Don't you just love Kris goes southern? She just brings a different present to the screen with her tiny body and big smile.
4 Reviews
Kris is something else.
JasonSterling2928 April 2020
Great fun
gridoon202426 December 2012
Warning: Spoilers
A trucking company, run by and employing exclusively women, loses a valuable cargo but nobody can figure out how it happened. Charlie, who happens to be a friend of the owner, sends Kris and Tiffany to a truck driving school, so that they can get ready to repeat the same trip, with a similar cargo as bait, while Kelly gets a job as a waitress at the truck stop in the area. One of the most sheerly enjoyable "Charlie's Angels" episodes in a long time, mainly because the actresses themselves - and especially Cheryl Ladd and Shelley Hack - seem to have enjoyed making it tremendously; they handle those big trucks like kids handle new toys that they found under the Christmas tree. Plus the modified truckin' version of the show's music theme sounds great! *** out of 4.
Big Rig Angels
adamcshelby3 September 2021
This was more enjoyable than it had any right to be. If the people responsible for Burt Reynolds movie career during the '70s decided to write and direct a Charlie's Angels episode, "Angels go Trucking" would be it.
The Angels are hired by Maggie Brill, played by Joanne Linville, best known for playing a Romulan commander on Star Trek, to investigate who stole her load of pharmaceuticals worth a million dollars.
While Kelly goes undercover as a truck stop waitress, Kris and Angel newcomer Tiffany become lady truckers after practicing in an empty lot. Some high standards there.
Kelly and Tiffany are given an identical pharmaceutical load with instructions to deliver it along the same route in which the first cargo load was stolen.
Along the way we meet Royce Applegate as Bingo, Mickey Jones as Bo Mackey, and James Crittenden as Bobby Lee, standard issue rednecks who got a ton of similar roles throughout the 70s and 80s.
The Angels put on the best country western accent they could muster, which at this point in the series is old hand for someone like Cheryl Ladd, who breaks out her southern drawl every chance she gets. It's mostly played for fun, being one of those plots that doesn't bear up under any type of scrutiny.
One sub-plot revolves around a stranded motorist who Kris and Tiffany help out. For some reason he's running bootleg moonshine (which he calls white lightning). Seeing how this was the 1970s and not during the prohibition era, you wonder why he'd go to all the hassle.
Another strange aspect was the pharma cargo. It was small enough where they could run it in a large van instead of using an 18-wheeler. No matter, there's hardly ever been a CA episode that didn't have at least two or three nitpicks.
This being only the second episode featuring Shelley Hack as Tiffany Welles, I was pleasantly surprised by the chemistry she displayed acting alongside Cheryl Ladd. They seemed very sisterly together and made for a fun duo.
Some of the episode was shot on location in Valencia California, which oddly enough was supposed to be doubling for Oklahoma, which is hilarious when you think about it. But when you populate Valencia with some Bingos, Bobby Lees, and Bo Mackeys, it all seems to work.
The Angels are hired by Maggie Brill, played by Joanne Linville, best known for playing a Romulan commander on Star Trek, to investigate who stole her load of pharmaceuticals worth a million dollars.
While Kelly goes undercover as a truck stop waitress, Kris and Angel newcomer Tiffany become lady truckers after practicing in an empty lot. Some high standards there.
Kelly and Tiffany are given an identical pharmaceutical load with instructions to deliver it along the same route in which the first cargo load was stolen.
Along the way we meet Royce Applegate as Bingo, Mickey Jones as Bo Mackey, and James Crittenden as Bobby Lee, standard issue rednecks who got a ton of similar roles throughout the 70s and 80s.
The Angels put on the best country western accent they could muster, which at this point in the series is old hand for someone like Cheryl Ladd, who breaks out her southern drawl every chance she gets. It's mostly played for fun, being one of those plots that doesn't bear up under any type of scrutiny.
One sub-plot revolves around a stranded motorist who Kris and Tiffany help out. For some reason he's running bootleg moonshine (which he calls white lightning). Seeing how this was the 1970s and not during the prohibition era, you wonder why he'd go to all the hassle.
Another strange aspect was the pharma cargo. It was small enough where they could run it in a large van instead of using an 18-wheeler. No matter, there's hardly ever been a CA episode that didn't have at least two or three nitpicks.
This being only the second episode featuring Shelley Hack as Tiffany Welles, I was pleasantly surprised by the chemistry she displayed acting alongside Cheryl Ladd. They seemed very sisterly together and made for a fun duo.
Some of the episode was shot on location in Valencia California, which oddly enough was supposed to be doubling for Oklahoma, which is hilarious when you think about it. But when you populate Valencia with some Bingos, Bobby Lees, and Bo Mackeys, it all seems to work.
A competent Season 2 effort
I_Love_Hutch17 November 2021
"Angels Go Truckin" is a likable episode, with a not bad storyline as the later season episodes go.
I like seeing Kris and Tiffany together, but this was when (for me, at least) Cheryl Ladd's abrasiveness begins to surface. When Sabrina was still around, there was no question who was the leader, just as there was no question who was the show's best actress. Now, I like Kelly just as much as any Angel-lover, but let's face it, Jaclyn Smith was not a very good actress and she also probably was feeling disheartened when the forceful and charismatic Kate Jackson off the show. And I think Ladd saw this as her opportunity (or duty) to step up to the plate and take over as the strongest personality. Unfortunately, Ladd did not have the natural reserves of humor that Jackson did and without the humor, the show suffered. So, the more than competent Ladd became harsh and less likable than what she had started out as two years earlier.
Other than that, Joanne Linville is fun and engaging as always as the client; the guy Kris and Tiffany pick up, along with his contraband peaches, is VERY cute; and Kelly's hair looks awful, though Smith handles the Southern accent not too badly.
I like seeing Kris and Tiffany together, but this was when (for me, at least) Cheryl Ladd's abrasiveness begins to surface. When Sabrina was still around, there was no question who was the leader, just as there was no question who was the show's best actress. Now, I like Kelly just as much as any Angel-lover, but let's face it, Jaclyn Smith was not a very good actress and she also probably was feeling disheartened when the forceful and charismatic Kate Jackson off the show. And I think Ladd saw this as her opportunity (or duty) to step up to the plate and take over as the strongest personality. Unfortunately, Ladd did not have the natural reserves of humor that Jackson did and without the humor, the show suffered. So, the more than competent Ladd became harsh and less likable than what she had started out as two years earlier.
Other than that, Joanne Linville is fun and engaging as always as the client; the guy Kris and Tiffany pick up, along with his contraband peaches, is VERY cute; and Kelly's hair looks awful, though Smith handles the Southern accent not too badly.
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