Angel
Angel Smith with her "Goat Dog", a wedding gift from Uncle Jacques (1961)
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Jess Oppenheimer
Directed by	Lamont Johnson Ezra Stone
Starring	Annie Fargé Marshall Thompson Doris Singleton Don Keefer
Theme music composer	Eliot Daniel Jess Oppenheimer
Composers	Eliot Daniel Wilbur Hatch
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	33
Production
Executive producer	Jess Oppenheimer
Producer	Edward H. Feldman
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	22–24 minutes
Production companies	Burlingame Productions CBS Films (filmed at the studios of Desilu)
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	October 6, 1960 (1960-10-06) – June 14, 1961 (1961-06-14)

Angel is an American sitcom that aired on CBS during the 1960–1961 television season. The series was created and executive produced by Jess Oppenheimer, and stars Annie Fargé as the title character.

Synopsis

Angelique "Angel" Smith, a pretty, young, scatterbrained Frenchwoman, comes to the United States and marries a young architect, John Smith. With her distinct French accent, Angel gets into various problems with the culture, language, and procedures in her new country.^{[citation needed]}

Background

Although it had much less slapstick comedy, Angel was somewhat akin to two other CBS sitcoms, I Love Lucy (already concluded) and Pete and Gladys, a spin-off of CBS's December Bride. The series co-starred Doris Singleton as Angel's sympathetic friend Susie and Don Keefer as Susie's husband George, roughly akin to the Ethel and Fred roles from I Love Lucy.^{[citation needed]}

Co-sponsored by General Foods (Post Cereals) and Johnson's Wax, Angel was initially broadcast at 9 pm Eastern on Thursday evenings between October 6, 1960, and April 13, 1961. On April 19, it moved to Wednesdays in the same time slot for the remaining first-run episodes, and then summer reruns.

Reception and cancellation

Earlier, Time had commented that Fargé "triumphantly resists being merely Lucille Ball with a French accent. She is easily the brightest newcomer to situation comedy—small, pert, winsome, and somehow giving the impression of being attractively feathered."^[1] Despite the good personal reviews, Fargé left U.S. television within a few years for a career in France, where she was often credited as "Annie Fargue".

Guest stars

Episode list