Let Our Angel Live

After nearly five years and 113 episodes Charlie's Angels finally came to an end in the summer of 1981 with this satisfactory episode in which Kelly's life hangs in the balance...

The main highlight of 'Let Our Angel Live' are the clips from past episodes, where long-time fans would in no doubt remember, although how on earth Kris could discuss the very first 'flashback' when Cheryl Ladd hadn't even joined the show yet is a minor discrepancy from the producers! This particular story was from the very first series when Farrah Fawcett was still cast!

Viewers should see Charlie make a brief appearance toward the end of the episode, but do the Angels finally get to see him at long last? 'Let Our Angel Live' certainly contains some suspense, but it may have worked better if former Angels Fawcett, Kate Jackson and Shelley Hack had reprised their roles one last time to know whether their friend and ex-colleague Kelly would pull through or not. Overall though this was a satisfactory enough conclusion to a now legendary TV series.

As most have noted, this is a weak finish to an iconic series. It's a clip show (bad), but at least most of the clips center on Jaclyn Smith's Kelly Garret, which I like to think was a way of paying tribute to the only Angel to make it through all five seasons (good). Clips aside, the show has the listless, let's-get-it-over-with feeling that most of season five's episodes have. (Poor Tanya Roberts is given even less to do than usual; she's definitely the Angel who never had a chance.)

By the way, for those complaining that no family members came to stand vigil over Kelly's dramatic surgery, it was revealed as far back as season one that Kelly grew up in an orphanage. Get your Angel history straight, people!

The show certainly deserved a better send-off, but I do think the emotion displayed by the characters was genuine - after all, now they all had to go out and look for a job!

Another "do you remember when?" episode, basically. A sad way for the series to close, though each of Bos, Kris, and Julie gets to emote a little. Even so, a limp, lazy finale. Out with a whimper, rather than a bang.

What a way to end the series, a clip show. The writers would not even be bothered to write a whole episode. That just about sums up the attitude to the final series and it's sad that the series ends with this really weak episode.

Kelly is shot in the head in the most badly acted way possible. She screams and grabs her head in such overly dramatic fashion, and in slow motion that it comes off funny. In reality, when you're shot in the head you go down in a millisecond with no time to grab your head with both hands and wail dramatically. Afterwards, Bosley and the angels weep in the hospital waiting room while going down memory lane.

Most curious, Kelly seems to have no immediate family to rush to her side after this life threatening incident. No parents, siblings or friends are seen. Either the show didn't have the budget to hire some extras to play them, or Kelly was only likable to her co workers.

It's a terrible way to end the series---especially since Sabrina and Jill are nowhere to be found either while Kelly lays dying. I guess they didn't like her too much either.