Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16754 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-06-23
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 5
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
• Number of discs: 5
• Running time: 288 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Back in the late 1970s Charlie's Angels was wildly popular television at its most self-consciously banal. The jiggly, joggly jolly first series' three (and best-remembered) belles--lioness Farrah Fawcett (then Farrah Fawcett-Majors), pin-up babe Jaclyn Smith and thinking man's beauty Kate Jackson--were something like primetime Spice Girls, gracing countless magazine covers and bestselling posters. The idea (even if a fan of the show didn't happen to be a straight male) was that one was compelled to choose a favourite angel as a kind of ink-blot window into one's subconscious life.

While the 2000 Angels feature film kept faith with the original show's self-mockingly sloppy storytelling, there's nothing like seeing the old episodes for a lesson in narrative hubris. Basically, the three leading characters were bored policewomen wooed away to a private firm owned and operated by the unseen sybarite, Charlie (voiced--over speakerphone--by an uncredited John Forsythe). After a long set-up each week, the girls' investigations typically saw them going undercover as fashion models--no great stretch--in "Night of the Strangler", nurses in "Terror on Ward One", roller-derby stars in "Angels on Wheels" and vulnerable convicts (of course) in "Angels in Chains". The exploitation factor is not as bad as it might have been. The cast was so glamorous, their chemistry so perfect, that Charlie's Angels never became a mere meat market. Despite such nods to modernity as Fawcett's no-bra look, the episodes were old-fashioned in their heroine-in-peril appeal, yet there was a difference: the Angels looked out for themselves and each other. --Tom Keogh

Special Features
4:3 Full Frame
English
Region 2

Synopsis
Once upon a time, Jill, Sabrina, and Kelly were just everyday police officers with routine desk jobs. But when mysterious millionaire Charles Townsend takes them away from it all to work at his own private detective agency, their lives become infinitely more adventurous. All 22 episodes from the first season of the classic Aaron Spelling-produced female detective series are included in this special 5-disc set. 1970s glamour girls Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith, and Kate Jackson co-star.

Customer Reviews

BEWARE - This DVD is NOT PAL compatible
I cannot believe that the makers of this DVD would market it in the UK in a non-PAL compatible format. I have 2 DVD players - one will not play the discs at all the other plays it in black and white. The pack states that "all DVD players sold in the UK are capable of playing both PAL and NTSC discs" - this is simply not true - so be very careful to check your DVD and TV are NTSC (ie the US system) compatible. The manufacturers state this can be easily fixed - but it can't. Very frustrating, very disappointing and very bad marketing!

MUST HAVE
If you are an angels fan it is a must have, even if you have never seen it, it is a 100% garunte you will love it!
There is a pilot episode and 22 other episodes. There is also special features where there are trailors to the new movies!

YOU MUST GET IT

Great DVD Set !
"Charlie's Angels" fans had to wait a long time for this great DVD set - but it was worth waiting for it ! All 22 episodes of the first season plus the pilot movie on five dics, all in clear quality (and by the way, it was working on my DVD player !). Just lean back and enjoy your journey back to the seventies with the orignal angels, the faboulous Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith and Farrah Fawcett. This is much better than the remake ! Only minus: Why there are no releases of the other "Charlie's Angels", starring Cheryl Ladd ???