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Three's
Company
 USA
/ ABC/ 172x30m-e / 1977-84
First
Episode: Thursday 15 March 1977 / 9.30pm
Last Episode: Tuesday 18 September 1984 / 8.30pm
Theme Music: composed by Don Nicholl, Joe Raposo,
sung by Ray Charles and Julia Rinker.
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 Sitcom
based on the UK Original Man About the
House.
The show had a simple (but for the 1970's risqué)
premise, a guy shares a flat with two girls.
Jack Tripper, a would be chef, moved in with
Janet Wood and Chrissy Snow; Janet was a florist
and Chrissy was a typist. Living downstairs were
their landlady (the sex starved) Helen Roper and
her husband Stanley. Most of the action revolved
around Jack either wanting to "get it
on" with his room mates or doing his best
to persuade his landlord that there was nothing
going on between the three of them.
The Ropers later left the series in 1979 (they
had been given their own series also called The
Ropers) and new landlord Ralph Furley
was drafted in.  Then
the following season Suzanne Somers who played
Chrissy announced she wanted a large pay rise,
the producers wouldn't accede to her wishes and
reduced her role to practically nothing (they
sent her home to care for her mother and she
would only be seen in occasional phone calls to
her friends), she then left the series proper. A
further room mate in the shape of Chrissy's
cousin Cindy arrived quickly replaced during the
1981 season by Terri Alden.
By the time the series ended Jack was running
his own restaurant called Jack's Bistro whilst
Janet had married and Terri had moved away.
There was another spin off (a continuation
really) called Three's A Crowd featuring
Jack moving in with his girlfriend.
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Cast
JOHN RITTER as Jack Tripper / JOYCE DEWITT as
Janet Wood / SUZANNE SOMERS as Chrissy Snow
(1977-81) / AUDRA LINDLAY as Helen Roper
(1977-79) / NORMAN FELL as Stanley Roper
(1977-79) / RICHARD KLINE as Larry Dallas
(1978-84) / DON KNOTTS as Ralph Furley (1979-84)
/ ANN WEDGEWORTH as Lana Shields (1979-80) /
JENILEE HARRISON as Cindy Snow (19870-82) /
PRISCILLA BARNES as Terri Alden (1981-84) / BRAD
BLAISDELL as Mike (1981-84) |
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