Charlie's Angels (season 2)

Two-hour season premiere. Just as Jill leaves the team to pursue an auto racing career, and new Angel Kris Munroe joins the team, someone abducts Charlie in Hawaii. The Angels go on an all-out search and meet a criminal kingpin who demands the Angels commit a jailbreak of her husband, only by then Charlie has been kidnapped by a rival gang.

• Originally shown as a two-hour season premiere movie, but in syndication is shown as two separate episodes.
• This was the first of several two-hour specials.

Guest stars: France Nuyen, Art Metrano, Norman Fell, Ron Soble, Cliff Emmich, Alan Manson, Pat Suzuki, Don Ho, Tommy Fujiwara (as Tom Fujiwara), Al Harrington, Lydia Lei (as Lei Kayahara), Jake Hoopai, Jack Hisataki, Yankee Chang, Beatrice Chun, Vincent McAngus (as Vincent Mc Angus), Tad Horino, Ed Couppee, Camille Deubel, Tracy Monsarrat, Reginold F. H. Ho (as Reggie Ho) and David Simmons. Mark Pinkosh and Ronnie Rondell Jr. appear uncredited.

Another two-hour special, where the Angels go undercover as Kris becomes a clown skater, Kelly an Ice Capades chorus member and belly dancer, and with Sabrina's help, they uncover an unusual murder plot.

• Filming dates: July 5–22, 1977[1][2][3][4]

• Originally shown as a two-hour TV movie, but in syndication is shown as two separate episodes.
• Production code: H-23

Guest stars: Harvey Jason, Edward Andrews, James Gammon, Lee Delano, Timothy Carey (as Timothy Agoglia Carey), Jim Backus, Phil Silvers, Geoffrey Binney, James Oliver, Erik Kilpatrick (as Eric Kilpatrick), Paul Wexler, Vicky Perry, Inga Schilling and Tom Lawler. John Alderman, Nick Borgani, Iren Koster, Jim Michael, Monty O'Grady, Murray Pollack, Sherril Lynn Rettino and Cis Rundle appear uncredited.

The Angels become beauty contestants to find out who is scaring off the contestants in order to win one of them by all means.

When a college friend who teaches stewardesses is being stalked, the Angels come aboard to fly the not so friendly skies. On a training flight, a killer is loose on board the jetliner and there is no cockpit crew.

The Angels join the circus to uncover who is behind all the "accidents" that threaten to close it for good. Kelly is a motorcycle stunt rider, Sabrina is a mime and Kris goes under the knife as a knife thrower's assistant.

While the Angels are tracking down clues to the murder of a health resort employee, they uncover a $2 million aircraft hijacking mystery.

UFOs, mysterious disappearances and the murder of a wealthy old lady put the Angels on the trail of a killer. Sabrina acts as a pushy Bronx reporter, Bosley and Kris as a sugar daddy and his ditzy wife, and Kelly impersonates an alien.

The Angels join a radio station's new staff to prevent the murder of a beautiful reporter while Kris investigates a Charles Manson-like hippie.

The Angels investigate a murder and discover a shocking traffic in black market babies. Sabrina is an adoptive mother, Kelly helps deliver a baby, and Kris is badly shaken as she shoots the culprit, her first time.

• This is the first episode where one of Charlie's Angels shoots someone, and it is Kris with the honors in this one; the epilogue his survival.

Guest stars: Edward Winter, Scott Colomby, John Karlen, Cissy Wellman, Bruce Fairbairn, Sunny Johnson, Jean Allison, Ivy Bethune, Annie O'Neill, Shirlee Kong and Joshua Gallegos. Robert Buckingham, Joanne Willis and Marianne Willis appear uncredited.

Kris is singing "Sweet Misery" when she appears in a movie musical to help find out who is trying to kill actress Ellen Jason.

• Jaclyn Smith doubles as another actress who died under mysterious circumstances in the same sound stage, in a Phantom of the Opera-type twist.

• Cheryl Ladd, who launched a solo singing career during her time on the series, sings in this episode.

Guest stars: Gene Barry, Nicolas Beauvy, Michael Fox, Nehemiah Persoff, Shani Wallis, Lew Palter, Michael Fairman, Hal Needham, Tony Epper and Tammy Greenough. Ray Pourchot appears uncredited.

The Angels are hired to clear magician Wendell Muse as the prime suspect in mysterious arson fires set by the "Magic Man". Sabrina poses as a French fashion designer, Kelly a magician's daughter looking to sell the secret to a famous illusion, and Bosley and Kris perform their own magic act. They find the culprit sets fire by remote, and Sabrina's angle heats up quickly.

• Kris is unaware that, during a routine, the audience member that she went to perform a trick for was Charlie.

Guest stars: Rudy Solari, Victoria Carroll, Howard Witt, E. J. André (as E.J. Andre), Wyatt Johnson, Jay Rasumny, Hugh Warden and Susan Cotton. Albert (Jaclyn Smith's poodle), Robert Buckingham, Bart Greene, Robert Hitchcock, Kathryn Janssen, Murray Pollack, Leoda Richards, Norman Stevans, Robert Strong and Judith Woodbury appear uncredited.

The Angels become bodyguards for Sammy Davis Jr. to protect him from further kidnapping attempts.

The Angels go to a dude ranch to find out who has killed one of the guests.

The Angels join the tennis circuit as top players become victims of accidents and murder.

After two diamond thieves are double-crossed, they take the Angels hostage to help the crooks retrieve their stolen diamonds.

The Angels are hired by Freddie the Fox to help steal back a diamond and return it to its rightful owner. The Angels travel to the Caribbean and execute an elaborate jewel heist, and Kris falls for the son of the villain.

The Angels tackle a bunch of crooks who are trying to knock a women's football team out of the game. Kelly has a catfight with a towel-clad lady in the women's shower room before the real motive behind the attacks is uncovered.

When investigating a cosmetics company, the Angels must intercept a strangler obsessed with blue-eyed blonde women or Kris will be his next victim.

• NOTE: Contains a harrowing Strangers on a Train finale at a merry-go-round.

Guest stars: Alan Feinstein, Melissa Converse, John Crawford, Bibi Osterwald, Hunter von Leer, Melody Thomas Scott (as Melody Thomas), Steve Sandor, Jason Evers, Sheila Smith and Cis Rundle. Paul DeCeglie and Monty O'Grady appear uncredited.

The Angels retrace the steps surrounding the mysterious death of a country-western singer. As Sabrina and Kelly uncover the clues and events that led up the singer's death, the killers work to cover their tracks and Kris, posing as a reporter, rides with the cab driver who was the last to see her alive.

Deadly toys are appearing at the Mother Goose Toy Company and it is up to the Angels to solve the case. Kris impersonates a life-sized rag doll.

The Angels go undercover in the twilight world of vice to discover why three beautiful call girls have been murdered. They find an unlikely link between the apartment complex where the victims live and the restaurant across the street. Kris fits the profile of the dead girls and finds herself trapped with the psychotic killer.

The Angels solve two cases: A beautiful millionaire plays with fire when she betrays a playboy and the Angels have to smoke out her killer. At the same luxury residence, a cat burglar is making the rounds. The killer and cat burglar cross paths when they see each other. Kris poses as a Swedish movie star and Bosley complicates the case when acting as an auctioneer; he sells a valuable jade item meant as bait.

An aspiring singer hires the Angels to find her philandering husband who has disappeared. Unbeknownst to him, jewel thieves hid a fortune in jewels in his truck cargo, which he left with one of his several girlfriends, and the thieves kidnap him to get the jewels back. Now Kelly must step in for the singer, and when she is kidnapped as well, the other Angels must track her before her cover is blown.

• NOTE: The sign outside the Backwoods Café mentions a performance by The Lakso Trio, referring to Edward J. Lakso and his daughter Laurie, who contributed the story idea for this episode.

Guest stars: Don Reid, Carole Mallory, Belinda Balaski, Bill Duke, Alex Courtney, Elaine Joyce, Judy Landers, Maurice Sneed, Fred Kareman, David Chow, Craig T. Nelson and Sy Kramer.

A space age fuel is stolen and the Angels track down the thieves to an antique car rally, where they pose as Keystone Cops. Bosley flips over a lovely lady enrolled in the rally.