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
John S. Ragin roles in a few films such as "Earthquake", "The Parallax View" and "Doctors' Wives. Ragin played Walter Cramer in the short-lived 1974 TV series "Sons and Daughters". He had a short-term stint as Dr. Grant Jameson on the daytime soap opera "Santa Barbara" during 1990-91. Ragin died in Los Angeles on April 14, 2013, at the age of 83. John S. Ragin John Stanley Ragin (May 5, 1929 - April 14, 2013) was an American television and film actor. He was best known for his role as uptight bureaucratic Dr. Robert Asten, M.E. in the TV series "Quincy, M.E." (1976–83).