Unless it was so you could leave a nasty review?
Yes, at the point of Charlie's Angels Farrah was not the best actress. At the time CA premiered, I remembered her most from the movie Logan's Run. It was not a big part, although I think everyone cheered when she got punched out by Jenny Agutter, so it was memorable.
I probably had seen her on $6M Man, but nothing I remember at this time.
btw, she did take a little time off, and came back a much better actress, starting with Burning Bed.
I knew more of Kate Jackson, first from Dark shadows, and then The Rookies. She did an incredible job on Dark Shadows, almost all of her performance was silent. I remember her eyes most of all, so amazingly expressive.
The ending of this episode was so wrong, even if I were a huge fan of the show or the actresses I could not rate it higher. I blame the writer or the director for not having "Jill" show any reaction to the car blowing up.
Which is odd if it was the writer, since Stephen Kandel had worked with Farrah on Harry O.
Director Paul Stanley had done a lot of TV, including three Outer Limits, two of which I liked, and one, "Counterweight" which I hated. But that was largely the writing/story, not the directing.
It continues with the picnic on the beach. It was like, Oh well, the love of Jill's life was just blown up, let's have some food.
I think in part this is something that occurred on a lot of Aaron Spelling shows - I don't think many of them dealt with deep emotions.