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Charlie’s Angels – The Complete Second Season Review.
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Charlie’s Angels – The Complete Second Season Description:
The Angels continue to fight the bad guys, with Jill’s little sister Kris taking her place and Charlie’s voice guiding them all. Stars Jaclyn Smith, Kate Jackson and introducing Cheryl Lad. Includes all 26 episodes from the second season.
- Amazon Sales Rank: #8490 in DVD
- Brand: Sony
- Released on: 2004-04-06
- Rating: NR (Not Rated)
- Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
- Formats: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
- Original language: English
- Number of discs: 6
- Dimensions: 1.20 pounds
- Running time: 1127 minutes
Features
- ISBN13: 9781404949072
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Customer Reviews:
Charlie’s Angels – The Complete Second Season
Charlie’s Angels were wonderful because they were smart, attractive, and active. In Season Two, they play football, hang glide, ride horses, play tennis, sing, play guitar, ice skate, enter a beauty pageant, and so on. The Angels prove that they can hold their own, anywhere, anytime. Farrah Fawcett left Charlie’s Angels after Season One. Although she does guest star in the third and fourth season, she does not appear in the second season. She was replaced by Cheryl Ladd.
Here is an episode guide, with a tiny description:
1. Angels in Paradise (1): Charlie has been kidnapped while on vacation in Hawaii.
2. Angels in Paradise (2): The Angels work on rescuing Charlie.
3. Angels on Ice (1): Two ice show stars are kidnapped. Guest stars (gs): Phil Silvers, Jim Backus
4. Angels on Ice (2): Iggy, the ice show’s prop man disappears. Then Kelly disappears. gs: Phil Silvers, Jim Backus
5. Pretty Angels All in a Row: Incidents at the Miss Chrysanthemum Pageant scare off the contestants.
6. Angel Flight: Mysterious threats at a stewardess school cause the Angels to enroll.
7. Circus of Terror: The Angels help a gypsy ringmaster and his son when attempts are made to ruin their circus.
8. Angel in Love: A suspected murderer is the man with whom Sabrina is in love.
9. U.F.A’s (Unidentified Flying Angels): When a wealthy woman disappears, the Angels investigate a foundation that believes in UFO’s.
10. Angels on the Air: Someone shots at a radio newswoman. The Angels investigate the several people that had reason to hate her.
11. Angel Baby: The Angels help a friend find his fiancée.
12. Angels in the Wings: An actress seeks help from the Angels after someone tries to kill her.
13. Magic Fire: A magician hires the Angels to investigate the fires he is accused of setting.
14. The Sammy Davis Jr. Kidnap Caper: The Angels are hired as bodyguards for Sammy Davis, Jr., after a kidnapping attempt. gs: Sammy Davis Jr., & wife Altovise Davis.
15. Angels on Horseback: A tourist is murdered at a dude ranch.
16. Game, Set, Death: Incidents at a tennis tournament leave 1 star dead and several frightened.
17. Hours of Desperation: Jewel thieves threaten to kill Sabrina if the Angels don’t help them find their partner who took the jewels.
18. Diamond in the Rough: A former thief asks the Angels to help steal a famous diamond from a wealthy Arab and return it to a museum.
19. Angels in the Backfield: A women’s football team is threatened by motorcyclists.
20. The Sandcastle Murders: Kris’s neighbor is the latest victim of a serial murderer.
21. Angel Blues: A folk singer dies from a heroin overdose.
22. Mother Goose is Running For her Life: Someone sabotages a toy company.
23. Little Angels of the Night: A serial killer targeting blond prostitutes sends the Angels “undercover” as hookers.
24. The Jade Trap: Charlie asks the Angels to investigate the murder of a wealthy woman.
25. Angels on the Run: After a man disappears, his wife asks the Angels to help find him.
26. Antique Angels: The theft of a highly radioactive fuel leads the angel to an antique auto show.
Welcome Kris Munroe!
I am so grateful that Sony decided to release the second season of Charlie’s Angels on DVD! I pray they follow up with the three remaining seasons as well. Season 2 is my favorite season for a number of reasons. First of all, the tone of the series changed with the introduction of Kris Munroe. In Season 1 the episodes were much more adult oriented, but in Season 2 there was a blitz of toys being marketed towards kids and the show became a bit campy. Having a rookie Angel on the payroll soothed this transition, for with Kris came a sense of humor. Having posed for the extreme undercover roles of a toy mannequin (“Mother Goose is Running For His Life”), a clown (“Angels on Ice”), and a nudist (“Angels in Paradise”), Kris was clearly a team player. Cheryl Ladd proved her worth throughout the run of the series by allowing Kris to evolve from the spirited innocent who first bounced into the Townsend offices and into a more world weary mature woman by the end of Season 5. Her major turning point is depicted in “Angel Baby” in which Kris shoots a man for the first time.
In addition to Sabrina & Kelly receiving a new partner, the Angels performed some of their best detective work in several of the episodes, most notably in “Angels in Paradise” in which they go up against two rival Hawaiian mobs, stage a jail break, and rescue a kidnapped Charlie. Bosley also gets much more involved in the cases than he did on Season 1.
The picture and sound quality for this box set are better than that of Season 1, but I am only giving it four stars because Sony has done the unthinkable in editing two of the episodes. Instead of giving fans the series as it originally aired, the first two episodes “Angels in Paradise” and “Angels on Ice” are cut up just as they are in syndication. I was looking forward to this set mainly to have these two episodes as they originally aired. Let’s hope that if Sony does release Season 5, they do not cut up the first episode “From Street Models to Hawaiian Angels” which was changed to “Angel in Hiding” for syndication and is missing the most important scene in which Kelly & Kris learn that their suspect Julie Rogers is actually working on the same case as them.
Despite Sony’s extreme laziness with this issue of editing the two part episodes, I still highly recommend buying this DVD box set. As far as I’m concerned Charlie’s Angels was the greatest prime time drama in the history of television and am thrilled that new generations will get a taste of it via DVD.
Where’s Season 3, 4, and 5??
OK now that we got our hands on Season 1 and 2, I just want to know is Season 3, 4, or 5 in sight?? I am so tired of waiting. One of my favorite angels Tanya Roberts is in Season 5, so please continue with the season release!
Amazon.com
Charlie’s Angels: The Complete Second Season has no shortage of the good-natured cheese and eye candy that made the primetime television show’s debut season wildly popular in 1976. The Angels had a new look in their second year: Farrah Fawcett, arguably the most popular of the show’s three actresses, departed before the sophomore season and was replaced by another blonde dazzler, Cheryl Ladd. (Ladd’s character, Kris Munroe, was the younger sister of Fawcett’s Jill Munroe, whose exit is explained in the premiere episode as a liberated woman’s career move: Jill has decided to race cars in Spain.)
No sooner does Kris settle in than a crisis sweeps through off-screen Charlie’s private investigation agency. While cavorting on Oahu in the two-part “Angels in Paradise,” Charlie is kidnapped by a smuggler (France Nuyen), who demands the Angels break her husband out of jail in exchange for their boss’s life. Bubbly Kris, brainy Sabrina Duncan (Kate Jackson), beauteous Kelly Garrett (Jaclyn Smith), and sidekick Bosley (David Doyle) are compelled to soak up rays and sip fruity mixed drinks in Waikiki while fighting crime in various guises, re-establishing, for another season, Charlie’s Angels‘ dramatic and aesthetic game plan for every episode: start slow with lots of idle chatter, put the girls in a ridiculous undercover situation, and get them out of their clothes as much as possible.
The pattern continues in the silly “Angels on Ice,” starring old hands Phil Silvers and Jim Backus, in which our heroines join an ice show to find out who kidnapped a pair of skaters. “Pretty Angels All in a Row” finds Kelly and Kris reluctant entrants in a “Miss Chrysanthemum Pageant” (no, you won’t find Kate Jackson in a swimsuit this year, either) rigged by organized crime. “Circus of Terror,” co-starring James Darren, enlists the Angels in the carney life. If there is anything to complain about regarding season 2, it is that the novelty of Charlie’s Angels has worn a little thin, and every episode feels the same. Still, there are surprises: “The Sammy Davis Jr. Kidnap Caper” stars the late rat-packer in peril and much bemused by the presence of three comely bodyguards. –Tom Keogh
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