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Heads up, Angels! While our podcast is suitable for all ages, keep in mind these episodes were produced in a different era and may include scenes of danger, crime, or themes some listeners may find sensitive or outdated. When doing our rewatch, we do our very best to discuss everything with care, context, and compassion, and always with a love for the show and respect for our listeners.

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Last time on Good Morning Charlie, she loves critters, but none more than her best pal, Bullseye.

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And coming up, it was just an occasional natural occurrence between consenting adults.

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I'm really proud of us saying the name of the podcast in our opening statement.

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I sound very professional.

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I think we're done. Thank you for joining us on today's episode. Be sure to follow us on Patreon.

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That successfully wraps up another mission.

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What's up, Colby?

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My washer just broke.

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Oh my god, is that why you look that way?

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Like I had a service person come out. He briefly looked at it and was like, Army or Navy.

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Oh, what's broken?

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No. Don't I wish.

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What's broken?

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He said the bearing and the washer is broken.

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That sounds made up. Did your did your place flood?

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No, no, no, no.

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Uh so why are your shoes wet?

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The c the cost to repair it and the seal is the same price it would be to buy a new washer. I mean, we're gonna buy a new washer, I guess. Wow. Yeah, so um adulthood, yay. What are you up to?

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Well, I'm wondering about your washer. I can't remember what kind of washer you have. Is it one of those H E or is it a top loader?

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It is a front loader. I would actually prefer a top loader because I would rather have something I could soak things in.

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You know you can get a high efficiency top loader.

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Well, I mean, that's what I'm looking at now, so.

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Now that we're making bank on this podcast, go make it rain at a lows.

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That's exactly what I need.

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I'm fine. No, I'm doing fine. I'm I'm tickled about this week's episode because there's a lot of pop culture stuff going on I remember from when I was wee.

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And that was the that's the extent of it. Okay. No.

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Times were hard. It was the war between the states. Brother against brother. Well, first of all, the earth was still really, really hot from all that magma.

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Terribly flat.

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Pterodactyls everywhere you couldn't go to the mailbox. Today's assignment is consenting adults. The episode brave enough to ask, what if we Charlie's Angel did a bit, but added skateboards. And sex workers.

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I also want to remind viewers: all five seasons are free on Tubi now. Go watch consenting adults with us. Fresh from the production dossier, here is your case briefing. It's the post the pill swinging 70s, and it looks at this episode has everything. Everything. Shag carpeting, mirrored walls, golden bar carts begging to be rolled into frame, computer dating services run by con men, pimps, and thieves, which was Cher's lesser-known follow-up to gypsies, tramps, and thieves.

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Colby, Colby, ask me where I was born.

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Chris, where were you born?

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In the wagon of a traveling show.

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I was born in the wagon of a traveling show. My mama used to dance for the mum. Where's your grandpa?

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Grandpa threw what I like.

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He was selling coughle bottles at Dr. Good.

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Wasn't he?

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What else does it have? This has everything.

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And a horse-napped racehorse in the middle of the Townsend Agency.

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The plot? Clifton Cunningham's mother hasn't heard from him or seen him in days. She hires the angels to help. This fairly simple case turns into kidnapping, diamond smuggling, prostitution, and the fencing of stolen goods. This episode has what we in the Biz call a MacGuffin. What is it, you ask? It's an ugly ass ceramic frog, Colby. Why does everyone want it? And once we find out it's full of diamonds, how the hell did they get those diamonds in there in that little velvety bag? Did you wonder that? Did they bake them in there? How does ceramics work? How do ceramics work? Was there a hole we didn't see? Have you ever ceramiced? And if so, does it have a little velvety bag full of anything inside it?

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I've never done ceramics. Some friends of mine just got into it. In fact, I had a little uh stamp custom made for them just for this past Christmas.

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It's great that you gave some people Christmas presents. Do you have any super secret intel?

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I do. Here's the super secret intel from behind the scenes. Oh my god. This episode originally aired on December 8, 1976.

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Now you don't get to skip it.

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Is there anything significant about 1976?

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I ask for so little.

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I don't ask much from you, girl. Why can't you give me the respect that I'm entitled to?

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That was our nation's bicentennial. Continue.

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This airing was during the heart of the season one explosion of sudden popularity. The first few episodes aired, and Farah was now the breakout star. ABC had ordered the producers of the show to not place her in controversial situations, or at least dance around it as best they could, which explains why Jill didn't pose as a sex worker for very long before revealing herself to be a private investigator.

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Exactly why I posed as a sex worker for just a short amount of time earlier today, and last week, and maybe all of last year.

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He also wrote for Heart to Heart and the Fall Guy, a little Lee Majors connection, but by that time he and Farrah were already divorced.

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But by the time Les Carter wrote an episode.

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Correct.

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Got it.

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Lastly, Kelly uses the word shook, because she's Gen Z instead of shaken to describe someone's mental state, which in 2026 actually makes her sound unsettlingly with it.

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I it it shook me. I was shook. I was shooketh because when she blurted it out, it really was unsettling. That was a great word choice, Cody.

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So before we begin the rundown of today's assignment, here are some classified details you need to know. Guest star Dick Denman, who plays Clifton Cunningham, was a casting director and an actor. He appeared in pod faves such as The Bionic Woman and The Rookies. Guest starring as his mother, Maggie Cunningham, is Audrey Christie, famous for her roles in pod faves like Barney Miller, Police Woman.

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Here's where I have Draft after Harper Valley PTA. The day my mom did you. The Heartbox.

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I love that song. And the movie is um kind of insane, uh, but enjoyable.

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You know there was a series. Did you know there was a series? No. Have you ever seen any of it?

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No. Once I saw how insane the movie was.

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The series was really good. It's not available anywhere to know it. Audrey Christie. I well I would love for you to find that. How about you do all of that?

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I just might.

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She also was in Maud, and she played Maud's Mother. Maud's mother. I'm gonna find a pick you can post. And that, you know, if you ever decide to post any photos. And also a little B. Arthur connection. She was also in Maine. And Honey West. And you mentioned Honey West in our very first episode, our part one breakdown of the pilot.

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Right.

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See, I bliss.

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One of the reasons Charlie's Angels got made. There's also a mysterious crime boss, Mr. Biali. He is played by Alan Mason. He has tons of roles in movies and television, such as The Doors, TJ Hooker, Three's Company, where he played Chrissy Snow's father, Rockford Files, Quincy Kojak, McLeod, The Jeffersons, Good Times, Six Million Dollar Man, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. There's a few more. Hold on. The Bob Newhart show, McMillan and Wife.

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Do you know who was on McMillan and Wife? Do you know the two stars of that?

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I do. Rock Hudson and um what is her Susan St.

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James.

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You're right.

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And she went on to be on what famous sitcom in the 80s on CBS.

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In the 80s on CBS.

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With Jane Curtin.

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Um America's Funniest Home Videos.

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Yes, also known as Kate Nally. Also, Alan Mason was on MASH, Car 54, where are you, which has from the Munsters, Fred Gwen, who played Herman Munster.

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I love Fred Gwen.

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And then the Patty Duke show. Do you remember the do you have you ever seen an episode of Patty Duke?

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I have not.

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Do you know who her husband is?

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Oh no, I don't tell me.

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John Aston. You know who John Aston became famous for playing? Gomez Adams. You know what I mean?

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I knew that. I knew it.

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You know what Gomez Adams said in the Adams Family movies you made me work into our episode?

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That's an imposter! An impostor!

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I did. I knew his name. He also um did a tiny little cameo on Elvira's um movie macabre as uh Mr. Adams.

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He also played Grandpa Adams and the television series The Addams Family that was around in the very link mid to late 80s. I I can see the cast in my mind. The actor who played Gomez Adams was just so handsome I couldn't stand it. Um anyway, Patty Duke and John Aston had a son. Do you know who that son is?

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Not a clue.

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Sean Aston from Lord of the Rings and whatnot.

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His dad is Gomez Adams.

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You sincerely didn't know that. I can tell from the show. No, I did not. Sean Aston's father is Gomez Adams.

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No, I did not know that. That's really interesting.

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And Alan Mason was in two episodes of Charlie's Angels. This one, and as a different character in season two's episode Angels in Paradise, the first episode of season two, where we meet Cheryl Ladd.

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There's also a student slash model slash sex worker, Tracy. She is played by Lorette Sprang. She's 25 in this episode. I know her from the movie and TV series Battlestar Galactica, where she played Cassiopeia in 21 episodes. But she's been in a million cool things like Fantasy Island, BJ and the Bear, Three's Company, two episodes of two different characters on the Love Boat, which I called. Dukes of Hazard, Magnum P.I. Man from Atlantis, which Patrick Duffy. Sara T portrait of a teenage alcoholic.

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Oh, Sara T.

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This episode incorporates the skateboarding phase. Jill uses what was typical at the time: a wide board with very wide wheels.

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And I have this poster. I know you do. In my house. You have seen it. Well, you saw it today. We have really done a deep dive into all of this. How about we take a quick break and come back for the debrief on today's assignment?

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We'll be right back.

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What are you looking at?

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Drop the towels and get to it.

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Isn't that funny? I feel exactly the same way.

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It's the hour of action that not only changed the face of television, but changed the body too. Yeah, that's what they tell me. Johnny's angels, weekdays at 10 on WGN.

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And now the debrief of consenting adults. Here's your setup. It's a gorgeous LA morning. We meet Clifton Cunningham, heavily toupeeed. Did you see that toupee Colby?

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Oh, I didn't really notice that it was a toupee.

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I c okay. We're not gonna get into the debrief until I say this. I can spot a hair piece, and there's no shame, I'm so sorry, a hair system from a mile away because my ex in Orlando got air quotes hair system that was really good, but I learned all the telltale signs. And um Clifton Cunningham had one. He is freshly showered, heavily toupeed, dressed, and leaving the very glamorous apartment of a young woman. Before he goes, he flips her a wad of cash. The woman is Battlestar Galactica Tracy, and yeah, we get it. We now know what's up. He's leaving, he's handing her cash. We see his car pull into his antique store. Ha! Gayee! Just as it's being robbed of items I would personally give you lots of money to just take away, but he seemed to like it. One burglar on the way out takes a very special interest in our MacGuffin, that ceramic frog.

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A little interjection. Interjections! Hey! When he takes this frog, he mentions Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy.

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And you remember Froggy the Gremlin from Andy's Gang on TV?

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I thought this was made up, but Andy's Gang is actually a TV show where Andy, with a studio audience full of loud screaming children, would show movies. At the opening of the show, he had a puppet friend called Froggy. To get the frog to appear, Andy and the audience would have to scream, plunk your magic twanger, Froggy. There would be a big puff of smoke and the frog would appear. This burglar who swiped the frog is played by G.W. Bailey, who later is immortalized as Captain Thaddeus Harris in the police academy movies I watched and re-watched and re-watched as a child.

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That explains well everything. I think we're done. Thank you for joining us for consenting adults.

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That successfully wraps up another mission.

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May we have t-shirts that say plunk your magic twanger froggy?

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I'm not sure.

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It might it on a t-shirt it sounds like an innuendo.

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Then with a long sigh, she's back.

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Here's what we're going to do. So Clifton is walking in as the burglars are walking out, and he right away notices the missing frog, in spite of the store being in shambles. And so does a mysterious thug guy we see a lot of later. He slithers in the antique store right after Clifton. The thug says a character we don't know yet, Ed Bialli, is going to be very upset about the frog. And he places a phone call to Ed Beali, and a scared Clifton is escorted out. Clifton is dragged to this combo stable slash mob boss headquarters, where he's threatened with torture and then promptly tortured over the whereabouts of this frog and his magic twanger. Clifton insists he was robbed. And to be fair, we know this is true because we saw it happened. So what's the deal with this ugly frog? Clifton, Bioli, and a thug know, but we don't know why it's so important yet. We also don't know why we're in a stable and why this crime boss can't afford better digs. But it comes to pass we discover he has organized crime ties and he deals in race horses. Both of which, like the frog, will absolutely come back. Now, the angels are on the case. We're at the Townsend agency, and Charlie and Bosley queue up this week's slideshow mystery. Clifton Cunningham is missing. The client is Clifton's mother. She weaves in and out of the story after most breaks, and also helps the angels wind down at a bar in the closing scene.

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During the scene in the office where they're getting familiar with the case, there is a picture of Maggie with President Harry S. Truman.

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I mean, clearly Photoshop will not photoshopped.

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I don't think it really looks like the actress, but anyway. Sabrina utters give the man next to her.

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That's Harry S. Truman. Hey, give 'em hell, Maggie. That's Harry S. Truman? I always thought that was James Whitmore.

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That is actually a reference to Give Em Hell Harry, which was a one-man show, first a theater show and then a movie about the presidency of Harry S. Truman. Now, Jill says, Oh, I thought that was James Whitmore, which is only a joke of the time because Give Em Hell Harry actually came out in 1976. And Harry S. Truman is played by James Whitmore in Give Em Hell Harry. James Whitmore for this role won a Grammy in 76 for this spoken word album. He was also nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Harry S. Truman.

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So it was so it was a play?

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It was a play, yes.

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And they did an album, they did a recording, and he won a Grammy for that.

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He sure did.

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How did he get an Oscar though? Did they make a movie out of it?

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They did, yeah.

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And he got a Golden Globe as well.

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Well, he got nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe.

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And the name of it's Give Em Hell Harry.

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Correct.

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The angels leave the agency and they search Clifton's belongings. They uncover, and this is very important, a phone number for consenting adults, a computerized dating service. Detailed sales records from the antique store. Gay That's important later. A photo of a young woman on his nightstand. We recognize this woman. We remember her from the first scene. And then a cocktail napkin from the pub, Colonel Guys and gals, mm-golf.

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My friend Hamani has this little shop.

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Brick and Brack and Nick and Nat.

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I don't remember saying anything in the pub that had to do with golf. There's zero. To be fair, I was not looking closely.

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Consenting adults, by the way, the computerized dating service, that was a big Big woo in the 70s and 80s. Because computers, big, fancy, filled the whole floor of an office building. It was a very space agey astronaut to think someone was going to enter in your data and a computer. It didn't matter what kind. We didn't know what kind. It was just one kind, and its name was computer. A computer was going to match you up. Now that leads me to ask this question, Colby. Have you ever used a I guess you don't remember dating services? Have you ever used a dating app?

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A dating app?

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A dating app on your phone. Would you like to maybe put the link in stories so we can all find. Could I see your dating app and critique it with a red pen?

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Uh, I might do that.

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Could we for our Patreon video me critiquing your online dating profile?

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We will absolutely not do that.

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How many? Oh, everyone wants it now. Everyone wants it. How many online dating apps are you on right now at this point in time?

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One.

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One. Will you tell us what it is?

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Absolutely not.

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Will you tell me later?

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Sure.

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Will you tell me the truth?

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No. Alright. Anyway, so in this scene when they're going through the antique stories.

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Oh, you've got a little comment?

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I do, yeah. Then with a long sigh, she's back.

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Please let it be about a golden globe or somebody give them hell hairy.

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The angels are chatting with Maggie, and she is reminiscing and takes credit for the famous phrase: if you don't like the heat, get out of the kitchen. She says President Truman liked that phrase so much, he told her he was going to use it. This was a favorite rejoinder of Senator Harry Truman at the time, when a member of his war contracts investigating committee objected to his strenuous pace during the hearing. It was later published in The Soda Spring Sun, Idaho newspaper, in July of 1942. And that's how we all know the phrase: if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

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If you can't stand the dating service, get off the app. Join us on Patreon where I break down Colby's dating profile. Now, all right, let's go back to this. They found a number for a dating service. They found sales records. They found a young woman and they're wondering who the heck she is. And they found a cocktail napkin from the pub. Guys and gals and golf. The scene cuts to Kelly questioning the bartender at the pub. Colon, guys and gals and golf and such and bits and things.

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Brick and brack and nick and knack.

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She's hoping there'll be a connection between the pick of the woman and the cocktail napkin. She gently persuades the bartender to fess up, and he admits he does indeed see the woman come into the bar always alone. Dot dot dot. And always leaving with a man. And the implication is firmly established.

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What I really enjoy about this is Kelly walks up to the bar and the bartender's like, You're a strawberry daiquiri kind of girl, aren't you? And she says, no. But then he says, Oh, you must like a grasshopper. I don't know what that is, but it was a drink at the time. And she says, tequila, lime, and salt, and proceeds to take the shot and then eat some of the lime while she's at work. I need this every day while I'm at work from now on.

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Sabrina tracks the woman, Battlestark Electica Tracy, to her apartment. Tracy denies knowing Clifton or having any idea why he'd keep her photo by the bed. We know she's lying, and Sabrina knows she's lying, so there's where we are. We followed up on one of our leads, and let's take a quick break and come back and see how the angels follow up on the others.

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I like that girl. And she's hot on the heels of a ring of thieves.

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By robbery, kidnapping, maybe murder.

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But smuggling's the name of the game.

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Diamond!

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And she's the number one target for murder on Charlie's Angel.

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We are back. After a bit of digging, Bosley's able to fill in a few blanks. So Battlestar Galactica Tracy's real name is Dolores Martin. Dolores Martin has six priors, all prostitution. She really is a student, but it becomes clear how she makes her money. Thus far, she is their only connection to Clifton.

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I kind of hate how surprised they all are that she's a student. Going, what is she going to school for? Like art history or something? And they're all like, I can't believe she's a student. I can't believe a sex worker would have a brain. It really irritates me.

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Back at the pub, Colin, and things and stuff and bits, Jill goes undercover as a sex worker. And we instantly know she's undercover as a sex worker because she's wearing giant gold earrings, and that's how you spotted sex workers in the 70s. She slides right on up to BGT Dolores for any other info since Sabrina kind of struck out.

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So we see Jill like approaching the bar where Tracy Dolores is.

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You had your clothing that color, your carpet that color, your kitchen appliances that color, everything was that color.

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Your car was that color, and I I remember.

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You weren't boring then.

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You don't remember they still existed in the 80s.

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You can say I heard tell, I've seen pictures, but you were not even a sparkle in in Mr. Colby's dad's eyes. Jill makes sure that she and BGT Doris are instant BFFs, and this allows BGT Dolores to sort of let down her guard and spill some tea. Because she thinks Jill could do a whole lot better than just working a bar. She thinks Jill should go for an interview at consenting adults. Which, of course, to the outside, appears to be a dating service, but it's really a way the owner coolly C-O-O-L-E-Y, we never get a first name, not even in the credits, to set up male clients with female sex workers.

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Oh, I think it's both.

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Both what?

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I think it is legitimately like kind of a dating service. And with some of the girls like Tracy, I think he can trust them to uh give him information about uh who becomes a uh a target.

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And you arrived at this conclusion how?

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I mean, I cannot imagine it's not that every man who comes in to consenting adults has a mansion and plenty of stuff to take.

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This chick styler works so fast, you know what they call it? The speed styler. And look what else it has: a concentrator for those tough to dry places, and it's fast. Three drying speeds for easier styling, and it's fast. Special brush for blow drying, and it's fast, plus styling mist for control, and two combs for flippy curl. Wow, shit gives you the most to work with, and it's so fast. Shit calls it the speed styler. Get one.

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Right after Jill receives this little bit of tea, we cut to Good O'Bosley entering in Cooley's office at consenting adults, and he's posing as a client.

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Let's see, your profile says you enjoy quiet evenings at home curled up with a good book. I would suggest you want someone that's mature, well-informed, cerebral. I want that, like I want the heartbreak of psoriasis.

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He references as part of their get-to-know-each other conversation, the heartbreak of psoriasis, which is a play on the popular commercial from the 70s by Tegrin, which was a coal tar-based soap and shampoo, which Colby will claim to remember just like everything else, but he wasn't born yet. And the tagline was, You call it just dry skin. Your doctor may call it the heartbreak of psoriasis.

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Right after this scene, Sabrina returns to the antique store to give the bad news to Maggie. She tells Maggie, they have discovered Tracy is a sex worker, which means her son is, you know, spending his time with this kind of company, or however you want to uh to phrase it. And Maggie says, you know, what other adults do behind closed doors is none of her business. And Sabrina is kind of like surprised and impressed by how progressive and modern Maggie is. And to me, like it really drives me crazy that she's impressed that Maggie is progressive, but still looks down on sex work. And it just uh and like the show as a whole looks down on sex work, and there are a lot of future episodes and comments about promiscuity, and it drives me crazy. The, I mean, from a modern lens, the way that uh they have this sort of uh pedestal that they're on when you know they talk about uh things that may make people uncomfortable.

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Let's review. It's now clear to the viewers, well, several things are clear. Clifton contracted with consenting adults and he was matched with BGT Dolores. But we do not know why this gangster guy, Bialli, has Clifton, other than he thinks Clifton knows where this frog is and he ain't a tellin'. We still don't know why the frog is important, we still don't know for sure why his headquarters is in a stupid stable, and how many storylines are there? We're gonna find out when we get back from our break.

SPEAKER_02 33:29

From the producers of Starski and Hutch, Charlie's Angels. They work for me. My name is Charlie. Meet Jill, Kelly, and Sabrina, tempting angels who could capture any man. Charlie's Angels.

SPEAKER_11 33:48

We're back. Desperate for any kind of clue relieved, the gang traces all calls made from Clifton's antique store the morning of his disappearance. The LAPD managed to trace a call to a stable of a famous race horse named Khaki. An undefeated two-year-old. By the way, Khaki was also the name of my play cousin in the third grade. Khaki was also an undefeated two-year-old. Going undercover as sports reporters, Bosley and Kelly go to the stable and they talk to the horse's owner. This is all a ruse to get a looky loo at who is Clifton calling? Why is he calling a stable? As Ed Beali comes out to greet the two, Bosley immediately recognizes the owner as who he is, and that he has connections to the mob. Now, does this tell us anything? Not at all. All the gang knows at this point is Clifton may have been the person calling Ed Bialy. Clifton was using consenting adults and Clifton is missing. And does BGT Dolores know anything else? Colby, let's just give her a third interrogation. How about that? Jill talks with BGT Dolores and lets her know she's really a private investigator and Clifton is missing. She better confess to anything she knows, or there's going to be some serious consequences. BGT Dolores admits everything, which isn't tons. This cooley fellow who runs consenting adults, he pays the sex workers to feed him info, so he and his frog statue loving partner can then go rob the homes of the tricks while they're with the women.

SPEAKER_07 35:34

While they're having this little exchange, Jill essentially says, like, cut the crap, I know your name's not Tracy.

SPEAKER_14 35:44

Okay, let's both stop playing games. For starters, you can drop the Tracy. It rhymes with Stacy and Macy and all those other Jive names hookers like to match onto.

SPEAKER_07 35:53

Which immediately makes me think of um airplane with their speaking jive on the plane. Oh, Stewardess, I speak jive. Oh, good. Uh, Jive, of course, is a uh really popular 70s term that kind of means like you're being deceptive or this is a scam or you're lying. And I really want words like jive and heavy to come back. I think it's so fun.

SPEAKER_11 36:26

Colby will claim he remembers that because he was there and he was I do because I listened to the Bee Gees growing up. All right. We're gonna wrap this up. The Angels and Bosley rent a mansion. You know, as you do.

SPEAKER_07 36:40

As Charlie does, he got that money.

SPEAKER_11 36:43

To bait Cooley into robbing it. The angels hide in the shrubbery and landscaping and watch the robbery unfold. Sabrina takes position and tails of the getaway truck to a warehouse sort of in the middle of nowhere, even though it's it's the city. She's probably hoping by tailing the truck, she'll find both the stolen goods and Clifton. But unfortunately, when she takes a little looky loo, she's caught by Cooley, blindfolded, and tied to a chair. Before Cooley can do anything to interrogate her, Biali's thug, the one I mentioned very at the very beginning, he arrives, kills Cooley, and his partner, the police academy guy who loved that frog, and he cracks open this much ballyhooed frog, and a little velvet bag spills out full of diamonds. Okay, I have to interject with wow for excitement.

SPEAKER_14 37:42

Hey, you're gently set apart from a sentence by an exclamation point.

SPEAKER_07 37:48

Yes. Uh so while Sabrina is tailing uh the truck to the warehouse, there's just this little tiny goof where uh you see that the car she's driving has no sunroof when she leaves the mansion. But by the time she gets to the warehouse, her car now has a sunroof. And then by the time she's parked to walk to the warehouse, the car does not have a sunroof anymore. I don't know how they like I understand that they would have two cars, but it's odd that they would have chosen one with a sunroof.

SPEAKER_11 38:29

I would hope they would Oh, so it's not a matter of it's open and closed.

unknown 38:33

No.

SPEAKER_11 38:34

In one shot, there was absolutely no opening. You'll have to post some photos of that on our socials and our Patreon. All right, so how did all of this happen? I know you're confused. I'm confused too. Do you understand anything Colby is saying? I don't either. But Bialli and his thug do. They've pieced together not only what Colby is talking about, but the whole mystery of everything faster than the angels. And that's what led to the thug coming to the warehouse, with Clifton still missing and Sabrina safe. The angels regroup and they realized his last antiques trip was to South Africa. Diamonds were smuggled inside that piece of frog decor. Biali was the buyer, along with that thug, his henchman, and that's the connection. They have pieced it together a little late because Biali and his thug were a whole lot faster. Colby, what do you what do you think they do? Let me just tell you what they do. They kidnap the racehorse, Khaki, and demand a trade. Sabrina places the ransom call from the towns and agency office while Kelly and Jill love on the racehorse that's in the middle of the office where they have their weekly slideshow. Sabrina lays it all out on the phone. If Bioli will give up Clifton and the South African Diamonds, they will give him his horse back.

SPEAKER_07 40:04

That's very nice of her. Yes, so this is only possible because they asked if Bosley could imitate Biali. And Bosley says yes. So Bosley gets on the phone and he calls the stables and like the hand or stable boy, whatever you want to call him, picks up the phone. Bosley's imitating Biali, saying, like, I need you to get khaki ready because some uh veterinarians are coming to pick up khaki um for you know a checkup or whatever. But the voice that he's mimicking is like a 20s gangster, like um Cagney, and sounds nothing like Biali, and it's sort of it's really funny to me because it cannot be a minute later when Sabrina's on the phone with Biali, who does not have the accent that Bosley was portraying. It's so stupid. I mean, I love Bosley regardless, but it's just it's so ridiculous.

SPEAKER_16 41:19

Oh, Richard, that'll eat your heart out.

SPEAKER_11 41:22

The angels have absolutely no intention of making good on this promise. Bosley and Jill manage the handoff, and the thug is caught because through a series of misadventures in the park, he chases Jill in an ice cream truck. He hijacked like you do, but she escapes and outmaneuvers him because she decides to use her handy-dandy skateboard she happens to have with her, and he runs into a car and is knocked out. As oft happens when one chases Farah Fawcett on her skateboard.

SPEAKER_07 41:59

Jill is on a California free formal model skateboard. Uh, free former model was the largest skateboard manufacturer during the 70s. And I have to say that the color of the wig that the stunt person has, like, the color's pretty spot on. However, the wig seems to be sort of helmet-shaped, I'm assuming for safety. And uh it just makes the stunt person look a little conspicuous. Uh, but what I also enjoy about this scene is at the very beginning, uh, Jill throws the little velvet bag of diamonds to Kelly, and Kelly is sitting on a bench, and the dog with Kelly is actually Jacqueline Smith's king poodle, Albert, uh, that makes an appearance during this episode. And we will see Albert in, I want to say maybe two or three more episodes in the future, but a beautiful dog.

SPEAKER_11 43:08

That's very cool. The case is wrapped up. As the Angels debrief in the pub and stuff and things, they just miss spotting Charlie watching them.

SPEAKER_05 43:19

Oh, it's been taken care of by that man that was sitting over here.

SPEAKER_15 43:22

Did he mention his name?

SPEAKER_05 43:24

Yes, it was Charlie.

SPEAKER_15 43:25

Charlie? Did you see him? Was he good looking? Tall, short? Did he have a mustache?

SPEAKER_11 43:33

And just like them, we the viewers miss him too, and we're frustrated just like the last episode. Because remember, there was no rewind option in 1976. That is consenting adults.

unknown 43:48

Hey!

SPEAKER_07 43:48

Kind of an enjoyable episode. I think it has its moments.

SPEAKER_11 43:52

Thank you everyone for joining us for this week's episode of Good Morning Charlie, a Charlie's Angels Rewatch podcast. And we hope to see you. You next week when we break down the very next episode.

SPEAKER_07 44:03

Hi, everybody. Bye, Angels. That successfully wraps up another mission. Good morning, Charlie, is produced by Chris Berryman and me, Holby Smith. Editing provided by You're a Magic Plinger! Be sure to follow us wherever you get your podcasts and click subscribe so you never miss a call from Charlie. Drop a review while you're there, because we love hearing from our angels in the field. Want more undercover fun? Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for extras and see even more top secret content on our Patreon. A special thanks to Laurel, a Charlie's Inner Circle subscriber. Don't hang up that phone, Angels, because we will be back.