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<blockquote data-quote="Piggyrella Sanderson" data-source="post: 6186" data-attributes="member: 82"><p>Here´s the part of the interview that emmytvlegends.com did with Aaron Spelling related to "Charlie´s Angels". Enjoy...</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">[MEDIA=youtube]OxQoDdhE9Us[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>...And here´s a 2-part interview with the "other" producer of "CA", Leonard Goldberg:</p><p></p><p>The genesis of <strong>Charlie's Angels</strong> started even before ‘74. Television was going through kind of a back alley, realistic, gritty, down and dirty kind of period with<strong> Baretta</strong> and shows like that. </p><p> </p><p>Aaron and I were talking one night and we always tried to go against the grain, so we thought we should do a show that is very glamorous, very pretty, very romantic. We came up with this high style idea about three beautiful private-eyes. They were named Alison, Katharine and Lee and we called it <strong>“The Alley Cats</strong>.<strong>” </strong>Not the classiest title ever to come down the pike. We pitched the idea of the show to Barry Diller and Michael Eisner, who were then running<strong> ABC</strong>, at a breakfast meeting. They responded, “That it was the worst idea we have ever heard. Could we please order breakfast?” Subsequent to that, we had done a TV movie, “The Affair” with R.J. Wagner and the late, Natalie Wood. As part of the arrangement, ABC was to put up $25,000 to write a pilot script which would be owned by our production company and R.J. Wagner’s production company. </p><p> </p><p>Eventually I received a notice saying that the time was up, and I called Michael Eisner. I said, “Look, you’re going to have to send us a check for $25,000 and you have nothing to show for it. Why don’t you let us write a script? At least you will have a script to show your management.” He said, “Fine, write anything you want.” So, I told Aaron, “Why don’t we write what we always wanted to write” and he thought it was a great idea. I called R.J. Wagner since he was going to be our partner and he said, “I think it’s a terrible idea, but I don’t know anything about making TV.” So we went ahead and had a script written and that's how<strong>Charlie’s Angels</strong> got started. </p><p></p><p>To Be Continued Here:</p><p><a href="http://www.charliesangels.com/goldberg_part1.html" target="_blank">http://www.charliesangels.com/goldberg_part1.html</a></p><p></p><p>This is a documentary about the show, "Girls with Guns". For non English speakers (but who can read English), it´s subtitled. </p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">[MEDIA=youtube]8OBmh2cQKAQ[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>This review of the CA dvds is outrageously funny!</p><p></p><p><a href="http://brightlightsfilm.com/aaron-spellings-vault-horror-charlies-angels-dvd/#.V-hTAPCLQps" target="_blank">http://brightlightsfilm.com/aaron-spellings-vault-horror-charlies-angels-dvd/#.V-hTAPCLQps</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Piggyrella Sanderson, post: 6186, member: 82"] Here´s the part of the interview that emmytvlegends.com did with Aaron Spelling related to "Charlie´s Angels". Enjoy... [CENTER][MEDIA=youtube]OxQoDdhE9Us[/MEDIA][/CENTER] ...And here´s a 2-part interview with the "other" producer of "CA", Leonard Goldberg: The genesis of [B]Charlie's Angels[/B] started even before ‘74. Television was going through kind of a back alley, realistic, gritty, down and dirty kind of period with[B] Baretta[/B] and shows like that. Aaron and I were talking one night and we always tried to go against the grain, so we thought we should do a show that is very glamorous, very pretty, very romantic. We came up with this high style idea about three beautiful private-eyes. They were named Alison, Katharine and Lee and we called it [B]“The Alley Cats[/B].[B]” [/B]Not the classiest title ever to come down the pike. We pitched the idea of the show to Barry Diller and Michael Eisner, who were then running[B] ABC[/B], at a breakfast meeting. They responded, “That it was the worst idea we have ever heard. Could we please order breakfast?” Subsequent to that, we had done a TV movie, “The Affair” with R.J. Wagner and the late, Natalie Wood. As part of the arrangement, ABC was to put up $25,000 to write a pilot script which would be owned by our production company and R.J. Wagner’s production company. Eventually I received a notice saying that the time was up, and I called Michael Eisner. I said, “Look, you’re going to have to send us a check for $25,000 and you have nothing to show for it. Why don’t you let us write a script? At least you will have a script to show your management.” He said, “Fine, write anything you want.” So, I told Aaron, “Why don’t we write what we always wanted to write” and he thought it was a great idea. I called R.J. Wagner since he was going to be our partner and he said, “I think it’s a terrible idea, but I don’t know anything about making TV.” So we went ahead and had a script written and that's how[B]Charlie’s Angels[/B] got started. To Be Continued Here: [URL]http://www.charliesangels.com/goldberg_part1.html[/URL] This is a documentary about the show, "Girls with Guns". For non English speakers (but who can read English), it´s subtitled. [CENTER][MEDIA=youtube]8OBmh2cQKAQ[/MEDIA][/CENTER] This review of the CA dvds is outrageously funny! [URL]http://brightlightsfilm.com/aaron-spellings-vault-horror-charlies-angels-dvd/#.V-hTAPCLQps[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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