Cute episode with some known 70s stars. Cheryl Ladd's Swedish accent though reminds of the cook from the Muppets. Such a terrible accent.
4 Reviews
A cute Muppets episode
MiketheWhistle31 July 2018
Trap a thief to catch a murderer
gridoon202423 November 2012
Warning: Spoilers
After a string of darker "Charlie's Angels" episodes ("The Sandcastle Murders", "Angel Blues", "Little Angels Of The Night"), the timing was right for a lighter episode, which is what "The Jade Trap" is. The angle here is that the Angels have two deal with two different criminals, a cat burglar and a murderer; another angle is that the cat burglar has an unusual accomplice - his own mother! The title refers to Charlie's treasured jade collection that the Angels use as bait to trap the burglar, after realizing that he is the only person who can identify the murderer. Cheryl Ladd gets the most broadly comedic role, as a Swedish widow-millionairess ("until I meet my fifth hoos-band, what do I do?"). And there is a distinguished guest cast as well. *** out of 4.
Angels vs the Charming rakes.
adamcshelby29 July 2021
This was a pretty good episode with a couple of excellent guest turns. Barry Bostwick plays a cat burglar named Machlin who is interested in Kelly Garrett. Dirk Benedict plays a gigolo named Railsback who loses the money flow of his rich older client and isn't too happy about it.
This is Benedict's second Charlie's Angels appearance having played an academy recruit cop in season 1 episode Blue Angels. The owner of the upscale Seawave Residential Hotel hires the Angels to investigate both the murder of one of her tenants and an on-going series of burglaries. Both the burglar and murderer are revealed in the opening scene.
Kelly goes undercover as a New Orleans socialite, dressed for a Tennessee Williams stage play, southern lilt included. Kris goes undercover as a Swedish actress (Anika Bjorn-something) with a really bad accent, one that rivals Sabrina's French accent from earlier in the season for awfulness. Bosley is of course Anika's valet/driver, because any chance the Angels have to give Bosley some menial work they do it. Sabrina works close at hand with the hotel's owner, attempting to recreate the cat burglar's actions during the robbery. She has a humorous scene where she intrudes on the sanctity of a couple's domicile dressed in her cat burglar outfit.
Kris investigates Railsback by taking sailing lessons from him, she also lures the mother of Bostwick's character by revealing that she's going to auction her jade collection of jewelry. Machlin's mother is knee deep in on her son's thieving ways. There's a crazy scene on a Marina Del Ray beach where Railsback tries to run down Machlin and Kelly, because Railsback recognizes Machlin as a witness to the murder he committed.
Overall it's a fun episode with a great setting, at Marina Del Ray for the 2nd time that season, after Little Angels of the Night was shot in almost the exact same area. Dirk Benedict is always great playing a rake, and Bostwick was charming as the cat burglar who's lucky enough to get a kiss from Kelly. And Kris looked alluring in her tight striped turtleneck. The episode ends with a foot chase through the marina where Dirk ends up being all wet. Can't beat the Angels.
This is Benedict's second Charlie's Angels appearance having played an academy recruit cop in season 1 episode Blue Angels. The owner of the upscale Seawave Residential Hotel hires the Angels to investigate both the murder of one of her tenants and an on-going series of burglaries. Both the burglar and murderer are revealed in the opening scene.
Kelly goes undercover as a New Orleans socialite, dressed for a Tennessee Williams stage play, southern lilt included. Kris goes undercover as a Swedish actress (Anika Bjorn-something) with a really bad accent, one that rivals Sabrina's French accent from earlier in the season for awfulness. Bosley is of course Anika's valet/driver, because any chance the Angels have to give Bosley some menial work they do it. Sabrina works close at hand with the hotel's owner, attempting to recreate the cat burglar's actions during the robbery. She has a humorous scene where she intrudes on the sanctity of a couple's domicile dressed in her cat burglar outfit.
Kris investigates Railsback by taking sailing lessons from him, she also lures the mother of Bostwick's character by revealing that she's going to auction her jade collection of jewelry. Machlin's mother is knee deep in on her son's thieving ways. There's a crazy scene on a Marina Del Ray beach where Railsback tries to run down Machlin and Kelly, because Railsback recognizes Machlin as a witness to the murder he committed.
Overall it's a fun episode with a great setting, at Marina Del Ray for the 2nd time that season, after Little Angels of the Night was shot in almost the exact same area. Dirk Benedict is always great playing a rake, and Bostwick was charming as the cat burglar who's lucky enough to get a kiss from Kelly. And Kris looked alluring in her tight striped turtleneck. The episode ends with a foot chase through the marina where Dirk ends up being all wet. Can't beat the Angels.
A perfect episode
neilclack3 November 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Sabrina (Kate Jackson), dressed all in black, like a cat burglar, descends, with a rope, the side of the hotel building where burglaries, and now a murder, have taken place - that's Sabrina's idea of 'taking a look around up there', as she puts it to the hotel manager (played by Joan Leslie), who has hired the Angels to investigate.
As Sabrina is abseiling down, we see camera shots of the street below, and it's a long way down. The murderer, who's out looking for the real cat burglar who witnessed his murder, spots Sabrina and, thinking she is the real burglar, knocks out Bosley with a plank of wood, and cuts Sabrina's rope. She begins to fall to a certain death... the show cuts to the adverts...Oh, the suspense!
But what happens next is perhaps my favourite ever Charlie's Angels scene.
We return from the commercial break. "Whooooo", cries Sabrina, but she only falls a few feet, landing on a balcony full of pot plants. She composes herself, picks up a pot plant, bangs on the balcony door, and says 'hello' in a happy chirpy voice. The door is opened by a middle-aged man in a dressing gown, his wife in the bed.
"Excuse me for dropping in like this", says Sabrina, handing the man the plant. "I'm with the marine botanical society, and I couldn't help being attracted by your honey-suckle...could you help me with my rope". She then quickly walks across the couple's room, reeling in her rope, talking at 100 mph, and lets herself out through the main door, apologising for intruding, and wishing the couple a lovely evening. The man stands frozen, holding the plant, trying to take in what has just happened - he doesn't say anything, but just stands in stunned shock, his facial expressions saying it all, and he's clearly impressed by Sabrina.
"Tomorrow, either that honeysuckle goes, or I do", remarks his wife. Great acting from both these bit parts (Thomas Bellin and Nancy Penoyer). And Kate Jackson could definitely have starred in a comedy sitcom.
Humour always plays a part in Charlie's Angels, and there's plenty of it in this one. Kris (Cheryl Ladd) adopts a ridiculous Swedish accent, and explains to the cat burglar's mother, who is also his accomplice, that her 4th husband has just died, so she will have to sell her Jade (which, with her Swedish accent, she pronounces hade).
Despite the lightheartedness of Charlie's Angels, the programme actually never shies away from situations that might be considered quite adult for family entertainment, like, for example, an older lady paying a toyboy for sex. We learn in the opening scene that that's exactly the relationship between Denny (played by handsome Dirk Benedict), and posh Julie Redmond (played by Victoria Shaw). When Denny offers to pay for their meal in the dining room of the hotel, Miss Redmond says, "Don't be silly my sweet, why bother with the pretence when everyone around us knows what you are".
Back in her room, she tells him, "what you do darling, you do well enough, but then so do so many others". They argue over her reneging on a promise to pay for his boat.
"I'm not one of your two bit studs", pleads Denny. She responds, "that's exactly what you are", while slapping him in the face. This is serious stuff.
Definitely a candidate for my favourite Charlie's Angels episode, this one ticks all the boxes - the three best Charlie's Angels actresses all working together, along with Bosley. Not for the first time, and nor will it be the last, an Angel falls for the bad guy - this time it's Kelly, although she realises quite quickly he's the burglar,, and it's over. "Why is it every time I start to like a guy...", she says. That's a massive part of the Charlie's Angels appeal - that these stunningly beautiful women are all single - it wouldn't be the same if they were all in happy stable relationships.
As a Brit, I don't think there could be anything more 1970s USA television than when Denny, the murderer, in a car, tries to mow down Kelly and the cat burglar during their romantic stroll on the beach. All the skidding and revving on engine sounds, and the car is so big and long - cars like that simply didn't exist in the rest of the world.
Everything builds up to a climatic foot chase at the end. Denny does seem to escape too easily through the balcony door, considering how elaborate the plan to snare him had been. But, then again, if he hadn't got away we wouldn't have had the chase, which was accompanied by some great 1970s music; funky bass and trumpets. I'm not quite sure how Sabrina manages to get to the murderer's boat before him, as he sprinted as fast as he could to get there from the hotel, pursued by Kelly and Kris- Sabrina must've known a short cut?
As Sabrina is abseiling down, we see camera shots of the street below, and it's a long way down. The murderer, who's out looking for the real cat burglar who witnessed his murder, spots Sabrina and, thinking she is the real burglar, knocks out Bosley with a plank of wood, and cuts Sabrina's rope. She begins to fall to a certain death... the show cuts to the adverts...Oh, the suspense!
But what happens next is perhaps my favourite ever Charlie's Angels scene.
We return from the commercial break. "Whooooo", cries Sabrina, but she only falls a few feet, landing on a balcony full of pot plants. She composes herself, picks up a pot plant, bangs on the balcony door, and says 'hello' in a happy chirpy voice. The door is opened by a middle-aged man in a dressing gown, his wife in the bed.
"Excuse me for dropping in like this", says Sabrina, handing the man the plant. "I'm with the marine botanical society, and I couldn't help being attracted by your honey-suckle...could you help me with my rope". She then quickly walks across the couple's room, reeling in her rope, talking at 100 mph, and lets herself out through the main door, apologising for intruding, and wishing the couple a lovely evening. The man stands frozen, holding the plant, trying to take in what has just happened - he doesn't say anything, but just stands in stunned shock, his facial expressions saying it all, and he's clearly impressed by Sabrina.
"Tomorrow, either that honeysuckle goes, or I do", remarks his wife. Great acting from both these bit parts (Thomas Bellin and Nancy Penoyer). And Kate Jackson could definitely have starred in a comedy sitcom.
Humour always plays a part in Charlie's Angels, and there's plenty of it in this one. Kris (Cheryl Ladd) adopts a ridiculous Swedish accent, and explains to the cat burglar's mother, who is also his accomplice, that her 4th husband has just died, so she will have to sell her Jade (which, with her Swedish accent, she pronounces hade).
Despite the lightheartedness of Charlie's Angels, the programme actually never shies away from situations that might be considered quite adult for family entertainment, like, for example, an older lady paying a toyboy for sex. We learn in the opening scene that that's exactly the relationship between Denny (played by handsome Dirk Benedict), and posh Julie Redmond (played by Victoria Shaw). When Denny offers to pay for their meal in the dining room of the hotel, Miss Redmond says, "Don't be silly my sweet, why bother with the pretence when everyone around us knows what you are".
Back in her room, she tells him, "what you do darling, you do well enough, but then so do so many others". They argue over her reneging on a promise to pay for his boat.
"I'm not one of your two bit studs", pleads Denny. She responds, "that's exactly what you are", while slapping him in the face. This is serious stuff.
Definitely a candidate for my favourite Charlie's Angels episode, this one ticks all the boxes - the three best Charlie's Angels actresses all working together, along with Bosley. Not for the first time, and nor will it be the last, an Angel falls for the bad guy - this time it's Kelly, although she realises quite quickly he's the burglar,, and it's over. "Why is it every time I start to like a guy...", she says. That's a massive part of the Charlie's Angels appeal - that these stunningly beautiful women are all single - it wouldn't be the same if they were all in happy stable relationships.
As a Brit, I don't think there could be anything more 1970s USA television than when Denny, the murderer, in a car, tries to mow down Kelly and the cat burglar during their romantic stroll on the beach. All the skidding and revving on engine sounds, and the car is so big and long - cars like that simply didn't exist in the rest of the world.
Everything builds up to a climatic foot chase at the end. Denny does seem to escape too easily through the balcony door, considering how elaborate the plan to snare him had been. But, then again, if he hadn't got away we wouldn't have had the chase, which was accompanied by some great 1970s music; funky bass and trumpets. I'm not quite sure how Sabrina manages to get to the murderer's boat before him, as he sprinted as fast as he could to get there from the hotel, pursued by Kelly and Kris- Sabrina must've known a short cut?
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