Before They Were ‘Angels’ Kate Jackson and Cheryl Ladd Enrolled in ‘Satan’s School’

It was the launchpad for two talented women on the brink of stardom. Three years before they became crimefighting “Angels” on Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg’s hit Charlie’s Angels, Kate Jackson and Cheryl Ladd did the devil’s work in the 1973 ABC Movie of the Week Satan’s School for Girls. While Ladd — then 22 and credited as Cheryl Stoppelmoor — was still very much an unknown, 24-year-old Jackson was right at home with the dark material and Spelling’s direction.