# Why was Kate Jackson the ''smart Angel?''
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-kate-jackson-the-smart-angel/326125
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 13, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-kate-jackson-the-smart-angel/326125 "2005-10-13T21:10:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-kate-jackson-the-smart-angel/326125/1 "2005-10-13T21:10:34Z")
Was that just code for “Well, she’s not as pretty as Jaclyn or Farrah?” Did she ever do anything that indicated she was smarter than the other Angels? I think I saw quite a few episodes in the original run, as well as reruns, but I can’t for the life of me remember any plots.
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### Author:  [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-kate-jackson-the-smart-angel/326125/2 "2005-10-13T21:15:13Z")
I seem to recall one of the publicity photos showed her holding a chess piece. Ergo, smart.
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-kate-jackson-the-smart-angel/326125/3 "2005-10-13T21:21:59Z")
Mad magazine summed it up pretty well. It was because she wore higher necklines.
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### Author:  [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2005, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-kate-jackson-the-smart-angel/326125/4 "2005-10-13T21:46:13Z")
It goes like this -
Kelly - the Angel from “the streets.” (even though Jacklyn Smith could convincingly play a tough, edgy, streetwise babe about as well as Kelsey Grammer could play Macbeth.)
Jill - the ‘athletic’ Angel (read - the writers thought up every possible way they could to get Farrah Fawcett to jiggle her bra-less pair for as often as possible during every episode.)
Sabrina - the smart Angel (which, and I know I’m not the only who thought this as a kid, was code for ‘the LESBIAN Angel.’)
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### Author:  [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-kate-jackson-the-smart-angel/326125/5 "2005-10-13T22:36:30Z")
You really think Kelsey Grammer couldn’t do Macbeth?
Frazier Crane probably not, but…
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### Author:  [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2005, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-kate-jackson-the-smart-angel/326125/6 "2005-10-13T22:38:05Z")
Short, sensible hair. Duh :).
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### Author:  [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2005, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-kate-jackson-the-smart-angel/326125/7 "2005-10-13T22:45:51Z")
Kelsey Grammar could probably do a convincing MacBeth.
But Jaclyn Smith as a tough, streetwise broad? Yeah, right…
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### Author:  [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2005, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-kate-jackson-the-smart-angel/326125/8 "2005-10-13T22:59:18Z")
> [@JThunder](#):
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> Kelsey Grammar could probably do a convincing MacBeth.
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> But Jaclyn Smith as a tough, streetwise broad? Yeah, right…
I once saw \*Charlie’s Angels \* dubbed into Spanish in Spain. My Spanish was much better then than now but I seem to recall that it was treated as a very serious crime drama. I wondered if that was irony or that’s just the way Spanish dubbers do all shows.
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### Author:  [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2005, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-kate-jackson-the-smart-angel/326125/9 "2005-10-13T23:13:53Z")
Smaller boobs, thats why.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-kate-jackson-the-smart-angel/326125/10 "2005-10-14T01:00:34Z")
You mean they _all_ weren’t lesbians? Wow, way to crush a guy’s fantasies.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2005, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-kate-jackson-the-smart-angel/326125/11 "2005-10-14T01:03:25Z")
No, the other two were bi.
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### Author:  [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-kate-jackson-the-smart-angel/326125/12 "2005-10-14T01:10:58Z")
> [@Earl Snake-Hips Tucker](#):
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> Was that just code for “Well, she’s not as pretty as Jaclyn or Farrah?”
Well, I thought she was prettier than Farrah, at least. I’m one of those peculiar hetero American men who never found Farrah Fawcett attractive.