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Charlie's Angels

Angels in Springtime

Season 3, Episode 5, Aired Oct 11, 1978

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When a famous stage actress is electrocuted at an exclusive women's spa, the Angels are hired to capture the murderer and find a missing manuscript.

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Tracie Hunt

Guard
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Pat Delaney

Ingrid
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Joan Hotchkis

Dr. Slavin

Kate Jackson

Sabrina Duncan
Jaclyn Smith

Kelly Garrett
Cheryl Ladd

Kris Munroe
David Doyle

John Bosley
John Forsythe

Charlie Townsend

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Although "Charlie's Angels" has some episodes that jump the shark completely, the series has many others which are good. This is a good example.

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By acmb, Mar 09, 2009

The Angels are hired to discover if the death of an actress in a women's spa is a murder or not. Of course it is but the Angels get inside a complex that looks more to a jail than to a spa.

They go undercover, Sabrina as a diestist (it's really funny to see her eating once and again when preparing food or giving carrots to the womens), Kris as an exercise instructor and Kelly as a guest. The women who work or are guest in the spa are very strange in the way that some of them have the word "suspect" written on their face. But who was the killer? What I like about this episode is that the story is interesting from the beginning to the end and although the suspects are very clear there are some surprises. For once, nobody wants to kill Sabrina but Kris... twice.moreless
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When a famous stage actress is electrocuted at an exclusive women's spa, the Angels are hired to capture the murderer and find a missing manuscript.

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By savellexsse, Oct 12, 2007

Although "Charlie's Angels" represented an important moment in TV history for action roles for women, where they got to dish out physical punishment rather than just standing on the sidelines while the men fight, rarely did the heroine trio lose a physical battle, which certainly betrays any sense of treating the premise sincerely (even if going one level beyond that in taking such a fun show seriously is more than one would want). In this episode, there is finally a scene where Kris (Cheryl Ladd) is cornered by a strong woman and demonstrates overconfidence in taking her on, only for the woman to throw Kris through a table knocking her out, dragging her away, and positioning her on a massage table for a novel way of bumping her off, by disallowing her skin to breathe through its pores, reminiscent of the same urban legend as used in the film "Goldfinger" when a beautiful blonde was killed by being covered head-to-toe in gold paint. The other Angels of course come to Kris' rescue just in time, but not before her humiliating defeat by knockout, which didn't happen often enough to the heroines in this show. This may seem an offensive viewpoint in a post-feminist era, but what should be offensive is the idea of it being politically incorrect for fictional women to demonstrate defeat, which is just another case of restriction of a female stereotype, and whenever a woman is seen on the losing end, it actually may give the female audience a feeling of empowerment, just as any demonstration of female victory was empowering before the feminist era.moreless
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- Goof Notice when Dr. Slavin tape records Kelly's hypno session, the closeup shows that it is on the PLAY button.
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- Charlie: (after mentioning that he used to act) That was the high point of my career, Angels. The part of Bottom in Midsummer Nights Dream.
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- Ingrid: (to Bosley) We don't allow men on the premises. Bosley: I wouldn't either.
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- Kelly Not only is my room bugged but there is a peep hole in there. Kris: I'd dress in the closet if I were you!
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- Zora (to Kris) A pretty little neck. I bet it would break easily.
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- Norma I'm bored and heckling you is more fun than an herbal wrap or a sunflower souffle.
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- Mrs. Ingrid: Rule 2. You will cater to your guests every wish. You will be more than servants, you will become their slaves. You'll make their stay at the Springtime the most memorable experience of their lives. Norma (interrupting) Until they get their bill, at which time, that will become the most memorable experience of their lives.
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- Eve: Men aren't everything. (takes a drink) They're the only thing.
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- In a rare case of continuity in the series, Kelly makes reference to being previously hypnotized, which occurred in the season 1 episode "The Seance".
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- Charlie: (after mentioning that he used to act) That was the high point of my career, Angels. The part of Bottom in Midsummer Nights Dream. This is in reference to William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream character Nick Bottom, who's head gets transformed into a donkey's head.
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