Charlie's Angels (season 4)
This is a list of episodes for the fourth season of the TV series Charlie's Angels. Originally aired from September 12, 1979 to May 7, 1980 for a total of 25 episodes, the season starred Jaclyn Smith, Cheryl Ladd, David Doyle, and introduced Shelley Hack as new angel Tiffany Welles, a police graduate from Boston. Original star Farrah Fawcett also reprises her role as Jill Munroe in three episodes.
| Charlie's Angels | |
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| Season 4 | |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
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| Original release | September 12, 1979 – May 7, 1980 |
| Season chronology | |
The fourth season of the show saw a further decline in viewing figures, but still remained in the top 20 (#17 in the Nielsen chart); some believing Shelley Hack was to blame, others are of the opinion that the change in format from team oriented episodes to episodes that focused on only one Angel caused the rating decline.
Season 4 also has the only episode of the entire series without Charlie ("Avenging Angel").
Main cast
- Jaclyn Smith as Kelly Garrett (regular)
- Cheryl Ladd as Kris Munroe (regular)
- Shelley Hack as Tiffany Welles (regular)
- David Doyle as John Bosley (regular)
- John Forsythe as Charles "Charlie" Townsend (regular, voice only)
Notable guest stars
Episodes
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 73 74 | 1 2 | "Love Boat Angels" | Allen Baron | Edward J. Lakso | September 12, 1979 | |
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Two-hour season premiere. Tiffany Welles joins the Townsend Agency after Sabrina has quit to get married and start a family. Charlie tells his girls to take a cruise on the Pacific Princess to catch art thief Paul Hollister (Bert Convy). Kris offers to get close to their target, but soon begins to feel an attraction to him. NOTE: This is a crossover episode combining Charlie's Angels and another Aaron Spelling- produced series, "The Love Boat".
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| 75 | 3 | "Angels Go Truckin'" | Lawrence Dobkin | Richard Carr | September 19, 1979 | |
| Kris and Tiffany go to Trucking school to investigate an all-female trucking line whose cargo has been stolen under their very noses. Kelly goes undercover as a waitress. | ||||||
| 76 | 4 | "Avenging Angel" | Allen Baron | Teleplay by: Edward J. Lasko Story by: Laurie Lakso | September 26, 1979 | |
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Frank Desmond (Cameron Mitchell) is released from prison and proceeds to revenge himself on his jailer, Kelly Garrett, by injecting her with heroin. This leads the men he stole the drugs from to think Desmond and Kelly are partners in crime.
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| 77 | 5 | "Angels at the Altar" | Lawrence Dobkin | Larry Alexander | October 3, 1979 | |
| Kelly is maid of honor at her friend Sharon(Kim Cattrall)'s wedding. But there are several attempts to murder the groom (John David Carson). Tiffany goes undercover as a violinist, Bosley tends bar and Kris joins the wedding party as a maid. | ||||||
| 78 | 6 | "Fallen Angel" | Allen Baron | Kathryn Michaelian Powers | October 24, 1979 | |
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The Angels are hired to catch Damien 'Ice Cat' Roth (Timothy Dalton), a millionaire playboy/jewel thief, who also happens to be in love with former Angel Jill Munroe.
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| 79 | 7 | "Caged Angel" | Dennis Donnelly | B.W. Sandefur | October 31, 1979 | |
| Kris goes undercover as an inmate in Colejo Prison to ferret out a gang of jewel thieves operating from there. | ||||||
| 80 | 8 | "Angels on the Street" | Don Chaffey | Teleplay by: Edward J. Lasko Story by: Laurie Lakso | November 7, 1979 | |
| When a young music teacher gets beaten up by a local pimp (Richard Lynch), Kelly and Tiffany join his stable as undercover streetwalkers to investigate. | ||||||
| 81 | 9 | "The Prince and the Angel" | Cliff Bole | Teleplay by: Edward J. Lasko Story by: Laurie Lakso | November 14, 1979 | |
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Jill is wooed by a European crown prince while shopping for Charlie's birthday party and immediately gets in the way of an assassin's line of fire. The Angels help out, even though Bosley objects since they are not being paid. NOTE: Guest star: Farrah Fawcett. | ||||||
| 82 | 10 | "Angels on Skates" | Don Chaffey | Teleplay by: Michael Michaelian & John Francis Whelpley Story by: John Francis Whelpley | November 21, 1979 | |
| A young girl is kidnapped while performing as a skater on Venice Beach. The Angels investigate Freddie Fortune (Rene Auberjonois)'s rink, where Kris joins the skating chorus line. | ||||||
| 83 | 11 | "Angels on Campus" | Don Chaffey | Michael Michaelian | November 28, 1979 | |
| Two young girls from Tiffany's old sorority Kappa Omega Psi have been kidnapped to be sold as white slaves to a sheik, so Tiff and Kris return to college. | ||||||
| 84 | 12 | "Angel Hunt" | Paul Stanley | Lee Sheldon | December 5, 1979 | |
| The Angels are lured to Diablo Island by an old enemy of Charlie's (Lloyd Bochner) who plans to hunt them down and kill them in order to avenge himself on their boss. | ||||||
| 85 | 13 | "Cruising Angels" | George McCowan | B.W. Sandefur | December 12, 1979 | |
| While Bosley is romancing the interior decorator (Beverly Garland) of Charlie's brand new yacht, criminals plan on using the Wayward Angel to transport a load of gold bouillon out of the country. As the Angels investigate, the gold's previous owner is also on the smugglers' trail. | ||||||
| 86 | 14 | "Of Ghosts and Angels" | Cliff Bole | Kathryn Michaelian Powers | January 2, 1980 | |
| Tiffany is having psychic premonitions about history repeating itself during a costume party at the mansion of a recently married friend of hers (Robin Mattson). | ||||||
| 87 | 15 | "Angel's Child" | Dennis Donnelly | Edward J. Lakso | January 9, 1980 | |
| Kelly discovers the police sergeant she is working with (Simon Oakland) has a tendency to take out his rage on his young son and tries to get custody of the boy. Meanwhile, the masterminds of the case they are investigating have their own plans for Kelly, the cop and his son. | ||||||
| 88 | 16 | "One of Our Angels Is Missing" | Allen Baron | Robert S. Biheller & W. Dal Jenkins | January 16, 1980 | |
| Kris poses as a rich divorcée to find out why Rick Devlin (Jonathan Goldsmith) has skipped parole. When the Angels proceed to lure him back to California, it turns out he is more dangerous than they first thought. | ||||||
| 89 | 17 | "Catch a Falling Angel" | Kim Manners | Edward J. Lakso | January 23, 1980 | |
| The Angels investigate the disappearance of a young man whose ex-girlfriend, Bess Hemsdale (Elissa Leeds), has moved to the big city and joined the adult film industry under the name of 'Sally Storm'. Kris goes undercover as a potential starlet. | ||||||
| 90 | 18 | "Homes $weet Homes" | Allen Baron | Teleplay by: William Froug Story by: William Froug, Robert E. Lee, and Ronald E. Osborn | January 30, 1980 | |
| The Kingsbrook Realty Company, which has been linked to several robberies, is the subject of the girls' latest case. Kris joins the all-female agency, while Tiffany pretends to be selling a house (as well as being the owner of several valuable letters written by America's founding fathers). Bosley poses as a potential buyer. | ||||||
| 91 | 19 | "Dancin' Angels" | Dennis Donnelly | Edward J. Lakso | February 6, 1980 | |
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After a disappearance and a murder at an old-fashioned ballroom dance contest, Bosley and Tiffany team up as a dancing couple. Meanwhile, Kris and Kelly try to get information from the club owners, who seem to think they are living in a Bogart movie.
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| 92 | 20 | "Harrigan's Angel" | Don Chaffey | Edward J. Lasko | February 20, 1980 | |
| The Angels team up with alcoholic private eye Harrigan (Howard Duff) to investigate the robbery of an electronics plant. Kris takes a liking to the old man and tries to get him back on track. | ||||||
| 93 | 21 | "An Angel's Trail" | Dennis Donnelly | Wayne Cruseturner | February 27, 1980 | |
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Jill drives up to a robbery in progress at Pioneer Gasoline/The Rock Store. The perpetrator, along with his two sons as accomplices, decides he wants to take her as a hostage into the hills of the nearby isolated desert on their way to Canada. NOTE: This is Farrah Fawcett's final episode. | ||||||
| 94 | 22 | "Nips and Tucks" | Don Chaffey | Teleplay by: B.W. Sandefur Story by: Cory Applebaum & B.W. Sandefur | March 5, 1980 | |
| When a renowned cosmetic surgeon (Louis Jourdan) is suspected of giving criminals a new face, Tiffany joins his staff as a nurse, while Bosley poses as a rich patient whose wife, played by Kris, wants him to improve his looks. | ||||||
| 95 | 23 | "Three for the Money" | George McCowan | Lee Sheldon | March 12, 1980 | |
| The Townsend Agency is hired by three people who have been separately conned by Harley Dexter (Vincent Baggetta). In order to get their money back, the Angels counterattack with three cons of their own: one involving Mayan art, another centered around a Rolls-Royce and the third concerning bribe money. | ||||||
| 96 | 24 | "Toni's Boys" | Ron Satlof | Teleplay by: Katharyn Powers Story by: Robert Janes & Katharyn Powers | April 2, 1980 | |
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After an attempt is made on the Angels' lives, Charlie hires a rival detective agency run by his old friend, Antonia Blake (Barbara Stanwyck), to keep an eye on his employees. Blake, who likes to be called 'Toni', assigns her three boys to the case. They are: former U.S. Olympic champion Bob Sorenson (Bob Seagren), master of disguise Matt Parrish (Bruce Bauer) and champion rodeo rider, roper and tracker Cotton Harper (Stephen Shortridge). The Angels, feeling they can solve the case themselves, try to ditch the men as soon as possible.
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| 97 | 25 | "One Love... Two Angels: Part 1" | Dennis Donnelly | B.W. Sandefur | April 30, 1980 | |
| Part 1 of 2. Kelly is contacted by an attorney who tells her she may be the long-lost daughter of millionaire Oliver Barrows (Ray Milland). When Barrows sees the resemblance between Kelly and his late wife, he is convinced she is his daughter, Margaret Ellen, but Kelly remains skeptical, so she hires the Townsend Agency to investigate. | ||||||
| 98 | 26 | "One Love... Two Angels: Part 2" | Dennis Donnelly | B.W. Sandefur | May 7, 1980 | |
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Conclusion. Bill Cord (Patrick Duffy) has fallen in love with both Kelly and Kris, driving a wedge between the two detectives. When Bill finds out Glenn Staley (Robert Reed) stands to gain from Kelly's death, he forfeits his own life. Now it is up to Tiffany and Bosley to hold the team together and solve the case.
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