This is the first Charlie's Angels episode to prominently feature Shelley Hack as the key character. Female students have gone missing at Tiffany's alma mater, Whitley. In fact, two of the missing girls are from the same Kappa Omega Psi sorority she joined during her college days.
Tiffany returns to her old sorority house and meets the current members and the new pledges. The same house manager from when she had attended, Barbara Kay, is still there, and she's played by Jo Ann Pflug, an actress who worked throughout the 70's and 80's and appeared on quite a few game shows.
Gary Collins makes his second Angels appearance playing professor James Fairgate, a popular teacher with the female students, if you get my gist. His previous appearance was in season 3 episode Mother Angel, playing the villainous lover of botany, Victor Buckley. That was a Farrah return episode.
Kris Munroe plays a student tasked with auditing his class, and unsurprisingly catches Professor Fairgate's eye. Bosley has another awkward pseudo romance, this time with a college librarian named Willamena, played by the fetching Nita Talbot. Kelly does most of her work off campus, as Tiffany takes the lead, including taking part in a sorority volleyball contest. Naturally, in the locker room afterwards, she's left all alone, because how else should she be menaced and stalked? Especially after we've discovered there could be a white slavery ring operating on campus that's abducting sorority girls.
There are multiple suspects in the mix, including the obnoxious college football tight end, meat-stick Steve Fitzpatrick, played by Rick Hill, who has no qualms about lighting off fireworks on the sorority house porch to frighten the girls. There's also the older boyfriend of one of the abducted women, Richard, played by Roger Waters look-alike David Hayward. It's amusing to hear one of the girls refer to Richard as a 60's relic, seeing how the show is to almost into the 1980's now, it's an interesting cultural comment.
Paul Cavonis returns for his third CA go-round, this time playing Otis, a driver/thug for hire of Fairgate's. Cavonis always plays a villain on Charlie's Angels so that can't be a good sign. He previously appeared in Little Angels of the Night as Roman Vale, the creepy restaurant owner, and in Counterfeit Angels as the mobbed up wise guy, Asher.
There's a cringe scene where the lights go out in the sorority house and the girls scream, and Tiffany's like, calm down girls, calm down, it's only the darkness. She goes outside to find the fuse box turned off. Not sure how many houses would have their fuse box exposed on the outside of the house like that... but okay.
The denouement to this one is over the top, with Tiffany practically saving the day single-handedly. But I liked the episode and I'm starting to warm to Tiffany Welles as a character. It showcased both her vivacious personality and her serious crime fighting side.
