Wed, Sep 12, 1979
With Sabrina having left the employ of the agency to enter into wedded bliss, Charlie hires Tiffany Welles, a recent Boston Police Academy graduate and the daughter of a very old friend, as Sabrina's replacement. The first case on which Tiffany will be working as an Angel is for Eastern International Insurance represented by their chief investigator, Mr. Avery, to solve the brazen hijacking of one of Wellington Museum's transport vans en route from Los Angeles Harbor to the museum in Los Angeles, $5 million worth of gold and bronze statuary stolen in the process. Avery knows that the mastermind behind the theft is Paul Hollister and his associate Wes Anderson, who met in Vietnam when they were respectively a US Navy fighter pilot turned war photojournalist and peace corps worker. Avery also knows that the merchandise will be fenced by Eleanor Case, once a respected art historian. The case takes Avery and the Angels aboard the Pacific Princess cruising from Los Angeles to St. Thomas, the US Virgin Islands, the cruise where Hollister and Anderson are passengers, while Bosley remains in Los Angeles to monitor the movements of Case. The agency's task is not so much to arrest Hollister but find where the merchandise is to save the insurance company $5 million on Wellington's insurance claim. One of the Angels has to get to know Hollister, that decision, made by Hollister himself, being Kris. Beyond the known dangers of the case, other issues arise which complicate matters: the Angels have to figure out who the three men on board the ship are, they who are making Hollister nervous; they needing to deal with a less than easy going Avery, who is quick to point blame to the Angels whenever things don't go according to plan; and Kris' strong and growing attraction to Hollister. That attraction includes knowing that he did humanitarian work before turning to a life of crime.
Wed, Dec 12, 1979
Charlie, through the company, has just purchased a yacht, rechristened the Wayward Angel, with custom interior modifications done by the selling agent, Pat Justice. Bosley and the Angels have a few days with the yacht before it gets transported to the Caribbean, Pat having hired a Captain Webner on behalf of Bosley for the company for the transport job. Bosley is hoping he can use the yacht for a good part of that time as he and Pat have built up more than just a professional rapport. Bosley's plans are partly dashed when after his and Pat's onshore date, they return to the marina to find the yacht missing. And just as Bosley is trying to figure what he is going to tell Charlie about losing the yacht, it mysteriously gets returned back to its slip in the marina. The only clues he and the Angels have to go on are some blood stains, a scratched exterior and knowing that the yacht was gone for exactly forty-five minutes. Eventually, they also discover some other items left on the yacht presumably by whoever took it out. If they can tie together the blood with the other items left aboard, they may piece together the entire story, but which may ultimately place them in the middle of warring factions of the smuggling of about $5 million worth of stolen goods.
Wed, Jan 9, 1980
On behalf of the agency's latest client, Consolidated Appliances, which has been the victim of a series of robberies, Kelly is acting as the liaison with the police, the case led by Sgt. Cates. Kelly can see how volatile Cates is when they capture two of three perpetrators in the process of the latest robbery, the third who got away and shot Cates' partner dead. Cates was ready to shoot one of the unarmed perpetrators point blank until Kelly stopped him. In meeting recently widowed Cates' preteen son Greg Cates, Kelly believes the outlet for all of Cates' pent up anger and frustrations is Greg, who is sporting some bruises and cuts on his face likely from a beating by his father. Kelly has to tread lightly before she accuses Cates of anything, especially as Greg loves his father and doesn't want to see anything bad happen to him. This situation may make Cates and Kelly's working relationship more difficult, which is only complicated by the third man - the cop killer - and the two masterminds of the robberies willing to use Greg as insurance so that their two colleagues in jail get off scot-free.
Wed, Jan 30, 1980
The agency is hired by the wealthy Mayhews of Beverly Hills. In the process of they putting their mansion up for sale and the selling agent holding open houses, they came home after one of those open houses to find the security alarm disarmed, with an assailant inside who proceeded to assault Mr. Mayhew physically and steal $500,000 worth of rare third dynasty Egyptian jewels, the robber who knew exactly where the display case housing the jewels was located of what were arguably the most easily transportable and salable items in the mansion. Despite there being a number of possible suspects in the prospective buyers who attended the open house, the Angels and Bosley focus their attention on two companies, the most reputable in Beverly Hills in their respective fields: Tyrone's, a gourmet food catering company, one of their vans which was seen by the Mayhews across the street when they arrived home; and Barry Kingsbrook Realty, the Mayhew's real estate agency. The Angels and Bosley infiltrate both companies on multiple levels. Once they believe they've figured out who is the mastermind, they set a trap by Tiffany going undercover as a Beverly Hills socialite hiring Kingsbrook to sell her mansion - with Tyrone catering the open houses - she making well known to all that she has a rare $2 million collection of early American letters which are easily transportable and salable by any good high end thief.
Wed, Feb 6, 1980
The agency is hired by Joe Fairgate to locate his sister, Sally Fairgate, who disappeared in a "she was there, then all of a sudden she wasn't" scenario. Although the Fairgates are extremely wealthy, the Angels and Joe believe, since there is no ransom request, that Sally's disappearance has nothing to do with their wealth, but rather something to do with the location where she went missing, a three day/thirty hour ballroom dance competition at the struggling Dancetown dance hall where Joe and Sally were entered and, coming out of nowhere, became the favorites to win the $5,000 first prize. Attending Dancetown as potential contestants, the Angels and Bosley end up investigating many of those involved directly with the competition: Dancetown's co-owners, P.J. Wilkes and Al Norman, who, on the surface, have a film noir shadiness to them, especially in Norman idolizing the classic movie tough guys; Elton Mills, the bandleader who longs to return to the big band era; and Billy and Betty, the band's young vocal couple whose usual taste in music isn't found in such dance halls. But who becomes their chief suspect is "couple number 6", who were favored to win the competition before Joe and Sally arrived on the scene, with the male of the couple having an especially easily triggered temper in achieving the prize, the question being at any cost?
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Wed, Mar 12, 1980
The agency is hired collectively by Professor McKendrick, Mike Lloyd and Mrs. Pattison, who were each swindled by a con man named Harley Dexter to the tune of close to a quarter million dollars in total. The three want the Angels and Bosley to get their money back, no more, no less. Dexter believes that he truly conned some of them in they not knowing that he has their money, while he knows others know that he has their money. The Angels and Bosley figure that the best way both to get back at him and to retrieve the money is to con the con, preying both on Dexter's greed and his love for the ladies. While Bosley and Kelly team with Professor McKendrick, Kris with Mike, and Tiffany with Mrs. Pattison, they enact three somewhat concurrent cons related to how he conned the three: the smuggling of rare Mayan art pieces from Mexico into the States; the stealing of Dexter's Rolls-Royce; and providing a payoff to a Senator Langston, who has been investigating Dexter's criminal activities. Thrown into the mix is a violent criminal named De Sousa with who Dexter has been doing business, and the Angels and Bosley learning that Dexter has $100,000 stashed away for the emergency if he ever needs to make a quick getaway.
Wed, Apr 2, 1980
After an attempt is made on the Angels' lives, Charlie hires a rival detective agency run by his old friend, Antonia Blake, to keep an eye on his employees. Blake, who likes to be called 'Toni', assigns her three boys to the case. They are: former U.S. Olympic champion Bob Sorenson, master of disguise Matt Parrish and champion rodeo rider, roper and tracker Cotton Harper. The Angels, feeling they can solve the case themselves, try to ditch the men as soon as possible.
Wed, Apr 30, 1980
Kelly is contacted by an attorney who tells her she may be the long lost daughter of millionaire Oliver Barrows. When Barrows sees the resemblance between Kelly and his late wife, he is convinced she is his daughter, Margaret Ellen, but Kelly remains skeptical and asks Charlie and the other Angels to look into it.