Posted on 03/26/2008 12:22:10 PM PDT by dighton
The action-adventure genre got a sexy shot in the arm in 1983 with the debut of Hillarys Hellcats, the Friday night NBC series starring Farrah Sansabelt-Haggar as Hillary Dale, leader of an undercover international all-girl danger squad. The series is best remembered as the launching pad for starlet Quiana Morganny, whose bikini-clad portrayal of singing Hellcat Sheryl Ravencroftington led to millions of dorm poster sales, two top-20 singles, and a career as spokeswoman for Eco-Soft toilet tissue. Despite its fast-paced action and feminist empowerment message, the show generated lackluster Nielsens and was canceled after only 12 episodes. Some TV critics of the time blamed the mediocre ratings on Sansabelt-Haggar, who, at 61, was thought to be too seasoned and pudgy for the frequent bikini scenes. The toll of the critical brickbats ended her marriage to country CB music star Rance Haggar (Breaker 1-9, Hot Stuff) who provided the voice of Mister C, the Hellcats mysterious boss who was never seen on screen.
For his part, series producer Irving Z. Green chalks up its failure to the 1980s zeitgeist.
Back then, viewers were looking for crazy, escapist, implausible storylines, says Green. But not that crazy and implausible.
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EPISODE 1-04: Showdown in Slavsnia
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wow...just wow...
Female A-Team?
Brilliant!
When there's trouble in the air and there's danger everwhere --
Hellcats are go! When there's snipers on the loose who want to cook your goose --
Hellcats are go! Chelllllsea looks for clues
My bikiiiini makes the ruse
Then Hiiiiillary lights the fuse
To blow up the bad guys in time for the evening news!
From Monte Carlo to Hong Kong wherever someone's doing wrong --
Hellcats are go! So when evil stalks the world, just call the softball girls --
Hellcats are go! Go Hellcats GO!
Ping to all of you out there in TV-land.
Girls (in tub)
Watch out for scuba snipers, Hillary!
You gotta read it for that one to make sense but I'm ROTFLMAO.
The 'hawk is always killing funny but this whole thing is generating some of the finest world-class ridicule since Dan Quayle was around to mock. Iowahawk BTT.
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