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
S. S. Minnow and the castaways ended up marooned back on the very same island they had escaped months before. The "Minnow III" is the plane built by the Professor in the made-for-TV movie "The Castaways on Gilligan's Island," the sequel to "Rescue From Gilligan's Island". It does not have the prefix "S. S.", as it is not a steamboat. The S. S. "Minnow" used in the opening of the second and third season color episodes, previously named the "Bluejacket", now resides at Schooner Cove Marina on the east side of Vancouver Island, in Nanoose Bay, British Columbia. Having put the boat through