- Title: Charlie’s Angels – Magic Fire
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to the tale of three beautiful former police officers turned private detectives working for a faceless boss known as Charlie. “Magic Fire” is an odd episode that merges a story about magic, arson, and fashion together. While eventually the threads do come together, it’s easily one of the more awkward setups of the series as police suspect a magician (E.J. André) who uses fire in his act of setting fires despite having no motive to do so. Looking into other magic acts, Bosley (David Doyle) and Kris (Cheryl Ladd) go undercover in their own act and Kelly (Jaclyn Smith) plays the role of a famous magician’s daughter. The show telegraphs the identity of the arsonist (Victoria Carroll) with a prank on Kris, although none of the Angels pick up on it.
Meanwhile, Sabrina (Kate Jackson) goes undercover at the fashion house as a French designer we she nearly gets burned alive twice, once by the arsonist and once by the arsonist’s target and former partner (Howard Witt) who mistakes Sabrina for the fire starter leaving her to burn hoping to hide his own nefarious deeds in the fire. Highlights of the episode include Bosley and Kris’ humorous magic act and the reveal of the unusual method of how the fires were started (which you would have expected the fire inspector to have found long before Sabrina).
