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The Best Episodes of Charlie's Angels

Every episode of Charlie's Angels ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Charlie's Angels!

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Best Episodes Summary

"Angels in Chains" is the best rated episode of "Charlie's Angels". It scored 8/10 based on 505 votes. Directed by Marcos Siega and written by Ivan Goff, it aired on 10/20/1976. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Nips and Tucks".

  • Angels in Chains
    8.0/10505 votes
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    #1 - Angels in Chains

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/1976

    The Angels go behind bars to uncover a scheme at a prison-farm in a corrupt small town where rich women are enslaved for their fortunes and then killed.

    Director: Marcos Siega

    Writer: Ivan Goff

  • Nips and Tucks
    7.9/10206 votes
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    #2 - Nips and Tucks

    Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 3/5/1980

    When a congressional witness is found dead, the Angels investigate a plastic surgeon's association with a racketeer whom they learn wants surgery to change his identity.

    Director: Don Chaffey

    Writer: N/A

  • Diamond in the Rough
    7.8/10202 votes
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    #3 - Diamond in the Rough

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/18/1978

    Ex-jewel thief Freddie the Fox enlists the Angels to help him steal the famous Light of Arabia diamond so that he can return it to a museum and retire from crime forever.

    Director: Ronald Austin

    Writer: N/A

  • Angels on Vacation
    7.8/10212 votes
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    #4 - Angels on Vacation

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/10/1979

    Kris invites Bosley and the Angels to vacation in a small Arizona town where her aunt is Mayor and her uncle is Sheriff. Upon arrival they discover their headlights smashed, no rooms available and a suspicious lack of women in town.

    Director: Don Weis

    Writer: Edward J. Lakso

  • Love Boat Angels (2)
    7.7/10215 votes
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    #5 - Love Boat Angels (2)

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/12/1979

    Hollister is attracted to Kris, and the feeling becomes uncomfortably mutual, especially after Kris learns that all the money from his crime will be used to smuggle distressed people out of Vietnam. As the result of the Angels' intervention, the thieves are able to work out a deal with the insurance companies that satisfies all parties.

    Director: Allen Baron

    Writer: Edward J. Lakso

  • Angels in Paradise (1)
    7.6/10294 votes
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    #6 - Angels in Paradise (1)

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1977

    Sabrina and Kelly voice their displeasure at Charlie's hiring of a new Angel, after Jill leaves the team to become a professional race car driver. Sabrina warns Charlie that maybe they won't like her but maybe they will. Seconds later, Kris Monroe bursts through the office doors of the Townsend Agency, having been plucked from the Police academy in San Francisco by Charlie. All of the Angels' concerns dissolve at first sight of Jill's younger sister, who is welcomed to the fold.

    Director: Charles S. Dubin

    Writer: N/A

  • Angels on Horseback
    7.6/10195 votes
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    #7 - Angels on Horseback

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/21/1977

    A tour group headed for the Sunwest Dude Ranch becomes a busload of suspects when one of them is murdered before they reach their destination. The Angels disguise themselves as ordinary visitors to investigate.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Edward J. Lakso

  • Mother Goose is Running For His Life
    7.6/10215 votes
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    #8 - Mother Goose is Running For His Life

    Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/15/1978

    Leland Swinnerton, better known as Mother Goose, is president of a toy company that someone is trying to sabotage. Sabrina and Kelly go undercover to sabotage the saboteurs while Kris and Bosley follow close behind.

    Director: George McCowan

    Writer: James D. Buchanan

  • Marathon Angels
    7.6/10187 votes
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    #9 - Marathon Angels

    Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 3/7/1979

    The Angels investigate the mysterious disappearance of Sylvia and Sally, two participants in a promotional running race. Kris and Kelly enter the race and must literally chase their suspects.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Edward J. Lakso

  • Angels at the Altar
    7.6/10248 votes
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    #10 - Angels at the Altar

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/3/1979

    Kelly is set to be maid of honor at the wedding of her best friend, Sharon. They discover that there have been several near misses on the groom's life and the Angels are called in to investigate.

    Director: Lawrence Dobkin

    Writer: N/A

  • Fallen Angel
    7.6/10230 votes
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    #11 - Fallen Angel

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1979

    The Angels are retained by an opera star to protect a diamond from a jewel thief. However, Jill has become romantically involved with the thief who invites her to participate in the heist.

    Director: Allen Baron

    Writer: N/A

  • Angels on Campus
    7.6/10208 votes
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    #12 - Angels on Campus

    Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 11/28/1979

    When two girls from Tiffany's sorority disappear, the Angels find themselves back in college trying to unravel a suspected white slavery ring.

    Director: Don Chaffey

    Writer: N/A

  • Toni's Boys
    7.6/10183 votes
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    #13 - Toni's Boys

    Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 4/2/1980

    After a number of attempts on the Angels' lives, Charlie hires Antonia Blake to protect them. Toni's boys are expert detectives but the Angels resist their orders to stay undercover and not venture out of Toni's mansion.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Pretty Angels All in a Row
    7.5/10248 votes
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    #14 - Pretty Angels All in a Row

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 9/28/1977

    The manager of the Miss Chrysanthemum Pageant thinks someone is trying to ruin the pageant when several incidents occur to scare off the contestants. Kris and Kelly become contestants, and discover the competition is being eliminated and judges bribed to ensure the bad guy's daughter wins.

    Director: John D. F. Black

    Writer: N/A

  • Mother Angel
    7.5/10203 votes
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    #15 - Mother Angel

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/15/1978

    Looking for a thrill, poor little rich girl Samantha Courtney breaks into a greenhouse and stumbles upon a murder. Since Charlie is an old friend of the girl's aunt, the Angels are put on the case.

    Director: Don Chaffey

    Writer: Rift Fournier

  • Angels in the Stretch
    7.5/10186 votes
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    #16 - Angels in the Stretch

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/20/1978

    The Angels are called in to find the murderer of a gambler killed while investigating the suspicious antics of a dull racehorse.

    Director: Lawrence Doheny

    Writer: N/A

  • Terror on Skis (2)
    7.5/10200 votes
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    #17 - Terror on Skis (2)

    Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/7/1979

    During a check of the guests at Hansworth's hotel, the Angels encounter Vincenti Donatelli and his son, Paolo, both members of an Italian Radical group called the Patriots for a Free Society. Their suspicions of the group are confirmed when Sabrina is kidnapped, and offered an exchange for the voluntary surrender of Hansworth.

    Director: Don Chaffey

    Writer: Edward J. Lakso

  • Love Boat Angels (1)
    7.5/10252 votes
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    #18 - Love Boat Angels (1)

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1979

    Five million dollars worth of gold and bronze artwork is stolen in spectacular fashion from the Los Angeles Harbor. The insurance company that covered the artwork sends an agent to brief the Angels, and Charlie sends them on a Carribean cruise to intercept the dashing thief, Paul Hollister, and his accomplice, Wes Anderson. With Sabrina now married and retired from detective work, Kelly and Kris are joined by a new recruit, Tiffany Welles. Bosley stays in LA to trail Eleanor Case, the fence for the merchandise.

    Director: Allen Baron

    Writer: Edward J. Lakso

  • One Love...Two Angels (1)
    7.5/10173 votes
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    #19 - One Love...Two Angels (1)

    Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 4/30/1980

    Kelly, who was orphaned as an infant, receives a visit from attorney Bill Cord, who is convinced that she's Margaret Barrows, the daughter of multi-millionaire hotelier Oliver Barrows. Kelly flies to San Diego to meet the man who may be her father, and begins a romance with the handsome attorney. After a joyful reunion, Barrows dies of an apparent heart attack two days later.

    Director: Dennis Donnelly

    Writer: N/A

  • Angel in Hiding (1)
    7.5/10210 votes
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    #20 - Angel in Hiding (1)

    Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 11/30/1980

    Jody Mills, a would-be model reduced to woking in a seedy amateur photography studio, is found murdered in an alley behind the studio. Her father hires the Angels, who begin an investigation of Jody's roommate, Julie Rogers. Kris learns that Jody may have bought drugs from Julie on the night of her death. A computer check reveals that Ms. Rogers also has a police record.

    Director: Dennis Donnelly

    Writer: Edward J. Lakso

  • Angels in Paradise (2)
    7.4/10235 votes
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    #21 - Angels in Paradise (2)

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/14/1977

    The new team's first assignment- find Charlie, who has been kidnapped during his vacation in Hawaii. Sabrina, Kelly and Kris follow teh kidnapper's instructions and meet their ""client"", Leilani Sako, a smuggler who orders the Angels to break her husband, Billy, out of jail in exchange for Charlie's release. They do the job as directed, but by then Charlie is taken from Leilani's clutches by a rival smuggling gang led by the crude Mr. Blue.

    Director: Charles S. Dubin

    Writer: N/A

  • Angel on High
    7.4/10214 votes
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    #22 - Angel on High

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 9/27/1978

    The Angels travel to a Reno air show to track down stunt pilot Bill Freeman who may be the long lost son of Jonathan Stambler and heir to his substantial fortune.

    Director: Lawrence Doheny

    Writer: Edward J. Lakso

  • Angels Ahoy!
    7.4/10209 votes
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    #23 - Angels Ahoy!

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/8/1978

    A young woman is murdered after she identifies a killer on a luxury liner. The Angels are called in to uncover a ring that helps criminals escape the country by cruise ship.

    Director: Allen Baron

    Writer: Lee Sheldon

  • Avenging Angel
    7.4/10204 votes
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    #24 - Avenging Angel

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 9/26/1979

    Frank Desmond, a heroin addict Kelly helped send to prison, gets out of jail. He proceeds with help from a friend to take revenge.

    Director: Allen Baron

    Writer: Edward J. Lakso

  • Night of the Strangler
    7.3/10356 votes
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    #25 - Night of the Strangler

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/1976

    The Angels investigate a series of rag-doll stranglings, using Kelly's resemblance to the first victim to attract the murderer.

    Director: Richard Lang

    Writer: N/A