"Charlie's Angels" Terror on Ward One (TV Episode 1977) Poster

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7/10
Nurse Angels
adamcshelby21 May 2021
A rapist stalks the halls of a city hospital, naturally Charlie Townsend's Angels are the only ones that can solve the crime. Predictably, Jill and Kelly go under cover as nurses, Sabrina as a medical journalist, and Bosley as a patient with a real life bone spur. It's one of those stories where a minimum of four to five suspects are presented, each behaving sketchy in their own way, and each investigated by the Angels. The best scene of the episode belongs to Farrah, who accepts an offer of pizza from the hospital's supposed lothario, only to find he's all talk and no bark. Farrah really shines here, and it's easy to see why any man would fold when confronted with such vivaciousness.

The key moment has Sabrina failing to bring her firearm with her when its most needed, because if she had the danger would have been instantly diffused. The episode ends with a heavily medicated Bosley deliriously going for low brow comedy with nonsensical speech after having his appendix removed by mistake. The Angels have a good laugh and all is safe once again.
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6/10
Terrific title for a mediocre episode...the Angels suffering from a case of the blahs
moonspinner5526 September 2011
Potentially exciting but flatly-handled episode from the first season of Spelling-Goldberg's TV detective series concerns a hospital beset with an attempted rapist high on a new stimulating drug (Hycodroxcin!). The Angels get on board right away: Jill and Kelly posing as student nurses, Bosley as a patient--with an actual bone spur in his toe--and Sabrina as a reporter for a medical journal. Lots of fishy-acting suspects in this one (a doctor pushed to the brink of exhaustion, an intern with a Don Juan image, a patient who makes suspicious midnight phone calls), but the outcome is awfully routine. Director Bob Kelljan can't seem to get this scenario cooking, and the sloppy end results feature far too much overdubbed dialogue while Kelljan's camera searches in vain for somebody to focus on. Farrah Fawcett-Majors (with the fluffiest mane in television history) has a finely-tuned scene of sarcasm popping Don Juan's balloon, while Jaclyn Smith slips in and out of offices with a skeleton key that looks like a paper clip. Once again, Kate Jackson gets stuck with the detail work; frankly, if I worked at this hospital, I'd be wary of this stranger asking so many personal questions (Jackson's Sabrina also makes a near-disastrous goof, discussing confidential matters with Bosley while a suspect hides in the closet with the door ajar). Some good scenes here and there, but one poor suspect's vindication is glossed over blithely, while the chief hospital director (and the guy who hired the Angels in the first place) gets completely lost in the shuffle!
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