Angel

Angel was a CBS network sitcom series created and executive produced by Jess Oppenheimer, starring Annie Fargé in the lead role.

The show aired from October 6, 1960 to June 14, 1961, lasting for one season & 33 episodes.

It was produced by Burlingame Productions and CBS Films (filmed at the studios of Desilu), and co-sponsored by General Foods (Post Cereals) and Johnson's Wax,

Plot
The series centered on Angel Smith, a pretty, young scatterbrained French girl who comes to the United States and marries a young American architect, John Smith.

Cast

 * Annie Fargé as Angelique "Angel" Smith
 * Marshall Thompson as John Smith
 * Doris Singleton as Susie
 * Don Keefer as George

Broadcast History
"Angel" was initially broadcast at 9:00 pm Eastern on Thursday evenings between October 6, 1960, and April 13, 1961.

On April 19, 1961, the show moved to Wednesdays in the same time slot for the remaining first-run episodes, and then summer reruns.

Reception\Cancellation
"Angel" competed with two other sitcoms, "My Three Sons" (which went on to a 12-year run, first on ABC, and then CBS) and "Bachelor Father" (which was then in its last year on NBC), but having been on all three networks during its total five-year run from 1957 to 1962.

The show followed the final season of Dick Powell's "Zane Grey Theater" and preceded what turned out to have been the last of the three-year run of "The Ann Sothern Show" (which had been highly rated in its two earlier years).

When CBS announced early in 1961 that "Angel" had been canceled due to low ratings, Time magazine suggested that at least the talented Annie Fargé should be "salvaged from the wreckage" for another enterprise.

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."

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".