Farrah Fawcett star Lee Majors, were frequent tennis partners with producer Aaron Spelling. Spelling and his business partner eventually chose Fawcett to play Jill Munroe in their upcoming made-for-TV movie, "Charlie's Angels", a movie of the week which aired on March 21, 1976, on ABC. The movie starred Fawcett (then billed as Farrah Fawcett-Majors), Kate Jackson, and Jaclyn Smith as private investigators for Townsend Associates, a detective agency run by a reclusive multimillionaire whom the women had never met. Voiced by John Forsythe, the Charles Townsend character presented cases and dispensed advice via a speakerphone to his core team of three female
Fawcett Comics known for a period of time as Earth-S. Fawcett also published several comic book adaptations of Hollywood films under the banner "Fawcett Movie Comic". The publications ranged from 1949 to 1952 and were released bi-monthly. Early issues were simply labeled with "A Fawcett Publication" on the covers with no numbering nor date (other than the copyright year inside). It was not until issue No. 7 (actually the eighth adaptation) that the series started numbering each comic book and using the "Fawcett Movie Comic" series title. Starting with issue No. 9, the series also printed the month of publication on the