- Title: Charlie’s Angels – Game, Set, Death
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Wayback Wednesday takes us back to the tale of three beautiful former police officers turned private detectives working for a faceless boss known as Charlie. The Angels are brought in to investigate a series of incidents and attacks on female players in the La Hermosa Women’s Tennis Tournament. Relying on her collegiate experience, Kris (Cheryl Ladd) goes in undercover as one of the players (which apparently had enough withdrawals to allow any unranked player into the tournament) while Sabrina (Kate Jackson) and Kelly (Jaclyn Smith) double-up as a fashion designer and model hocking their wares at the club.
Bosley (David Doyle) has an odd role in the episode, initially acting as one of the workers of the club, which leads to no information about the case, but that is quickly discarded giving him a new secondary story sussing out a woman’s interest in him which is really only part of the episode to give some lightweight comic moments. Aside from Bosley’s discarded assignment and the ease with which Kris is added to the field, there are some other oddities here such as the writers of the episode struggling to explain Yoga on-screen and a decided lack of other players for the tournament.
Memorable moments from the episode include the car chase, Kris beating a former men’s tennis pro in a (short) game of tennis, Sabrina talking down Arlo (Larry Block), Kris using some quick thinking to trap the killer (George Caldwell) in the women’s locker room buying enough time for backup to arrive, and of course Bosley being blindsided by a woman’s romantic interest in him,
