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Sep 1, 2006 · The Maestro of Jiggle TV. Aaron Spelling (1923–2006) By Mark Steyn. September 2006 Issue. In his essay “The Myth of ‘Classic’ TV,” Terry Teachout argues just that—that, while The New ...
Jiggle television is a term coined by NBC executive Paul Klein to criticize ABC's television production and marketing strategy under Fred Silverman.
More than half of America’s TV sets tuned in on March 21, 1976, the biggest numbers at the time for an ABC pilot. Critics weren’t kind, slamming the show for its jiggle factor and vapid acting.
Season one of Charlie’s Angels is essential Jiggle TV viewing. It’s the’s only season that features Farrah Fawcett as blonde bombshell Jill Munroe, a character that made male viewers from the age of 14 to 65 turn the channel to ABC once a week from 1976 to 1981.
Charlie's Angels, the critically panned female detective series that heralded the age of "jiggle TV," aired on ABC from 1976-81. The show, which featured three shapely, often scantily clad women solving crimes undercover for a boss they knew only as a Godly voice from a phone speaker, was an immediate sensation, landing the number five spot in ...
Oct 7, 2016 · The term “jiggle TV” or “T&A TV” came into true prominence following the premiere of Charlie’s Angels in 1976 with Fawcett, Smith, and Jackson cracking cases in bikinis and busting baddies...
Apr 1, 2013 · The nearly as rare second pilot for Three’s Company is a fascinating lesson in jiggle-TV evolution (jigglution?); here, DeWitt plays Janet for the first time, and an actress named Susan Lanier...
