"Charlie's Angels" premieres 1976

The first episode of the first regular season of Charlie's Angels aired September 22, 1976.  The pilot film aired earlier, in March, and received high ratings so it became a regular series.  The original cast featured Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Jaclyn Smith, Kate Jackson and David Boyle. 

The series enjoyed high ratings.  After Farrah Fawcett left the series after the first season, which resulted in lawsuits for breach of contract.  She agreed to come back for guest appearances.  Cheryl Ladd was brought in as Fawcett's character's sister.  Ratings dipped but recovered.

Then Kate Jackson left the series and they brought in Shelly Hack, but she lasted only one season.  Tanya Roberts was cast for the fifth season, but ratings never recovered after Jackson's departure and the series was cancelled.

Book review - McDougal's Honolulu Mysteries

I was a bit confused reading McDougal's Honolulu Mysteries, an anthology, edited by Glen Grant.  According to the notes, the stories are oral histories from Arthur McDougal, a detective in 1920's-1930's Honolulu.  Hawai'i is U.S. territory, not a state.  People still remember, and are bitter about the end of, the monarchy.  The book is more detective noir fiction, rather than a whodunit.  More answers by fist, instead of the little, gray cells.

At the end of each story, Grant inserts a note discussing the validity of the events in McDougal's adventures, which in very few of them, can he.  Therefore, my question is: Was McDougal a real person?  I can't tell and I can't find out, either.  It took away from the enjoyment of the book (a little) because it read as McDougal is a fictional character.

Still, the book was a fun read.  I most enjoyed the first and last stories, which had elements of the paranormal.  And some were true whodunits.

The glimpse into Honolulu's past was one of the pluses of the book.  The stories, not in chronological order, occur from just after WWI to 1934.  Places, events, and events of the era give the stories an authentic feel.

McDougal's Honolulu Mysteries: Case Studies from the Life of a Honolulu Detective is a good read. It's more along the lines of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammet than Agatha Christie.

"Murders in the Rue Morgue" first detective story published 1841

What is considered to be the first detective story, "Murders in the Rue Morgue" was published by the master of horror, Edgar Allan Poe, April 20, 1841.  The detective Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin, who solves a series of bizarre murders in Paris, is credited with inspiring great fictional detectives such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Dame Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot.  Because Poe wrote the story, he is recognized by the Edgar Awards given annually by the Mystery Writers of America.

Poe's story has been brought to the screen numerous times.  Here is the trailer for the 1932 version starring Bela Lugosi.