This Edward J Lasko script is a great example of what ailed the series. Silly premises with hack writing. Which isn't to say that's it's all bad, because it's not, just a lot whole more ham-fisted and awkward than it needed to be.
The Angels go undercover at an amateur female football team called the Ducks to find out why a key team member is being harassed by motorcycle driving desperadoes. All three Angels get to suit up, Sabrina as a QB, Kelly as a running back, and Kris as a tackling dummy.
There are two main suspects, one is the female owner (Patch Mackenzie) of a rival team called the Panthers. The other is an ex-jock with a bum knee (Gary Wood) who hangs out at the Ducks practices and seems to be down on his luck. Wood makes his second CA appearance, having appeared in first season episode "Angels on a String" playing a kidnapper.
One of the cheesier subplots involves the great character actor LQ Jones, playing the father of Ducks owner Amy Jarvis, played by Nancy Fox. Jones also makes his second CA appearance, his previous was in first season episode "Bullseye" playing an evil Army Sergeant. Here he plays an ex pro football player who frowns on his daughter's attempts to form a female pro league. He spends most of the ep drinking beer and doubting that the Ducks can win. The frayed father/daughter relationship is about as on the nose as it gets, and not helped by the fact that Nancy Fox plays her character like she just fell off a turnip truck. Jones is always good and is probably embarrassed to be acting such a one dimensional part.
As for the football action, it's not bad. They actually shot in the LA Coliseum for real, even getting a few hundred extras to play paying customers (announced attendance less than 500). My main problem with the plot is the lunacy of the crime. Seems someone wants to rob the Coliseum safe of a millions dollars from the previous night's rock concert ticket sales. The reason the players are being harassed is because the thieves want the game cancelled so they can rob the safe in peace. Only problem with this notion is that the money would never be kept in an office of the Coliseum. See, once the concert was over the promoter would take his proceeds and leave with it. The Coliseum is merely a rented venue, not the promoter itself. It would have nothing to with collecting cash concert revenues. Nope nope and nope. Not how the concert business works. But Edward J Lasko was an awful writer and he proves it time and time again.
By the way, the two thieves scale down a wall that has a giant clock face on it, a clock face that would be in full view of the Coliseum crowd, even if there was only a couple hundred people in attendance, they'd still be seen. It was broad daylight after all, and even the guards notice something is amiss right away.
The episode ends with the Ducks' player who suffers from dyslexia scoring the winning touchdown from a Sabrina throw, this after Sabrina deliberately gives the player the WRONG directions KNOWING she would do the opposite of what she was told to do, because that's how dyslexia works in 1977 Hollywood. Despite the Edward J Lasko fiasco, the episode is entertaining enough to be slightly above average, mainly because Kelly and Kris make a great pair of wide receivers.
The Angels go undercover at an amateur female football team called the Ducks to find out why a key team member is being harassed by motorcycle driving desperadoes. All three Angels get to suit up, Sabrina as a QB, Kelly as a running back, and Kris as a tackling dummy.
There are two main suspects, one is the female owner (Patch Mackenzie) of a rival team called the Panthers. The other is an ex-jock with a bum knee (Gary Wood) who hangs out at the Ducks practices and seems to be down on his luck. Wood makes his second CA appearance, having appeared in first season episode "Angels on a String" playing a kidnapper.
One of the cheesier subplots involves the great character actor LQ Jones, playing the father of Ducks owner Amy Jarvis, played by Nancy Fox. Jones also makes his second CA appearance, his previous was in first season episode "Bullseye" playing an evil Army Sergeant. Here he plays an ex pro football player who frowns on his daughter's attempts to form a female pro league. He spends most of the ep drinking beer and doubting that the Ducks can win. The frayed father/daughter relationship is about as on the nose as it gets, and not helped by the fact that Nancy Fox plays her character like she just fell off a turnip truck. Jones is always good and is probably embarrassed to be acting such a one dimensional part.
As for the football action, it's not bad. They actually shot in the LA Coliseum for real, even getting a few hundred extras to play paying customers (announced attendance less than 500). My main problem with the plot is the lunacy of the crime. Seems someone wants to rob the Coliseum safe of a millions dollars from the previous night's rock concert ticket sales. The reason the players are being harassed is because the thieves want the game cancelled so they can rob the safe in peace. Only problem with this notion is that the money would never be kept in an office of the Coliseum. See, once the concert was over the promoter would take his proceeds and leave with it. The Coliseum is merely a rented venue, not the promoter itself. It would have nothing to with collecting cash concert revenues. Nope nope and nope. Not how the concert business works. But Edward J Lasko was an awful writer and he proves it time and time again.
By the way, the two thieves scale down a wall that has a giant clock face on it, a clock face that would be in full view of the Coliseum crowd, even if there was only a couple hundred people in attendance, they'd still be seen. It was broad daylight after all, and even the guards notice something is amiss right away.
The episode ends with the Ducks' player who suffers from dyslexia scoring the winning touchdown from a Sabrina throw, this after Sabrina deliberately gives the player the WRONG directions KNOWING she would do the opposite of what she was told to do, because that's how dyslexia works in 1977 Hollywood. Despite the Edward J Lasko fiasco, the episode is entertaining enough to be slightly above average, mainly because Kelly and Kris make a great pair of wide receivers.
