Charlie's Angels, Benson, Dallas

Monday, January 5th, 1981

Charlie's Angels @ 8pm
Benson
Dallas

Charlie's Angels. Season 5, Episode 1. "Angel in Hiding" Tanya Roberts joins the series for this 5th season two-parter. I think, by this stage, I had totally lost interest in Charlie's Angels. Although I can vividly remember having a huge crush on Farrah Fawcett in the 70s (especially around the time her movie Murder on Flight 502 aired in Ireland) it was really Sabrina who was my favourite Angel. When Sabrina left, I started to miss episodes and not care.

As an adult, I don't watch Charlie's Angels. I've recorded various episode over the years but always end up deleting them before I make time to watch them. If I did watch, I suspect it would be Jaclyn Smith who would be my favourite. Simply because she is so gorgeous. I watched the pilot in the mid-'90s and hated it. It was dumb and - for the first time - I realised that the show was a rip-off of Mission: Impossible.

Benson. Not sure which episode this was. I wrote in my TV Diary that it was a repeat, but that could just mean that I saw it on another channel.

This was/is one of my mother's favourite shows so we always watched it. I liked it, but my interest was driven mostly by the fact that the lead character had been on Soap first. Soap was one of my most favourite shows as a kid and it was kinda cool to think that one of the main characters had been spun-off into his own show. This was probably one of the first times I had ever seen a 'spin-off'.

Dallas. Season 4, Episode 9. "The Prodigal Mother" Again, this was one of my mother's favourite shows and I just kinda watched it. I wrote in my TV Diary that this was the episode where Pam finally finds her mother but I really couldn't give a damn about stuff like that!