8.0/10504 votesLoading...#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
7.9/10205 votesLoading...#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
7.8/10202 votesLoading...#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
7.8/10212 votesLoading...#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
7.7/10215 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10292 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10195 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10215 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10187 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10248 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10230 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10207 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10182 votesLoading...#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
7.5/10247 votesLoading...#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
7.5/10203 votesLoading...#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
7.5/10186 votesLoading...#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
7.5/10200 votesLoading...#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
7.5/10252 votesLoading...#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
7.5/10172 votesLoading...#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
7.5/10210 votesLoading...#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
7.4/10234 votesLoading...#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
7.4/10214 votesLoading...#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
7.4/10209 votesLoading...#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
7.4/10204 votesLoading...#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
7.3/10355 votesLoading...#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
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 504 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".