The show followed three gorgeous female detectives working for the mysterious Charlie Townsend (voiced by John Forsythe). But it could have looked very different. In a recent interview, original cast member Jackson, who played Det. Sabrina Duncan, revealed that the original pitch for the show was terrible and that the name was even worse.
"I was looking down while he was telling me the story of The Alley Cats thinking, 'That's the worst idea I've ever heard in my life. What's going to happen when I look up? Is my top lip going to stick to my teeth, or am I going to be smiling?'" she shared, per a clip posted by Entertainment Weekly.
"Aaron pointed at my pink revision pages and said, ‘Well, what's that? Have you got something?'" she recalled. "I said, ‘Well, yeah.' He said, ‘Let's hear it.' I stood up, and I didn't know how to start, so I said, ‘Okay, once upon a time…' The rest is history."
"I never heard of the words 'intellectual property,' and I thought in order to copyright something, you had to actually have the money to produce it," Jackson admitted. "But I'm still proud to have been part of it. I'm proud to have had an idea that kind of set the world on fire for a while. It was fun."
Kate Jackson, Cheryl Ladd, Aaron Spelling, and Jaclyn Smith.Photo by Bettmann on Getty Images
Jackson was inspired by her past role on ‘The Rookies’
Before she was an “angel,” Jackson was a “rookie.” The actress played nurse Jill Danko on the police procedural The Rookies from 1972 to 1976.
"It was really easy because The Rookies was about three young rookie cops,” she explained, per People. “So just flip that and have three young women who go to the police academy, meet each other, become close friends [and] work their way up to plainclothes detectives.”
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