Most wannabe actors know that there’s a ghost of an opportunity that they’ll ever make it in showbiz — however for Kate Jackson, future star of Charlie’s Angels and Scarecrow and Mrs. King, it was a ghost that gave her that probability. Jackson, then 23 and a brand new graduate of American Academy of Dramatic Arts, was working as an NBC web page when she landed the position of Daphne Harridge, a candy governess turned silent however lethal spirit, within the ultimate season of ABC’s gothic cleaning soap, Darkish Shadows (1966-1971).
Jackson’s time on the present was sadly short-lived: although the sequence premiered 59 years in the past, on June 27, 1966, she solely started showing on the present in 1970, a yr earlier than the sequence ended. Nevertheless it — plus a task within the characteristic movie Night time of Darkish Shadows — created sufficient of springboard to launch Jackson right into a spate of guest-starring roles on different in style sequence, after which on to TV stardom.