Jill Munroe is a fictional character, played by Farrah Fawcett

Farrah Fawcett

Farrah Fawcett was an American actress and artist. A multiple Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee, Fawcett rose to international fame when she first appeared as private investigator Jill Munroe in the first season of the television series Charlie's Angels, in 1976...

 in the first season of Charlie's Angels

Charlie's Angels

Charlie's Angels is a television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men...

(1976–1977).

Jill is the sporty and athletic angel, and is seen coaching a kids' basketball team, playing tennis, swimming, bowling, skateboarding, and rollerskating on the show. Not just a tomboy, she also frequents the model-type covers, once as a playmate centerfold. She drives a white Cobra II with blue racing stripes and lives in a house on the beach.

Shown in the series's opening credits at a police station desk job, the premise of the series was that the Angels jumped at the chance to have more exciting work in the field as undercover detectives. After the first year, she leaves the Townsend agency for an even more adrenaline-charged pursuit, to be a racecar driver. Her little sister Kris

Kris Munroe

Kristine "Kris" Munroe is one of six female fictional private detectives in the 1976-1981 television series Charlie's Angels. She was portrayed by Cheryl Ladd. She worked for the Townsend Agency for four seasons of the show's entire five season run, taking the place of her big sister Jill when she...

 (played by Cheryl Ladd

Cheryl Ladd

Cheryl Ladd is an American actress, singer and author. Ladd is best known for her role as Kris Munroe in the television series Charlie's Angels, hired amid a swirl of publicity prior to its second season in 1977 to replace the departing Farrah Fawcett-Majors...

) takes her place for the remaining four seasons. Even though Fawcett appeared as a regular only during the first season, her presence was so powerful that Jill Monroe is often thought of as a fan favorite.

Jill returns six times later on:

Season 3:

• "Angel Come Home"
• "Mother Angel"
• "Angels in a Box"

Season 4:

• "Fallen Angel" – This episode is notable as it initially appears that Jill has turned her back on her sister and the law to work with a dangerous jewel thief (played by Timothy Dalton
  Timothy Dalton
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  ); however, it later comes out that she was working undercover for Charlie all along.
• "The Prince and the Angel"
• "An Angel's Trail" – Jill's last appearance is practically a solo outing for Fawcett, as Jill is kidnapped by two criminals and forms a relationship with one of them in the style of Lennie and Curly's wife from Of Mice and Men
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  .