At the La Hermosa Women's Tennis Match, player Sandy Keller almost dies when someone tampers with the shower door. This is one of several incidents plaguing women's tennis tourneys, so Bosle... Read allAt the La Hermosa Women's Tennis Match, player Sandy Keller almost dies when someone tampers with the shower door. This is one of several incidents plaguing women's tennis tourneys, so Bosley and the Angels investigate.At the La Hermosa Women's Tennis Match, player Sandy Keller almost dies when someone tampers with the shower door. This is one of several incidents plaguing women's tennis tourneys, so Bosley and the Angels investigate.
- Sandy Keller
- (as Lynda Beattie)
- Spectator
- (as David T. Hayman)
- Charles Townsend
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Restaurant Patron
- (uncredited)
- Woman in Crowd
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaThis is where Cheryl Ladd does her first "full on" Stan Laurel impression, in the office, after Charlie's intercom tells her what her undercover job entails. (She does the mouth/chin expression while scratching the top of her head.) The other title where she goes full on Stan Laurel is Antique Angels, where she even states (to the bad guys) that she's doing the impression.
- GoofsIn the scene where the Angels are discussing the tennis players via slide show about 5 minutes in, the film is inverted on one closeup of Bosley (mole on forehead is on opposite side; part in hair opposite)
- Quotes
Arlo Spinner: Hey, you got a great sense of humor. You ever think of modeling rackets?
Kelly Garrett: You mean just rackets?
Arlo Spinner: Hm-hm.
Kelly Garrett: Mother would never approve.
Arlo Spinner: Well, would we have to tell her?
Kelly Garrett: I tell mother everything.
One player is almost scalded in the hot showers, and later the Mexican champ is somehow killed while mediating, although how this was done is never explained too well. The Swedish champ, who likes her yoga, has a rattlesnake planted in her handbag. Man, here we go with this rattlesnake business again, one of the worst 70's tropes. And when the snake is revealed it acts more like a cobra, or at least its operator had it act like a cobra, as a wire or string can be seen.
Bibi Besch, the Swedish actress best known for the Wrath of Khan, plays an American player on the comeback trail and one who defeated a male tennis announcer in a battle of the sexes type match. She's an excellent actress and seems to be slumming a little here.
Jaclyn Smith as Kelly spends a good portion of the episode in a tight pair of blue shorts with matching top and looks her usual doll self. Cheryl Ladd as Kris has a hilarious locker room duel with a killer, where the locker stalls are tipped over like dominoes. Kris as the smallest Angel really packs a punch, I can only assume every last locker stall was empty to have them toppled so easy.
There's one scene where Bibi's character is shot at by a sniper in broad daylight on a practice court. You would think that a tournament where players are dying would have hired some armed security, but no, why spoil the fun? And the sniper in broad daylight is another trope that Charlie's Angels uses time and time again. The Circus episode, the Hawaiian episode, the Jericho episode -- sheesh.
And speaking of the tournament, the top prize is $25,000, not a bad sum for the 70's, but you'd think they would actually play on a nice court. The real location is the Calabasas Swim and Tennis club, but the courts look drab and not up to professional standards. Interesting though, the Angels were hitting Calabasas long before the Kardashians ever did and looked better doing it.
The episode ends with, what else, a car chase. We only got to see Kris hit tennis balls once, against the chauvinist TV announcer, and she sends him running away in no time. The episode is full of plot holes but is enjoyable on a farcical level.
- adamcshelby
- Jul 8, 2021