Kelly Garrett

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Kelly Garrett
Jaclyn Smith as Kelly Garrett
First appearance	Pilot - 21 March 1976
Last appearance	Let Our Angel Live - 24 June 1981
Cause/reason	Series Finale
Created by	Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts
Portrayed by	Jaclyn Smith
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Gender	Female
Occupation	Policewoman, Private Detective

Kelly Garrett is one of six female fictional private detectives in the 1976-1981 television series Charlie's Angels. She was portrayed by Jaclyn Smith, who reprised the role in a cameo in the 2003 film Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. She is the only Angel who stayed with the Townsend Agency for the show's entire 5-season run. Uncommonly beautiful but not uniquely so, Smith's image is provided as evidence of Kelly's doppelgänger, not once but twice (Seasons One and Four).

Kelly Garrett is an orphan and the most sensitive of the three Angels. It is no surprise that Kelly spent her personal time helping disadvantaged children. She volunteered at a center for autistic kids, and when she found out that a single parent police officer she was working with physically abused his son, she took him to court and convinced him that he needed counseling. However, she is also the street-wise and tough Angel, and miraculously survives countless car chases, kidnappings, chloroformings, explosions, hostage situations, murderous post-hypnotic suggestion, unwitting heroin addiction, and two separate incidents of a gunshot to the head.

Most of the Angels found themselves romantically involved at one time or another with someone they encountered on the job, but Kelly is the only Angel depicted having a romance with someone the girls don't ultimately expose as a felon. In the first season, Kelly considerately, if dishonestly, breaks up with her boyfriend (played by Tom Selleck sans mustache), when she fears the hit man making attempts on her life will put him in jeopardy.

While it was Jill who gets tapped to go undercover as a dance instructor in Season One, Kelly's talents in that area flourish in her absence, as she attempts to teach Sabrina how to hula, performs in an arena ice dancing spectacular with Kris, belly dances in a hookah bar, appears in a dance performance in a Las Vegas casino, and by the final season stars in a prospective Broadway song-and-dance revue.

Though she often operates under the guise of dancer or model, Kelly's specialty cover consists of a Southern accent and, sometimes, glasses. Still, she is the only Angel to have passed herself off as a being from another galaxy. In actuality, her extraterrestrial exploits are limited to jumping a motorcycle through a ring of fire as a carnival performer, jerry-rigging a sabotaged seatbelt to avoid falling from a biplane during aerial acrobatics, and safely landing a passenger jet. She drives a beige Mustang (which gets blown up, twice: Season One, Episode 13, Angels on Wheels; and Season Four, Episode 91, Toni's Boys).