b'Lee Majors landed his first starring TV role on Big Valley in 1965, followed by The Virginian and Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law, along with small roles in a number of feature films. He pursued Farrah starting shortly after she arrived in Hollywood, and in July 1973 they were married. She used the name Farrah Fawcett-Ma-jorsone of the first hyphenated names for a big time actressduring the period when she would become a household name in the U.S. and around the world.In the five years between the unproductive Mirisch days and the role for which she would forever be known, Farrah built a career as one of the most sought-after spokesmodels on the planet, appearing in dozens of national advertising campaigns. She did a commercial with Tom Selleck for Dubonnet, the Queens favorite aperitif cock-tail; she did a Noxzema ad with Joe Namath, along with commer-cials for Union 76, Head & Shoulders, UltraBrite Toothpaste and very famously for the Mercury Cougarwith a real cougar! Back when three commercial networks were all there were, Farrah Faw-cett-Majors image touched the airwaves daily, between her regular appearances on a wide assortment of series as well as in many of the big-brand commercials airing during the same episodes.THE YEAR OF FARRAH. Not long after the Majors were wed, Lee became increasingly involved in Farrahs career decisions, and real-ly played the dominant role in deciding what she would and would not pursue. In a famous limo ride to a Los Angeles Rams football game, Majors was pitched by storied talent agent Jay Bernstein to hire him. Majors agreed, if Bernstein also took on Farrah, which he very wisely did. Having started his career in the mailroom of the famed William Morris Agency, Bernstein built a management firm with dozens of employees and 90 clients that included Sammy Da-vis, Jr., Tony Bennett, Ernest Borgnine, Faye Dunaway, and Suzanne Sommers, whom he put up against Farrah on the same casting call for the role of Jill Munro on an ABC television movie to be aired in The Most Famous Girl in the World1976 was the year of America, as the country celebrated the bi-centennialthe spring of 1976. anniversary of our founding. It was also very much the year of Farrah, with Charlies Angels premiering as an ABCThat, of course, was Charlies Angels, the latest concept from leg-movie of the week (top/right) in March and later picked up as a weekly series in the fall. In April, the promotionalendary TV producer, Aaron Spelling, who by that time had creat-agency Pro Arts commissioned Bruce McBroom to photograph Farrah for a poster to be sold in record stores, oned dozens of TV movies and successful series like Mod Squad and newsstands and in clothing stores. The famous red swimsuit poster sold more than 12 million copies worldwide. Starsky and Hutch. The plot of the movie, and later the series, was 70THE COASTAL BEND GUIDE TheCoastalBend.com'