Charlie's Angels: Of Ghosts and Angels (1980)
Season 4, Episode 13
8/10
Ghost Whispering Angel
19 September 2021
I enjoyed this episode a lot more than I had any right to. The premise is a tad silly, with ghosts being part of the storyline. Charlie's Angels had on occasion drifted into the occult, season 1's The Seance, season 2's Haunted Angels, and season 3's Unidentified Flying Angels. Two of those episodes involve conmen scamming people out of their money, while alternately Haunted Angels featured a character with legitimate psychic ability. In this episode The ghosts are for real and Tiffany Welles acknowledges that from the beginning, first dreaming a premonition, and then later feeling the presence of a ghost.

The plot has Tiffany visiting a friend of hers who is now married to an older man (second marriage) and they live in this creepy house where there are some strange occurrences. Paul Burke plays Clifford Burke, and Robin Matson plays his young wife Erica. Matson is known for a lengthy run on the daytime soaps All My children & General Hospital.

We find out that Cliff Burke's previous wife died mysteriously, and Tiffany is concerned for her friend's safety. The episode is full of clichés and tropes but it doesn't bother me much. There's a Halloween-type costume party in which the Angels dress up, and who wouldn't want to see Kris Munroe in a sexy pirate costume?

This is an strong episode for Shelley Hack as Tiffany, and she appears to have a psychic ability that was not mentioned previously, and I don't think it's mentioned ever again. But she's very proactive throughout the course of events and that's why she stands out in this episode.

There's a plot hole or two, particularly when the car tries to run over Robin Matson, but that's overshadowed by secret passages, well-timed thunder, and windows that fly open whenever a jump scare is needed. As long as you disregard a few nits here and there, it's a strangely fun episode that I wouldn't mind watching again.
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