| Genre: | Crime Drama Mystery Thriller |
| Director: | Jerry London |
| Executive Producer: | David Gerber |
| Producer: | Charles B. Fitzsimons Mark Rodgers |
| Starring: | Cornelia Sharpe Jayne Kennedy Don Galloway |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Music: | Richard Shores |
| Editor: | Arthur Hilton (as Arthur Hilton) Stanley Wohlberg |
| Cinematography: | William B. Jurgensen |
| Runtime: | 73 minutes |
| Company: | David Gerber Productions Columbia Pictures Television |
| Network: | NBC |
| Released: | [1] |
Cover Girls is a 1977 American made-for-television crime drama film directed by Jerry London and starring Cornelia Sharpe, Jayne Kennedy and Don Galloway.[2] [3]
Two world class models, Linda and Monique, work for an American intelligence agency. They are given a mission to track down an embezzler who is also being chased by a criminal, Michael. Linda falls for the embezzler.
The success of Charlie's Angels in the 1976-77 ratings season prompted all the American TV networks to feature more sexy young women in action-orientated roles, either adding them to existing programs or introducing new shows that focused on them. NBC picked up The Bionic Woman from ABC and also added young female characters to the 1977–78 seasons of Baa Baa Black Sheep and BJ and the Bear. They introduced several new shows with female sex symbol leads such as Quark, The Roller Girls and Who's Watching the Kids?, as well as commissioning pilots for several series which were direct imitations of Charlie's Angels: The Secret War of Jackie's Girls, The Hunted Lady and Cover Girls.[4]
The Los Angeles Times said "the only things not negligible about" the movie was "are the radiant beauty of its stars, Grady Hunt's elegant costumes for them and a creditable acting job by Vince Edwards."[5]
Writer Marcia Hilmes contrasted the film negatively with Charlie's Angels, arguing that in Angels the lead characters were always first and foremost detectives, with any sexual objectification as an aid to their detective work, whereas in Cover Girls the leads seemed to place as much emphasis on their modelling as their crime fighting.[6] She also pointed out that Cover Girls included scenes implying an erotic relationship between the two leads, further objectifying them sexually.[6]