Along the way, Williamson added actor John Dye to the ensemble, in the role of Andrew, the angel of death, and later, Valerie Bertinelli was created literally as Gloria, a novice angel. Oprah interviewed her. So did Larry King and Ed Bradley. Today, she insists she was not proselytizing. And so I chose the best message I possibly could that angels could bring. If it encouraged people and got them thinking about their own faith journey, that was fine. Never did. Williamson, who describes herself as a born-again Christian, was well aware that the series was coming on board during the rise of the Christian right.
We were very careful to make sure that nobody would hijack this show. De las Carreras, who watched several episodes before we spoke, was impressed by the strong writing and themes. She noticed that many episodes were about death. It tells you in these difficult moments of life, remember that God loves you. We had Rosa Parks asking truly difficult questions in the wake of a terrific hate crime that was taken right out of the headlines.
TV legend Carol Burnett introduced the last episode, which featured tears and hugs, along with an appearance by Satan — and Jesus. Williamson took a hiatus from TV to raise her two young daughters. Dye and Reese, an ordained minister and founder of a church in Inglewood, are no longer with us. Her mother is finally back at work in her salon after more than five jobless months — and like so many others, is still awaiting her first unemployment check.
COVID has not been vanquished. Their change of heart, however, cannot free Zack, so Monica visits him in jail and reveals that she is an angel. She then promises him that she will become his guardian angel, forgoing all future assignments and the coveted promotion, to protect him from harm in prison.
When she returns in the morning, however, the cell is empty. The citizens decide not to search for him, and it is revealed that Joey inadvertently caused the explosion after the devil tricked him into turning the boiler too high to warm some kittens he'd found. The perplexed Monica returns to the desert to find Tess and Zack. There, she learns that Zack was actually God, and that her defending him was a test, which she passed by being willing to sacrifice herself for him.
Monica is promoted to supervisor. As she leaves, she says her goodbyes to Gloria, and to Andrew, who gives her a pocket watch to remember their friendship by. Before parting, Tess gives Monica the keys to the Cadillac, as she is leaving her job to sit at God's feet. Monica is last shown driving away as the camera pans out over the desert. Most episodes of the series were produced in Salt Lake City, Utah.
According to New York Times reviewer Caryn James, John Masius created the first pilot episode for the series, but it was a darker, less hopeful story than the producers wanted. Masius wrote the show as a reflection of his spiritual anger at the time at his two children being born disabled Martha Williamson was approached to be the series executive producer in early She described the pilot she received as "upsetting" as it "portrayed angels as recycled dead people with power over life and death".
She initially declined the position, but during a lunch with Andy Hill, then President of CBS, she mentioned the show and suggested he find a producer who would create a show with "loving, joyful" angels that the audience would have to believe in.
Williamson stated that she could not stop thinking about the show after that meeting, and eventually called to ask if the position was still open. Though getting the position was no longer a sure thing, she passed up a more lucrative position directing a court drama and went in for an interview with CBS in June Some hit series change the TV landscape with their outsized success, rewriting old rules and sparking new crazes.
That, above anything else, is what I'm most proud of. Saturday and Sunday at 8 p. She also faces her thorny final case: helping a mysterious drifter accused of a hideous crime for which no less than the devil in the form of David Ogden Stiers is out to prosecute him. Before she was touched by the series, Downey was an actress known, if at all, for playing Jackie Kennedy in a TV movie.
She had appeared on Broadway with Rex Harrison. And she had also been a hat-check girl who was passed over for an Irish Spring soap commercial because "they said I didn't sound Irish enough. Fortunately, CBS had no such qualms, and Downey was allowed to speak in the brogue of her native Derry. So away went Monica for who was to say an angel caseworker couldn't look like an auburn-haired, fine-featured beauty?
Downey hadn't signed on for a holy crusade - "I needed a job," she explains. But all the same, there was divine providence in the show's casting.
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