Charlie's Angels (TV Series) Three for the Money (1980) User Reviews

Angels Triple Con

[adamcshelby · 9/10 · 8 October 2021]

Another enjoyable episode where the Angels con a grifter out of the money he stole from investment clients. Vincent Baggetta plays the rakish Dexter Harley, and he's pretty much note perfect.

Tiffany goes undercover as a senator's staffer who's looking for a payoff to make Harley's criminal charges disappear, Kris as a rich woman who has an identical Bentley to Dexter and uses this coincidence to get within his inner circle. And Kelly and Bosley are fake antiquities dealers who want Harley to purchase their worthless product to swindle him out of cash.

This was so obviously not an Edward J Lakso script, as it was well written and finely plotted, making for an entertaining and at times humorous ride. Some have compared this to season one's The Big Tap Out, and while there are similarities, it very much has its own feel. Season 4 may have been the strongest season of all.

A pretty good episode, American Hustle Angels' style!

[peeedeee-94281 · 10/10 · 11 May 2020]

The Charlie's Angels episodes ranged from kitschy to good over the years. But this has to be one of the top episodes, Top 5 out of the whole series. A great story about conning a con, American Hustle done Angels' style!

Anthology episode

[riku-28160 · 10/10 · 18 March 2020]

I really liked the episode since it was what we would call now an "anthology episode". It was fun to see the three scams although a bit twee that the amount scammed back was exactly the amount Harley Dexter ripped off the three victims.

An episode with high hopes for itself

[aramis-112-804880 · 6/10 · 20 January 2023]

Vincent Baggetta is a con artist who is the object of a "sting." In the years after " The Sting" this sort of thing was exceedingly popular. This time, it's Mayan artifacts. As the first bite of the apple.

Though "charlie's Angels" is criticized in that the angels often use their own names going undercover, that sort of thing is fairly common on TV and "Bond, James Bond" rarely uses cover identities. Everyone seems to have heard of him. How effective a secret agent can he be? Only Jim Rockford regularly used his Jimmy-Joe Meeker cover. In those pre-internet days it was harder to check up on people.

Besides, though Poirot and Remington Steele and Sherlock Holmes and Sam Spade are famous private eyes, in real life (apart from the Pinkertons) how many famous private eyes can we count off on our fingers? I'm certainly not conversant with the names of any real gumshoes.

With 48 minutes of action time, and the sting only getting underway at about the 14 minute mark, they're cramped for time.

Southern girls are the best. Jaclyn Smith smears on her Texas accent (actually, when people like that shake off her regional accent it sounds worse than phony when she tries to re-adopt it).

This sting feels rushed. Why not? It is. Pay attention: this sting comes in parts and they're explained on the hoof. The con man is awfully gullible. But didn't W. C. Fields say you can't cheat an honest man?

A for effort. But they simply don't have enough time.