Charlie's Angels, beautiful dolls, so beautiful

 Charlie's Angels dolls 1977

In my memory, the song went "Beautiful dolls, so beautiful," but it turns out to be "beautiful dolls, oh how beautiful."

Does she look like Farrah Fawcett?  

She's very pretty.

Does she look like Jaclyn Smith? 

It's a good likeness.
Doll hair is always a mess. 

Does she look like Kate Jackson? 

The face is right, but the hair is wrong.

Originally, all three came in jumpsuits: Jill in white with a green scarf, Sabrina in red with a blue scarf, and Kelly in yellow with a red scarf -- possibly for her side gig in fast food.

I was very resentful of Cheryl Ladd moving in as Kris, so I didn't want her doll at the time, despite her green jumpsuit.

The dolls also had outfits you could buy separately. I remember how excited I was to get my Dad to buy me Jill's skateboard outfit in a toy store out of town. The saleswoman said they had a case for the dolls, went in back to get it, and returned to say sorry, those were still boxed up. That item remains a mystery from my childhood. 

Jill's Skateboard Outfit

In the TV ad, Jill's skateboard ride is faked using editing. I tried and tried to make her stand up on that skateboard. It doesn't work! The white boots have little round tabs front and back to wedge into the skateboard. It only works in theory. 

I am the original owner of these dolls. I cut that drawing off the packaging of one of them and have saved it since 1977.  I parted with my Charlie's Angels bubblegum cards in the 80s. 

Apparently they were also "beautiful girls who live dangerously" -- is that really how they wanted to appeal to little girls?  

On the back they say
(C) 1977
Spelling-Goldberg
Productions
All Rights
Reserved
Made In
Hong Kong

I have another outfit that gets white "feathers" everywhere and has been shedding now for well over 40 years (dang!) Maybe the ladies will do another photo shoot in the future.

Danger, Will Robinson, It's 1977

Lost In Space robot from 1977

"Danger, Will Robinson!"

Battery-operated Lost in Space robot from 1977, Made in Hong Kong 

I am the original owner of this toy. Sadly, he no longer works, but I remember when he did. I never tried to glue the sticker back down for fear of doing damage. In my mind, he walked slowly, stopped, lit up, and made a noise. His arms are rather floppy and don't always stay up. The packaging is long gone. 

(C) 1977 Twentieth Century

Fox Film Corp.

All Rights Reserved

(C) 1977 Azrak-Hamway Intl.

Inc. New York.

Made in Hong Kong

AHI No. 6813

I wish he still worked. There's no corrosion or anything. I guess Dr. Smith pulled his power pack one too many.

 

Steven Kaleidoscope by Pixie Toys

 Steven Kaleidoscope

Millions of Designs, Pixie Toys, # 125

Steven Manufacturing Company, Hermann Missouri

The graphics are better than the product. Rather misleading! But maybe the plastic was more vibrant when this was new?

Mr. Stickler
the new stick-up-picks craze

Four games in one: Pick and Stick, the Hard Way, the Hard Way in Reverse, and Solitaire, which has the best rules of all. 

For all four games, any mistake is a BOO BOO (all caps!) but with Solitaire, if you have ten or more BOO BOO sticks, you're an Old Stick in the Mud! 

With nine, you're a Porcupine. 

With eight, you still don't rate! 

The insults become less severe until you have zero in your BOO BOO pile and earn the title A MASTER STICKLER.

Simple fun with colored plastic sticks being stuck through a plastic base. KerPlunk wouldn't come along until 1967 by the way.

As Mr. Stickler is No. 529, there must have been an extensive line of cheap plastic toys from this 1950s manufacturer, Empire Plastic Corp in Pelham Manor, NY

Some I've seen for sale:

A small game called Hop! which was a red board with white pegs; 

another square plastic board that was white with red pegs called "Dr. I.Q." Jump! 

As Empire Plastic Corp. Bronx 56, NY they made a small 5-car set called Empire Stock Car Races No. 51

Empire Doll Stand No. 79

They released a spring-loaded toy gun that was red on the box but black inside, called Guided Missiles and Launcher with new built in safety caps, which came with five red, white, and blue projectiles. Stock Number 189.

Check it out on Grand Old Toys

That toy was sold on a card as well with just one projectile (?) and called Rocketeer Jetbombs and Launcher with unbreakable Ever-Thene bombs

No. 480 was a white peg board called Peg Pix: "Draw" with Colored Rubber Bands. That one was released in a 7" square box and then also in a longer box. 

Side note: Empire Plastics of Tarboro, NC made Halloween and Christmas blow molds of the 1960s and 70s. I suspect these were two different companies. "Empire" just seems to be a popular company name.