In the final episode, Kelly, played by Jaclyn Smith and the only Angel to appear in every episode, was shot point blank by a suspect she was tailing. ABC pulled the plug on the program, but not before the series finale took a trip down memory lane.
Early on, the show was the hottest thing on TV, spawning board games, dolls, lunch boxes, trading cards, a makeup line and just about any other merchandise tie-in you could imagine. Despite - or, perhaps, because of - all these changes, Charlie’s Angels was unable to maintain the sensational momentum it had established in its first two seasons.