Before Charlie’s Angels – There Was Kate Jackson
Aaron Spelling already knew that Kate Jackson was dynamite because he’d worked with her before, on the hit show, The Rookies. She’d become a popular draw for the show, receiving more fan mail than anyone, and there was even gossip that they wanted to give Kate Jackson her own show.
When they were tossing around the idea for The Alley Cats, Jackson thought the idea was “horrible” but came up with the idea of “Harry’s Angels,” when she saw a painting with three angels above Spelling’s desk. The “angels” would work for “Harry,” and receive instructions over a speakerphone (like the one she saw on Spelling’s desk). She reportedly said, “Angels! We should call them ‘Harry’s Angels’!” The name and title, then, changed/evolved, because there was already a show called Harry O.
