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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produced in a different era and may include scenes of danger, crime, or themes some listeners may find sensitive or outdated.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.

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Oh, little Bo Pee.

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And coming up.

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I hate everything, and I am taking French into Olingo, and everything is terrible in French tout de terrible.

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I believe it.

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There's your sound bite.

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I am your host, Colby Smith, and with me as always is Chris Berryman.

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Oh God, Colby, I have so much. It's been so many days since I've seen you. So many days. Let me get all my stuff out of the way. I want to catch up all our listeners, and I want to catch you up too. I even made a list. Here's my list. Number one, everyone, after my near-death experience at Michael's with the giant pump display. Blow up balloon arrangement crazy glue. Just today, just today, like the final flakes of that glue came off my hands.

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That's just from your scalp. Don't lie to people.

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Next, first of all, I don't glue in my tracks. Number two, my recycling injury I reported on in a in a Friday dossier. Uh-huh.

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It's still there, but it looks a little better.

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They were I, for those of you who aren't on Patreon, you don't see our Friday dossiers where we wrap things up. And on the Friday dossier for Angels on a String, I showed, because it's a video, my two giant blood blisters from where I was trying to break down an especially resistant and resilient cardboard box. So I have two big blood blisters, but they're better. Last well, not last, but last for me, and then I have a question for you. Guess what I ordered off of eBay today?

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Something fun and a gift for me?

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No. Oh I would have gotten you one, but you already have it. There's a do I?

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Okay, so do I get to see it or Well, I don't have it.

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I just ordered it today.

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Well, tell me what it is then.

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But you already have it. It's the autobiography of Theodore Pacel. Oh, really?

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Okay.

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Not only did I order it, the autobiography of Theodore Pacel, it's first edition, hardcover signed.

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Shut up.

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Yes. And they had wonderful. They had others. And everyone, we're referencing a guest star from Angels on a String, who we both just fell in love with. He is this over-the-top incredible actor with sound.

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2,000 times just blows my mind.

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And you know who he reminds me of? He has the bravado, and this is a compliment. The bravado of um oh, you're gonna have to help me with his name, Brian Blessed, who was in Flesh Gordon as Hawkman, and he was in iClaudius.

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Oh, yes, okay.

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He had a big role in iClaudius.

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He all I this is very personal, but he looks just like my friend Jim. So every time I watch Flash Gordon, it's like seeing my friend Jim in a harness with wings.

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Okay, I'm just gonna tell you right now, I need to meet Jim immediately because I had such a crush on Brian.

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I kind of did too, especially that character.

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Well, I mean, that's just how he is in everything. He's that way, and I, Claudius, he's that kind of thing.

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He seems so jovial that it's very endearing.

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I've never been as happy as he is in anything in my entire life. So I got these, and you would have gotten a signed copy of uh Theodore Biquel's autobiography because I saw another, but you already purchased the book.

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I did already purchase the book, yes.

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Colby, enough about me. Please catch us up. I'm just gonna have a little sippy. I've had a long day. Tell everyone about your um your back machine, your flippity doo-dah. How is that going?

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So today I have increased the um angle to 60. Um, I am almost completely upside down. Um so before when it was at 45, I thought I was upside down almost completely. Uh but now now it's even more so. Uh I will say that like because it's holding you at your ankles, it does kind of hurt my feet. But the relief does I mean the relief that I feel though, because um gravity, of course, is you know, doing its job um at a sort of harsher angle, um it is really kind of immediate relief. Uh, but getting myself back up is a little bit of a problem. I'm gonna need to tie a string maybe to the ceiling of the dining table.

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To do what? To call for help a magic.

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To write myself.

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Okay, now are we sure you're saying your angles correctly? Now you know I'm not good at math. But if you're the table itself says 60, so if if you're at a three on a clock, what it wouldn't that be 90 degrees?

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Um, I think maybe that depends on uh if you're starting at zero laying flat, like you would be on a bed. Maybe it's a nine degrees from like zero percent sort of horizon. Um to me that's what makes sense.

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To you, to me. That's like when you went on that tangent about the law. To me!

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They were breaking the law.

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He screamed. Oh, you also promised you were going to post some photos to our pictures.

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Yes.

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I've yet to see any.

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Uh well, we have those pictures coming up and maybe a very, very young 17-year-old Colby.

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I want everyone to know Colby has taken over writing the captions, and I'm not responsible for the punctuation errors. Today's assignment is the Vegas Connection. The episode brave enough to ask, what if we used the word connection in our title again? Added Vegas instead of Mexican. Maybe that'll sound equally glamorous to people in 1977. We Charlie's angled it up a bit, but added smoke-filled casinos and showgirls.

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Well, I think the smoke is probably there regardless.

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Okay, I'm doing a whole thing right now. A whole thing. See, no jury would convict me. And naughty pics worked for Knight of the Strangler, so let's do that too. Wait, wait, wait. Gambling went over super well in the big tap out, so let's have more of that while we're at it. And oh my god, you guys, we've not done blackmail in about 10 minutes, so let's toss that into the ninja bullet that didn't exist at the time and just blend into a nice puree.

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Fresh from the production dossier, here's your case briefing. The team is in Las Vegas and turns the tables on a con artist whose favorite game is blackmail. That was very clever. Seems that was it. It seems he preys on talented young singers and dancers at the end of their ropes with nowhere else to turn. Uh, but this case has history, and the odds are not in their favor. And here is the super secret intel from behind the scenes. Originally aired February 9th, 1977.

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Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a deuce and other owner in the night.

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And did you hear that? Wasn't that great? What what we just heard was the number one song that week, February 9th, 1977. How about that? This is educational.

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Uh-huh. Well, it's entertaining.

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Mostly educational.

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The episode is just at 51 minutes. The director is George McCowan. We've discussed him quite a bit. He did nine episodes of Charlie's Angels, four in season one, three in season two, and two in season four. The writers are Edward Lasco. He wrote more episodes of Charlie's Angels than he did for any other television show. 51 total. In season one, he wrote 12. Season two, thirteen episodes. Season three, which includes another Vegas setting, he wrote 10 episodes. Eight episodes in season four, and another eight episodes in season five. Also writer John Black, he wrote five episodes of Charlie's Angels and is famous for writing the original series opening monologue of Star Trek, which begins Space.

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A final frontier.

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Guest Star Alert, Brooke Bundy, born 1943, plays Elsbeth, a very recognizable face, lots of pod faves. One of my favorites is Patricia Arquette's mother in Nightmare on Elm Street 3, where she uh several times yells, Andoley, Ondele. She is also the same character in Nightmare on Elm Street 4. She is in a Nightmare on Elm Street music video. She's in Moonlighting, Madam's Place, Another Star Trek Connection, The Next Generation, 174 episodes of Days of Our Lives, and The Brady Bunch.

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May I make a quick comment?

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Yeah, of course.

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I think she's great. I've always liked her. When she was in this episode, I I looked at her and thought, she could play another angel. She has that look. She would have fit in beautifully if there were ever an opportunity. Um, do you remember the syndicated show Madam's Place? Do you know what that is?

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I have never heard of Madam Place.

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Madam the Puppet. Oyland Flowers, Madam.

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Thank you. I'm so sorry.

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And Audrey Landers was in Dallas in a chorus line. Her sister Judy Landers was in that. And Madam had a butler named Pinky, and she would scream, Pinky, which is a nice callback to Pinky Tibbs, who was in that episode, the big tap out, although the actor who played Pinky Tibbs was not in there.

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Guest star alert, Michael Callan, born in 1935. He passed in 2022. He plays Cass Harper.

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Uh, no relation to Valerie Harper.

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I had a bad puberty. It lasted 17 years. I'm a high school graduate. I went to art school. My entrance exam was on a book of matches.

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Was a dancer and part of the original Broadway productions of The Boyfriend with Julie Andrews, Catch a Star, and my second favorite show of all time, West Side Story. On television, he has been in lots of pod pave, along with the Mary Tyler Moore show, That Girl and Murder She Wrote, as well as Bionic Woman. We see him again as a different character in season five of Charlie's Angels, Chorus Line Angels. Uh, another little tidbit of information. David Doyle directed the episode Chorus Line Angels. Guest Star Alert Walter Matthews, born in 1926, died in 2012, who plays Max, the VP of the casino. Matthews is also in one more episode of Charlie's Angels, season four's Caged Angel. Guest star alert Carla Borrelli, born in 1942, plays the gambling wife, who is one of many being blackmailed. Her credits include most of the pod faves, including Falcon Crest, a John Versythe connection, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, a Kate Jackson connection, and the Gnome Mobile, a Disney connection.

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You just said the Gnome Mobile.

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Oh, what a wonderful way to feel the mobile mobile in the gnome mobile.

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Mobile. How would I know that? Everyone knows that.

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That's how you spell mobile phone.

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I also want to point out Carla Borelli has screen presence. If you all watch the episode, when she is on screen, I don't care what anybody else is doing. This actor just takes over the screen. And yes, she's lovely to look at, but she she draws you in with whatever she's saying. And she sounds like it's the first time she's ever said it. So wonderful. All right. Well, we're going to take a quick break, and we will be right back with some classified details you need to know before we get into this week's assignment.

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Walt Disney's A Nomobile. Sure he can explain why not. Some of his best friends are gnomes. Yes, it's Walt Disney's wonderful new comedy, The Gnomobile. There's a gnomemobile leaving immediately. Starring Walter Bremen and Walter Bremen in the duel roll. You stubborn donkey.

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This is the end.

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With those Mary Popins kids, Matthew Garber and Karen Delatrice. Also starring Tom Lovell as the lonesome snow, who bounces the line in the gnommobile in search of. And as luck might have it, he turns out to be the only eligible male in the forest. Hi. But in gnomesville, a little bit of luck can be too. Everywhere the middle of the wheel goes, there's a wheel. Good morning. This is what happens to people who refuse to see no. Be sure you see them when they come rolling your way in the gnomobile.

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They don't make them like the Utah Rap!

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The year's most imaginative comedy. Walt Disney's The Gnomobile.

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Welcome back to Good Morning Charlie, a Charlie's Angels Rewatch podcast. Before we begin the rundown of today's assignment, here are the classified details you need to know. And there aren't many. The gang was never in Vegas. This show is chock full of stock footage and sets. The establishing shots used to stand in for the Versailles Resort are most likely a late 1970s expansion of the Flamingo. I had a difficult time confirming that one way or the other, since all the resorts in Vegas, they're in a constant state of remodeling. The Flamingo is still there, but doesn't look anything like it did in 1976 or 77. Now let's move into the debrief. Tina Mallon is the wife of a wealthy businessman and she's got a nasty habit. Colby, once a month, she breaks into her husband's safe in his office, takes a bunch of money. With a safe and I could just take his money. And then she takes it and through a series of adventures, ends up at a local poker place and loses big. The same time each month, same players around the table, a married couple and a truck driver named Sid. But why? Why go to this poker place and play with the same group? And why lose big? Here's some initial clues the group uncovers. No matter who wins what at the table, each player only pockets a thousand bucks of their winnings. Well, where does the rest go?

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We have learned one thing that could tie Mrs. Mallon to Samuels and the truck driver.

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Mrs. Mallon was a dancer in the chorus line at Mr. and Mrs. Samuels worked as a waiter and a waitress at Sidney Carver makes weekly deliveries on Wednesdays to the Versailles Hotel in Las Vegas.

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Also, they all have connections to the Versailles Resort in Las Vegas. The gang wonders, are they being blackmailed? This truck driver, Sid, has a route that takes him right by the casino every week. Is he involved? Could he be dropping off the winnings there? There's really only one solution. Tina Mallon is gonna have to spill the beans, and when they confront her and really pin her down, spill the beans, she does.

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Would you guys spill the beans?

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So when the angels meet Tina, they are we are assuming in her home. Yes. And uh she's dressed as um doing her dance exercises, and we first see her um I kind of stretching on her dance bar against a mirrored wall. And then when when they turn around, it's like we're in a really nice posh sitting room that just happens to have a ballet bar. I just thought if you um if you're losing thirty thousand dollars every month, you could probably afford to have um a proper dance studio. But what do I know?

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Well, she is a former dancer, we find out, which explains why she's doing s bar exercises when they meet her at her mansion. She tried to make a go of it in Vegas. She was up for a chorus gig at the Versailles, there's the connection, but was running out of money. In a desperate attempt to scrape by when all her money was gone. The show manager at the hotel, Cass Harper, no relation to Valerie.

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I decided to move out of the house when I was twenty four. My mother still refers to this as a time I ran away from home.

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Learned of her situation and introduced her to a high roller who, I'm making air quotes, wanted some company. The next morning, Tina was $500 richer, but ashamed, angry, depressed, and decided to use the money and leave Vegas forever and fly back to LA. Armed with this little bit of information, the gang heads to Vegas. Kelly's going to pose as a dancer, auditioning for Cass Harper himself at the first. Sigh because that's right. The show manager from Tina's past is still there.

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I really enjoy the uh the shot that we get of the agency arriving in Vegas. Uh, we see a few marquees, and on the marquees is Diana Ross, Jerry Vale, Don Rickles, and Tom Jones. Uh, it's really like this little time capsule of who was popular in Vegas. Uh, and we also um see, of course, Kelly auditioning for a spot at um the Versailles, and he's laying on the compliments pretty thick, but when he's done, he tells her that she's out of sight. And I really wish that that phrase would come back.

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Hey, baby, I gotta tell you, you are a winner. You move like she's soaking the summer breach, you're out of sight, really. Do you know that?

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You know what, by the way, I was stunned at your spelling earlier of Ungole, and now I've just seen your spelling of the word marquee, and it has put Ungole to shame. After Kelly finishes her audition for Cass Harper, in a very similar story to what Tina experienced years ago, Cass tells Kelly to hang around. There might be a job soon. She's got lots of talent. Maybe even come back and watch the show and see what she thinks of the choreography. Was this eventful? Yes. But does it do anything else other than confirm Tina's story? No. So the angels in Boz have to keep going. Later that evening, Kelly slips back into her role of the wannabe showgirl and takes Cass Harper up on his offer to come see the show and observe the routines. Maybe if Kelly plays eager enough, desperate enough, Cass Harper will show his hand. See what I did there? That's more gambling puns and stuff I worked into. God, God, I am just fantastic.

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She is fantastic.

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She is fantastic.

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Wow, she is fantastic.

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And he'll offer her an alternate way to make some cash. But after she says hey, backstage, she encounters Elspeth, another dancer with big dreams, who, what are the chances? Cass Harper is stringing along just like he's currently doing with Kelly. Taking a big gamble. Oh my God, I'm so good. She's fantastic. Kelly takes Elspeth and introduces her off site to Sabrina. They let Elspeth in on who they are, why they're there, what's really happening, and how they believe Cass may attempt to do with Kelly what he did with Tina years ago. The stakes are high.

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Oh my God.

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Wow, she is fantastic.

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But Elspeth pays off big.

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Oh my god. Fantastic.

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And trusts the angels and lets them know indeed Cass Harper has been stringing her along and has kind of hinted, but not suggested anything outright. In an attempt to help the angels, Boz himself, and it's so good to have him in this episode so much.

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Yeah, so what's our next move? Andrew Will Thurman, Texas high roller.

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He steps up and he goes undercover as a larger-than-life high roller from Texas. They're hoping if he bets big and makes a big splash at the Versailles, he'll get noticed. Maybe history will repeat itself and Cass Harper will get wind of this heavy hitter and offer him a night with a wannabe showgirl.

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Thanks. I bought it at Versailles.

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If they're lucky, a wannabe showgirl named Kelly Garrett, who's undercover.

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This might be one of my favorite undercover Bosley characters. I really enjoy the accent that he's using as a Texan. And I really enjoy his interaction with a character that we're going to see here again in a few minutes. I'm wondering if what got him noticed was when he was sort of at the counter showing his ID, if he got a lot of chips that, you know, is the equivalent of maybe like tens of thousands of dollars. And that information sort of goes up the chain to let them know that they have a very likely heavy gambler in the casino.

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Oh, exactly. For those of you who have watched the episode, David Doyle, as this Texas gambler, he tosses a ton of money to the cashier and puts part of it in the bank and only gets part of it in chips. And it was a huge amount of money if you do the well, it's a big number anyway, right here today, right now, but if you do the conversion, a huge amount. And they tracked it back then. They track it now, they just track it a little bit more than a bit of a good idea. Yeah. They absolutely made notes of such, and they absolutely had people watching heavy hitters because they comped them dinner. In fact, Cass Harper even says later in the episode to David Doyle, to Boz, we don't want you to go anywhere else and spend your money. We want you to be happy right here.

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Right.

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What puzzled me, I know David Doyle, as Boz, was doing an over-the-top accent, and he was trying to do a Texas accent. The rest of the United States would think, oh yeah, that's what Texas sounds like.

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Yeah. Uh-huh.

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But I wonder because Farah grew up in Corpus Christi and Jacqueline grew up in Houston. And so I wonder if they were just gritting their teeth at the direction David Doyle was receiving on that Texas accent so that Middle America, if you will, would understand, oh yeah, he's doing a Texas accent. Um, because wasn't Kate Jackson born in Alabama?

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Uh Kate Jackson is from Alabama, you're right.

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To help bosses cover along, Jill also assumes the role of a casino patron. But looking as she looks, she's recognized by that truck driver Sid from the beginning of the show when she and Kelly were working that poker palace in LA. Just how involved, though, is Sid with Cass and this blackmailing. And when Jill realizes she's been spotted and recognized by Sid, it's less of a, oh my God, I see Sid, the truck driver from that table. He must be connected. And more along the lines of, oh my God, that truck driver from the table actually recognizes me. So if he recognizes me, Jill, if he sees Kelly in her guise of auditioning showgirl, it's just gonna blow our cover.

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We really kind of don't ever get an answer as to how involved Sid is because he's talking to Cass. Like we think he's only running the gambling, the gambling money uh to Cass every month. But it takes about five seconds of him talking to Cass.

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I'm telling you, Cass, bad vibes, man. Then um, why don't you just take the board out in the desert and ice her safe?

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To suggest just taking Jill out in the desert and icing her. Uh, and he doesn't ask like for any extra money to do that. Which seems odd, but maybe he is like fully employed by Cass. We also get a really cute scene of the uh the agency sort of explaining uh how Elzbeth is going to help them um sort of pin the blackmail on Cass. And Elsbeth says, you know, that it's getting late and um she needs to go home. And Bosley is going to drive her home. And while he's leaving, he asks the angels to check the electronic equipment. And then uh all of the angels say that they think he was like laying some sort of macho act uh on Elsbeth. Uh, and then they giggle as they uh talk about going to look for whatever this a lot uh electronic equipment might be.

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Well, are we three ready to check out the electronic equipment? I think Bosley was laying a little macho action on Elsbeth.

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But then we see Bosley wish Elsbeth a good night, and they have an exchange that is nice. Um, and then out of nowhere, Elsbeth kind of asks Bosley to kiss her goodnight because she's never been kissed goodnight at her door before. And it to me, it's really kind of awkward. They didn't really set up any kind of attraction between either one of them up until this moment. Uh, and to me, it just seems kind of out of nowhere. Uh, maybe I'm wrong. Uh, it just feels very weird to me.

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The next day, though, Boz continues the charade, and sure enough, he's been noticed. Cass comes over to ensure Boz is having a good time. They want him to stay at the casino, and he offers him the company of a young lady.

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Well, any man to say no to a free meal on a lady companion is a fool. And my mama didn't raise up no fools.

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To make the plan work, Boz requests somebody who fits Kelly's description. And we all know Kelly is there at the casino, literally waiting in the wings of the showroom to ensure she's available when Cass swirls back through looking for a wannabe showgirl to hook up with this high roller from Texas. Cass comes back and slips Boz a resort room key, and that key, and they make sure we as the audience see it, happens to have the very same room number Tina remembers from years ago from the trauma and is unable to block it out and brings it up to the angels at the beginning of the show. So this is all working out great. Bosley immediately recognizes this as the proper room. What could go wrong? He and Kelly, arm in arm, playing their roles, leave the casino and head to the room on the key. And it's a tiny tech alert. We've not had one in a while. Sabrina is listening in on a microphone stashed in Bosley's hat, his big old cowboy hat he's wearing, because you know, Texas, and that's what we think everyone wears in Texas. And then Sabrina communicates back to Jill in the casino, and what we're guessing is a little earpiece. She needs to continue to look out for Sid in Casey spots and recognizes Kelly walking through the casino part and tries to blow her cover. Jill takes some initiative and gladly leads Sid through the casino on a wild goose chase via car. But all they do is they swerve this is my favorite part. They swerve around and around in the casino parking lot. Why? Because they're not in Vegas. They can't take this car chase scene out into the actual street because they aren't in Vegas. They're just in some parking lot in the studio in LA. But the point is, Jill takes it on a wild goose chase around the parking lot, causes an accident, he's distracted, so Kelly and Boz can safely move freely through the casino into the room and not blow their cover. Kelly and Boz resume their undercover roles in the room, suspecting they're being filmed, and Sabrina and Jill watch from down the hall. Sure enough, there's a two-way mirror with a camera in the adjoining room. As Cass Harper's goon, I know Colby loves that word, leaves the room after setting up the camera. Jill and Sabrina break into that adjoining room to ensure that's exactly what's going on. Okay. Yes.

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Two things.

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Tell it.

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First of all, cannot believe you breezed right over the catfight that happened backstage. And I have uh just a little tiny um thing that I noticed while Kelly and Bosley are in the room. It was a little bit of a chore to get Kelly to be his date because Kelly has had this woman uh who came out of nowhere tell her that uh she needs to pack it up because if there is any spot in the show, it is gonna be hers and not Kelly. Well, when Cass comes back stage to say that, you know, we've got a big spender who wants some company. Uh Elsbeth and Kelly see this other woman like tear off this blonde wig to reveal that she is a dark-headed woman, uh, and that is what Bosley is interested in. Uh, so Kelly is afraid that this woman's gonna like ruin their plans. And she goes over to this um little vanity area set up uh for makeup, and she tells the woman, you know, I've been thinking over what you said, and uh I've decided that you're the one who should pack it in, not me.

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Get lost, fedums.

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And what tickles me so much is that Elsbeth is saying, Hey, I want to be in too if this guy wants some company. But Cass says, um, no, he wants, you know, a dark-headed person, not a blonde. And then Kelly essentially says, like, can you hold on for just a minute? I need to go beat this woman's ass so that I can assure my spot for Boz's company. And then she throws this woman around that stage, which like to me is kind of not something that I thought an angel would have done to like prompt a fight. Uh it just seems um out of character, even though I do find it humorous. But then when Kelly uh does get up to the hotel room with Bosley, they are kind of like immediately acting because they think that they are under surveillance. And while they're sitting on the bed together, if you notice, Kelly starts to slip into an a Texan accent because Bosley is doing it, and then very quickly corrects herself.

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I did not notice that. The point is they're in the right room, everything's coming up, Roses.

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And they're both from Texas.

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They've got clear evidence. They've all seen it, they've all confirmed it. That room and that casino is a big setup, so Cass Harper can film young ladies in compromising positions and then blackmail them for I mean, years, evidently.

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Gross.

SPEAKER_03 38:13

Yes. So here's all the blackmail. Now they're not satisfied with that because Cass Harper is exploiting these women with dreams, and that doesn't sit well with the Angels, and rightly so. So wanting to ensure Cass Harper is gotten and gotten good, the team stages an elaborate series of setups to expose Cass to the casino VP, Max Sharf. And we referenced the actor who plays Max at the beginning of the episode when we were doing our guest star alerts. And Max, the casino VP, is undone at what's been going on under his nose. Embezzlement is implied, blackmail is implied, that part's true. So he sends his goons after Cass to teach Cass a lesson. The angels, having set all this up, they follow Max's goons and Cass. And while these guys are out in the desert in Vegas, because that's essentially what Vegas is, you leave the strip, high desert. So they're in the desert, they yunk Cass out of the car and take him over the hill to beat him up. The angels swipe all the evidence from Cass's car because he was trying to skip town and head back to LA. Now they have everything they need. The case with all the evidence and all the film and all the files and all the names of every young woman who's been blackmailed or is currently being blackmailed. The Angels in Bosley destroyed it. And they informed those individuals. We figured it out, here's who's blackmailing you, we've taken care of it. And the other thing they told everybody, who had fallen victim to Cass's scheme, is the location of the hospital he's in, interaction, and a full body cast. The episode closes with the angels taking Tina Mallon from the beginning of the episode for her own personal escorted visit to see Cass in that body cast, and they take great joy in writing embarrassing and obscene things all over his cast while he looks on helpless.

SPEAKER_11 40:40

For once a louse gets exactly what he deserves. So we would like to leave you a little something to remember us by.

SPEAKER_03 41:18

Oh, syphilis. Yeah, everyone wants to put too many L's in the word syphilis.

SPEAKER_05 41:22

So now we've reached the end of our episode, and I have a couple of points to include uh about what we got from this episode. So this is the first episode where we get to see Jacqueline's dancing background. We will get several episodes in the future, even episodes in Vegas where we will see Jaclyn dance more. But I wanted to include just a little bit of information on her background. Uh so Jacqueline began dancing uh dancing at the age of three years old in her hometown of Houston, Texas. She also she ended up dancing with the Allegro Ballet in Texas, and then later danced in New York. While in New York, one of her instructor's names was Patsy Swayze. Does that name make you think of anybody?

SPEAKER_03 42:17

How people try to put too many L's in the word syphilis.

SPEAKER_05 42:20

Yes, and that that is completely wrong. Her instructor's name is Patsy Swayze. She is the mother of Patrick's.

SPEAKER_03 42:29

Patsy Klein. Oh, not Patsy Klein.

SPEAKER_05 42:33

Who was also a dancer. Jacqueline also performed in many musicals and shows while, of course, being in New York before deciding to transition to television. Jacqueline Smith still dances today. And recently, in January of uh 2026, while selling her clothes, there's a little video of her uh on a ballet bar showing a little bit of her skills um on Instagram, which you can go and search. Uh, and there are many, many articles that can be found online regarding uh Jacqueline's personal history, uh her dance history and love of dance. And uh I will post some of those articles online for listeners to read. I would love that. Another element of this episode uh that we commented on earlier were the marquees that we saw in the shot where the agency arrives in Vegas. We said that Diana Ross was on a billboard, Jerry Vale was, John Riggles was, and Tom Jones. A little connection for me. I am a big horror lover. Uh, at this time in the 60s and 70s, Cassandra Peterson, better known as Elvira, was a showgirl in Vegas, and she has. A story in her autobiography about meeting Tom Jones in Vegas. Cassandra Peterson performed in Vivla Girls, which was a show at the Dunes. The Dunes is not a casino that we see in the shot in the episode. But the El Rancho in Vegas was the first hotel to use dancing girls as sort of eye candy between acts at the resort. The Sans Resort casino would be the first to put their dancers in really elaborate costumes. But the first sort of iconic showgirl spectacle in Vegas was Lido des Paris in 1958 at The Stardust. The show was imported from France, and the Stardust can be seen in this shot uh that we get in the episode.

SPEAKER_03 45:00

Imported from France just like the cone heads. Thank you for that, Colby. On a scale of one to ten, how did you enjoy this week's episode?

SPEAKER_05 45:09

Uh I would say maybe kind of like a seven. It is very enjoyable. Um, of course, any opportunity to see Bosley go undercover, I am going to enjoy. When he like quote unquote spots sit outside and calls him some other name and is like, of course, you don't want me to know your real name. I haven't seen you in ten years.

SPEAKER_13 45:35

If you don't want nobody to know where you are, well, I'll tell you who will. I'll know who I gotta tell. I ain't seen you the last 10 years, but I'm not I'm not your buddy. You got the wrong guy, okay? Oh now, come on, say what's Fred, I'll buy you a drink, man. You can tell me why you don't want to say who you are. Hey, listen, man, I'm not Fred, I'm Sid Sid Carver from Los Angeles, all right? Well, okay, then I'm sorry, that's no reason to get all head up about it. I'll tell you what I'm willing to do. I'll buy you a drink, no matter who you are.

SPEAKER_05 45:59

I think it's really enjoyable. I love when it kind of seems like Bosley gets to ad lib. Uh, very enjoyable. The little catfight, though kind of out of nowhere, I think it's really funny. Uh, and then of course, we always like to see a bad guy get their comeuppins.

SPEAKER_03 46:19

And to see people being bullied and harassed, and the person who bullied and harassed get their comeuppins. You gotta love it. So attend for me.

SPEAKER_05 46:30

I'm glad you enjoyed it a lot.

SPEAKER_03 46:33

And I enjoy so little in this world. And as we oft say, please join us on our socials, Facebook, Instagram, and Patreon. Colby posts some fun pictures with some fun captions, and his punctuation could be any number of places, and that's fun too. So join us on Patreon. Oh, he's so mad at me. When we say goodbye, I'm gonna get in big trouble. So thank you for being here with us, Colby. It's been a joy as always.

SPEAKER_04 47:07

Bye, Angel. Bye, Angels.

SPEAKER_05 47:17

That successfully wraps up another mission. Good morning, Charlie, is produced by Chris Berryman and me, Colby Smith. Editing provided by Patsy Klein. 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 thank you to Laurel, a Charlie's Inner Circle subscriber. Don't hang up that phone, Angels, because we will be back.