Why no solo episode for Sabrina?

True, the Angel "solo" episodes didn't start until mid-season 3. By then Jackson didn't want to be there. Her complaints about the scripts and her unhappiness with the show had made her difficult to work with. And based on what I've read, no doubt Cheryl Ladd, Arron Spelling, the show's costume designer, and the directors didn't want to spend a lot of time working with her at that point.

However, in the beginning , the entire series was created for Kate Jackson. Originally Jackson was to be the star while Fawcett and Smith were to be her co-stars. Jackson had the most clout, she was the most well-known of the original three, the most experienced and the only one that received emmy nominations for the show. So you would think that as far back as seasons 1 and 2 her character would have had more episodes centered around her. But maybe because Jaclyn was so beautiful, Farrah became so popular, and Cheryl looked so great in a bikini, the producers wanted to keep Kate's co-stars on screen as much as possible!

"Angel in Love" is probably the closest that they ever came to a Sabrina solo, and possibly "Angels in the Stretch".

I think it's interesting how people paint Kate Jackson as a difficult diva, yet if you look back at this show, she had no problem trading parts with a relative unknown, Jaclyn Smith, in the pilot and did not demand that it be rewritten to feature her character, even though, according to the Casebook and other sources, this show was originally written as a vehicle for her because of her star power after a successful run on "The Rookies". She was the only Angel who was truly a household name when the show started, but you wouldn't know it to watch the show.

Kate never seemed to care if another Angel had more lines than her or something more interesting to do in any given episode, and I have never read anything negative that she said about any of her co-stars, even Cheryl Ladd, who she supposedly didn't get along with. She seemed like a team player throughout her run on the series and seemed to just have the best interest of the cast and quality of the series in mind when she griped about poor writing, jiggle TV, etc., although I'm sure the staff got tired of listening to it over and over and I doubt if she was always very nice about it.

I think a true egomaniac diva would have demanded that the series revolve around her and expect to get all of the best lines and action scenes.