Velvet is a 1984 American action/drama TV film for the ABC Network directed by Richard Lang, starring Leah Ayres, Shari Belafonte, Mary-Margaret Humes and Sheree J. Wilson.

The film portrays a team of unlikely female secret agents as they disguise themselves as aerobics instructors to close in on a group of criminals.

[4] Leah Ayres' career debuted daytime television series The Edge of Night in the early part of the 1980s.

Shortly after, she was cast as one of the lead roles in Velvet, a beautiful, secret government agent tasked to camouflage herself as an aerobics instructor.

The casting decisions made reflected the common theme in Charlie's Angels, of very attractive female protagonists.

]: "surprisingly well written: affluence, the sixties, drugs, sex, alcoholism like his father’s, done with wry humor now well in control.

Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick directed the film Room 237, which was named in the top 10 best television movies by Rotten Tomatoes for Screen Rant.