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, Be Quick
Release Date: 1983-09-27Jack's girlfriend wants him to be a father to her child.
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Episode 2 - She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not
Release Date: 1983-10-04Jack finds a magazine quiz about secret loves and thinks that either Janet or Terri is in love with him. He then gets them both alone in a cabin to find out who the mystery lover is.
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Episode 3 - The Money Machine
Release Date: 1983-10-18Jack goes to an ATM machine and the machine goes haywire and spits out all of the money on Jack. He tries to get it back to the bank, but the bank is closed. Janet suggests that he hide it in the couch, which, incidentally, gets takes away by Furley who wants to put in a new couch!
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Episode 4 - Out on a Limb
Release Date: 1983-10-25Jack tries to get a scathing letter from a food critic who thinks has written a bad review about his restaurant.
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Episode 5 - Alias Jack Tripper
Release Date: 1983-11-01Jack gets Larry to go out with Janet's visiting friend because he already had a date planned.
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Episode 6 - Hearing Is Believing
Release Date: 1983-11-08Jack goes out with a sex therapist and Janet thinks that she is a prostitute.
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Episode 7 - Grandma Jack
Release Date: 1983-11-22Larry enters one of Jack's recipes in a cooking contest which wins, but Jack finds out that the contest is open only to women. Jack dresses as a woman to enter a bake-off competition.
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Episode 8 - Like Father, Like Son
Release Date: 1983-11-29Jack's father comes to two, but Jack is mad at him because of all the heartache he had caused.
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Episode 9 - The Odd Couples
Release Date: 1983-12-06Terri goes out with a doctor who happens to be married, and the roommates plan to have the wife catch her husband and Terri together.
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Episode 10 - Now You See It, Now You Don't
Release Date: 1983-12-13Jack and Larry gambles with a lot of fake money, and they lose a lot.
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Episode 11 - The Charming Stranger
Release Date: 1983-12-20The trio is suspicious of a new tenant, who they think is a jewel thief and a murderer. In actuality, he is a ventriloquist practicing for his act.
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Episode 12 - Janet Shapes Up
Release Date: 1984-01-04Janet's aerobics job seems to be in jeopardy, and Jack tries to go out with the female boss.
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Episode 13 - Itching for Trouble
Release Date: 1984-01-10To help an old school chum save her marriage, Jack agrees to talk to her husband, a very jealous, big man. However, he learns she met with someone that day and now has poison ivy and so will the man she met up with...Jack.
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Episode 14 - Baby, It's Cold Inside
Release Date: 1984-01-17When they surprise a burglar robbing the restaurant after store hours, Jack and Ralph are locked in the meat freezer by the thief.
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Episode 15 - Look What I Found
Release Date: 1984-01-24After Jack finds a stray kitten and can't keep it due to the no-pet clause, the trio leaves it at Mr. Furley's doorstep. Mr. Furley is having fun until his brother Bart sends over an apartment inspector and the cat's owner winds up at the trio's apartment.
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Episode 16 - Jack's Tattoo
Release Date: 1984-01-31Jack's navy buddies take him to a tattoo parlor while he's drunk.
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Episode 17 - Jack Takes Off
Release Date: 1984-02-21Jack helps out an art teacher by posing nude for her class.
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Episode 18 - Forget Me Not
Release Date: 1984-02-28Jack smashes Janet's new car and fakes amnesia to save his skin. The girls realize that Jack is fooling them and decides to get even with him.
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Episode 19 - The Heiress
Release Date: 1984-03-08An old flower shop customer of Janet's leaves her a little something in his will and his family tries to cut her out.
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Episode 20 - Cupid Works Overtime
Release Date: 1984-03-15While flying, Jack gets a fear of heights and a stewardess named Vicky Bradford helps him out. They even go out for the first time, against her father's wishes. Meanwhile, Philip, the guy we met in the last episode, proposes to Janet.
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Episode 21 - Friends and Lovers (1)
Release Date: 1984-09-18Jack and Vicky are really good together, despite Mr. Bradford's objections. Janet and Philip get married in the apartment, and Jack wants Vicky to marry him as well.
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Episode 22 - Friends and Lovers (2)
Release Date: 1984-09-18When Jack proposes to Vicky, she turns him down cold. The reason is that she's afraid of marriage because it might fail like her father's did. They decide to live together. The trio finally moves out of their apartment and into their new lives: Terri is going to Hawaii to work with poor children, Janet and Philip move into their new place, and Jack moves into the apartment above the restaurant with Vicky. As they begin their new life together, Mr. Bradford comes in and tells him that he is the new landlord! With that, the spin-off series Three's a Crowd begins.