First, Teresa Kelly, aka Teresa Laughlin, aka TC Laughlin, will heretofore be referred to by her given name (given by her brother, me…): TC. How’d that come to be? I was three when she was born Teresa Laughlin. Being not the sharpest pencil in the box (boys develop speech slower than girls, and never catch up, but that’s another story…) I couldn’t pronounce ‘Teresa’. Way too complicated. But I could do, ‘Treesee’, which I promptly shortened - for emergency procedural reasons - to ‘Teesee’. The name stuck. She has been known at TC ever since. (I later used to think I was acronyming her for ‘Top Cat’, which she clearly was, but the timing for the cartoon character created after her just doesn’t work out.)
Second, there have been precious few pictures of TC to share from the first box of pictures I culled from. I’ve moved on to box 2 (out of about 10), and immediately saw a fun picture of TC sitting on the edge of the sacred dance pit in New Mexico, which I am posting immediately. TC is sitting next to the woman that was the standin/stunt double for our mom, Delores. Lined up behind them the famous reflectors I often manned against desert winds. Mad crazy holding-reflector-skills have I.
Third, this new box is filled with color slides, just so you can prepare yourself. 
TC (Teresa Laughlin), who played Carol, sitting on the edge of the pit where indians dance after Billy Jack's vision from snake bite.
I love the movie of Billy Jack. My husband and I went to blockbuster the other night and was so excited when we found the dvd of Billy Jack and later the Trial of Billy Jack. Then he wanted to listen to the comentary of the movie and we both were excited that TC was the daughter of the star casts. She is so beautiful and we both encouraged our kids (young adults) to watch your movie that we hold in our hearts.
My sister and I are 55 and 56 now and we are such huge fans of the Billy Jack movies. I can’t tell you how many times we went to the theatres to see the movie(s). We loved the cast (had crushes on Tom) but we were young teens and were so happy when we found out that he and your mom were actually a couple. I was searching the internet to see if I could buy the soundtrack (yes in June 2011 we still love and sing the songs from the original movie). I found the soundtrack with a lot of the great songs, but it does not list the song that TC sang (not sure of the title) “Joe’s going off to the war tomorrow”… She was so cute and talented - didn’t know she was their daughter until years later. Anyway I am so excited to find this site. I would love to see the movie make a comeback. I also hope your family is happy and well. You brought such joy to us!
I must say that I relate completely to what Stuart said.
I’m a big fan, had the big crush and saw the movies in the theater and am very happy to own the box set! Thank you, T.C.
I love the behind the scenes shots
Hello tc, am a big fan, had a big crush on you for many years after seeing Billy Jack and trail of.. was extreamly happy to be able to buy the dvd box set of all four B.J. movies.. love them..
Hmmmm. I look far more pensive than I remember being…
These are great, Frank!
You’re pretty intensely pensive.
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