Cheryl Ladd, Jaclyn Smith, and Kate Jackson reunited five decades after the launch of the beloved action series’ 1976 debut.

Charlie’s Angels stars get emotional at 50th anniversary reunion: ‘We were there for each other’

Cheryl Ladd, Jaclyn Smith, and Kate Jackson reunited five decades after the launch of the beloved action series' 1976 debut.

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'Charlie's Angels' stars Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd reunite at PaleyFest. Credit:

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Fans are still saying "good morning" to the *Charlie's Angels* cast 50 years later, with stars Jaclyn Smith, Cheryl Ladd, and Kate Jackson uniting Monday night for an emotional reunion event honoring the classic action series.

The trio took the stage at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles as part of a PaleyFest event commemorating five decades of *Charlie's Angels*, the groundbreaking ABC series that followed a group of female private detectives.

"50 years is a long time. It really is," Smith, 80, told *Good Morning America* on the event's red carpet. She was joined by Jackson, 77, and 74-year-old Ladd — the latter of whom boarded *Charlie's Angels* for season 2, following the departure of original cast member Farrah Fawcett, who died in 2009.

Ladd called the event "a long overdue get-together," while Jackson praised her costars as "my sisters" as she fought back tears. "It feels like it was yesterday," she continued.

Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, Cheryl Ladd on 'Charlie's Angels' season 2.

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"We were all such individual women, but women who really cared for each other. Just as the show was, we were there for each other," Ladd said at the event, during which she also revealed for the first time that she recently endured a breast cancer battle.

Jackson again doubled down on feeling emotional at the event, calling the series and her sisterhood with the stars "such a gift" that's "hard to imagine" has endured for decades.

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"It was three women chasing danger instead of being rescued from it. Independent, not defined by the man in their life, and it gave women permission to step out of the mold," Smith added of the series' overall impact, while Ladd concluded, "It's one of those things that I was really proud that I was in."

On stage, Ladd recounted that she was a "troublemaker" on set, including when she pushed back against producer Aaron Spelling's affinity for putting her in a bikini on the show — often enough "that it was starting to piss me off," she said, per *Variety*. So, she "went out and bought the tiniest little bikini ever seen on television," which had difficulty passing the ABC censors at the time.

Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, Cheryl Ladd reunite for 'Charlie's Angels' 50th anniversary.

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“We filmed, and Aaron was not happy,” the publication noted of Ladd's recollection. “So he said to someone, ‘Tell the little troublemaker that she’s never going to do that again!’ And I didn’t, but I did make my point. And after that, I was wearing swimsuits I felt comfortable in.”

The popularity of *Charlie's Angels* lasted well beyond the series' five-season run, with renewed interest in the franchise bubbling up in 2000, when Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, and Cameron Diaz fronted the first *Charlie's Angels *movie. A sequel followed in 2003, while Elizabeth Banks stepped into the director's chair to helm a 2019 standalone sequel starring Kristen Stewart, Ella Balinska, and Naomi Scott. A TV reboot starring Annie Ilonzeh, Minka Kelly, and Rachael Taylor ran for one season on ABC in 2011.

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