Three's Company (1977)
Three's Company is an American television sitcom that aired for eight seasons on ABC from March 15, 1977, to September 18, 1984. Developed by Don Nicholl, Michael Ross and Bernie West, it is based on the British sitcom Man About the House created by Brian Cooke and Johnnie Mortimer. The story revolves around three single roommates: Jack Tripper, Janet Wood, and Chrissy Snow, who all platonically live together in a Santa Monica, California apartment complex owned by Stanley and Helen Roper. The show, a farce, chronicles the escapades and hi jinks of the trio's constant misunderstandings, social lives, and financial struggles. A top 10 hit from 1977 to 1983, the series has remained popular in syndication and through DVD releases. The show also spawned similar spin-offs to those that Man About the House had: The Ropers and Three's a Crowd, based upon George and Mildred and Robin's Nest, respectively.
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Episode 1 - Jack Bares All (1)
Release Date: 1981-10-06Jack cuts his finger and goes to the hospital. While there, he meets a sassy nurse named Terri Alden and they do not really hit it off. Meanwhile, Cindy is leaving for UCLA and Janet is looking for a roommate and finds Terri, much to Jack's dismay....
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Episode 2 - Jack Bares All (2)
Release Date: 1981-10-06Terri tries her best to warm up to Jack, which proves to be totally unsuccessful. Jack now hates her even more and wants her out. At Cindy's going-away party, he and Larry really insult and play mean jokes on Terri. Jack has a chance to spray Terri with water, but he ends up spraying himself. He really wants Terri to stay with them and now Terri is added to the cast.
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Episode 3 - Terri Makes Her Move
Release Date: 1981-10-13To boost Jack's confidence, Terri turns on the charm, causing Janet to suspect that her new roommate's interest in Jack is more than platonic.
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Episode 4 - Professor Jack
Release Date: 1981-10-27Jack is giving cooking lessons to raise some money and Terri mistakes them as love lessons.
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Episode 5 - Some of That Jazz
Release Date: 1981-11-03Jack comes to the rescue when Janet meets an unscrupulous ballet dancer who tells her she has real talent to be a dancer in order to sleep with her.
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Episode 6 - Lies My Roommate Told Me
Release Date: 1981-11-10Jack lies to Janet about having a date that night so that he can go out with 'Greedy' Gretchen.
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Episode 7 - Two Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Release Date: 1981-11-17Jack and Janet think a doctor that Terri brought home is really a mental patient.
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Episode 8 - Eyewitness Blues
Release Date: 1981-11-24Jack witnessed a robbery and now wants protective custody to save him from the return of the criminal.
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Episode 9 - Boy Meets Dummy
Release Date: 1981-12-01Jack has a date with Angelino's daughter against her father's strict wishes and so to turn her off, pretends he is with his ""wife"" which is really a CPR dummy.
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Episode 10 - Dates of Wrath
Release Date: 1981-12-08Janet unintentially fixes Terri up with the guy (Bob) she wanted to go out with. Terri tries to smooth things out with Janet by fixing her up with him, but Janet refuses to be the second choice. Jack tries to smooth things out between the girls and loses his own date ( Donna ) to Bob as a result.
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Episode 11 - Macho Man
Release Date: 1981-12-15While taking fighting lessons from Terri, Jack accidentally tackles an undercover cop making an arrest and gets arrested for assault.
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Episode 12 - Strangers in the Night
Release Date: 1982-01-05Jack falls in love with a beautiful woman and wants to serenade her. He goes to her apartment and sings at the window, but what he doesn't know is that he has serenaded an overweight girl. The overweight girls thinks that Jack likes her, but the beautiful woman trashes her in front of Jack. Jack decides to have a date with the overweight girl instead.
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Episode 13 - The Matchbreakers
Release Date: 1982-01-12Ralph Furley falls in love with a woman whom the trio believe is a golddigger just out for whatever Ralph can give her financially.
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Episode 14 - Oh, Nun
Release Date: 1982-01-19Jack overhears a conversation between Janet and her friend, a visiting nun, who has decided to leave the convent to marry the man she loves. Jack thinks he is that man and tries to convince her he is no good by pretending to be an alcoholic wharf rat.
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Episode 15 - Maid to Order
Release Date: 1982-01-26To help give Cindy a job, the trio agree to hire her as their maid but with catastophic results.
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Episode 16 - Hearts and Flowers
Release Date: 1982-02-02Janet's new boss is an efficiency expert and she drives Janet nuts. What doesn't help matters any is that Jack falls for her.
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Episode 17 - Urban Plowboy
Release Date: 1982-02-09Larry uses Jack's name while out on a date that goes bad and when the girl's brother comes looking for Jack, he must hide out on Cindy's grandparents' farm until the heat is off.
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Episode 18 - A Friend in Need
Release Date: 1982-02-16Jack agrees to help out a friend by posing as a head chef and becoming the favorite cook for a mobster with a spicy appetite.
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Episode 19 - Jack's 10
Release Date: 1982-02-23Jack's new girlfriend is rich and she wants Jack to do better than his friends and his job.
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Episode 20 - Doctor in the House
Release Date: 1982-03-02Jack pretends he is a doctor to impress his grandfather.
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Episode 21 - Critic's Choice
Release Date: 1982-03-09Jack tries to win praise from a food critic, who is nothing more than a leich.
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Episode 22 - Paradise Lost
Release Date: 1982-03-16Terri lines up a fancy new house for the trio to move into but Larry and Mr. Furley, not wanting to see their best friends leave, plot to make them feel wanted enough to stay.
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Episode 23 - And Now, Here's Jack
Release Date: 1982-03-23Jack gets his own cooking show and hires the girls as his assistants with unexpected results.
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Episode 24 - Janet Wigs Out
Release Date: 1982-04-06Janet buys a blonde wig to improve her image, but ends up breaking bad on her friends.
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Episode 25 - Up in the Air
Release Date: 1982-05-04Janet needs a date to impress a new rich man she met and asks Jack to escort her to the ball which is held on a private island. Jack, afraid of flying, gets some tranquilizers from Larry, much to Terri's dismay. Jack accidentally mixes them with liquor and becomes a ""party animal"".
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Episode 26 - Mate for Each Other
Release Date: 1982-05-11Jack & Janet sign up for a computer dating service, and both decide to lie on the application. Little do they know the computer has set them up together. They decide to go ahead with the date, but Terri thinks that they went out with each other behind her back. Larry tries to clarify the whole situation without knowing the whole truth himself causing Jack and Janet to believe he is making a play for Terri. The race is on to sort through their tangled stories to find the real truths.
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Episode 27 - The Best of Three's Company (1)
Release Date: 1982-05-18Lucille Ball hosts this hour-long special about Three's Company and what makes the show a great comedic success.
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Episode 28 - The Best of Three's Company (2)
Release Date: 1982-05-18Lucille Ball shows clips and moments from the past six years of Three's Company. John Ritter shows up at the end and describes the show himself.