After a sexplosively successful debut season, Charlie’s Angels returned to TV minus America’s #1 poster girl, Farrah Fawcett, but with a blonde beauty who made an immediate impact in her place. Season two premiered on this date in 1977.

Cheryl Ladd was a model, actress, and singer whose most intriguing early career credit was providing lead vocals for the TV cartoon band Josie and the Pussycats.

Fans fretted when Farrah announced that her star, like her nipples, had gotten too big to be contained on the boob tube, but the world let loose a collective sigh of relieve and moan of ecstasy when Cheryl Ladd turned up in her slot, and turned everyone on for the rest of the series’ run.

She’s also the mom of boobacious strawberry-blonde bombshell Jordan Ladd!