History YMMV / CHarliesAngels

* ValuesDissonance: Sabrina quips that she'd let her {{attempted rap|e}}ist in "Night of the Strangler" [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe go through with it]] if he was Creator/RobertRedford, which sets off UnfortunateImplications nowadays.

** Creator/ShelleyHack was never popular with viewers, and was dropped after the fourth season. This has made her quite the target for jokes on shows such as ''Series/TheGoldenGirls''. After an unsuccessful attempt at a followup series (the medical drama ''Series/CutterToHouston''), Hack would later star in films such as ''Film/TheStepfather'' and ''Film/{{Troll}}'', and in 2000, shortly before the release of the ''Charlie's Angels'' films, she hosted a week-long marathon on the Biography channel highlighting biographies of the original television show. Away from acting, however, Hack forged a successful career as a producer of televised political events in eastern Europe and as a media advisor.

* GrowingTheBeard: The show's [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Riker's Beard]] moment ocurred at the beginning of the second season during the "Angels In Paradise" episode when Creator/FarrahFawcett was replaced by Creator/CherylLadd.

** [[spoiler: Did Kris really only provide a distraction on the villain to help Kelly as a favour to Bill, or was she genuinely concerned for her friend, and only claimed otherwise to spite for their LoveTraingle?]]

!![[Series/CharliesAngels The original TV series]]:

!!The 2011 reboot:
* CompleteMonster: Nestor Rodrigo, aka Pajaro, from the pilot "Angel with a Broken Wing", is a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive tycoon]] who gained his fortune through decades of SexSlave trading. In flashbacks, it's revealed that he led a death squad assault on the orphanage that future Angels Eve French and Gloria Martinez were at as little girls, to abduct all the girls and have [[WouldHurtAChild the boys]] and nuns shot dead. The episode opens with Gloria, along with Angels Kate Prince and Abby Sampson, rescuing a 16-year-old runaway whom Pajaro had had abducted to be sold. After that, he has Gloria killed with a car bomb both out of spite and when she finds out who he is; he tried to kill Kate, Eve and Abby by having Eve's boat shot up. When his assistant, who keeps track of all his business transactions, is abducted by the Angels and John Bosley, he tasers, beats and chokes Eve to find out where she is, and when that fails, he orders her to be shot. Later, when trying to escape, Pajaro tries to shoot at Eve and Abby in a car. Standing out as horrible in a show that didn't last long, Pajaro is undoubtedly rotten to the core.

* DidTheyOrDidntThey: Kris and Bob Sorenson in "Toni's Boys".

** Creator/ShelleyHack was never popular with viewers, and was dropped after the fourth season. This has made her quite the target for jokes on shows such as ''Series/TheGoldenGirls''. After an unsuccessful attempt at a followup series (the medical drama ''Cutter to Houston''), Hack would later star in films such as ''Film/TheStepfather'' and ''Film/{{Troll}}'', and in 2000, shortly before the release of the ''Charlie's Angels'' films, she hosted a week-long marathon on the Biography channel highlighting biographies of the original television show. Away from acting, however, Hack forged a successful career as a producer of televised political events in eastern Europe and as a media advisor.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/TommyLeeJones has a supporting role in the PilotMovie.

* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: ABC thought it was the worst concept for a show they'd ever heard of and, when the pilot got such high ratings, they didn't believe them. The episode was shown a second time, and the ratings were equally as high.

** Pretty much the poster child of the trope, though it was perhaps not as extreme as some recall/believe. For example, Creator/FarrahFawcett donned a swimsuit only once during the series (and that was because Jill was impersonating a swimming instructor), and Kate Jackson dressed conservatively throughout her tenure (as did Shelley Hack). Jaclyn Smith tended to don bikinis more frequently, but even she often dressed conservatively for the times. Creator/CherylLadd, on the other hand, was frequently called upon to wear the tiniest bikinis allowed on late-1970s network TV. Creator/TanyaRoberts also brought up the fanservice in the Hawaiian episodes.

** Farrah Fawcett has commented that when the show reached #3 in the ratings, she thought it was because of their acting ability. When it reached #1, she realized it probably was because they didn't wear bras.

** The 1976 episode "Target: Angels" has Bosley talk about how difficult it would be to replace any of the Angels; he says this as he looks at Kate Jackson, whose departure two years later would see her replaced unsuccessfully. The same scene has Creator/FarrahFawcett's character pipe up that Charlie can't find anyone to work as cheap as they do; this takes on irony give the circumstances surrounding her departure.

** Kate Jackson left the show after the third season claiming she was simply tired of it, and that it had run its course for her. However, she originally was up for the lead role in ''Film/KramerVsKramer'', which eventually went to (and got an Oscar for) Creator/MerylStreep. Creator/AaronSpelling refused to let her out of her contract. She also did not get along well with Fawcett's replacement Creator/CherylLadd, and after a particularly strange third season episode where the Angels infiltrate a marathon running competition, she decided it was time to quit.
** Shelley Hack was never popular with viewers, and was dropped after the fourth season. This has made her quite the target for jokes on shows such as ''Series/TheGoldenGirls''. After an unsuccessful attempt at a followup series (the medical drama ''Cutter to Houston''), Hack would later star in films such as ''Film/TheStepfather'' and ''Film/{{Troll}}'', and in 2000, shortly before the release of the ''Charlie's Angels'' films, she hosted a week-long marathon on the Biography channel highlighting biographies of the original television show. Away from acting, however, Hack forged a successful career as a producer of televised political events in eastern Europe and as a media advisor.
* ReplacementScrappy: When a bitter Kate Jackson left after the third season, the producers scrambled for a replacement for everybody's favorite "Smart Angel." Enter Shelley Hack, who for many Angels viewers practically defines the trope in every sense of the word. Hack portrayed the glamorous Tiffany Welles, a cop from Boston who spoke Latin, and was always fashionable. Unfortunately, Hack wasn't given much to do during her tenure on the fourth season, simply because the writers could not seem to come up with anything for her to do, and as such, she was scarcely seen doing anything of note during the season. Because of this, Kris was given the brunt of most of the storylines, with the occasional Kelly story thrown in, particularly in the season finale. Viewership sank as a result, and Hack was widely blamed for the ratings drop, even though she herself had nothing to do with it, it was in actuality the writers whom were to blame. Hack was immediately fired from the show, and Tiffany was sent back to Boston. Hack's replacement for the fifth and final season was Creator/TanyaRoberts as street smart model Julie Rodgers. Though Roberts was received well by critics, she wasn't enough to save the show from cancellation.

* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: Despite the show ending up much campier and sillier than originally intended, Kate Jackson avoided doing {{Fanservice}} and gave a strong dramatic performance, earning two consecutive Emmy Award nominations for outstanding lead actress in a drama series.
* ToughActToFollow: Neither of Kate Jackson's replacements (Shelley Hack and Tanya Roberts) were as well-remembered.