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
Charles S. Belden Charles S. Belden Charles Spencer Belden (April 21, 1904 – November 3, 1954) was an American screenwriter and journalist, known for writing screenplays to several Charlie Chan films in the 1930s, notably "Charlie Chan at the Opera" (1936). His 1932 short story "The Wax Works" served as the basis for the 1933 film "Mystery of the Wax Museum". He was married to stage actress Beth Milton in the early 1930s and to actress Joan Marsh who had starred in "Charlie Chan on Broadway" (1937), from 1938 to 1943. He was born in 1904 in Montclair, New Jersey and died November