Charlie's Angels: Nips and Tucks (1980)
Season 4, Episode 21
8/10
Angels under the Knife
8 October 2021
This was a pretty good episode with an excellent cast, one of the best in recent memory. The Angels go undercover at a plastic surgery clinic in order to root out a man who skipped bail after fleecing millions of dollars.

French-born Louis Jordan (and Bond villain in Octopussy) plays the plastic surgeon, Tab Hunter plays his crooked patient, and Joanna Pettit plays an explosive expert who assassinates people by blowing up their car... just like the Corleone family.

Tiffany Welles goes undercover as a nurse, and she has one of her best performances of season 4. Bosley and Kris Munroe play a rich married couple, and Kelly Garrett is doing a magazine expose, which was what Kate Jackson's Sabrina used to do.

It's not often the Angels are confronted with a powerful female adversary, but Joanna Pettit plays her role to a T, and it would have been great just to see the Angels take her on solo under a different circumstance. Tab Hunter unfortunately doesn't do too much, spending a portion of the episode in bed awaiting his Pablo Escobar plastic surgery special.

It's interesting that every time the writers give Shelley Hack's Tiffany an important role, the episode is usually really good. Too bad there were not more of these episodes, this was a good one.
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