Original Charlie’s Angels star Kate Jackson has reflected on the long-running success of the series, which debuted 50 years ago. Earlier this month, the actor reunited with her costars Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd at PaleyFest LA 2026 . Their fellow star Farrah Fawcett died in 2009, at the age of 62. In a new interview with People , Jackson recalled that she was initially met with a production company about a different show. “I was looking down, listening, thinking, ‘This is the worst thing I ever heard in my life,’ ” she remembered. Rather than pursue that show, she said she helped conceive Charlie’s Angels based on her previous work on crime show The Rookies . "It was really easy because The Rookies was about three young rookie cops. So just flip that and have three young women who go to the police academy, meet each other, become close friends [and] work their way up to plainclothes detectives,” explained Jackson.…