Few predicted the widespread appeal of "Charlie's Angels," a 1976 Aaron Spelling-produced action drama with a fairly preposterous premise. After graduating from the police academy, three tall, beautiful women (originally Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett-Majors and Jaclyn Smith), dissatisfied by the menial work they're given by the police force, go to work for the Charles Townsend Agency as private investigators. They never see their mysterious boss, Charlie (voiced with stately timber by John Forsythe), who calls them his Angels, and communicated only through speakerphone and by way of his eunuch-like factotum (played by David Doyle). With each episode, they're given a new assignment, many of which caused them to go undercover in skimpy, sexy costumes, such as a beauty pageant contestant or roller derby girl. Critics called the series "Jiggle TV."