweet-talk the artistic director into accepting them, although Kris is reassigned to clown duty after she repeatedly falls down. Two fabulous skaters suddenly show up out of nowhere to take over for the missing leads. Kelly finds their appearance rather suspicious, but is unaware that they are actually highly skilled assassins. Their employer also nabs a security guard and sends in one of his goons as a substitute. While checking out the missing female skater's apartment, Sabrina has a run-in with one of the kidnappers. She tries to chase him, but gets arrested for commandeering a truck and accidentally slamming into a police car. Sabrina talks with a wino who has been hanging around outside the arena all week. She learns that a limousine with diplomatic license plates has been involved in several mysterious happenings. The skaters practice a routine in which they will fire muskets that contain American flags. The masked men knock out the ice show's machinist, and the new skaters' "cousin" offers to fill in for him. He tampers with the muskets, putting real artillery into two of them.
Quotes:
Kris: "It's Canoe, isn't it? I knew it was Canoe. You know, with your body chemistry, it's like gardenias in the fall."
Kelly: "Alvin, you know, you're really outrageous."
Alvin: "Oh?"
Kelly: "Who else could get away with fuchsia and magenta?"
Kris: "And you make it work, too."
Cop #1: "License, please."
Sabrina: "Uh, that would be a driver's license."
Cop #2: "That's the idea."
Sabrina: "Look, uh, you're never gonna believe this, but I don't have it with me. You see, I left it in the room when I took my gun out of my purse to shoot at the gorilla who was driving the limousine."
Cop #2: "The gorilla driving the limousine?"
Sabrina: "I mean, it wasn't really a gorilla. A gorilla can't drive even if he does have his license. It was a person in a gorilla mask."
Cop #1: "Have you been drinking, ma'am?"
Bosley: "While Sabrina was busy turning into one of the ten most wanted, what have we learned?"
Mason: "Young lady, do I look like someone who is not sure of himself?"
Sabrina: "Aw, Mason...don't ask me that."
Sabrina: "He calls it the blue people-popper and he says it also spits out money."
Bosley: "Oh, that's great. Now we've got a drunk that sounds like a bad song supplying the clues."
DeDe Andros sings "If We Only Have Love," the song that plays during Olga and Luisi's audition.
Kelly grows even warier of Olga and Luisi after they commit a rare error during rehearsal; they point their muskets in the wrong direction. Kris develops a friendship with Billy. After cooking her dinner, he tearfully explains his role in Helene's kidnapping. Sabrina learns that the only files in Max's office affected during the break-in were the arena lay-out and seating chart. While talking with Mason about the infamous limousine, Kelly sees the vehicle arrive. She pays a motorcyclist to follow it, and ends up at an Arabian restaurant. She poses as a belly dancer and gains access to the room where Dirgus and his associates are meeting. Unfortunately, her veil falls off during her routine, allowing Dirgus and his henchman to recognize her. She is taken to the warehouse where the skaters, security guard and Iggy are being held prisoner. They are able to create a catapult; and launch Kelly to the top of the room, where she climbs out the window. She makes it to the arena and sends help to the warehouse. Sabrina and Bosley work as vendors and keep an eye on a group of sheiks in town for an OPEC meeting, as they seem to have some role in all the commotion. Kris realizes that Olga and Luisi are going to shoot the sheiks, and tackles them as they try to fire their weapons. She and Kelly knock them out; while Billy helps Bosley and Sabrina take down Dirgus and his henchman. The conspirators were dissidents from various Arab nations, who hoped to assassinate their compatriots and seize control of much of the world's oil.
Quotes:
Kelly (with Southern accent): "I wanna thank you for bein' so kind and courteous. I'm gonna be sure and talk about you to my cousin Ermadine now."
Sabrina: "You wanna talk to me, you gotta do it in front of 10,000 people?!"
Kris: "Just be funny."
Sabrina:"You be funny. I can't stand up!"
Ben Pawl, the host of the Miss Chrysanthemum pageant, flies out from Iowa to seek the Angels' help after someone begins scaring away the contestants. Kelly and Kris enter the pageant, while Sabrina and Bosley pose as a news crew filming a story about the event. Someone fires shots into Kris's room, and a sandbag is dropped on the main stage in the middle of rehearsal. Two rather stupid men try to bribe one of the judges (an older woman) into voting for Billie Jolene, the daughter of a wealthy Texas businessman. When she refuses and begins hitting them, they kidnap her. Sabrina stakes out the airport as the replacement judge arrives. She overhears the men bribe and blackmail the woman until she agrees to vote for Billie. Sabrina hides in the guys' trunk in the hopes of finding the kidnapped judge, but gets caught in the act. After the wealthy Millie refuses to pay the men to release her, Sabrina suggests that they might be able to get Bosley to cough up the money. They approach Bosley with guns drawn, but Kelly and Kris jump offstage in the middle of the show and beat them up. The goons reveal Sabrina and Millie's location, and confess their role in the bribery scam. Billie is disqualified, but a disappointed Kelly and Kris lose the pageant to a girl who recited a soliloquy from The Merchant of Venice while twirling a baton. Bosley explains that the host told the judges not to vote for them because they were not legitimate contestants. Charlie spends all of his time watching a woman in a bikini play with a medicine ball.
Quotes:
Pawl: "This isn't for real, is it? I mean, this isn't really going to be on a network television news show."
Sabrina: "Oh, you bet it is. You see, we're private detectives. We gotta pick up a dollar here, a dollar there. Every little bit helps."
Sabrina: "Bosley, what are you doing with Kris's pigeons?"
Bosley: "Kris's pigeons?"
Sabrina: "Yeah, they're for a magic act."
Bosley: "Why were they skulking in a closet?"
Sabrina: "They weren't skulking, Bosley. Pigeons can't skulk."
Bosley: "These can. They were skulking in there. They are skulking pigeons!"
Kris (with Southern accent): "My favorite colors are red, white and blue, 'cause they are the colors of our flag of freedom."
Kelly: "From that moment on, I knew what we should all do is help one another to realize that...well, we should realize that no man or woman is an island; that we should never ask for whom the bell tolls; that we're all one and we need each other's support to be happy. No, we shouldn't ask for whom the bell tolls. When one man is lost or friend is injured, when the bell tolls, it tolls for all of us."
(Bosley rolls his eyes back into his head.)
Bosley: "Which one of you would have won?"
Kris and Kelly (simultaneously): "She would have."
Sabrina: "I'm glad I was only kidnapped."
Sabrina's college roommate Angela, a stewardess, receives threatening phone calls from someone who keeps leaving her black roses. Sabrina goes to stay with her, while Kelly and Kris go into training to become stewardesses. One of the other stewardesses is attacked in a parking garage and killed with a karate chop to the throat. Mai Ling, a trainee with a chip on her shoulder, becomes a suspect because she holds a black belt in karate. The killer calls Angela and orders her to follow his instructions or risk losing more of her friends. She agrees, and refuses to tell Sabrina what is going on. Angela obeys a recording in which the killer orders her to drug the co-pilot; hijack the plane during a test flight for the student stewardesses; and kill the pilot upon arriving in Peru. However, the pilot is actually her stalker; he arranged the hijacking scenario to make himself appear innocent of any wrongdoing. Angela accidentally shoots the pilot in a struggle, and then hits her head and gets knocked out. The co-conspirator, who has assaulted the flight engineer, pulls out a gun and orders the stewardesses to get the cockpit door open. Kelly and Kris refuse to act until he explains. He says that he and the pilot plan to sell the airline's new automated pilot technology, which can fly the plane until it lowers to an elevation of fifty feet. The co-pilot wakes up long enough to put the plane on automatic pilot. Kris and a tall woman disarm the gunman, and Mai Ling kicks in the door. Kelly must follow the tower's instructions to bring the plane to a safe landing.
Quotes:
Sabrina: "I wonder what Burt Reynolds is up to."
Kelly: "From what I hear, anything you want."
Cliff: "I'm just trying to help Angela teach you dummies a thing or two."
Kelly: "Kind of like the blind leading the blind."
Angela: "Would you mind giving me back the key to my apartment?"
Gene: "Well, I did. A couple of weeks ago at dinner at Devereaux's restaurant. It was right after you threw your salad in my lap."
Angela: "I threw your salad in your lap."
Kelly: "Well, I don't like the salad at Devereaux's either."
The Barzak family circus is plagued by a number of mysterious accidents. The owner's son, David, seeks the Angels' help to determine the cause. They must keep their identities a secret from his father, a gypsy who believes in handling his problems on his own--and also has a problem with women in the workplace. Sabrina seeks work as a clown's apprentice, while Kris becomes the knife thrower's assistant. Kelly convinces Barzak to hire her as a motorcycle daredevil, but two men sabotage her equipment. Sabrina and David quickly take a liking to one another. Someone leaves a snake in her bed in the hopes of scaring her away, and Kelly and Kris narrowly escape when their tent is set on fire. Intrigued by his strange behavior, Kris swipes a glass with the fingerprints of knife thrower Helmut. A computer check reveals that he is an East German circus star who recently defected. Anton Tarloff, the clown, is actually behind all of the misdoings. He blames Barzak for his niece's death in a circus accident years earlier, and has become obsessed with driving him out of business. Tarloff and his cohorts suspect that the Angels are cops and decide that they must do away with them. One man knocks out Helmut and takes his place in the knife-throwing act, but Kris gets away. He reveals (under duress) that Tarloff plans to kill Sabrina by using a real sword in their comedic duel. He cannot bring himself to do this because Sabrina reminds him of his late niece. Kris tackles a sniper, thwarting his attempt to shoot Kelly during her motorcycle jump. Bosley tries to avoid the persistent advances of an amorous little person.
Quotes:
Barzak: "I have no problem with women, long as they wear skirt and stay in kitchen wear they belong."
Kelly: "Listen, how'd you like a swift kick in the shins?"
Kelly: "Lucky you didn't jump into bed without turning on the lights."
Sabrina: "Well, it wouldn't have been one of my better nights."
David (to Sabrina): "You can't stay here tonight. Why don't you stay with me?"
(Kelly and Kris snicker.)
Sabrina: "What is that?!"
Kris: "Well, you never would have had to diet again, babe."
Resort owner Hildy Slater hires the Angels after her drifter nephew, Frank, is strangled in his cabin. Kelly and Kris join the staff, while Sabrina goes undercover as a magazine reporter. Bosley checks into the facility and struggles to stick to his diet. Sabrina begins to fall for one of the guests, Doug O'Neal. Lon Molton, Hildy's right-hand man, dons a stocking mask and attacks Kris and Kelly in their cabin. Someone later leaves a fake bomb in the cabin in the hopes of driving them away. Kelly discovers that Doug and Frank were in the same Air Force unit in Vietnam. Sabrina refuses to believe that Doug is responsible for the crime. She tells him that she is writing a story about the murder, and Doug freely admits that Frank was one of his best friends. He claims that he came to the facility to try and find some answers. Kelly and Kris search Doug's room and discover that he is carrying newspaper clippings about B.J. Smith, a man who disappeared after committing a two-million-dollar skyjacking. An indignant Sabrina suggests that they confront Doug with the allegations. Doug ransacks Kelly and Kris's cabin and finds the money hidden inside the wall. Lon hits him over the head and takes the money, but Kelly and Kris catch up to him on horseback and tie him up. Doug confesses his role in the skyjacking to Sabrina; he landed in a tree after jumping from the plane, and suffered severe injuries. Frank assumed that he was dead and took the money, and Doug finally tracked him down at the cabin. He accidentally shot Frank during a scuffle, and Lon finished him off after Doug fled. Doug tries to convince Sabrina to run away with him, but she holds him at bay until Kelly returns.
Quotes:
Kris: "I'm so disappointed. I thought that sex would be running rampant."
Kelly: "Oh, it's running, all right. You just haven't caught up to it."
Lon: "You have a way of showing up where you don't belong."
Kelly: "Well, that's why I'm with Kris. She's giving me 'belonging' lessons."
A young woman hires the Angels to find her missing aunt, an eccentric old woman who believed in the existence of UFOs. Kris and Bosley pose as a couple and join the Celestial Research Foundation, an organization run by Dr. Franklin Perine that is devoted to the study of alien life. The group often arranges UFO sightings for its members. Kelly romances James Britten, a disgraced astronaut who works as a front for the foundation, in order to elicit inside information. Sabrina intentionally allows Dr. Perine and company to catch her tailing their car. She pretends to be a bungling detective investigating the possible infidelity of one of their members, and is allowed to come to the group's desert headquarters and snoop around. Kris establishes a rapport with nerdy Teddy Nolan during a meeting, but he clams up when she mentions Mrs. Sheridan. Kelly comes to his office, claiming to be a visitor from outer space, and demands answers. He says that Mrs. Sheridan was dragged away by two men while shouting something about the temperature on Venus. The Angels conclude that Mrs. Sheridan was murdered because she had realized that Dr. Perine's theories conflicted with scientific fact and was about to expose him as a fraud. Britten confesses his involvement with the institute to Kelly, who tries to convince him to get out. Dr. Perine discovers that Kelly is a detective and orders Britten to kill her. Kris distracts Dr. Perine while Bosley uses Mrs. Sheridan's dog to help locate her body, which is still buried at the headquarters. Sabrina gets caught snapping photographs of the phony flying saucers, but Kris comes to her aid until Bosley and the police arrive. Britten sabotages Kelly's seatbelt before taking her up in his airplane. She notices this and creates her own makeshift belt, and then forces Britten to land the plane at gunpoint.
Quotes:
Dr. Perine: "The space visitors are just like ordinary human beings like you or me, with one very definite distinction."
Sabrina: "Pointed ears!"
Dr. Perine: "Absolutely not."
Sabrina: "Little green pointed ears!"
Sabrina (while being dragged away): "Come on, I swallowed my gum here!"
Kelly: "Didn't have the courage, Jim. You never did."
b: 2 Nov 77 pc: 29 w: Ronald Austin and James David Buchanan d: Allen BaronSomeone calls Joy Vance, a reporter for KBEX radio, to a phony story location and fires a shot at her. The Angels and Bosley go undercover as station employees and investigate a number of possible suspects. Sabrina becomes the new traffic/weather reporter and works with Buck Willis, a macho chopper pilot who became very angry after Joy ended their romance. He realizes that she considers him a suspect, and proves his innocence by turning over shells from his guns (which do not match the bullet fired at Joy). Kelly poses as Joy because of their similar voices. She goes after a man who threatened Joy for exposing him as a wife beater, but finds that he died a few days earlier. Kris tries to infilitrate the clan of motorcycle thief Dwayne Hansen. She fears for her life when the group sees through her act; but Dwayne has given up his criminal ways, electing to captalize on his notoriety and start an acting career. Sabrina approaches Professor Arthur Croyden, who lost major research grants after Joy exposed his cure for the common cold as a fraud. Joy's attacker forces Kelly off the road and tries to run over her, but Buck and Sabrina buzz him in the chopper and drive him away. Croyden realizes that Sabrina's story is phony and injects her with truth serum. He plans to kill her, but Kelly, Kris and Bosley arrive in the nick of time. Kelly chases Croyden across the entire campus and takes him down.
Quotes:
Kelly (on wife beater Ernest Quinlan): "I want to get at this one."
Kris: "Remember one thing: no police brutality."
Kelly: "I'm not on the force anymore."
Bosley: "So you are about to matriculate."
Sabrina: "Oh no. I told my mother I'd never do that. But I might run around with him for a while."
Kelly: "Hey, did the Bionic Man get started this way?"
b: 9 Nov 77 pc: 30 w: William Froug d: George W. BrooksTommy Anders is arrested for causing a disturbance at his girlfriend's home. He calls Kelly, who helped the one-time juvenile delinquent get in his life in order by encouraging him to enlist in the Air Force. He explains that he became worried when his girlfriend stopped writing him, and went AWOL after her roommates gave a phony excuse to explain her disappearance. His girlfriend's roommates take Kelly aside and tell her that Marie is pregnant with Tommy's child; she has contacted an adoption agency, which will sell the baby. Kelly poses as a pregnant woman planning to give up her baby and enters the adoption home, where she seeks out Marie. Marie admits that she has changed her mind and wants to keep her child. In order to prove that the agency is breaking the law, Sabrina and Bosley assume the roles of a chain-smoking socialite and her wealthy husband and outbid another couple for Kelly's baby. Kelly informs them that a girl recently disappeared after deciding that she didn't want to give up her baby. She was found dead a few days after giving birth, and her mother believes that someone murdered her for threatening to expose the agency. Kris crashes a party thrown by agency co-owner Hugh Tomlinson, pretending to be desperate for money. He sets her up with a man to conceive a child, which will then be sold. The guy warns Kris not to become involved in Tomlinson's schemes, so she reveals her true identity. He tells her that Leonard Chaffey, Tomlinson's bodyguard, killed Annette Morris. Tommy ignores Sabrina's warnings and sneaks into the adoption home. He gets caught, and is held prisoner with Kelly and Marie. Chaffey elects to spare their lives until after Marie gives birth so that he can collect the fee. Marie goes into labor, leaving Kelly to deliver the baby. Sabrina, Kris and Bosley arrive to rescue them. Kris goes into shock after wounding Chaffey in a shootout, as she had never shot anyone. Tommy and Marie marry and plan to rejoin his unit. Charlie arranged for emergency leave so that Tommy wouldn't have to face a court martial.
Quotes:
Charlie: "We start with Kelly getting pregnant."
Sabrina: "What?"
Kelly: "I quit!"
Jayce: "If I just met you in a bar, I'd be up here for free, right?"
Kris: "Don't you believe it."
Ellen Jason seeks help from the Angels after someone tries to kill her during rehersals for a film version of the musical Sweet Misery. The sound stage is considered "jinxed" because a number of accidents have occurred since Norma Friedrick died in a fall while filming a scene fifteen years earlier. Ellen's ex-husband, Frank, falls under suspicion because of the couple's rocky relationship. He has no interest in re-teaming with his wife for the film, but the studio will not finance the picture without him. Kris, who is a huge fan of Frank's, approaches in the hopes of getting him to re-consider. They become friends as she protects him from some thugs trying to collect money, and she reveals that she once had a part in a summer stock production of Sweet Misery. Frank agrees to do the film to pay off his gambling debts, but only if Kris can play one of the smaller parts. Frank and Ellen's teenage son, Larry, grows frustrated with his parents' constant bickering. He runs off, vowing never to return. Someone tries to drop a light on Kris's head after a take. Kelly and Sabrina chase someone up on the catwalk, but he vanishes. Kelly learns that Anton Metzger, the stage hand who tried in vain to save Norma's life after her fall, has an apartment across the street from the set. The Angels discover that his apartment is a shrine to Norma. They realize that he has been responsible for all of the "accidents," and decide to draw him out by re-creating Norma's final scene. The plan succeeds, and Sabrina comforts Anton and assures him that Norma no longer needs his protection. Larry returns, and the Jasons decide to repair their relationship.
Quotes:
Sabrina:"Sweet Misery, starring KRIS MUNROE and others. I think it's got a nice ring to it."
Kris: "Like I said, Frank's idea. Totally!"
(Sabrina nudges Kelly.)
Kelly: "Well, I think I should call and tell him you simply refuse."
(Pretends to dial a number. Kris puts her hand over the phone.)
Kris: "You do and I'll break your arm."
Magician Wendell Muse seeks the Angels' help to prove that he did not set a series of mysterious fires at Fashion City warehouses across the country. Sabrina poses as a wacky French lady and convinces Joseph Watson, owner of Fashion City, to hire her as a designer. Bosley and Kris go undercover as a hilarious "mind-reading" act. Someone causes fire to come out of the shower backstage, nearly burning Kris. Kelly claims to be the daughter of a famous illusionist in order to get close to a magician named the Great Danzini and determine whether he is a suspect. Sabrina gets caught in a blaze at the Fashion City warehouse. Intrigued by the fact that the telephone had rung just before several of the fires, she investigates. She discovers that someone is rigging the phones with phosphorus, thereby starting the fires just by making a call. Sabrina fixes a sabotaged phone and observes it as part of a plan to catch the culprit. Kris sees Mary Ann Webb, Danzini's assistant, making the call from backstage during the "disappearing lady" trick. Mary Ann explains that her husband accepted money from companies to set "magic" fires as part of an insurance fraud scam. Watson double-crossed him and left him trapped in one of the fires, so Mary Ann began destroying his businesses as revenge. Watson finds Sabrina in his office and assumes that she is the one responsible for the fires. He ties her up and rigs the phone, leaving her for dead. Kelly and Kris arrive to pull Sabrina out of the blaze, and the police catch up to Watson. Kelly and Sabrina won't leave Kris alone after Charlie reveals that he was in the audience for her act.
Quotes:
Kris: "Let me guess. Their bookings were all along the time that the Magic Man was..."
Sabrina: "Don't say it!"
Kelly: "Up to his old tricks."
Kris: "Concentrate now, Zolton. I will try to steer you in the right direction."
Bosley: "You are holding a side of beef!"
Sabrina: "Someone stuffed a pyrophoric compound..."
Kris: "Wait a minute. Pyra-what?"
Bosley: "You shouldn't say words like that in public, Bri."
Sammy Davis Jr.'s manager hires the Angels for bodyguard duty after Sammy narrowly eludes multiple kidnap attempts. Sabrina and Kris have a run-in with the kidnappers during a charity event. Herbert Brubaker III, owner of the H&B Boozeterias, wins the celebrity look-alike contest because of his resemblance to Sammy. Herbert comes over to Sammy's house to take him up on his promise to let him drive one of his prized automobiles. The kidnappers mistake Herbert for Sammy and nab him. The Angels convince Sammy to lay low so that the kidnappers will believe they succeeded. They demand a $375,000 ransom for Sammy's return. Sabrina finds the dollar amount to be rather suspicious. Kris poses as a floozy and gains access to the office of Andy Price, Sammy's business manager. She discovers that he has embezzled a great deal of money to cover his debts, and agreed to help orchestrate the kidnapping to cover his tracks. After Bosley leaves with the ransom money, Sammy and his wife emerge and explain the case of mistaken identity. Kelly and Kris claim that an electronic tracking device was planted in the money, prompting Andy to take off to warn the kidnappers. The Angels trail him to their hideout, and Sammy insists on coming along because he feels responsible for Herbert's predicament. The kidnappers plan to kill Herbert, and decide they must do away with Andy after he objects. After Sammy distracts them, the Angels break in and subdue everyone. Sammy feels sorry for Andy and decides not to press charges against him. He invites the Angels to an opening, but they are horrified to discover that it is for Herbert's newest boozeteria.
Quotes:
Kelly: "I understand, Mr. Davis. You prefer to be incognito."
Herbert: "Don't you be talking no smut, girl. I'm a veteran!"
Herbert: "Now who did you say you are again?"
Kelly: "Well, at this moment, it's not definite."
Kris (as Taffy): "He said that if he wasn't here, I should wait for him in his office so that people wouldn't get the wrong idea...What did he mean by that?"
Herbert: "What do you mean, I'm worthless? I got a chain of liquor stores. What you got, chump?"
b: 7 Dec 77 pc: 34 w: Ron Friedman d: Ronald AustinThe Angels and Bosley head to the Sunwest Dude Ranch to investigate the death of Joseph Frisch, who was found murdered on the facility's bus. They pretend to be strangers, but camp foreman Ed Cole becomes suspicious when he sees them talking with the sheriff before boarding the bus. He places a burr under a horse's saddle, causing it to buck Sabrina. George Jackson, a sleazy private investigator who once worked for Charlie, calls two men and reports the location of one of the camp's guests. Bosley learns that Cole and ranch guest Jean Trevor were once employees of Frisch's company. Jean denies having ever met Frisch. Kelly overhears a scuffle in Cole's room, and someone shoves her out of the way as she enters. She finds that Cole has been murdered. Bosley is perplexed to see Jean embracing a man named Ed Miller, as she had reportedly been involved with Frisch. After much prompting, she finally admits that Frisch switched identities with Ed Miller because some of his mob associates are out to get him. He told Jean that he killed Miller in self-defense, but the man was actually just an innocent bystander. Frisch also murdered Cole because he had recognized Frisch and was trying to blackmail him. The mobsters show up in Frisch's room while Sabrina is talking with him, and take them both prisoners. They try to escape on horseback after the sheriff calls for a roadblock, but Kris and Kelly catch up to them. Kris wounds one of the men in a shootout; she isn't thrilled, but is able to handle it.
Quotes
Kelly: "What about Miss Trevor?"
Bosley: "Well, she...I think she's attracted to me. Really. She said, 'I like the cut of your cloth.'"
Sabrina: "She likes the...cut of your cloth?"
Bosley: "Those were her very words. She said, 'I like the cut of your cloth.'"
Kris: "Well, maybe she wants to borrow a shirt."
Jean: "Well, you can't arrest a lady for being liberated."
Kelly: "I didn't know we were talking about a lady."
A tennis player narrowly escapes severe burns when someone traps her in the showers. The incident drives away many of the entrants in that week's tournament. Kris, a former collegiate player, joins the field; while Sabrina and Kelly pose as a designer and model of tennis clothing. Mexican champion Carmita Medina is found murdered while meditating. A sniper fires several shots at Carrie Jo Evans, an aging star attempting a comeback. Sabrina and Kelly chase after the sniper, but cannot even tell if it is a man or woman. The investigation focuses on Ronnie Kyle, a player turned broadcaster who has become very bitter since losing a grudge match to Carrie Jo. Kris tries to bait him by challenging him to a match, and he storms out during the first game. However, Bosley discovers that Kyle is an old drunk who couldn't possibly have been fit enough to run away from Sabrina and Kelly. A rattlesnake attacks Helga, the Swedish champion. The culprit, Eddie Fisk, overhears the Angels telling her that they are detectives. Carrie Jo eavesdrops and learns that her sponsor, Arlo Spinner, has had Fisk arrange the "accidents" to drive away her competition. He believes that she will win the tournament and everyone will buy his rackets to emulate her. Carrie Jo approaches Sabrina and Kelly during her match and explains the situation. They head out to help Kris, who staves off an attack from Fisk in the locker room. Arlo manages to trick the Angels and hold them all at gunpoint, but Sabrina realizes that he won't personally kill anyone and convinces him to give himself up. Bosley agrees to a date with a woman who keeps staring at him as he conducts his towel boy duties.
Quotes:
Kelly: "For birthdays or fun days, a perfect gift for your lady or business associate."
Bosley: "No, Kelly. You cannot keep it."
Three men pull off a diamond heist, but one of them jumps out of the car and runs off with the loot. Ring leader Denny Dinsmore shoots him, and he manages to get himself to a hospital before collapsing. Dinsmore and his partner, Williams, show up at the office and hold Bosley and the Angels at gunpoint. Dinsmore forces Sabrina to wear a locking belt covered with charges; unless Kris and Kelly can find Murdock and retrieve the diamonds in ten hours, he will activate the device and kill Sabrina and Bosley. Murdock, who is very weak after having the bullet removed, leaves the hospital to meet a fence and sell the diamonds. Kelly and Kris force the security guards who aided with the theft to lead them to the motel where the exchange is to take place. They discover that Murdock has died and the diamonds are gone. Kelly and Charlie each call the office and make it seem as though Kris has vanished and plans to leave the country. Kelly tips off Sabrina and Bosley by saying that Kris abandoned her station wagon (she actually drives her sister's old Cobra), and Sabrina recognizes the name of the "company plane" Kris will be using as a street. Sabrina and Bosley convince the crooks that Kris has sold them out and accepted a partnership with Murdock. Sabrina points out that they can still stop her at the airport, and claims to have a shortcut. Kris and Kelly set up a roadblock. Sabrina conks the distracted Dinsmore over the head, giving herself enough time to jump into a nearby pond and deactivate the charges. Dinsmore and Williams are apprehended, and Interpol catches the fence at a French airport.
b: 11 Jan 78 pc: 37 w: Ray Brenner d: Cliff BoleTwo men take legendary jewel thief Freddie "The Fox" Brander prisoner and demand that he reveal the whereabouts of a priceless diamond. He escapes, and seeks the Angels' help to retrieve the stolen gem from a wealthy Arab and return it to a museum. He admits that he is looking for an exciting ending for his autobiography. They travel to a Caribbean island; where Freddie and Sabrina pose as a snooty lord and lady, with Kelly as their secretary. The men who had nabbed Freddie follow them and observe their every action. In order to get Kelly into Faris Salim's house, Bosley spreads a rumor about his secretary so that she will be let go. Freddie then fires Kelly in front of Salim at a restaurant; he quickly hires her. Kris "selflessly" makes a play for Salim's hunky son Ali, a car fanatic who disapproves of his father's ways. Salim invites Freddie and Sabrina to his birthday party, where they feign boredom so that he will show off the diamond. They furtively take photographs and notes about the various security measures; including guard dogs; security monitors; an alarm that is triggered if anyone makes contact with the floor; and a snake inside the glass case. Ali observes Kris's actions and realizes that she is planning to steal the diamond. She reveals her true motives, and asks him not to give them away. The Angels drug the dogs, and Kelly distracts the man on duty by dancing with him. Freddie takes ill and cannot go through with his part of the heist. Freddie's rivals approach him at gunpoint. Sabrina uses a blowtorch to cut through the bars surrounding the window, and Kris goes into the room on a rope and hangs above the diamond. She sticks a piece of metal into the case to distract the snake while she snares the diamond. Salim's right-hand man sees them running across the lawn, but Kelly steals his sub-automatic machine gun so that she can make her getaway. Ali comes to Freddie's rescue and kisses Kris goodbye before the Angels flee.
Quotes:
Ali: "Should we try it?"
Kris: "Try what?"
Ali: "The car."
Kelly: "Bosley, how can you make up such a story? You don't even know Salim's secretary."
Bosley: "I got it from the bell boy, who got it straight from Salim's gardener."
Bosley: "Freddie, I read the proofs on the book. I enjoyed it."
Freddie: "Did you really?"
Sabrina: "Oh yes. So did I. Especially the part where you ran along the roof of the Salim mansion, you lowered yourself down with a rope and picked the diamond out with your teeth."
Kelly: "I liked the part where you made a loop out of your tie and caught the snake."
Kris: "I particularly liked that part."
Amy Jarvis, player/owner of a women's professional football team, seeks the Angels' help after two thugs on motorcycles attack one of her players on the practice field. Her team, the Ducks, is scheduled to play an exhibition game at the Los Angeles Coliseum the following week. Charlie notes that Sabrina and Kelly once took part on a police football team, and instructs the Angels to go undercover as members of the Ducks. Julia Smyth, owner of the Ducks' opponent, tries to recruit quarterback Sabrina for her team. Sabrina notices that Julia rides a motorcycle, and suspects that she might be involved in the attack. Kelly and Kris hope to wrap up the case before the game so that they don't have to play, while Sabrina wants to teach the overconfident Julia a lesson. A mean-spirited woman named Grinelda continually takes cheap shots at Kris during practice. She taunts Kris and nearly baits her into a fight, but Kelly shows up and kicks her ass. Bosley develops a rapport with Pokey, a receiver who often becomes confused on the field because she suffers from dyslexia. Kelly befriends Joe Phillips, a washed-up ex-jock who frequently attends the Ducks' practices. The motorcyclists attack Kelly and Joe in a parking lot after their lunch date. Kelly draws a sketch of one of the bikes, and Bosley tracks down the name of individuals who have recently purchased that model. Kelly and Kris visit a garage, only to discover Joe and some friends leaving in a van. Kris finds a blueprint of the Coliseum on the premises. They realize that Joe and his friends are planning to steal the proceeds from the previous night's rock concert. They tried to scare the Ducks so that the game would be cancelled or moved, leaving the stadium vacant. After foiling the heist, the Angels learn that Grinelda and Julia are old friends; Grinelda was obviously planted to steal the Ducks' plays. The Angels take the field with a 13-point deficit and under two minutes to play. They thwart Grinelda by changing plays amongst themselves after leaving the huddle. Kelly scores a touchdown, and Kris recovers the kick-off after Sabrina convinces Grinelda that she is going to attempt an onside kick. Sabrina finally calls a pass play to Pokey, aware that she will run the wrong direction and be left open. She scores a touchdown with no time remaining, and Amy kicks the winning extra point and gains the approval of her gruff father.
b: 25 Jan 78 pc: 39 w: Edward J. Lakso d: Georg Stanford BrownBetsy Harper, a girl who lives on the beach near Kris's house, approaches her in a panic. She hints that she has information about a crime, but refuses to elaborate and runs off. Despite Bosley's objections, Charlie agrees to Kris's request that they postpone a lucrative case and try to help Betsy. Kelly and Kris return to the beach, but find that Betsy has become the latest victim of a serial murderer known as the "sandcastle killer." They get harassed by Lt. Francona, Charlie's former partner on the force, who is extremely bitter over Charlie's success. Kris and Kelly talk with Melissa Rossiter, the president of the makeup company that employed Betsy, who sometimes gave her a place to stay. They are surprised to learn that Melissa is engaged to employee Larry Fallon, as a lifeguard had told Kelly that Fallon had recently been involved with Betsy. While working the hamburger stand, Bosley spots Gerson, a man who had upset Betsy by spying on her through binoculars. Kris and beach security guard Dave Christopher trail Gerson to the Santa Monica pier and look through his van. Sabrina gets a job at the cosmetics firm in order to get close to Larry, and finds that he is not a suspect in the murders. She learns that Melissa is married to Dave, who hopes to get a large piece of her company in the divorce settlement. Gerson attacks Kris at her beach house, but Sabrina and Kelly arrive to help. Dave shows up conveniently and hauls Gerson into jail. The next day, Lt. Francona smugly warns Kris that Gerson made bail. Sabrina notes the victims' physical resemblance to Melissa and suspects that Dave plans to kill her and take her fortune; he arranged the other murders so that her death would appear to be the work of a serial killer. Melissa believes her theory is crazy, as Dave has just agreed to grant the divorce. Melissa meets Dave at the vacant pier amusement park, where she finds that Gerson is dead. Dave gloats that he will murder Melissa; then tells everyone that he captured the "sandcastle killer," but killed him in a struggle. The Angels emerge and pursue him. He falls into the water after Bosley shoots him, but Sabrina dives in and saves him.
b: 1 Feb 78 pc: 40 w: Robert C. Dennis, Skip Webster, Jock MacKelvie, Ronald Austin, James D. Buchanan s: Robert C. Dennis d: George McCowan NOTE: Bosley shoots someone for the first time in the series.Country singer Amy Waters abruptly leaves a concert after suffering a nervous breakdown. She rides around town in a cab for a while, but stops to call her father. She tells him that she wants to come home, and adds that she has some information for the police. When Amy arrives at her father's place, two acquaintances grab her and inject her with heroin, killing her. Charlie finds Amy's overdose suspicious and asks the Angels to investigate. Kris poses as a country music reporter and asks the cab driver, Lenny, to show her all of the stops that Amy made on the night of her death. Kelly and Sabrina follow in their cars and check out each of the locations. Kelly confronts Amy's guitarist boyfriend, who beat her up after she ordered him to leave the apartment for which she paid rent. The men who killed Amy murder her boyfriend, and then begin following Kelly. Sabrina confronts a mobster named Cooperman and accuses him of forcibly taking over the rights to Amy's songwriting publishing company. His henchman follows Sabrina to an apartment building and shoots at her. The building is the residence of John Donegar, Amy's manager. He admits that he used his power of attorney to sell the publishing company without permission (under coercion), and agrees to turn himself in so that the police will protect him from Cooperman. Kelly ditches the guy following her, and then has Sabrina trail him. She follows him to a laundromat, where he and his friend remove a soap machine. When Lenny overhears Kris talking with Bosley on the phone, he pulls a gun on her. Bosley notes a discrepancy in the mileage of the cab trip and realizes that Lenny purposely left a stop out of his log. Kelly and Sabrina follow the killers to their rendezvous with Lenny, and bail out Kris. After subduing the men, they discover that the soap machine is filled with packets of cocaine. They were involved in an elaborate drug-dealing scheme, and Amy had threatened to blow the whistle. They killed her boyfriend because he was another of their customers and knew too much.
b: 8 Feb 78 pc: 41 w: Edward J. Lakso d: Georg Stanford Brown NOTE: Edward J. Lakso wrote Amy Waters' signature song "Trippin' to the Mornin'," which is performed by Lynne Marta.Toy manufacturer Leland Swinnerton (a.k.a. Mother Goose) seeks the Angels' help after someone begins sabotaging his company as part of a takeover attempt. The Angels suspect an inside job, so Sabrina goes to the factory as a wealthy businessman's daughter hoping to learn the toy business. Gordon Roclair, a brilliant designer who often clashes with Leland because the boss discourages his fascination with "horror toys," suspects that Sabrina is trying to arrange a takeover. He tells her that the business will soon fail. A wire-tapper breaks into the factory and is found mysteriously shot to death in the design room. Kelly and Kris approach the man's opportunistic fiancé and pay her off. She reveals that Larry was working for Tony Phelan, a mobster who wants to purchase the toy company for use as a front. Kris flies onto Tony's property in a hang glider and wins his approval. Kelly approaches Larry's replacement, Jack Orwell, and convinces him to go into a partnership. They record Sabrina arranging to sell Leland's new designs to Gordon. Tony calls Gordon over to the house and orders him to get the plans and sell them to him. Kris eavesdrops and learns that Larry was killed by a realistic toy cannon designed by Gordon, who had rigged it with the hopes of shooting Leland. Jack kidnaps Kelly after Donna sells her out and gives away her identity. Kelly runs a red light to attract the attention of the police, and gets pulled over. Jack throws the gun out the window and tries to refute Kelly's kidnapping claim; but Bosley approaches with the discarded weapon. After Tony obtains the plans from Sabrina, Kris (dressed as a giant doll) pulls a switch to make it appear that he double-crossed Tony. Sabrina, Kelly and Bosley approach and suggest that he give himself up, but he refuses. He tries to escape the furious Tony and his associate by dashing into the design room, forgetting that he had rigged his cannon in another attempt to kill Leland. He passes out; unaware that Kris had plugged the cannon with her gum. Leland gives the Angels dolls of themselves to thank them for saving his business.
Quotes:
(Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies plays)
Bosley: "If he plays that one more time, I'm going to require insulin!"
Leland: "Lately I have been thinking I should get out of the toy business and get into something similar, like cuckoo clocks."
Bosley: "If you did, the Swiss would probably send a hit man."
A woman who runs a building that is mainly populated by hookers seeks Charlie's help after two of her tenants are murdered. The Angels move into the building, while Bosley grudgingly takes a job as the maintenance man. A resident named Melanie insists that the culprit is Freddie, a strange and temperamental delivery boy from the Italian restaurant across the street. The killer attacks another girl, but Kris and Kelly save her. Sabrina notes that all of the victims have been blondes and suspects a pattern. They contact an expert psychologist, who theorizes that the murderer is killing look-alikes to deal with his aggression toward a woman in his life. Kris agrees to a meeting on a yacht with one of the victims' former clients. He acts strangely and complains about his wife, but does not attempt to harm her. Roman Vail, owner of the restaurant that employs Freddie, strangles another of the apartment building's residents and leaves Freddie's shark tooth necklace at the scene. Freddie gets into an altercation with Melanie and is found hiding in the apartment of a woman who is on vacation. He denies any involvement in the killings. Sabrina and Kelly note that he cannot be the murderer because Melanie is African American and does not fit into the pattern. They conclude that he has been set up. Kris, who had gone to the restaurant to wait for Freddie, sees Roman throw a fit of anger after a blonde customer repeatedly rejects him. She sees scratches on his neck and realizes that he received them from a victim who tried to defend herself. Kris has to fight off an attack until her friends arrive. The Angels and Bosley chase Roman on bicycles until he crashes into a car. They learn from his ramblings that the woman at the restaurant was his ex-wife, Mary.
Quotes:
Sabrina: "I have a bad back. I'm supposed to stay off...I mean on my feet."
Carol: "What about you, Kelly?"
Kelly: "Uh, I have a terrible cold." (Sneezes.)
Sabrina: "You should probably put on a sweater, or a wrap."
Sabrina: "You notice anything about these two girls that were killed? They're both blondes, and so's Bonnie."
Kelly: "Well, half the girls in America are blondes, or trying to be."
Sabrina: "Who said blondes have more fun?"
Kris (ruefully): "Yeah."
Kris: "If the boat leaves the dock, I'm gonna jump ship. Can you 'jump yacht'?"
b: 22 Feb 78 pc: 43 w: Mickey Rose d: Georg Stanford BrownA gigolo murders his older girlfriend after she cuts him loose and reneges on a promise to help pay off a loan on his boat. A jewel thief overhears the argument, and the murderer gets a good look at his face before he makes his escape. The owner of the residential hotel where the crime occurred enlists the Angels' services. She reports that the building has suffered mysterious break-ins for three years, but no one had ever been hurt. Kris poses as a Swedish film star and moves into the facility, while Kelly pretends to be from a wealthy New Orleans family. She takes a liking to Ted Machlin, unaware that he is the jewel thief. Sabrina re-creates the burglaries by going to the roof and swinging down along the side of the building. Denny knocks out Bosley and tries to cut Sabrina's rope, but she escapes into someone's apartment. Kris takes sailing lessons from Denny, who panics after seeing Ted walking down the street with Kelly. He promptly steals a car and tries to run them over at the beach. Bosley trails Machlin's mother and discovers that she secretly works for a security company, where she has access to all of the hotel's safe combinations. Kris arranges an auction to sell the jade collection supposedly left by her dead fourth husband. Ted discovers that Kelly lied about her identity, but she claims to be a museum buyer looking to get a good deal on the collection. Bosley is supposed to rig the auction so that Kelly will win, but he gets carried away and somehow lets someone else buy Charlie's jade. Ted is caught trying to steal the jade from Kris's apartment that night. In exchange for a more lenient punishment, he agrees to help them catch Denny and force him to confess.
Quotes:
Mrs. Machlin: "The clientele here is not what it used to be."
Charlie: "Would she think I'm too vulgar if I dunk my crumpet in the tea?"
Sabrina: "Only if you leave it there, Charlie."
Mrs. Machlin: "My son has always had bad luck with women!"
b: 1 Mar 78 pc: 44 w: Lee Sheldon s: Tom Lazarus d: George McCowanA car gets sideswiped at a red light. Panicked by the presence of the police, one of the passengers gets out and hides a package in the back of a dump truck. The dump truck driver later goes to a small club to watch his wife, Sue, make her singing debut. Two men show up and kidnap him. A worried Sue asks the Angels to help find Larry, as he hasn't been in contact with any friends or relatives. The kidnappers come to Sue's apartment and try to break in; they see Kelly strumming a guitar and mistake her for Sue. The Angels convince Sue to leave town for safety reasons and let Kelly impersonate her. Sabrina and Kris talk with one of Larry's co-workers and learn that he was having affairs with most of his female clients. Sabrina visits the farm of Nancy Coleman, a paramour of Larry's who has a very dangerous husband. Nancy denies that her husband had anything to do with Larry's disappearance. She takes offense to Sabrina's questions and tries to run her over with a tractor. Kris talks with Rosie, the diner proprietor whom Larry was coming to see when the car accident occurred. The owner of a nearby dress shop reports seeing the package dropped into the truck. Just before Kelly's singing debut, two other men hit Bosley over the head and kidnap Kelly from backstage. She convinces Larry to play along and pretend that she is his wife. They refuse to share the location of the package unless the kidnappers take them along. The foursome reveals that it pulled off a heist for five million dollars in diamonds. The group travels to Nancy's farm, where Kelly tells her about Larry's various escapades. Sabrina, Kris and Bosley search the other drop sites and realize that the package had to have been left at Nancy's place. They borrow a neighbor's truck and show up disguised as hillbillies. They overpower the kidnappers and find the diamonds buried in the dirt pile.
Quotes:
Kris: "There's a direct correlation between a woman's chest and a man's ears."
Sabrina: "I have not heard this theory before."
Kelly: "Neither have I."
Kris: "Well, you see, the lower the neckline, the more tone-deaf they are."
Sabrina: "You know what? I take it back. I don't like your tractor at all!"
Kelly: "You heard of the good guys and the bad guys?"
Nancy: "Yeah. I made some of them what they are."
Kelly: "I'll bet you did."
Kelly: "Sort of makes you wanna hum the wedding march."
Nancy: "Not anymore it doesn't!"
Bosley: "If he hasn't picked up the instrument, what has he been doing? Strike the question."
b: 3 May 78 pc: 45 w: Edward J. Lakso s: Laurie Lakso d: Bob Kelljan NOTE: The sign outside the Backwoods Café mentions a performance by The Lakso Trio, a reference to Edward J. Lakso and daughter Laurie, who contributed the story idea for this episode.Some men convince a security guard to open a gate by pretending to film a movie. They shoot him to death and break into the building; where they steal libidrium, a highly radioactive fuel. The head of the facility seeks the Angels' help to locate the thieves and keep them from selling the libidrium to a foreign power. Sabrina notices unusual tire tracks at the scene of the crime, and realizes that they came from an old-fashioned car. The Angels and Bosley acquire a car from Charlie and head for an antique car rally in nearby Termo. While searching for a car with tires matching the tracks found at the crime scene, Sabrina encounters Carl Nichols, an uptight young man who freaks