Shelley Hack as Tiffany Welles in Charlies Angels

I’m sitting here thinking about my favorite (unsung) Angel - Tiffany Welles from Boston.

This has become like Rick & Ilsa at the airport

Charlie should have gotten rid of that damned Pinto at the same time they were rid of Sabrina Duncan!

The Townsend Agency must have been a shitty place to work. Driving an outdated Ford Pinto in 1980 would have been a deal breaker for moi. Poor Tiffany!!

Obviously Ford was paying for product placement. Seems silly to keep using that Pinto.

Yeah no shit, r5. They were not even making the Pinto in 1980.

They could have at least issued Tiffany a Ford Escort instead of that fucking 1976 orange Pinto.

I hope Charlie provided health insurance.

Murray Kempton, TV critic for Newsday, Long Island’s newspaper, always referred to her TV appearances as “ a real hack job”.

Let’s see…. Where is Murray now? Dead most likely.

Tiffany was so sophisticated. I can’t believe she was replaced by the shoplifting model cum PI Julie Rogers!!

Oh great, another OCD Stan. And how we've fallen, from Capucine and Liv Ullmann, to Shelley Hack.

I loved me some Shelley Hack minus some of her straw-like hairstyles during the first half of her season. They magically were able to infuse some Alberto V05 hot oil into her during the second half.

Couldn’t someone have taken 10” off that skirt? Did she drive her pinto up to the Abbey?

Lol r14! Have a Hack night!

I bet Tiffany Welles could kick Bosley’s bumbling ass to the curb.

r13 thank you for encapsulating so perfectly what I have always thought.

I love her little "Charlie" perfume strut at 00:25 in OP's video!

Do you like the word “twat”?

Hey, it's Tiffany Tuesday!

Is Shelley a winter or a summer blonde? She looks great in achromatics...

Fun fact - Shelley has a glass eye, like our ol pal Sandy Duncan

she does not r24. you have a cavernous asshole.

How are spending your Tiffany Tuesday??

I’m going to vacuum!

Just think had Chevy been the sponsor that poor girl would be driving a Chevette...

They didn't replace the cars because they would have to reshoot the establishing shots in front of the office and Spelling was too cheap to do that

Ford was the sponsor. Jacklyn got the Mustang, Cheryl got the Granada coupe, and poor Shelley got stuck with the Pinto since she was the newest girl. (I've probably got the cars wrong, but their was a hierarchy of awful late-70s Fords).

Yeah r30. Farrah and Cheryl drove the Cobra II.

@r29, "Spelling was an asshole. "

Ok, Tori, we get it

@r31, "Yeah [R30]. Farrah and Cheryl drove the Cobra II. "

Which was also a piece of junk based on the Pinto

All of the Charlie’s Angels cars ranked in order of coolness:

1. 1976 Ford Mustang 2 - Cobra II driven by Jill & Kris Munroe

2. 1976 Ford Mustang 2 driven by Kelly Garrett

a very distant 3. 1976 Ford Pinto driven by Sabrina Duncan, Tiffany Welles and Julie Rogers

Bosley drove a 1976 Ford Thunderbird which wasn’t bad then a big assed 1978 or 1979 Ford station wagon. Charlie should have forced Bosley to drive the orange Pinto and offered the Thunderbird to Sabrina.

The pinto was made in orange to hide the flames.

Does anyone remember when Barbara Stanwyck was a guest on Charlie's Angels as 'Toni' the female version of Charlie with three of hot male detectives? At 14, I remember jacking off while watching Stephen Shortridge as 'Cotton Harper" a former rodeo star turned operative. The other actors are a blur..

^ You were always a weird kid

Yes I liked that episode when I got to see it in rerun syndication. I like the one Olympic dude who applied for a job at a strip club while Kris blushed. His boss was a familiar looking red headed actress who introduced them to Arnie the space stripper.

I liked it when the tan, temp, pinto got demolished by a dump truck load of cinder blocks just as Tiffany Welles just escaped with her life!

I sure hate Kate Jackson as Sabrina Duncan

Tiffany was too East Coast for the Townsend Agency.

They didn't deserve her.

Amen r42. They got what they deserved…. A model school graduate with a criminal record- Julie Rogers!

Sorry Shelley, but today is Friday and the gays are talking about me!

CA did have a contract with Ford, when they were testing Sada Thompson for the part of Angel Lorraine, they used a blue Ford Econoline van, which was windowless since Angel Lorraine would have been primarily the 'getaway driver' and not so much working 'on her feet' since Sada found running in a twinset, pumps and blue jeans to be more difficult than she expected. Alas, Spelling decided against Angel Lorraine primarily because of the unexpected 'Tracy and Hepburn-like' sexual tension betweedn Angel Lorraine and David Doyle's Bosley. Instead Shellley Hack was cast

I am Tiffany Wells from Boston MA. I graduated from the police academy and was a police woman prior to working at Townsend and Associates based in LA beginning in September of 1979.

I just woke up after being chloroformed. I just learned that my old sorority house mother is conspiring with Gary Collins to sell me into white slavery (a sex ring). Not gonna happen says ME!

Nice! I’m lying in a stream after a hot guy knocks me in the head with his riffle! Now I wake up to a godamned tiger looking at me as lunch!

3 hot chicks (with camel toe)

Kelly and me undercover as prostitutes. Lookin for some hot stuff!

Office photo. Kris’ sister, Jill, was in town assisting with a case.

Do we look glamorous? Hell, yeah!

Tiffany Wells was soooo much better than Julie Rogers.

Today is a Tiffany Welles day. I'm going to rest in the arms of season 4 today.

Shelly is one of my favorite names ever.

Every Shelly I’ve ever met has always turned out to be such a warm spirit, and highly intelligent, independent person.

My AA sponsor’s name is Shelly. She gets on here and posts or browses, every now and then.

Love you, Shelly! Can’t wait for our phone/zoom meeting tomorrow after work!

r57 are you a Tiffany Welles fan?

What do you think about an online Shelley Hack fan fair event? I may organize an event.

My name is now Tiffany Welles. Legally

Didn't all those nasty orange Pintos explode before 1980? I heard they exploded if you even tapped the bumper while parking!

I like how in this show all the businesses seem to be "agencies". Like the whole world in the 70s consisted of modeling agencies, detective agencies, etc. Everything was an "agency".

perhaps she'll come to visit DWTS with jacklyn to see cheryl

I know Shelley isn’t a dancer though Jaclyn is.

R62 Tiffany Welles was employed by Townsend and Associates. Simper Fi

Shelley - who was snapped up by Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen - was too talented for the show and showed the others up. That’s why she was fired.

I wouldn't mind having Charlie's Angels brought back to TV. I am still in awe how badly they fucked up the reboot in 2011. Ramon Rodriguez was divine to look at. But the writing was just atrocious. It was so bad that I thought the show was planned right from the start as a huge tax write-off. And the actors were clearly not cast to win any Emmy either. Such a shame. How difficult is it to do a show around three girls in a sisterhood solving crimes in Mission Impossible-style? I'm ready for it. But please do it with either good writing or good acting, preferably both.

Shelley can come back and take Charlie's calls in the agency.

r67 curious, are you "future Disney+ subscriber" for DTWS? if so, i love that.

Tea Leoni was discovered via a Charlie’s Angels reboot in the 80s. I don’t know if the pilot ever aired.

[quote] The search for the new “Angels” was conducted in eleven cities over a three month period. The four actresses selected were Karen Kopins (Dallas) as Pam Ryan, Claire Yarlett (The Colbys) as Connie Bates, Sandra Canning (Dragnet) as Trisha Lawrence, and the newcomer found via the talent search, Tea Leoni as Bernie Coulter. Interestingly, the relatively unknown Leoni was the only Angel to reach major success.

As a kid, I remember liking the proposed premise of Angels '88 — four actresses who starred in a detective show are out of work when the show gets canceled and try to do the real thing — and was bummed when it never aired.

As an adult, I think, what idiot proposed a show where four characters who are well-known TV celebrities become investigators who have to go undercover every week? And how dumb was the network to let the idea get as far as the casting stage.

I’m the male version of Tiffany.

OP- One thing I don’t like- Couldn’t get hey give her a sexier car to drive than a Ford Pinto?

the opening shot of Tiff's reaction to the stack of papers being dumped on her desk was poorly shot and cut; the guy's arms are in the way and so it ends too early.

A sad omen that her run was mishandled

R73 They were too cheap to reshoot the establishing shots of the agency with the cars out front, so Tiffany and Julie were stuck with the pinto

Julie Rogers was driving a new Lincoln Town Car in first two episodes of CA. Then she was hired by Townsend & Associates and immediately began driving the hand-me-down orange Ford Pinto. What a letdown!!

It's too bad in the late 1980s or in the 1990s that Aaron wasn't able to get them all back for one big reunion movie before David Doyle passed away.

Why can’t there just be a spin-off today where Tiffany opens her own agency?

We don’t need those other surviving hags. Just the one, the only, the Tiffany.

Please, the bitch couldn’t solve the mystery of what happened to the moisture in her hair

The Breck bitches put her in a 1971 ad for “thin, skinny, limp hair.”

They don’t know who they’re fucking with!

[quote][italic]Skimpy Hair: Make the Most of It. Use Breck Basic Texturizer. It makes thin, skinny, limp hair look like MORE hair. Gives even fine hair a new texture… the kind of firm body it needs to hold and hold!

R78 I love that artist rendering of Tiff!

Tiffany was my favorite followed by Kelly, Jill & Kris.

R77 They tried multiple times, but they could never get any of the 3 of the four that they wanted (Kate, Farrah, Jaclyn and Cheryl) but only Jaclyn and Cheryl were game. Kate and Farrah were the hold ups.

They had no interest in Shelley or Tanya.

I'd read that R84; it's too bad; I would have gone with Jaclyn and Cheryl and Shelley and Tanya and David and John Forsythe for a reunion flick and just shown the others in flashbacks.

You'd think Farrah would be begging for work in the 1990s.

Poor Kate. So talented. That Kramer role would have changed her career. She at least would have gotten a nod.

No one seems to entertain the notion that Jackson might have just been so-so had she done KRAMER VS. KRAMER. She didn’t exactly set the screen on fire in MAKING LOVE.

Correct re Jackson R85 And she missed an Oscar nomination for Making Love by one vote! Making Love was no box office hit. An Officer and a Gentleman was. That made the whole difference.

I remember the old thread where we went through all of Meryl’s roles Kate would have UNDOUBTEDLY played after “Kramer vs. Kramer,” complete with illustrations.

It was hilarious.

Maybe she could have handled “The River Wild”

R61 Not when an iconic Angel drove it.

R86, if Jackson could get TWO Emmy noms from doing Charlie's Angels scripts she might have done well on-screen as Joanna Kramer in Kramer v Kramer.

Hoffman met with her and wanted her for the part.

There were a LOT of strong actress performances in 1982 so she didn't get a nod for Making Love. I never heard she missed it by one vote.

Nobody gives a shit you moron

Exactly R90. Kate missed a nod by one vote. She lost to Debra Winger. An Officer and a Gentleman was a huge hit in 1982. Making Love wasn't because yes. A gay drama against a mainstream boy-meets-girl love story? No chance in 1982.

This sad sack inherited Sabrina's piece of shit "Pinto" with a Car Phone (which wasn't a Mainstream thing at the time!)

America was baffled by "Sabrina's Car Phone!)

Has anyone ever driven a 4 cylinder Ford Pinto? I drove a friends many times in high school. There is literally no way you could get away from or pursue someone in a car chase.

Oh yes you could. Well not you but I could.

I really appreciate Tiffany's body. It's tall and thin. She looks great in just about any kind of outfit under the sun.

Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous

Her famous line in the Angels on the Street episode spoken to Freddie the pimp

“No ties, no busts, no booze, no needles.”

Oh god I wish I were Tiffany Welles! Oh god help me!

Pinto driving Tiffany is economical. She drinks Riunite box wine and gets DIY Toni body wave home perms. When she gets a run in her L'Eggs Sheer Energy pantyhose in "Nude" she cuts the leg off and pairs it with an opposite leg pair of L'Eggs pantyhose. Once she paired a "Nude" with a "Suntan" and had to spend the day with mismatched legs.

Not hardly r101. That sounds like Sabrina Duncan’s method of operation. NOT glamorous and sophisticated Tiffany Welles from Boston Mass!!

I'm gonna watch some of my fave CA episodes today starring Shelley Hack as Tiffany Welles:

Caged Angel - Kris goes undercover in prison and meets Big Aggie.

Angels on the Street - Kelly and Tiffany hit the street as prostitutes.

Angels on Campus - Tiffany goes back to visit her old sorority only to find a white slavery ring at work.

Angel Hunt - Nice kitty kitty

Homes $weet Homes - Tiffany looks so fab in this one.

Nips and Tucks - Tiffany goes undercover as a plastic surgeon's nurse.

Toni's Boys - I love this one. It's full of men and Barbara Stanwyck. Plus Tricia O'Neil is fun to watch as model agency head - Anne Moore.

Due to the success of our angles, The Townsend Agency is now offering vacuums to clean up your mess.

I am obsessed with this Angel.

The Nips and Tucks episode (1980) is GOLD. Tab Hunter guest stars.

This is the cliff notes edit of the episode!

This is how you pronounce “Shelley Hack” bitch!

Please do not dump a ton of cinder blocks on Tiffany! Look at the blue interior of that shitty Ford Pinto she was stuck with!

I could look a pics and videos of Shelley Hack as Tiffany Welles ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT.

R66 nailed it with the King of Comedy reference and link! Always loved Hack in CA, but in KoC she is at an apex of imperious, subtle glamor, sailing into the office lobby while mispronouncing Rupert Pupkin's name, "Pipkin." (She did it deliberately, to diminish him!) Hack is, as we cube fraus like to say, the BOMB! (...Spritzing a little Charlie in my cube right now!)

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