In addition to being a watershed moment displaying the state of female empowerment in TV of the seventies, this Emmys broadcast was also special for full representation of the title characters of two iconic
Aaron Spelling and
Leonard Goldberg-produced action TV series of that era, namely for including appearances by both
Paul Michael Glaser and
David Soul from
Starsky and Hutch (1975) as well as the original three
Charlie's Angels (1976)--
Jaclyn Smith,
Farrah Fawcett and
Kate Jackson. This occasion was also the only shared credit of
Lindsay Wagner from
The Bionic Woman (1976) with either of Jaclyn (to date) and Farrah, with the only other shared credit of onscreen appearances (to date) of both Lindsay and Kate being on the following year's Emmys show, although Ms. Jackson would go on to serve as an executive producer on one of Lindsay's TV movies in the eighties,
Child's Cry (1986). But that being the tip of the female empowerment iceberg for this evening, this Emmy broadcast in particular had a representation of legendary TV series actresses perhaps unmatched before or since, including two other iconic female action TV stars
Lynda Carter, who was TV's
Wonder Woman (1975), and
Angie Dickinson of
Police Woman (1974), as well as several women whose TV achievements were truly historic, notably
Bea Arthur,
Carol Burnett,
Imogene Coca,
Patty Duke,
Valerie Harper,
Suzanne Pleshette,
Gilda Radner,
Jane Wyatt and
Mary Tyler Moore. [February 2023]
