Wonder Woman and the Bionic Woman were not the only feminist characters on television. The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Maude, Rhoda, Alice, and Phyllis all featured strong, independent women characters. The popular blaxploitation films — which often featured quasi-feminist leads, as in Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974) — spurred ABC to launch a weekly series in 1974, Get Christie Love!, starring Teresa Graves as a black woman who karate-chopped the bad guys while purring, "You're under arrest, sugar." The dual message — both feminist and sexist — of shows such as Get Christie Love! was more fully expressed in the phenomenally successful Charlie's Angels, which debuted in 1976. In Charlie's Angels three women detectives mastered evildoers on weekly episodes — clad usually in bikinis, tight-fitting sweaters, or other revealing clothing. While the Charlie's Angels characters were resourceful and independent, they were also fashion-conscious and glamorous...